Bezos a sailor too (slightly different scale than Zuckerberg)

[BayRacer]

So apparently Bezos will be a sailor too. Of sorts. Don’t think he will be racing it 
 

https://www.autoevolution.com/news/first-look-at-jeff-bezos-new-toy-record-breaking-oceanco-sailing-yacht-y721-launched-172333.html

 

[Editor]

might try the front page every once in a while...

 

[BayRacer]

Saw article on phone. Scanned through forum for potential duplication but didn’t look at home page again since morning. 

 

[hobot]

So Bezos is just like the rest of us?

(I wonder what his SA handle is)

 

[Leeroy Jenkins]

Meat Wad

 

[Fiji Bitter]

Old news indeed:

...

And for Pity on Fire, Bezos is building a very nice and big sailing yacht, so who knows...

And I like quoting myself...

 

[Fiji Bitter]

And there goes Bezos' 4 knot shitbox on her maiden tow through the beautiful Dutch rivers.



She looks a little bit pregnant,
but with 3 schooner masts on her she will be a prom queen.

Anyone knows the designers/stylists? Her exterior styling looks a bit like a Dykstra, but then those are done in correberation with different stylists.

 

[P_Wop]

You have to hand it to the Dutch - they certainly know how to move things around.

I haven't seen renderings of the rigs.  Did he go for square-top mains, or gaff, or pinhead?  Or wishbone on 1 and 2?  Or a mix?

 

[Parma]

No swim platform? Pass.

 

[SloopJonB]

No swim platform? Pass.

That's on the 250' support ship which is necessary to provide the heliport.

Fucking sickness.

 

[toddster]

Those views from above and forward have a bit of Titanic vibe to them…

 

[slug zitski]

A friend if mine is working on that boats  masts 

he tell me that they are enormous , pharaonic in scale , and retractable or foldable so that the vessel can pass under bridges 

 

[LB 15]

Old news indeed:

And I like quoting myself...

 

[LB 15]

A friend if mine

Well we know that is bullshit...

 

[Sail4beer]

:lol:

 

[Panoramix]

On 10/24/2021 at 1:56 AM, Fiji Bitter said:

And there goes Bezos' 4 knot shitbox on her maiden tow through the beautiful Dutch rivers.

Can't rich people have a bit of taste ?

If you insist on spending gazillions on a yacht, at least don't get an architect specialised in whales to design the hull!

 

[Presuming Ed]

You have to hand it to the Dutch - they certainly know how to move things around.

I haven't seen renderings of the rigs.  Did he go for square-top mains, or gaff, or pinhead?  Or wishbone on 1 and 2?  Or a mix?

I was thinking Dynarig. Far more easily controllable & reefable than gaff/bermuda. 

 

[slug zitski]

I was thinking Dynarig. Far more easily controllable & reefable than gaff/bermuda. 

Evidently the masts are adjustable  height so that it may pass under the Verrazano  bridge , New York 

 

[SPORTSCAR]

No swim platform? Pass.

Indoor pool.