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might be there's a high degree of venn diagram overlap between assholes and people who have the disposable income to buy a $200,000+ rapidly depreciating, expen

• pohl 5y ago
  Maybe more pronounced, even, as the pricetag gets larger: The yacht is listed for sale at $51 million.
• hinkley 5y ago
  No argument here. Pepper on top that I know when I have an expensive toy I don't want other people telling me how to use it. The bigger problem was how close they come to smaller vehicles, at speed, without a care in the world. When I saw that pro-Trump flotilla running at speed, my first thought was that somebody was going to get swamped. Sure enough, a bunch of little boats sunk that day.
  • masklinn 5y ago
    > The bigger problem was how close they come to smaller vehicles, at speed Which, but for the scale, is exactly what happened here: > Maritime Management said the 160-foot tanker was traveling on its proper watch en route to Great Stirrup Cay when it was rear-ended by the 207-foot super yacht. While 160ft seems like a pretty small tanker (some sort of local delivery ship?) a 200+ft yacht seems utterly insane, it's a large floating house. And yet it apparently doesn't even make the "list of motor yachts by length", whose cutoff is 246ft (75m). Also per that page, > superyachts range from 37 m (≈120 ft) up to 60 m (≈200 ft), and megayachts are over 60 m