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Shipspotters all over the world => Shipping News and information => Topic started by: Dеnis on October 31, 2012, 12:53:17 PM
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With the increasing amount of ugly yachts (motor yachts, that is) let's see what are your favourite ones on here?
(Please, provide a photo or a link to it)
This is mine - SUNRAYS:
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© Giovanni Romero
http://www.superyachts.com/motor-yacht-4807/sunrays-photos.htm
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Skat - IMO 1007287 <3
(http://cdn2.shipspotting.com/photos/small/4/1/7/1170714.jpg)
http://www.shipspotting.com/gallery/photo.php?lid=1170714
(http://cdn2.shipspotting.com/photos/small/2/1/7/1170712.jpg)
http://www.shipspotting.com/gallery/photo.php?lid=1170712
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Fergal, perhaps her owner is a navy admiral? ;D
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its very military style.. I love the clean lines :)
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Vibrant Curiosity - IMO 1010002
http://www.shipspotting.com/gallery/photo.php?lid=1631971
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and DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER - IMO 1010947
http://www.shipspotting.com/gallery/photo.php?lid=1586433
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she is quite a beauty :)
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My favourite yachts? These are my favourites;
Dona Amelia
Nahlin
Talitha G
Norge
Dannebrog
Marala
and just to show that as well as an appreciation of the past I also like modern yachts;
Intuition II
Steel
Clive
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My new (favourite) yacht! 8)
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I despise big yachts. They are rich men's toys bought mostly with money gained from either criminal activities, despotic, corrupt regimes or exploitation of working people. The on good thing about large, private yachts is that they provide employment for the people who build them and those employed to sail the things for their bloated owners.
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That is about the most ignorant and ill-informed statement I have read in a very long time.
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Hear, hear, Clive. I couldn't agree more.
Brgds
Phil
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lol!!
Only joking!!
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Let's keep in mind the purpose of this topic initially was showing your favourite yachts which are firstly the praise of their designers & builders. Who is the owner & how he got this or that yacht doesn't matter.
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To get back to the topic:
While my personal favorites would be many of the classic yacht, several which have been mentioned already, I do have some newer examples to add as well.
I'm really drawn to the rugged looks maintained by the salvage tug conversions such as LONE RANGER (http://www.shipspotting.com/gallery/photo.php?lid=1702127).
I feel slightly underappreciated are the sleek lines of yachts of the 1980's, such as MICHAELA ROSE (http://www.shipspotting.com/gallery/photo.php?lid=1232888).
Lastly, while not truly "yachts," I really do like Damen's yacht tenders such as OBERON (http://www.shipspotting.com/gallery/photo.php?lid=1607257). Forget whatever megayacht it tends, I would be perfectly happy to have this as my personal yacht.
Regards,
Kyle
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I must admit, that I never paid too much attention to yachts, but since there are some examples here, and it is also true, that yachts are about the only ships that are not built to earn money, but for pleasure and the owners have taken beauty in mind as well.
So, I must say the one below - definitely looking cool ! Looking speedy, and no extra-clutter and a difference from all the bright white ships :-) It only lacks an AIDA cruises style mouth :-*
Skat - IMO 1007287 <3
(http://cdn2.shipspotting.com/photos/small/4/1/7/1170714.jpg)
http://www.shipspotting.com/gallery/photo.php?lid=1170714
(http://cdn2.shipspotting.com/photos/small/2/1/7/1170712.jpg)
http://www.shipspotting.com/gallery/photo.php?lid=1170712
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Don,t forget this one Cornelia
the "STEEL"
http://www.shipspotting.com/gallery/photo.php?lid=1641032
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The really large ones often look like something from James Bond movies ('So ve mit again Meester Bond') or like small cruise ships and are often very impressive ships.
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End of debate really...
http://www.shipspotting.com/gallery/photo.php?lid=52552
Better that! :)
Regards
John J.
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John
also when the Britannia was owned by the Queen, I never considered her as a "private yacht" as in millonaires play toys like the Christina O. or the Steel and such, however
she was a fine sight under full colors !!!!
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Be careful what you say, Ted - even if you are joking or talking tongue-in-cheek - about yachts being rich men's toys or you will be branded as "ignorant and ill-informed".
I was quite happy to see the relegation of HMY BRITANNIA to being a Scottish tourist attraction because she was an old, inefficient, steamship financed by about 26 million British taxpayers for the benefit of about about half-a-dozen people. I was one of the 26 million taxpayers or 60 million Brits who were never allowed with a hundred yards of the ship when she was in service.
This me being tongue-in-cheek again - and totally cynical
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Yes samson46... many of us have/had a part share in her!
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Yacht of the Day for me: Blue Ice
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My favourite yacht is my own which amazingly I worked 45 years for :) and not from with money gained from either criminal activities, despotic, corrupt regimes or exploitation of working people.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cwowners/photos/album/802484635/pic/1095011234/view?picmode=large&mode=tn&order=ordinal&start=1&dir=asc
My second favourite yacht has to be Nahlin, what's the connection between the two?
They both have a 'pedigree second to none' as they were both designed by G L Watson & Co
http://www.shipspotting.com/gallery/photo.php?lid=1385235
Mike
Archivist for the Colvic Watson Owners Group