• seth@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    He owns a yacht. I’d be interested to hear of a single yacht owner who is a decent person. I’m not sure one exists.

    Edit: Thanks for the cool examples of decent people with yachts!

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      Some people live on yachts and that’s their entire home. So like a 70,000£ yacht, then like 300£ a month in slip (berth) fees, including electric and whatnot. I strongly considered it. It’s roughly the same cost but better than caravan living, IMO.

      It’s a decent alternative to a landlocked home.

      But yeah, millionaires with yachts are a different thing.

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        That’s a good use case. I’d be interested to know more about the idiosyncrasies that come with that lifestyle, like if they go out to sea when a storm is expected, or just weather it out in the harbor.

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          They are almost always better in their dock, specifically boats optimised as condos are terrible at sea since open ocean is not in their design brief

          Perhaps they might be better up river as far as they can go

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        1 year ago

        That’s an excellent exception, and quite interesting. Thanks for the link!

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        My cousin did this with her wife and they are very decent.

        The thing was a floating money pit though and was usually broken down and was sometimes uninhabitable because of various issues.

        Then the hull got damaged in a storm when waves banged it against the dock over and over again.

        Now they own a nice little house.

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      1 year ago

      My ex-teamlead owns a yacht (if he didn’t sell it). The catch is that yacht is worth about $40 thousands, not $4 millions.

      Also there was a person in USSR who built a yacht and circumnavigated the Earth on that, not everyone who do own a yach own that luxury slab of floating gold

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          Somehow the response got lost 🤔

          It did float even though it was not new and not spacious. Then again, there are sail sport yachts that may be even cheaper but can’t be used as a home or to navigate an open water.