Posted on 04/11/2023 1:48:59 AM PDT by zeestephen
After recently completing sea trials in the North Sea, the billionaire's new sailing yacht Koru was delivered by Oceanco [The Netherlands] late last week...The $485 million vessel left for its maiden voyage [to Gibraltar] last Thursday.
(Excerpt) Read more at robbreport.com ...
“Jeff Bezos pledges $2 billion to protect the environment”
He raped the environment to build it and will continue to rape the environment to maintain and use it.
If I and 100,000 neighbors switch to clotheslines we can offset some of his damage.
It states in the article that the bridge was not dismantled. She ship was towed underneath it with the masts removed.
1/2 billion dollars, I guess that kind of money doesn’t buy as much Yacht as it used to. I need more photo evidence, but i’m leaning towards Dr. Evil over paid.
I wonder how much that is contributing to global warming by not using the sails.
we’re not supposed to think that way!! just feel good about it!!
I grew up sailing with my father on his 50’ sloop. To me, that’s the max size to have fun on a boat, no matter how rich you are.
Any larger than that, it’s not a boat.
It’s a city…
Even with unlimited funds, somethings you just rent.
How? The yacht is built from the same common materials used to build other yachts and ships. As far as maintenance, people will be employed to maintain it. As far as traveling with the yacht, it's a sailboat with backup engines that run on diesel fuel, the most commonly used energy source on Earth. How did a rape occur?
When I see massive machines like this, it reminds me of incidents on shows like gold rush where massive dozens, excavators etc get completely shut down by some tIny $2 part hat they haven’t got lol.
See #30.
This isn’t a native canoe carved from a local tree and moved around by a paddle, it is a massive building on the ocean that will use massive amounts of energy and resources both when not being used and when being used, and in constant maintenance to keep it shiny and new on salt water.
Bezos is a radical environmentalist, would you want to pay the energy bill for his yacht as it sits in the dock, or any other of the bills of vast consumption that this yacht and its people will devour?
“The epic design isn’t able to accommodate a helicopter, however, as the soaring masts make it too unsafe to land. As a result, Bezos commissioned a second yacht to hold his toys and tenders. Christened Wingman, the custom 246-footer is Damen’s largest support vessel to date.”
I would guess that Bezos will employ a crew of over 70+ to run both of these vessels. Plus a helicopter pilot among many others. He probably employs dozens of security people too. I would suspect Bezos employs hundreds of people that have nothing to do with running Amazon.
Billionaires have to constantly worry about kidnapping plots. When he and his family travel they don’t stay at five star hotels like pukes that fly first class. This is a
floating five star hotel.
My father in law had a Freedom 32 for twenty plus years that I sailed on extensively. At one point in time his best friend had a Tiana 55 sloop. It took several people just to maintain this vessel. It took a couple just to maintain the 32’.
When I went on my honeymoon 26 years ago we were on the SV Flying Cloud owned by Windjammer Barefoot cruises. It was 230 feet in length and had a crew of 25. This vessel is almost twice that size. Of course, nothing was computerized on the Flying Cloud.
I would guess there were thousands of people employed directly and indirectly by the construction of a vessel like this in the Netherlands and other countries.
Crikets...
meh ...just another modern day vulgarity.
that skank must have suction better than a hoover vacuum
There’s the shipwrights, the architects, the laborers, the sailmakers . . .
“When I see massive machines like this, it reminds me of incidents on shows like gold rush where massive dozens, excavators etc get completely shut down by some tIny $2 part hat they haven’t got lol.”
They’ll have a machine shop on board.
Most of the crew duties on my father's boat were by him and my brother and I. He had it docked in central Florida. Our annual vacations were a month sailing the Caribbean.
And I HATED it...
We were doing this at a time before video games and internet. There's only so many times you can play checkers with your brother before you're beating him on the head with the board. Add to that my father's trend of having either an annual girlfriend or wife (most of them very young), and they spending their time messing around below decks, it added up to a very un-fun time on the water.
Ironically, though, I look back on this and wished I would have appreciated it more. It was a beautiful boat and we visited nearly every island in the Caribbean. It was an experience that changed in my mind over the years to something I now fondly remember.
Sadly, when we moved to Michigan, my father looked into the cost of hiring a crew to sail that boat up the east coast and down the St. Lawrence up to northern Michigan and figured it was too costly to do, so he sold the boat. We had another on the Great Lakes, but it wasn't the same.
Sailing is a wonderful activity. What Bezos is doing ain't that...
Meanwhile Amazon warehouse workers make $10.00/hr...
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