When a millionaire meets a billionaire
06-05-2018, 05:14 PM
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Mr. Gates = 94 B
06-05-2018, 05:23 PM
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06-05-2018, 05:31 PM
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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!
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!
06-05-2018, 06:55 PM
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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?"
RR
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I was left wondering about the people who own the bigger boats, "What do their houses look like?"
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06-05-2018, 08:14 PM
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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!
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!
06-05-2018, 08:37 PM
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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.
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!
