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Would you buy a Superyacht?

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  • #32
    Strumms
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,788 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    I’ve met a good few captains, chefs, barmen/girls, general hands in the irishbars down the south of France. The common thing I’ve been told seems to be... hard work but really good wages.

    A good boss will even on your night off, throw you a couple of hundred quid as you hit the town. These are mostly bonafide millionaires or not far off so keeping the troops happy by putting your hand in your pocket for a grand so the folks can go have a bit of fun and shake off cabin fever is the done thing.


  • #33
    The Belly
    Registered Users Posts: 572 ✭✭✭The Belly


    Ubbquittious wrote: »
    If you picked up the 49.5 million or made it big as a YouTuber(tm) or you sold your cloud-based startup to Jeff Bezos for a few 100m, would you be tempted?


    It's in vogue these days to pretend you're bothered about the fact that they burn a fair drop o'daysul but after you park your Tesla Model whatever at the airport and hop on a plane nobody really has a clue where you're gone and if you're cruising around the med or some other place in a superyacht they won't know.



    Just from looking at Marinetraffic I get the impression a lot of superyacht owners just go around in circles on in med and hang around the usual party haunts and posh spots. Was watching a documentary a while back about some English dood who already had a yacht that was quite super and he was commissioning a brand new one for about 50 mil because he felt he was growing out of the old one. This kind of craic wouldn't really interest me but I wouldn't mind a smaller boat with plenty of range for visiting places in the absolute backarse of nowhere.




    Tis crazy the amount of money you can spend on these yokes if you want. An entire euromillions jackpot just for one boat if you want plus all the running costs




    “If it flies, floats or fornicates, always rent it. It's cheaper in the long run.


  • #34
    Capt'n Midnight
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    you can pick up a second hand oil rig supply vessels for a million or two

    Handles the roughest seas , has a crane and big flat deck at the back. Plonk down a marquee or caravan or helicopter or even an OT-64 SKOT 8×8 Amphibious Armoured Personnel Carrier for when you want to take a trip to the shops.


  • #35
    Bit cynical
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    Ubbquittious wrote: »
    Just from looking at Marinetraffic I get the impression a lot of superyacht owners just go around in circles on in med and hang around the usual party haunts and posh spots.
    The boats might circle around but the owners normally direct the yacht to be at a certain place on a certain day then they fly down to meet it where it is moored. It is fairly rare for the owner to sail on the yacht particularly on long voyages.


  • #36
    joeguevara
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,099 ✭✭✭joeguevara


    Btw as per op, if you only won 49 mil or got a couple of hundred mil you couldn’t afford a super yacht.


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  • #37
    riffmongous
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,812 Mod ✭✭✭✭riffmongous


    Candie wrote: »
    I'd have a private jet over a private yacht.

    I think I'd be wary of even being a guest on a super yacht because of the implication.

    Uh ok, you had me going for the first part but the second part kinda threw me?


  • #38
    joeguevara
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,099 ✭✭✭joeguevara


    riffmongous wrote: »
    Uh ok, you had me going for the first part but the second part kinda threw me?

    Always sunny in Philadelphia reference

    https://youtu.be/-yUafzOXHPE


  • #39
    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 83,407 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    M


    When someone registers one in an Irish port I will respect them.


  • #40
    StupidLikeAFox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,719 ✭✭✭StupidLikeAFox


    Gruffalox wrote: »
    I was in a place a few years ago where loads of fancy yachts berth and as I walked along checking them out I was "meh", "blech", "nah", "uh uh", absolutely zero to covet in the big uncomfortable plastic lumps.

    I'd say the lads on the boats were devestated


  • #41
    Strumms
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,788 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    https://www.boatinternational.com/yachts-for-sale


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  • #42
    Mad_maxx
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    no but i would buy a private jet


  • #43
    Strumms
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    Mad_maxx wrote: »
    no but i would buy a private jet

    Same, you could fly somewhere in 3 hours, or be stuck at sea for 23 hours, to get to the same place.


  • #44
    [Deleted User]
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    Strumms wrote: »
    Mad_maxx wrote: »
    no but i would buy a private jet
    Same, you could fly somewhere in 3 hours, or be stuck at sea for 23 hours, to get to the same place.

    Do you guys not like airports or something? I think for a lot of people, the airport is an exciting place. Even when flying somewhere dull for work, like Liverpool, I find the whole process of flying enjoyable. Even if only to spot the planes, especially if you fly out if Dublin before lunchtime.

    That's why I don't get the appeal of a private jet. You still have to go through passport controls, the only substantive difference is you don't have to queue, and have slightly more comfort on board (these benefits are hardly worth millions of euro).

    Give me a yacht bobbing on the azure blue waters off Malta or Antibes, or Lough Derg, any day.


  • #45
    Rockbeast2
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    A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »
    Give me a yacht bobbing on the azure blue waters off Malta or Antibes, or Lough Derg, any day.

    A 65ft Dutch barge on Lough Derg would be living the dream for me!


