Sailing Yacht A

[TwoWhalesInAPool]

Stirred on by a previous thread I decided to purchase something that I too could use on water, which of course, is my natural playground!

Here is my water plaything.

Originally called 'Sailing Yacht A', I have renamed it 'Ocean of Pretension'.

Once owned by Andrey Melnichenko, I purchased it from the Italian government for the paltry sum of £472,000,056 or $599,440,071.12 USD.

Luckily, I didn't need to pay any delivery charge or use a car roof to transport it.
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[TwoWhalesInAPool]

One of the 18 paddles I made for my new boat, 'Ocean of Pretension'. It cost £56,000.
Stats:

• Length: 18.573 m ( 60.9 feet)
• Height: 2.8 m (9.2 feet)
• Weight: 2,404 kg ( 5,300 lbs)

Once again, no delivery, clearance, airline handling, additional tariffs, customs duty/tax, advancement or admin charges were made. Cos I is smart!

 

[Not_Fred_Honest]

The point of sailing is.... you sail. This means learning to use the boat.

You mite as well be on a PO ferry in that



This is the mirror dinghy that I first learn to sail. Its a working class icon.

Mirror (dinghy) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Before the Daily Mirror promotion, if you worked in a factory or supermarket boat ownership was beyond your means. Something for the middle class and rich only. People didn't have home phones or central heating back then or even own there own homes.

Most of the mirror dinghy were build in "back to back" houses small yards, and clubs where you could go and build one with friends. The time and effort people put into them. I had a school friend who Dad spent evening building one in his living room and had to remove the front window to get it out the house. Its hard to explain the impact of this boat. A whole generation learn to sail in them on water ways and lakes of the UK. Taking them away from the polluted factory towns of the 60's/70s for a day or two.

So when you post a picture of rich mans toy, its offensive to the memory of all those steal worker, shoe makers and many, many others who poured there hearts and souls in dream of boat ownership.

Sailing not just for the rich, its for us all.

 

[Kev45]

When I was a lad, when no one ever sailed, then or now, our entire community banded together to build a ship. We saved up used Swan Vesta matches for 5 years and created this masterpiece. Unfortunately, we never got to sail in her because no one on the street owned a car and there were no stretches of water deep enough within a 50-mile radius.



Fun fact: The term "in the same boat" even originated from our street after Daryl Butterworth set fire to The Leaky Keel, in pride of place on the window sill in the Mariners Arms. With the remaining useable Swan Vesta match in the whole of Ashby-on-Town and 6 rows of back to backs burnt down. The bastard, last I heard he was the voice on Bullseye that said "look at what you could have won".

 

[Not_Fred_Honest]

Awww Kev, aren't your people crafty

 

[TwoWhalesInAPool]

The point of sailing is.... you sail. This means learning to use the boat.

You mite as well be on a PO ferry in that

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This is the mirror dinghy that I first learn to sail. Its a working class icon.

Mirror (dinghy) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Before the Daily Mirror promotion, if you worked in a factory or supermarket boat ownership was beyond your means. Something for the middle class and rich only. People didn't have home phones or central heating back then or even own there own homes.

Most of the mirror dinghy were build in "back to back" houses small yards, and clubs where you could go and build one with friends. The time and effort people put into them. I had a school friend who Dad spent evening building one in his living room and had to remove the front window to get it out the house. Its hard to explain the impact of this boat. A whole generation learn to sail in them on water ways and lakes of the UK. Taking them away from the polluted factory towns of the 60's/70s for a day or two.

So when you post a picture of rich mans toy, its offensive to the memory of all those steal worker, shoe makers and many, many others who poured there hearts and souls in dream of boat ownership.

Sailing not just for the rich, its for us all.

 

[Not_Fred_Honest]