Putin’s yacht

[Chew Toy McCoy]

Take a look at Vladimir Putin's 270 feet long ultra-luxury yacht - The $100 million vessel comes with an indoor pool that transforms into a dance floor, a wine cellar, a helipad, a gym, and a helipad. - Luxurylaunches

The ongoing Russia-Ukraine crisis is only getting worse by the day with the event of a full-fledged war becoming a real possibility. This is only making

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Somewhere between Manchin’s dingy and Bezos’ personal fulfillment center is Putin’s yacht.

 

[User.168]

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[Huntn]

Nice…

 

[Scepticalscribe]

I remember an especially idiotic thread (several years ago, after the death of the sainted Mr Jobs) on MR about his yacht (one twit even wrote dreamily about how "if only "Steve" was at the wheel"...), that ghastly Philippe Starck designed monstrosity.

My point is that I have yet to see a tastefully designed ocean going vessel owned by a plutocrat, oligarch, (Mr Putin), tech wizard, or so on.

They are all perfectly hideous, an affront and offence to taste.

Now, it is possible to design a beautiful yacht; anyone who ever visited (or even laid eyes on) the (tea clipper), the Cutty Sark, can see that beauty, elegant lines (and indeed, speed) are not fundamentally incompatible with designing an ocean going craft, or vessel. Or ship.

Anyway, nobody has ever accused Mr Putin of good taste.

 

[yaxomoxay]

As a billionaire a yacht will be a no go for me. Galleon or nothing.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

As a billionaire a yacht will be a no go for me. Galleon or nothing.

Clipper for me.

Over thirty years ago, I spent the best part of a day touring the Cutty Sark (in dry dock in Greenwich); it was one of the most beautiful craft, or vessels, I have ever seen. Exquisite.

Mind you, for museum buffs, the Vasa museum in Stockholm - home to the eponymous Vasa, which sank on its maiden voyage in Stockholm harbour in 1628 and was salvaged in the 1950s - the museum is built around the preserved ship - (where I spent a full day until they threw me out, half an hour after closing) is simply spell-binding.

 

[Huntn]

It was said today that Putin by virtue of his $$ stashes around the globe might be richest person on the planet,

 

[fooferdoggie]

hope no one sinks the tug as part of war it would be a shame.

 

[Chew Toy McCoy]

I remember an especially idiotic thread (several years ago, after the death of the sainted Mr Jobs) on MR about his yacht (one twit even wrote dreamily about how he wished to see "Steve" at the wheel...), that ghastly Philippe Starck designed monstrosity.

My point is that I have yet to see a tastefully designed ocean going vessel owned by a plutocrat, oligarch, (Mr Putin), tech wizard, or so on.

They are all perfectly hideous, an affront and offence to taste.

Are you suggesting the tech wizard behind this design is bad at yacht aesthetics?

 

[User.45]

I remember an especially idiotic thread (several years ago, after the death of the sainted Mr Jobs) on MR about his yacht (one twit even wrote dreamily about how he wished to see "Steve" at the wheel...), that ghastly Philippe Starck designed monstrosity.

My point is that I have yet to see a tastefully designed ocean going vessel owned by a plutocrat, oligarch, (Mr Putin), tech wizard, or so on.

They are all perfectly hideous, an affront and offence to taste.

you no appreciate yacht cuz you no have yacht.
(agree, but we are plebs)

 

[Scepticalscribe]

Are you suggesting the tech wizard behind this design is bad at yacht aesthetics?

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Yes.

As a matter of fact, I am.

Not just bad, but abysmal.

That Phillippe Starck designed monstrosity was an absolute horror (and, at the time, on MR, I queried whether I was alone in thinking that it was perfectly ghastly).

At the risk of derailing this thread, I will argue that while Mr Jobs was exceedingly gifted in the world of computer design, he was clueless, and blinkered, and simply out of his depth, where the design of ocean going vessels (yachts) were concerned.

 

[Chew Toy McCoy]

Yes.

As a matter of fact, I am.

Not just bad, but abysmal.