  • #46
    Man with broke phone
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,201 ✭✭✭Man with broke phone


    Id probably get a little yacht. Enough room for a few trays of beer, a fridge, a hob a big bed a shower and a place to keep the fishing rods.

    How much will that set me back.


  • #47
    Capt'n Midnight
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    Rockbeast2 wrote: »
    A 65ft Dutch barge on Lough Derg would be living the dream for me!
    Remember it's one meal a day. Dry toast and black tea/coffee.


  • #48
    Bobblehats
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    Ohhh super ya-ah ~

    for sure! Absolutely.


  • #49
    Strumms
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,788 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »
    Do you guys not like airports or something? I think for a lot of people, the airport is an exciting place. Even when flying somewhere dull for work, like Liverpool, I find the whole process of flying enjoyable. Even if only to spot the planes, especially if you fly out if Dublin before lunchtime.

    That's why I don't get the appeal of a private jet. You still have to go through passport controls, the only substantive difference is you don't have to queue, and have slightly more comfort on board (these benefits are hardly worth millions of euro).

    Give me a yacht bobbing on the azure blue waters off Malta or Antibes, or Lough Derg, any day.

    I’d rather jump into a GV in Dublin airport, 2 hours 15 I’m in Nice and then sail around the Cote D’Azur into Villefranche...


  • #50
    Wibbs
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    Mad_maxx wrote: »
    no but i would buy a private jet
    Jets? Psssh.

    Supermarine_359_Spitfire_HF8C_Point_Cook_Vabre.jpg

    Though if I were going for a jet...

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    Way cheaper than a super yacht and way faster. OK not exactly a lot of room for pneumatic dolly birds in bikinis from central casting, but that's why you make sure you're mates with someone with a yacht. Job done. :D

    Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.



  • #51
    [Deleted User]
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    Strumms wrote: »
    I’d rather jump into a GV in Dublin airport, 2 hours 15 I’m in Nice and then sail around the Cote D’Azur into Villefranche...

    For sure, but if you had to choose between a private flight or the yacht, would you really choose the former?


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  • #52
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,028 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    It would be a sailing ship for me crewed by Swedish and South American women who had the morals of alley cats


  • #53
    Conall Cernach
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    Wibbs wrote: »
    Jets? Psssh.

    Though if I were going for a jet...

    Way cheaper than a super yacht and way faster. OK not exactly a lot of room for pneumatic dolly birds in bikinis from central casting, but that's why you make sure you're mates with someone with a yacht. Job done. :D
    Get one of these instead. Plenty of room for bikini clad dolly birds.
    9915b5b7d8bf5c0ec000534efd23f0b7.jpg


  • #54
    AMKC
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,293 ✭✭✭✭AMKC
    Ms


    Your sure right I would. I would go for the most stylish, coolest yaught I could find.

    Live long and Prosper

    Peace and long life.



  • #55
    Strumms
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    A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »
    For sure, but if you had to choose between a private flight or the yacht, would you really choose the former?

    I dunno, it’s a tough choice, but nice one to have to make. Hopefully early next year it might be Qashqai vs Hyundai Tuscon.. bout as close as I’m getting.


  • #56
    Man with broke phone
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,201 ✭✭✭Man with broke phone


    Strumms wrote: »
    I dunno, it’s a tough choice, but nice one to have to make. Hopefully early next year it might be Qashqai vs Hyundai Tuscon.. bout as close as I’m getting.

    Qashqai handles like a superyacht.


  • #57
    Strumms
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    Man with broke phone wrote: »
    Qashqai handles like a superyacht.

    I’ve had two and really liked them. Never a flicker of an issue, I’d have zero complaints... I’m probably sticking with them. My folks have a Tuscon but it’s the executive model which is out of my reach. Beautiful car and seriously seriously comfy but I’m thinking Qashqai for me again.


  • #58
    Capt'n Midnight
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    Wibbs wrote: »
    Jets? Psssh.

    https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d9/Supermarine_359_Spitfire_HF8C_Point_Cook_Vabre.jpg

    /QUOTE]A Spitfire will barely make it to France.



    pZUy6uY.jpg

    Get you a P-38 if you want range and dolly bird transport.


  • #59
    smurfjed
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    I would get something like this, best of both worlds, although I would get a turbine version and not a radial engine.


    latest?cb=20120531225441


  • #60
    smurfjed
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,265 ✭✭✭✭smurfjed


    Conall Cernach wrote: »
    Get one of these instead. Plenty of room for bikini clad dolly birds.
    9915b5b7d8bf5c0ec000534efd23f0b7.jpg

    Flew across the North Sea in one of those many years ago, the bikini clad dolly birds would freeze to death and be deaf by the time you got to your destination.


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  • #61
    Tessa Delicious Peppermint
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    Alanna Many Picnic wrote: »
    I would certainly consider it but a private jet would be more of a priority. Imagine not having to deal with the peasantry of commercial travel, airport queues, security, booking in advance etc.
    That's what the platinum terminal is for sure


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