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Delarage

(2,513 posts)
Tue Jul 1, 2025, 05:32 AM Jul 2025

Billionaires keep winning: Yacht Industry Booming

The growth in yacht sales has happened despite sanctions against Russian buyers, who had previously made up 25% of the top end of the market.

“That’s really been backfilled by the Americans, who seem to have this new, hungry appetite for very large yachts,” said Jonathan Beckett, CEO of yacht brokerage Burgess, which has 17 offices across the globe, from New York to Hong Kong. “I never thought I’d see Americans buying and building boats of this size . But they are.”


https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/articles/personal-submarines-prostitutes-simulated-warfare-120000558.html
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Billionaires keep winning: Yacht Industry Booming (Original Post) Delarage Jul 2025 OP
A single yacht produce as much greenhouse gas as 1500 passenger cars Emile Jul 2025 #1
"Yay! Fabulous." - G.O.P. BoRaGard Jul 2025 #2

Emile

(40,267 posts)
1. A single yacht produce as much greenhouse gas as 1500 passenger cars
Tue Jul 1, 2025, 05:43 AM
Jul 2025

and depreciate like a ton of lead. I hate these rich folks.

BoRaGard

(7,591 posts)
2. "Yay! Fabulous." - G.O.P.
Tue Jul 1, 2025, 05:44 AM
Jul 2025

"We need our yachts to get to our gourmet G.O.P. luxury golf courses. Too bad about you hungry proles. Smirk." - G.O.P.

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