That Phillippe Starck designed monstrosity was an absolute horror (and, at the time, on MR, I queried whether I was alone in thinking that it was perfectly ghastly).

At the risk of derailing this thread, I will argue that while Mr Jobs was exceedingly gifted in the world of computer design, he was clueless, and blinkered, and simply out of his depth, where the design of ocean going vessels (yachts) were concerned.

If you had to choose just one, was he worse at yacht design or cancer treatment options?







I hesitated on posting, but fuck it.

 

[User.45]

If you had to choose just one, was he worse at yacht design or cancer treatment options?


I hesitated on posting, but fuck it.

the answer really depends on the intended outcome

 

[Scepticalscribe]

If you had to choose just one, was he worse at yacht design or cancer treatment options?







I hesitated on posting, but fuck it.

No, I choose not to choose, but he should not be emulated or imitated on either.

the answer really depends on the intended outcome

The best possible response.

 

[Yoused]

Hackers say they changed the call sign for Putin's yacht with a special message to him

Vladimir Putin's yacht, Graceful, appears to have a different call sign on a few yacht tracking websites.As Russian oligarch yachts are being tracked around the world, Putin's luxury boat typically has the call sign UBGV8, according to FleetMon. But on another...

www.rawstory.com

 

[Yoused]

Scheherezade, a 140m yacht believed to have ties to the Kremlin, will remain in Carrara, for the time being

Italy Orders Seizure Of $700 Million Yacht Suspected To Be Owned By Putin

Italian authorities have ordered the seizure of a $700 million superyacht that media reports and activists have linked to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

www.rferl.org

 

[AG_PhamD]

I remember an especially idiotic thread (several years ago, after the death of the sainted Mr Jobs) on MR about his yacht (one twit even wrote dreamily about how "if only "Steve" was at the wheel"...), that ghastly Philippe Starck designed monstrosity.

My point is that I have yet to see a tastefully designed ocean going vessel owned by a plutocrat, oligarch, (Mr Putin), tech wizard, or so on.

They are all perfectly hideous, an affront and offence to taste.

Now, it is possible to design a beautiful yacht; anyone who ever visited (or even laid eyes on) the (tea clipper), the Cutty Sark, can see that beauty, elegant lines (and indeed, speed) are not fundamentally incompatible with designing an ocean going craft, or vessel. Or ship.

Anyway, nobody has ever accused Mr Putin of good taste.

As far as super and mega yachts go, Putin’s boat looks like a generic, off the shelf ugly monstrosity. I swear a lot of these boats designers must design them from the inside out. There is a absolutely nothing interesting about the exterior of that boat.

Jeff Bezo’s new giant sailing yacht is actually isn’t too bad looking. The hill shape is quite beautiful with the canoe style stern like on a classic Hinkley. That said, a 127m, 3 masted sailing yacht is always going to look a little ridiculous. The cynic in me thinks the sailboat idea is just to greenwash his image. I imagine such a massive, heavy, aluminum and steel hulled sailboat with an onboard swimming pool will rarely if ever actually be operating only on sail power.

Between the draft and the masts I’d imagine where you can take that yacht are quite limited.

Personally, I’d be happy with this Oyster 56, made in your homeland of Britain. You could buy hundreds of these beautiful boats for the price of Bezo’s or Putin’s mega yachts.

 

[fooferdoggie]

just because you have money does not mean you have taste.

 

[Apple fanboy]

just because you have money does not mean you have taste.

Generally I’d say the opposite is true. People without money make better choices because they have to live with it for longer. People with money have no one to tell them they look an idiot in their fashion choices, car choices or orange skin fake tan.

 

[Yoused]

Personally, I’d be happy with this Oyster 56, made in your homeland of Britain. You could buy hundreds of these beautiful boats for the price of Bezo’s or Putin’s mega yachts.

It depends on what you seek. In the Oyster boat, you are out on the water, whereas in a Scheherazade you are in a "high-class" villa that happens to be surrounded by water instead of land. Almost like the sailing part of it is an afterthought. A slightly different backdrop. The really wealthy do not seem interested in piddly details like that stuff out there or how to deal with it – they have people for that.