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- ifruit, on 06/19/2009, -4/+21Those yacht owners probably donate more to charity in 1 year, then you will in your entire life.
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However, by 1996, at the age of 30, Abramovich had become so rich and politically well-connected that he had become close to President Boris Yeltsin, and had moved into an apartment in the Kremlin at the invitation of the Yeltsin family. In 1999, and now a tycoon, Abramovich was elected governor of Russia's remote, far eastern province of Chukotka, and has since lavished £112m on charity to rebuild the impoverished region. The identikit image being pieced together for us was of a self-made man who was not only powerful and wealthy, but acutely aware of those who had done less well in the tumultuous 1990s, when the Soviet Union fell.
The attack on the successful has to stop, they are the backbone of the economy. - vanguardanon, on 06/19/2009, -0/+14This story ends with, "Ocean-farers relax in gilded interiors and can bask in the glow of an ornate stained-glass central ceiling.
Perhaps the best part is that"
Huh? That's the ending? WTF? - dodger2020, on 06/19/2009, -0/+13at what point does a giant ***** boat cease to become a yacht and graduates to a ship?
- inactive, on 06/19/2009, -0/+10Don't act like you wouldn't get one if you were that rich.
- bigpappapunk, on 06/19/2009, -0/+8*if only*
- skit4king, on 06/19/2009, -0/+7Wow, they must have a really large penis
- xShad0w, on 06/19/2009, -1/+6For their to be rich their has to be poor, but i'm sure they do give away lots of money and also they use their huge funds to do things that simply can't be done out of a garage...capitalism prevails
- PseudoThink, on 06/19/2009, -0/+4"Perhaps the best part is that"
- Choobie, on 06/19/2009, -0/+4So if I want a big boat, I need to become part of the Middle Eastern royalty?
Also the article ends in mid sentence: "The best part is that..." - osteor10, on 06/20/2009, -0/+3the ships probably house 6 or more other types of boats in them. maybe a few jetskies, couple boats to get inland, submarine and more than likely a helicopter. Thats pretty much the definition to practicality.
- inactive, on 06/19/2009, -0/+3This is what happens when someone suffers from too much wealth.
Awesome ships, but they lack in one big area.......practicality! - JasonCox, on 06/19/2009, -0/+3I need to ask Russia if I can borrow an Akula for a few days...
- OZnilla, on 06/20/2009, -1/+4F-sakes. Just give me a dingy with an outboard, beer, women, and a bucket of cash they can keep dumping on me and I'd be just fine cruising around the French Riviera. I'd call my vessel the Al-Kaholiq.
- ifruit, on 06/19/2009, -0/+3I'd play Team Fortress myself
- Choobie, on 06/19/2009, -0/+2Personally I would have classified it at the point of having an escape pod/submarine, but apparently it needs to have a full sized football pitch with stadium seating, or something.
- Czechxican, on 06/20/2009, -0/+2You put entirely too much effort into that.
- TheSwashbuckler, on 06/19/2009, -0/+2Anything longer than a football field is not a yacht, it's a ship...
- emkaysmith, on 06/20/2009, -0/+2The distinction is also traditionally made that a "ship" is either merchant or naval, while a private pleasure craft is still referred to as a "boat," no matter how large it is.
I.e., yachts are generally looked down upon by the working merchant marine and the navy. - notadiggtard, on 06/20/2009, -0/+2When the rich do it it's shameful immoral waste.
When the government confiscates your money at the point of a gun and does it it's economic stimulus. - Cyberdactyl, on 06/20/2009, -0/+2"Perhaps the best part is that"
article end major FAIL. - OliveStreet, on 06/19/2009, -0/+2Technically speaking, they are all ships. In an overly simplified version of the difference, a "ship" is a vessel large enough to carry another vessel (boat) aboard her while a boat is a vessel small enough to be carried by another ship.
Here's a link to the straightdope that does a pretty good job of explaining it.
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/754/whats ... - DillonHinson, on 06/20/2009, -0/+2Most of them are from the Mid East, Dubai area.....hmmm......I wonder if oil has anything to do with it?
- Wheelingdude86, on 06/20/2009, -0/+2"When Eclipse was launched on the 12th June 2009.[8], Abramovich's private fleet consisted of four motoryachts: Eclipse; Pelorus; Sussurro; Ecstasea. He gave his previously-owned "Le Grand Bleu" to his associate and friend Eugene Shvidler in June of 2006."
