The Skoda of the seas.

ducked said:
A 47 foot catamaran?
In the Caribbean?
Sounds pretty luxurious to me.
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Hmmm.
I've been sailing around the Caribbean on a 47ft boat, it's definitely not luxurious!

I suppose my big old french tub is some kind of Citroen CX... a bit quirky, very dated looks, but keeps soldiering on in a surprising amount of comfort.

Oh and occasionally when you turn on the light in our cabin, the light in the heads goes out.
 
wonkywinch said:
Since the majority of the readers probably watch "Below Decks", their vision of a luxury yacht might be different.
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Ah, the boat whose crew tried to bribe us to move because we had the temerity to be anchored where they wanted to be. If the approach had been different we might have been tempted but as it was …

Before anyone asks, we didn’t get as far as discussing ‘how much’.
 
Pete Goss had a boat a few years ago that he and his wife went voyaging in.

I have no more info (poor memory).

It was called or nicknamed the LandRover of the seas iirc.

It may have been all aluminium if that helps anyone who tries to search out more info.
 
Sea Change said:
Hmmm.
I've been sailing around the Caribbean on a 47ft boat, it's definitely not luxurious!

I suppose my big old french tub is some kind of Citroen CX... a bit quirky, very dated looks, but keeps soldiering on in a surprising amount of comfort.

Oh and occasionally when you turn on the light in our cabin, the light in the heads goes out.
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surprising amount of comfort =/= luxurious?

OED seems to disagree. "extremely comfortable or elegant, especially when involving great expense"

I'd guess even a 20 plus year old 47 foot catamaran is a lot more comfortable and involves much greater expense than my 24 foot monohull in Boness, (location, location) though it was free, so the great expense is perhaps still to come.

And you have a light?

In the heads?

There'll probably be 4 Yachtsmen from the Humber estuary along to discuss this with you presently
 
ducked said:
surprising amount of comfort =/= luxurious?

OED seems to disagree. "extremely comfortable or elegant, especially when involving great expense"

I'd guess even a 20 plus year old 47 foot catamaran is a lot more comfortable and involves much greater expense than my 24 foot monohull in Boness, (location, location) though it was free, so the great expense is perhaps still to come.

And you have a light?

In the heads?

There'll probably be 4 Yachtsmen from the Humber estuary along to discuss this with you presently
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Well in my case, comfort meaning space and decent seakeeping. Whilst everything else falls apart around you.
It's analogous to driving a big old French saloon with great suspension, where the radio, electric windows, and one of the rear door handles no longer work.
 
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