Posted on 10/24/2024 1:20:25 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
Known for her distaste for over-the-top, tech-heavy spaces (including their Washington home, the $130 million Xanadu 2.0), Melinda once shared in a CNN interview, “We certainly spend money on ourselves. You see it in the house that we built. We won’t have that house forever, though.”
... However, with the couple’s split before the yacht was finished, Gates decided to part ways with the $645 million behemoth, a reminder of their 27-year marriage. Now that Breakthrough has completed its sea trials, the vessel is seeking a new owner, perhaps another billionaire, before the end of this year.
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Perfect rig for Hunter Biden.
If it doesn’t have a trolling motor, live well, and top speed of 70mph, it’s just floating junk...
—”It is quite a rather large ‘boat’.”
“If you are going to be a bear, be a Grizzly Bear”
Gandhi, and he knew all about this stuff!
True that.
And Schwartz Gyorgy.
You can probably pick it up cheap.
Roy Scheider says we’re going to need a bigger boat.
Years ago, someone asked Warren Buffett - you’re worth $10s of billions, why don’t you own a yacht?
His answer was (I paraphrase): my time is much more valuable, and its just another thing to worry about. It would need constant maintenance and repairs, the crew would be partying and having sex on it when I wasn’t there.... Who wants to deal with all that?
If you spend 600 million on The Epstein you deserve to lose it all before launch.
There’s a phrase
“If it floats, flies, or f***s, rent it”
Bill may decide there was wisdom in that saying.
the 2 happiest days in the life of a boat owner, 1. the day you buy it 2. the day you sell it.
“the 2 happiest days in the life of a boat owner, 1. the day you buy it 2. the day you sell it.”
I always loved that joke. Probably true with other things as well.
I worked for 20 years in a commercial shipyard. We worked on 2 yachts, the Octopus (Paul Allen) and the Cocoa Bean (not really in the same class as the Octopus). I got a tour of the Cocoa Bean but we were generally prohibited from going on the Octopus, and management had to sign NDAs. These things are incredible with the amount of detail that goes into them. One of the yachts had a stateroom separate from the other living quarters for the owner’s adult son so he could get women off the boat in the morning without his mother seeing them. We only worked on these boats because we had the only open drydocks within thousands of miles when they needed work.
—” just another thing to worry about. It would need constant maintenance and repairs,”
A coworker had a large sailboat on a triple-axel trailer. It was his pride and joy. He was always sailing in good weather and working on it in the off-season in his driveway.
One day I stopped by and the boat was on the trailer???
He said, “I just don’t have the time anymore, I’ll give you a good deal on it”.
It took him a couple of years to sell the beast.
Heres whzt its like to own a boat. Stand naked in a cold shower, and tear up hundred dollar bills.
You don’t want to be the boat owner. You want to be a friend of the boat owner. Cost: 6 pack of beer for a few hours on the water.
—”Stand naked in a cold shower, and tear up hundred dollar bills.”
Years ago a friend had a seat on the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE).
He said the test was to crumble a one-hundred-dollar bill in your hand, walk down the street, and drop the C-note into the first trash can you pass. (About $600 today)
If you so much as turn your head back, you FAIL the test to be a trader.
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