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F-2 Speedy 06-05-2018 05:14 PM

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Mr. Gates = 94 B

RaggedEdge 06-05-2018 05:23 PM


Originally Posted by madbouyz (Post 4630364)
Baah , these things are teeny.
Mine's so big that you pass through 3 time zones between the stern and bow !

That's not what she said !

Jupiter Sunsation 06-05-2018 05:31 PM


Originally Posted by Indy (Post 4630280)
I couldn't afford the poo'er on one of these things.

The fuel is the real deal breaker! Octopus (Paul Allen's boat Tank posted) carries 187,000 gallons of diesel. Assume the tanks are empty and you get diesel delivered for $4 a gallon. It will cost you almost $750,000 to fill it ONCE!

A buddy is a mate on a big Viking sportfish. At wide open throttle it burns $1200 an hour in diesel, that is $20 a minute!

rak rua 06-05-2018 06:55 PM

I've visited Monaco and the French Riviera. Monaco is simply an 'excess of wealth'. I loved visiting and I was super impressed with the boats but it was difficult to comprehend the existence of such a place.

I was left wondering about the people who own the bigger boats, "What do their houses look like?"

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thisistank 06-05-2018 08:14 PM


Originally Posted by Jupiter Sunsation (Post 4630375)
The fuel is the real deal breaker! Octopus (Paul Allen's boat Tank posted) carries 187,000 gallons of diesel. Assume the tanks are empty and you get diesel delivered for $4 a gallon. It will cost you almost $750,000 to fill it ONCE!

A buddy is a mate on a big Viking sportfish. At wide open throttle it burns $1200 an hour in diesel, that is $20 a minute!

From my understanding, it's like planes, it takes 10% a year of the purchase cost to maintain as well. Crazy money. Owning a yacht that big with all that going on would actually stress me out, not relax me LOL. But I guess when it's FU money you get used to not being in control of every aspect of things like all your properties, yachts, fleet of cars, etc.

Jupiter Sunsation 06-05-2018 08:37 PM


Originally Posted by thisistank (Post 4630402)
From my understanding, it's like planes, it takes 10% a year of the purchase cost to maintain as well. Crazy money. Owning a yacht that big with all that going on would actually stress me out, not relax me LOL. But I guess when it's FU money you get used to not being in control of every aspect of things like all your properties, yachts, fleet of cars, etc.

Totally agree......put me in the charter category for planes/yachts!

I have a client that sold a chain of TV stations for over 1B. He has a plane/yacht yet his favorite boat to talk about is a 20 ft flats boat! His yacht is 40 ft too big to fit behind his house and the boat visits exotic places and he just follows in the plane.

He pays a really cute girl to be a house manager. She even fuels the cars! :D


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