What a nice guy... - Ozzsanity, on 06/19/2009, -0/+1Wallyisland is amazing.
- doctordbx, on 06/19/2009, -0/+1It's not called The Dubai. I believe it is called Platinum.
- Thuban, on 06/19/2009, -1/+2Yeah but does it have frickin sharks with laser beams coming out of their heads?
- emkaysmith, on 06/20/2009, -2/+3And how do you suppose he *got* all that money he later gave away? By being a good, honest person? Or by being "politically well-connected," as it says in the Wikipedia article? By doing an honest day's work? Or by squeezing blood out of the workers he employs, in the factories his buddies in the Kremlin sold him at fire sale prices after the collapse of the Soviet Union? What the state used to own, a small group of the "politically well-connected" have somehow ended up with. Surprise, surprise.
I'd rather the money were spread more evenly in the first place, by paying people a living wage. I didn't spend my entire career laboring to buy some arrogant entitled ***** a ***** yacht. - emkaysmith, on 06/20/2009, -0/+1They have way too much free time.
The only boat i every owned was a Sunfish. It's name was PZ5573. - inactive, on 06/19/2009, -0/+1Arrrrr! Someone plundered yer booty!
- emkaysmith, on 06/20/2009, -1/+2I see the apologists for the world's billionaires are busily burying me. . . .
- Garmonbozzia, on 06/19/2009, -0/+1From the selection of features on this thing, this guy sounds like a Bond villain. Submarine/escape pod? Really?
- TCBevolver, on 06/20/2009, -0/+1Extreme wealth of this sort is almost impossible to gain without hurting a lot of people.
- BrokenCircle, on 06/20/2009, -0/+1The Russian's yacht with submarine escape pod does.
- Rainemaker, on 06/20/2009, -0/+1I'd like to know how in the heck they consistantly come up with those witty names for boats!?!
http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2008-11/1328135/Boa ... - emkaysmith, on 06/20/2009, -0/+1Yeah, but they're only peons, so they don't count.
- mceselko, on 10/05/2009, -0/+1This is a perfect SuperYacht for me.., just look at the materials, speed and quality of build...
http://digg.com/travel_places/73_WallyPower_Yacht_ ... - sentinel106, on 06/20/2009, -0/+1These all may be big, but nothing even comes close to the cool-ness of the WallyPower 118. Remember the yacht from Ewan McGreggor's dream in "The Island"? Yeah, that's the one.
- emkaysmith, on 06/20/2009, -1/+2Actually, I can only think of two good reasons to want to own a mega-yacht.
1) To start your own portable country.
2) To arm the sucker, become a pirate, and start sinking all the other mega-yachts. - DillonHinson, on 06/20/2009, -0/+1How are we paying for them? We pay for the CEO of Exxon Mobile's yacht, not the Prince of Dubai or whom ever's yacht.
- webomg09, on 08/19/2009, -0/+1i know the perfect company to help move that yacht, try yachtexports.com
- addakorn, on 06/20/2009, -0/+1I *always* fill the tank.
- itsthemechanic, on 06/20/2009, -0/+1Abramovich got rich by helping himself to a previously publicly owned oil and gas company he bought for pennies, so in essence he got his start by screwing the Russian public out of which was legally theirs.
Ask the average Russian pensioner freezing their asses off in winter because they can't afford heating fuel what they think of people like that. - fabkebab, on 06/20/2009, -0/+1Thats millions he could have been spending on football players!!
- Czechxican, on 06/20/2009, -0/+1Adrian Veidt would be proud.
- Howitzer86, on 06/20/2009, -0/+1I think you may have something out.
- NotDennis, on 06/20/2009, -0/+0Anyone else find having a missile detection system but no countermeasures particularly odd? Oh wait, they can escape in that mini-sub, silly me. Me and my plebeian ways of thinking.
- clafleche, on 06/19/2009, -0/+0I mean, I'd be happy a sailboat.
- walruspanzer, on 06/19/2009, -1/+1I'd buy a sky fortress myself
- inactive, on 06/19/2009, -4/+4Next time at the pump, just think about all those mega yachts you are helping to pay for while you can only afford to fill up your car with only half a tank of gas this week
- jackmarlin, on 07/01/2009, -0/+0Wow, the guy must be very wealthy.
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