Christine Animal Posted July 11, 2012 Share Posted July 11, 2012 All $ 3.2 million of it, for a mere $ 40,000 a monthhttp://www.sierraroseyacht.com/ Well it's too latehttp://news.yahoo.com/3-2-million-yacht-sinks-lake-tahoe-marina-161906416.html [:-))] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave21478 Posted July 12, 2012 Share Posted July 12, 2012 3.2 mill? Pah, anything worth less than 10 million is hardly worth owning.If you want to see how the other half lives, have a look at James List - its like an Amazon for playboy millionaires. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christine Animal Posted July 12, 2012 Author Share Posted July 12, 2012 Maybe that's why it sank then, it wasn't worth much. [:D] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave21478 Posted July 12, 2012 Share Posted July 12, 2012 You get what you pay for these days. For a paltry 3 million, you can't expect it to actually float! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quillan Posted July 12, 2012 Share Posted July 12, 2012 When I left the RAF I spent a couple of years delivering yachts to people. I got in to it by mentioning to my cousin that I had taken a few yachts here and there for friends. He worked for Sunseeker at the time and put me in touch with one of the owners who in turn asked me to do a few deliveries.Sunseeker sponsored a very famous F1 driver at the time (and has continued to do so for many years and at that time drove for Lotus - no names please) and I was asked to deliver his new yacht to him out in Florida Keys. Before I continue you should be aware that the waiting time for a yacht from them at the time was about three to four years.Well I delivered to yacht and was told to wait till the post delivery team arrived who would check and clean the thing then take the new owner out and show him how everything worked etc, etc. Well the new owner was not going to hang around and decided to take it out on his own even though he was told to wait. Off he went, showing off a tad, got a bit to close to some rocks and ripped the bottom out and of course it sank. Sad thing was his insurance policy was set to start the following day. One very red faced F1 driver, one very happy insurance company and one very angry yacht builder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Théière Posted July 13, 2012 Share Posted July 13, 2012 Why was the yacht builder angry they got to sell two? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quillan Posted July 13, 2012 Share Posted July 13, 2012 I guess firstly because of all there months of work building the yacht were wasted and secondly with no insurance he couldn't afford to buy another. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Théière Posted July 13, 2012 Share Posted July 13, 2012 I think I can understand, many years ago a race engineer spent many hours building a new race car for a wealthy client and they exit-ted the paddock and stuffed it into paddock hill bend, the engineers comments were unbelievable and he never worked on the clients car again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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