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You would think there were better stickers

Blimey. A week’s charter for around £1.75 million.



Which lead me here. It’s just one of many…..

https://www.yachtcharterfleet.com/yacht ... me=octopus

Think that is/was owned by one of the Microsoft bods.

Always wonder with these. If you’re rich enough would you hire out your yacht? You wouldn’t put you Enzo on Turo would you? And on the flip side, if you’re rich enough to hire a yacht for 2.2 mil a week, surely you’d already have a yacht?
So is it just for tax mitigation purposes and pretending it’s a business? What are the chances someone actually can afford the rent and then mysteriously the yacht has a problem on the date you want it.

Look I love Scotland as much as the next Irishman but why the fuck would you pay £2.2m to go there, especially in Midgie season.

There isn’t enough Avon Skin so Soft in the entire world!!!

240PP wrote: Sun Aug 04, 2024 5:40 pm Think that is/was owned by one of the Microsoft bods.

It was Paul Allen’s. I spotted it in Venice in about 2008; it was much smaller than the massive cruise ship next to it so I didn’t realise until I looked it up that it was the second largest superyacht in the world at the time.

Seems it was sold to a Swedish chap after Paul Allen died.

Just had a good look at details of it online - I don’t think it was the second biggest superyacht even when built let alone by 2008 when I saw it, but it was ground-breaking in many ways. Two helipads was I think unique at the time.

It has a submarine.

It has TWO submarines!!

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/nAeb5j ... tid=UalRPS

mik wrote: Sun Aug 04, 2024 5:32 pm Blimey. A week’s charter for around £1.75 million.



Which lead me here. It’s just one of many…..

https://www.yachtcharterfleet.com/yacht ... me=octopus

they really jack up the prices in the school holidays. it’s only £10k a week on October…

Nicely done

Mito Man wrote: Sun Aug 04, 2024 5:46 pm Always wonder with these. If you’re rich enough would you hire out your yacht? You wouldn’t put you Enzo on Turo would you? And on the flip side, if you’re rich enough to hire a yacht for 2.2 mil a week, surely you’d already have a yacht?
So is it just for tax mitigation purposes and pretending it’s a business? What are the chances someone actually can afford the rent and then mysteriously the yacht has a problem on the date you want it.

Boats are expensive to run. Really, really expensive. Rich people are rich because they don't spend money they don't need to and to quote the old saying, "If it flies, floats or fucks, rent it."

Jimmy Choo wrote: Mon Aug 05, 2024 11:20 am

Mito Man wrote: Sun Aug 04, 2024 5:46 pm Always wonder with these. If you’re rich enough would you hire out your yacht? You wouldn’t put you Enzo on Turo would you? And on the flip side, if you’re rich enough to hire a yacht for 2.2 mil a week, surely you’d already have a yacht?
So is it just for tax mitigation purposes and pretending it’s a business? What are the chances someone actually can afford the rent and then mysteriously the yacht has a problem on the date you want it.

Boats are expensive to run. Really, really expensive. Rich people are rich because they don't spend money they don't need to and to quote the old saying, "If it flies, floats or fucks, rent it."

I think rich people who can afford super yachts don't care about spending money, but hate paying taxes. I imagine they're setting the yacht with it's crew up as a business so they then don't have to pay VAT and running it at a loss and all the depreciation means they can deduct that from taxes elsewhere. I'm mighty suspicious that you can actually charter these things.

If your lifestyle allows you to live on a Yacht for weeks or even months at a time during the various seasons then why the hell not own one.

But even the mega rich who are still working and need to be in various offices semi regularly and so, renting one for a week here or there makes more sense.

dinny_g wrote: Mon Aug 05, 2024 12:20 pm If your lifestyle allows you to live on a Yacht for weeks or even months at a time during the various seasons then why the hell not own one.

But even the mega rich who are still working and need to be in various offices semi regularly and so, renting one for a week here or there makes more sense.

I think that some of these people have to live on their yachts for security reasons

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Coming back to this, "Oh panzer of the lake" is still extreme randomness, even when compared to;