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Skipjack Joe
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| Quote: | Originally posted by monoloco
It's curious that a guy who lived an otherwise unassuming lifestyle would have built a vessel like that. |
I was surprised as well. This is not the Jobs I read about in all those magazine articles.
Larry Ellison, on the other hand, is the most reviled citizen in the Bay Area. All respect him but nobody loves the man.
Jobs was a genius, Ellison is just good in business. He knows how to grab and hold on.
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mtgoat666
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Gypsy Jan
But. my question is: Why do obscenely rich people (the Oracle guy, the other guy that was Steve Jobs partner, and others} feel the need to build these
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Maybe because they can and have the funds  |
Smoke 'em if you got 'em!
Personally, I like classical and art deco inspired early 20th century styles of naval architecture. That steve jobs boat looks like a sterile glass
sky scraper on its side. Looks cold and unwelcoming. Might make a good party boat, but would be depressing to spend time on it sober.
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monoloco
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Skipjack Joe
| Quote: | Originally posted by monoloco
It's curious that a guy who lived an otherwise unassuming lifestyle would have built a vessel like that. |
I was surprised as well. This is not the Jobs I read about in all those magazine articles.
Larry Ellison, on the other hand, is the most reviled citizen in the Bay Area. All respect him but nobody loves the man.
Jobs was a genius, Ellison is just good in business. He knows how to grab and hold on. |
Maybe it was just
Steve's first attempt at re-inventing the yacht. iyacht? Personally, I don't think I'd want to be on that thing in heavy seas with all that glass,
unless it's Gorilla Glass.
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Islandbuilder
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A singularly ugly vessel. But I'm sure that the craftspeople who built her, and maintain her, and those who crew her, like her just fine.
A bit predictable the bashing of the lives of the mega rich.
As some pointed out, all the money spent went to provide jobs for people who needed them, and also raised the bar on their skill sets which will help
them get the next job and the one after that.
Several years ago a local rich guy bought an island for $14,000,000. It was, at that time, the largest real estate sale ever recorded in our county. I
was talking about the ostentacious quality of the guy buying his own island, and the guy I was talking to told me that he not been hired to provide
barge tansportation to the island for the ensuing construction project, he would have lost his boat, business and home.
He was very happy that a rich guy was able to buy his own island!
When I commented on the price, he told me that the island cost the guy about 1/4 of his annual investment income. To me, that would be about $500.
It's all relative.
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| Quote: | | What this is leading to is an inevitable creation of a financial and economic Serengeti, where lions are going to have to learn the hard way that
packs of jackals are actually the true pinnacle of the food chain. |
You sound just like the right kind of Jackal! Kill 'em all.
The harder I work, the luckier I get
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Job's boat (yacht, ship, whatever) just passed by on the inside of Cerralvo, going north.
That is one UGLY boat!
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El Jefe
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Must be heading back to La Paz after partying down in Cabo.
I think it looks good going by out there. Fast too. Different from the run of the mill 200 ft plus yacht for sure.
No b-tchin\' in the Baja.
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RnR
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| Quote: | Originally posted by El Jefe
I think it looks good going by out there. Fast too. Different from the run of the mill 200 ft plus yacht for sure. |
Yes, it is fast. That was my impression, also. Much faster than the usual boats/ferries passing by the island.
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