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DENNIS
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She is still parked outside the marina. My guess is they cant come in. almost 400 feet is a lot to turn around no matter what kind of thrusters you
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That's 4 football fields. |
Almost, Judy...but not quite. A football field is 300 feet. I think you're thinking of yards.
It's still a huge ship.
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bajajudy
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| Quote: | Originally posted by DENNIS
| Quote: | Originally posted by bajajudy
She is still parked outside the marina. My guess is they cant come in. almost 400 feet is a lot to turn around no matter what kind of thrusters you
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That's 4 football fields. |
Almost, Judy...but not quite. A football field is 300 feet. I think you're thinking of yards.
It's still a huge ship. |
OOPS
boy you got me on that one...dennis
And I thought that I was going to catch grief about the thrusters.....ya just never know
[Edited on 9-15-2010 by bajajudy]
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Gypsy Jan
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The "A" Was Parked Off Marina del Rey Last Week
The local media idiots went into a tizzy. One of them rented a boat and approached the yacht, yelling at the crew with a bullhorn, "Can we come
aboard and swim in the pool?" while news helicopters hovered over the yacht 24-7.
I call restraint on the fact that the crew didn't deepsix all of them with the array of anti-pirate and anti-spy repellents they have at their
disposal.
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow mindedness.”
—Mark Twain
\"La vida es dura, el corazon es puro, y cantamos hasta la madrugada.” (Life is hard, the heart is pure and we sing until dawn.)
—Kirsty MacColl, Mambo de la Luna
\"Alea iacta est.\"
—Julius Caesar
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Howard
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I told that damn Rooskie not to pick me up on the way to Cabo . So he says, “Howard, I would love you to come aboard but naturally I turned him down
and told him maybe next time as I am a very busy man.”
I have my pride and I not going for any boat ride with him and I will stick to a Panga as it has a 360-degree view and I can get the deck bloody with
fish.
The nerve of that caviar-eating foreigner!
We don't stop playing because we grow old;
we grow old because we stop playing
George Bernard Shaw
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slimshady
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Maybe the Ruskie can use that battelship to hunt down all those tuna trawlers stealing all those outboards in the East Cape.
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capt. mike
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wasn't that boat owned by James Bond once?
Bond...James Bond.
formerly Ordained in Rev. Ewing\'s Church by Mail - busted on tax fraud.......
Now joined L. Ron Hoover\'s church of Appliantology
\"Remember there is a big difference between kneeling down and bending over....\"
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elizabeth
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It was in Sausalito earlier last month...here's the article from the Marin Independent Journal. Guy sure is skipping around a lot...I love the bomb
proof master suite which is bigger than my whole house! And three swimming pools???? Sting ray hides for wall paper????
Russian billionaire's boat anchors off Sausalito
Mark Prado
Posted: 08/18/2010 01:58:23 PM PDT
... (IJ photo/Frankie Frost)«12»A $300 million yacht owned by Russian billionaire Andrey Melnichenko was parked off Sausalito in Richardson Bay on
Wednesday, drawing dozens of gawkers.
The 390-foot yacht, called the "A," apparently arrived Tuesday night or Wednesday morning after a trip up the coast from San Diego. It sports a
2,500-square-foot master suite, three swimming pools and doors accessible by a fingerprint security system.
The boat attracted onlookers onshore as well as boaters in the bay.
"It looks like something from a James Bond movie," said Sausalito resident Bart Dzivi as he marveled at the craft from shore Wednesday. "I went
jogging last night and didn't see it, so it must have come in this morning or late last night."
Melnichenko, 38, who resides
in Moscow and is married to model Aleksandra Nikolic Melnichenko, made his money in the fertilizer, energy and banking businesses. With a net worth of
$4.4 billion, Melnichenko is No. 189 on the Forbes list of wealthiest people in the world.
The U.S. Coast Guard wasn't sure how long Melnichenko's boat would be in the bay.
"We just know it's a private yacht," said Levi Reed, a Coast Guard spokesman.
And what a yacht.
The vessel is named after the initials of the couple's first names. It's 62 feet wide at its beam; has an owner's suite and six cabins; has a crew of
37 and a staff of five; has twin 6,000-horsepower engines; carries 12 tons of water for its hot tubs, pools and spas; and can hit speeds of 24 knots,
although its cruising speed is around 19.5 knots, which can take it more than 6,500 nautical miles nonstop.
An all-white, 2,583-square-foot master suite is wrapped in bomb-proof, 44-millimeter glass, according to the Wall Street Journal. There, a king-sized
bed sits on a giant platter that rotates with the press of a silver button. Another set of buttons rotates the bed itself. The combination of the
rotating bed and the rotating platter allows limitless angles for watching the sunset, sunrise or the 60-inch plasma television, which retracts from
the ceiling.
The walls of one room are covered in white sting-ray hides, while another is covered in hand-stitched calf's leather. The main deck features chairs
made from alligator hides and Kudo horns. One suite onboard has been dubbed the "nookie room" by the crew, with its white circular bed with padded
walls and a ceiling-mounted television, according to the Journal.
The ship's two main landing boats are mini-yachts themselves, stretching to 36 feet, boasting plush interiors and costing more than $1 million each,
the Journal reported.
This is not the first time a bodacious boat has turned up in Richardson Bay.
In July last year, the Attessa III, a massive 225-foot yacht, complete with helipad, anchored off Sausalito. That vessel features an art deco design
and is equipped with a movie theater, gym, massage room and two outdoor Jacuzzis and belongs to Dennis Washington, a Montana industrialist worth about
$4.2 billion.
In September 2008, The Maltese Falcon, a 289-foot luxury yacht owned by Belvedere venture capitalist billionaire Tom Perkins, anchored off Marin for a
cancer benefit regatta. Perkins reportedly sold the boat last year for $100 million.
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oxxo
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He's parked off Bahia Chileno this morning. Probably doing a little diving on the reefs.
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bajamigo
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Looks like something out of Jules Vernes' wildest imagination.
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bajajudy
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Se fue
She left this morning while we were swimming. My guess is they are looking for fuel.
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bajajudy
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Wrong again
A"s back
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55steve
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Our news in San Diego did a short story on it when it was here. I still am having trouble imagining a vessel that burns 700 gallons of diesel an
hour.
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bacquito
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Good Grief! What money can buy
bacquito
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