10 mill$ poweryacht capsize during launch in Anacortes

[SloopJonB]

That video just comes across as smarmy, catering to someone who will hire his services, whatever they are. I'm trying not to make this too snarky, but nothing in that video appealed to me. It just reeked of "rich people and their toys are good for the economy because they will buy dinner in your town and ride in your taxis".

Now I know that is too simplistic and I know I'm reading some of my own biases into this but, that's how it came across.

I can't put it any better than Bill Garden. In Yacht Designs he writes:

Whether they are sail or power, we must remember that our yachts are toy boats — all yachts are the glint of a lovely brief bubble of time, a time of leisure and affluence for the middle class. A boat’s importance as an escape from reality, as a change of pace, as a theme for reflection, and as an art form gives it worth or value.

Boats the size Bäden aren't really for the middle class, but I think the point stands. Yachts are lovely things. I can't economically justify the Beethoven String Quartets or Steak au Poivre either, but I'd be very sad if they ceased to exist.

That comment of Garden's is one of my favourites - so true "Merely the glint on a lovely brief bubble of time" - it conveys both the beauty and the triviality of our boats.

That horror Baden doesn't qualify on either count - it's nothing but a failed penis extender.

 

[SloopJonB]

DDW

i'm also in Anacortes, you're hearing what I'm hearing.

If you don't have anything good to say, come sit by me.

 

[hobot]

Are we reserving seats for the Group W bench now?...(can I join?)

 

[kimbottles]

I have always believed that the marine engineer is more important than the interior designer/stylist when it comes to yacht design.

I noticed that the Maestro relied quite a bit on Tim Nolan and Jim Franken during the Sliver Project.

Kim: "Can we do this Bob?"

Bob: "Let's ask Jim and Tim."

That Bob guy is very smart. I am pretty sure none of his vessels have rolled over during launch.

 

[Bob Perry]

I figured out many years ago that I don't have to have all the answers and I don't have to feel bad that I don't. I just have to know where to get the answers. I have never hesitated to say, "I don't know, but I know a guy who will know."

 

[Pertinacious Tom]

Me too. I've heard from guys who worked on her about crazy-heavy shit installed up high like the floor-to-ceiling safety glass on that upper level vista sky lounge thingie. And none of it properly accounted for, modeled, or weighed out to check before installation. The predicted numbers may have been a complete fiction compared to what was actually installed.

In theory, there's no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there often is.

I'm moving to Theory. I hear everything works there.

 

[Keith]

I have always believed that the marine engineer is more important than the interior designer/stylist when it comes to yacht design.

I noticed that the Maestro relied quite a bit on Tim Nolan and Jim Franken during the Sliver Project.

Kim: "Can we do this Bob?"

Bob: "Let's ask Jim and Tim."

That Bob guy is very smart. I am pretty sure none of his vessels have rolled over during launch.

But I bet his dogs roll over for a treat, during lunch.........

 

[Bob Perry]

Keith:

My dogs don't have to roll over for treats. I treat them very well. One of my clients is a big time, high quality dog treat maker, Cloud Star Buddy Biscuits. They are made in the USA. I had no idea what this guy did until one day a big box arrived on my doorstep. It was full of dog and cat treats. At first I thought it was a promo gift from the farmer's Coop where I spend millions of dollars each week. " Hey! I deserve this." Then I found a small card in the bottom, "Dear Maestro". My dogs love them. I trust that they are carefully made.

When your entire daily social circle is two dogs and a cat you treat them well.

 

[QBF]

Keith:

My dogs don't have to roll over for treats. I treat them very well. One of my clients is a big time, high quality dog treat maker, Cloud Star Buddy Biscuits. They are made in the USA. I had no idea what this guy did until one day a big box arrived on my doorstep. It was full of dog and cat treats. At first I thought it was a promo gift from the farmer's Coop where I spend millions of dollars each week. " Hey! I deserve this." Then I found a small card in the bottom, "Dear Maestro". My dogs love them. I trust that they are carefully made.

When your entire daily social circle is two dogs and a cat you treat them well.

My day starts (I was woken at 3:00am this morning) and ends (I'm about to drop at any moment) with one dog.

However, my landlords have three horses, three goats, four dogs, and two cats most of whom Divinity & I enjoy chatting with.

 

[Student_Driver]

I love the quote in the video where the narrator is explaining the positive local job and commercial revenues which the visiting yachts provide. In it he says that they should think of the yachts as "floating economic stimulus packages". Made me laugh and cry.

 

[Student_Driver]

On the topic of lengthening boats and sinking, the boat in the movie Wolf of Wall Street was the ex Big Eagle (Bernie Little's yacht before he died) was also lengthened. I was on the boat once for a cocktail of Long Beach (ELIS). Boat did indeed break in half where it was extended, or so I recollect.

 

[SloopJonB]

I love the quote in the video where the narrator is explaining the positive local job and commercial revenues which the visiting yachts provide. In it he says that they should think of the yachts as "floating economic stimulus packages". Made me laugh and cry.

That's a pretty typical right wing "understanding" of economics.

 

[Jose Carumba]

As someone who works in the design and construction of megayachts I havr seen all sorts of owners, from the guy who owned a major hardware store chain and bought the guys in the shop tools and personally paid for one of the guys cancer treatment to the couple who ran a family charitable foundation, to the guy who barely showed up for his boat's launch. Their personalities and their politics are not all the same.

The construction and operation of these vessels probably does not impact the general economy too much, but in a small town like Anacortes where the workers make up a significant percentage of the population the localized effect can be significant. Where I work, in Seattle, we employ between 150 - 250 people, not counting material suppliers, engine manufacturers, etc. Probably not a huge number of people in the grand scheme of things, but for me personally, it has a huge impact. It is my economy. So when people rail against mega yachts just remember it affects people just like you and me who make their living from them.

 

[Cruisin Loser]

That's a pretty typical right wing "understanding" of economics.

Take it to PA. There's a whole political sewer for you to play in over there, but please keep politics out of here.

 

[Moonduster]

Just for reference, taking the piss out of right-wing bigots is done by intellectual elitist on mountain tops. The sewer is reserved for those spewing the shit.

But your point about PA is well taken ...

 

[SloopJonB]

That's a pretty typical right wing "understanding" of economics.

Take it to PA. There's a whole political sewer for you to play in over there, but please keep politics out of here.

Why? What have you got against Pennsylvania?

 

[Ishmael]

That's a pretty typical right wing "understanding" of economics.

Take it to PA. There's a whole political sewer for you to play in over there, but please keep politics out of here.

Why? What have you got against Pennsylvania?

I think he's talking about Poofter Anarchy, just down the hallway.

 

[Autonomous]

I love the quote in the video where the narrator is explaining the positive local job and commercial revenues which the visiting yachts provide. In it he says that they should think of the yachts as "floating economic stimulus packages". Made me laugh and cry.

That's a pretty typical right wing "understanding" of economics.

Textbook bigotry.

 

[SemiSalt]

This gal looks pretty tall for her LOA, but she made it up to Connecticut from Florida. Steel construction with a bit of rust showing here and there. I believe she is one of Reuben Trane's Florida Bay Coasters.


As vacation cottages so, she's got a lot on a small footprint.

 

[SloopJonB]

This gal looks pretty tall for her LOA, but she made it up to Connecticut from Florida. Steel construction with a bit of rust showing here and there. I believe she is one of Reuben Trane's Florida Bay Coasters.


As vacation cottages so, she's got a lot on a small footprint.

Don't let that thing get anywhere near Anacortes.