sheesh what a loser. Complete idiocy. Icarus who flew too close to the sun with his wax wings.
Sounds extravagant, but this is probably one of the safer ways of storing one percent of the world’s gold. As in ‘safe from Government’.
Moor it in high-security marinas in tax havens: that way far-reaching kleptocrats like Obama can’t steal it.
(love that Ruby Yacht line, LOL)
It’s the guy’s money, but what a waste of money.
I can think a lot better things to do with my temporal existence then spend 3 bill on a yacht.
Deep and painful ,,, GROOOAANNNNN
If it don't go, chrome it.
Oh Metro, check your figures. 100 tonnes of gold is not “1% of the World’s Gold”. More like 1/1656.
It cost 3 billion dollars.
In four years time it will be worth maybe 24 billion dollars, simply because of the appreciation in Gold’s buying power. That’s in today’s dollars.
In the meantime this guy gets to live in it, and motor about at 70 mph AND rent the thing out to the Bond franchise.
I am in awe.
I think this is just a scheme to lure our copper gutter thieves away.
“Hey, man! Sup? I doan got no copper fo you today, but I gots this here 300 foot long solid gold boat fo you. Gimme fie hunna dollah fo it an it yoze! Where I should put it?”
I hope some terrorist doesn’t fly a gold-plated plane into it. /s
Sounds like another one of those elitist yacht owners that always think they have the right-of-way... COLREGS don’t apply to them.
LOL!
It better not leave dry dock- the waters all around Malaysia are pirate-infested as it is
Imagine living inside the head of someone with this much money to burn. It’s not as if he couldn’t figure out a better way to invest it and make even more, or use it for good works which he apparently lacks a basic instinct to do. This type of financial obscenity must be an identifiable mental disorder?
Pirates get wood thinking about that boat. If that ever sails without armed escort, it will be taken.
It probably was built with shovel ready stimulus funds. Soon it will be donated to the Barack Obama Presidential Mosque.
Here’s a thought. Since reporters are cheap to buy perhaps the description of the yacht is a bit “embellished” so as to hide a bunch if money. Perhaps he’s managed to move 1-2 billion into hiding by claiming it went into the boat. Who knows?
And my tax money goes to feed starving American hating Somali’s?
‘scuse me while I go find an eye patch, a saber, and a parrot. Aaarrrggghhh!