I just got sent a listing for a TWIN SCREW MOTOR YACHT WITH BOWTHRUSTER, only €185,000. It’s a little bit out of the price range of a college professor, even one who gets a little cash on the side from blogging, but it’s still nice that someone thinks I might be in the market for my very own personal yacht. If any of my readers is shopping for yachts right now, let me know and I can pass along the details.
Pharyngula
Evolution, development, and random biological ejaculations from a godless liberal
You forgot to mention all that extra income you get from being a shill for Big Pharma, Evolution, AGW, Feminism, and Skepticism. Oh, I suppose like my checks from those sources, your checks are also “in the mail” too. ;)
Yacht, schmacht. Why just yesterday I was heard from a dying widow in Nigeria who wants to leave all those millions she has in the bank of Benin because she knows what a good Christian I am.
Actually, the “price” of the yacht would be the least of your worries. I once heard a boat described as a hole in the water that is kept open by continually pouring money into it.
I’ve heard the same said of horses. I knew someone who paid their child $100 a month in lieu of getting the horse they really wanted. I was like, sign me up! I’ll not have a horse!
@yazikus (#4):
If your horse is “a hole in the water,” you might be doing something wrong (i.e., water polo)…
Next you’d be getting ads about how to EN1ARGE YOUR BOWTHRUSTER.
the first time I heard about that hole in the water it was on a sign on the wall above the counter in a small boat yard it said “a boat is a wooden hole in the water in which you pour money” (wooden boats requiring more pouring of the money)
the other expense with boats is where you put them when not in use, which also can be a considerable expense.
I still like reading about what is on offer however and strolling down by the marina. they are just so pretty
uncle frogy
Unless it’s the type of yacht which can fit in a bathtub, I’m afraid I wouldn’t have much call for it.
I heard on one of those pawn shop shows that boat is an acronym… something like Bust Out Another Thousand.
The two happiest days in a yacht owner’s life: The day you buy it and the day you sell it.
Living in a Southern French village by the Mediterranean Sea I can’t help to observe and talk to the visiting international yacht crews and local shipwrights. The amount of money and frustration involved is amazing, even if you ignore the billionaires’s superyachts.
One of the more visible and “hilarious” incidents fairly recently was during the winter storms. Someone’s sailing-yacht (not a motor-yacht) broke away from its moorings and wound up crashed into a beach. There was a fecking great hole in the side (from what I could see, almost the entire side was stoved in), and it was partially demasted. It would not surprise me it had also lost its keel. There was an impressive amount of debris in the water and washed-up onto the beach.
It was there for several weeks before being hauled away. From the preparations I saw, the remains where lifted out of the water by a fecking gigantic crane and taken away by one or more larger flatbed carrier trunks. Had to have cost a fortune.
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As the spousal unit says in the wine industry,
“Do you know how to make a small fortune in the wine business?”
“Start with a larger fortune”
There’s a story about some rich guy who had a nice aluminum-hulled yacht and no idea how to sail it. So he’d hang out for young women who did know how to run a boat, and have romantic cruises until they figured out that they were unpaid crew. The last one, as she went ashore, told him and the entire dock that she had dumped his copper-coin collection down in the bilgewater of his aluminum yacht.
He was still looking for a replacement that wasn’t prone to such petty gestures when the yacht sank out from under him. The real sailors, who knew about galvanic corrosion, were finally free to laugh out loud.
@ #5 Water horse= Hippo. It could cost far more to feed a hippo than maintain a yacht.
live-aboard boat owners are a special sort. Some can do it and come out ahead financially compared to what they would spend on rent or home ownership and love the boating community, independence, and the ability to sail away and take their house with them.
Peruse the site to get something of the feel, there are many sites, at least as good:
http://www.cruisingworld.com/
There are lots of flavors of boats weekend cruisers, live-aboards, holiday sailors and sorts of boats: sailboats, motor sailors and, what that twin prop units sounds like, a $190.000 trawler yacht. (Odds are you could get it for half of that). From what I read it seems there is a lot of good sailing happening on the Great Lakes when they aren’t frozen over.
Personally I had my eye on this little number and it’s only $605 million. Now if I can just get through to Khalifa, I’m sure we can work something out.
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