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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe World's most sophisticated "prepper."
Old Jeffery needs a place for "privacy" so he has a yacht built the size of a Navy Destroyer Escort. (actually I exaggerate, it is 17 feet shorter than the ship I served on.) It takes a crew of 60 to operate. I bet it will have better bunks, a better galley, and he won't have to stand the dog watch or swab the decks..... Privacy is simpler for me, I just close the bedroom door.
We really know that the purpose of the explosion of the sales of super yachts is that they rich want a way to get away from the zombie apocalypse when the breakdown of law and order hits close to home. Just pack up your troubles in your old kit-bag and smile, smile, smile.
Of course a half billion dollar boat is necessary for the world's richest man. The 50 million dollar annual expense of operating the thing is chump change for a man who made 17 billion dollars in one day in 2020. He probably has a lair hidden deep within a dormant Japanese volcano, complete with retractable roof and a goon squad of hundreds to man security for it.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-57079327
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)being sold for scrap for cheap?
Chainfire
(17,757 posts)Besides, his little boat will be a lot more homey than a big old ocean liner, and will have that "new car smell" when it is completed. You have to wonder if some oligarch is not laying the keel for a 420 footer as we speak.
EYESORE 9001
(27,435 posts)Hoi, polloi.
Hassin Bin Sober
(26,671 posts)John Ludi
(590 posts)The people guarding him will use him as bait.
empedocles
(15,751 posts)kept in surprisingly modest, even tight quarters.
[Think Downton Abbey mentality afloat]
Chainfire
(17,757 posts)There is so much secrecy about the building of the yacht, and everyone is sworn to secrecy about the details, all of the workers will be killed at the completion of the project. I hope they are enjoying the time they have left. There is speculation that he ballast will not be lead, but gold......It also has the ability to sail in case fuel oil becomes an issue.....
hunter
(38,818 posts)You can't be a super-villain without a black market Russian nuclear power plant.
Chainfire
(17,757 posts)"How big is the biggest private yacht in the world?"
flotsam
(3,268 posts)or cubits?