leong Posted March 30, 2015 Share Posted March 30, 2015 (edited) Yesterday I paddled out to the Palm Beach Boat Show to see what people interested in conspicuous consumption are looking to buy. The 200’ super yacht Aurora is on sale there for just $52 million The salesman asked me if I wished I could afford the boat. I told him that I have something that the buyer won’t have. What’s that, he asked? I said, I have “enough”!-LeonPSBy world standards a 200' boat is pretty small. For instance Ocean Victory Yacht is about 460' Edited March 30, 2015 by leong Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spuglisi Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 Perfect response Leon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djlewis Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 Hey, Leon -- do you have a formula for the price of a mega-yacht in terms of its length -- is it linear? quadratic? something else -- maybe k*L^1.5? Have you run a regression? --David Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jason Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 Eye candy: http://www.phseakayaks.com/kayaks.php?kayak=Aries%20155 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pintail Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 (edited) David, there <is>, apparently, a magic figure for annual running/maintenance costs -- and that is 10% of the purchase price, I seem to remember...! I don't think it applies to sea kayaks, does it? (Says he, smugly) That motor yacht that Leon showed us is god-awful ugly and vulgar, isn't it? Yeuch! Edited March 31, 2015 by Pintail Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billvoss Posted April 1, 2015 Share Posted April 1, 2015 David, there <is>, apparently, a magic figure for annual running/maintenance costs -- and that is 10% of the purchase price, I seem to remember...! I don't think it applies to sea kayaks, does it? (Says he, smugly)Alas, I seem to always spend more than 10% of my combined kayak purchase prices on annual running/maintenance costs. Way way more if you count mileage getting to and from the put-ins! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leong Posted April 1, 2015 Author Share Posted April 1, 2015 Yes, Sir Christopher is right. The yearly cost to operate a luxury yacht is about 10 percent of the boat’s cost. Yes, of course that’s why I didn’t buy that super yacht for only $52 million. I just can’t afford the $5.2 million yearly operating cost There are other examples of extreme excess in the boating world. The owner of this powerboat said his runabout weighs about a ton (sans the four out-board engines). So he has 1,200 horsepower to push his little boat. That comes to 0.6 horsepower/pound! By the way, at full throttle, the setup burns 120 gallons of fuel per hour. To each his own, I guess.-LeonPSAren't we lucky to be kayakers? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rick stoehrer Posted April 2, 2015 Share Posted April 2, 2015 (edited) it's perspective.how much money have you spent kayaking? thousands and thousands and thousands, right?some folks look at that and think it's just as nuts and excessive.perspective.One way or another, people generally live to their means...and i have to say i'd be awful curious to try that $52 x 106 runabout end of the spectrum too! Edited April 2, 2015 by rick stoehrer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leong Posted April 2, 2015 Author Share Posted April 2, 2015 Rick,Yes, as I said, to each his own. Everybody has the right to waste natural resources, buy big ugly boats and minimize their taxes. Some examples:* Almost all luxury yachts on the east coast are registered in the British West Indies in order to avoid US taxes. I guess even the billionaires are cheapskates.*That small 1200 horsepower runabout (at full throttle) burns more gas per hour than my gas guzzling car does driving from New England to South Florida.But no one has the right to disobey the CG’s rules of navigation and the stinkpotters generally do that. The term 'right-of-way' does not apply to watercraft. Instead, a boat is either the stand-on boat or the give-way boat. The stand-on boat is required to maintain its course and speed. The give-way boat must stay clear of the stand-on boat. If a give-way boat is approaching a stand-on boat, the give-way boat must notify the stand-on boat of its intentions by making a clear and decisive change in course or speed. If you are a powerboat and the other boat is a sailboat or kayak you must give way. Some personal examples:*More often than not when I’m sailing or paddling and a powerboat is about to cross my path he illegally (and stupidly) passes in front of me instead of behind me. He not only risks a collision but throws up a huge wake that I’ll have to sail or paddle through.*When a powerboat is overtaking me in my sailboat or kayak he assumes that I’m going to alter my course. The boat being passed is always the stand-on vessel whether it is a sailboat, kayak or powerboat. The boat being passed must not be made to alter its course or speed.-LeonPSHere’s what my Impulse looked like after a stinkpot ran into me while following me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rick stoehrer Posted April 2, 2015 Share Posted April 2, 2015 (edited) we've all seen our share of bad drivers while on the water....we were playing at fishers last years (2 years ago?) and you know how it is....you take a look around, head on a swivel....30 footer hundred yards away or so and not coming my way....alright, head down and jump on a wave and start surfing....and i'm in the trough and surfing, and surfing and....look up and literally have to PUSH off the hull of the power boat (my hands WENT ON the hull) as he slowly quartered into me in order to you know....live. i went directly alongside of that boat, yelling screaming cursing my ever loving head off and the thousand year old man piloting the boat blithely through had NO IDEA...his son (grandson) came running up from below deck to find out what the hell the noise was about.the other kayakers i was with saw this unfold and were yelling to me but you can't hear much over the surf....they pretty much thought i had been hit for sure and had that guy really been motoring there would have been nothing i could have done and they'd have been right.so yup, folks aren't too sharp sometimes. Edited April 2, 2015 by rick stoehrer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Sylvester Posted April 3, 2015 Share Posted April 3, 2015 (edited) Leon, What is the saying for rises is horsepower/footage to IQ decrease? Though it might not apply to someone who can afford 52 million.... I think there might be an IQ bottoming out at about 40' and then it rises slowly as the footage goes up. As David Lee Roth said: "Money doesn't buy happiness but it buys a big yacht that pulls right up next to it....or in our case a kayak the paddles right up next to it. Edited April 3, 2015 by Paul Sylvester Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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