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Now this is a yacht
Spotted this in the posh yacht basin at Barcelona. Looks like it has a helicopter deck and hangar. How the other half live.
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Historical with two modern (at that time) chase boats.
(That was my unit,[PSD = Presidential Security Detail] but I wasn't in that particular photo.)
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Vendetta, Billy Joel's boat, caught my eye when it went up for sale.
VENDETTA | 17.37m/57' Derecktor Yacht for Sale - Superyacht Tour - YouTube
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This one used to belong to one Igor Makarov. He sold it in 2019. Just as well, he's now on the oligarch hit list.
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I remember reading that JW, more
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JW was quite a yachtsman. He did a lot for the boating community, and he knew how to have fun too.
He used to have notorious pirate parties aboard in the San Juan Islands.
The check list included eyepatches, endless libations and topless starlets.
In the day the studios could control what the public heard but some of the old timers up here have good stories.
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Aristotle Onassis had that converted minesweeper, the Christina O.
The bar was made with wood from an old Spanish galleon and the bar stools were upholstered with leather made from whale penises.
When pouring a drink for a lady he'd ask if she knew what she was sitting on.
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A yacht! What does he want a yacht for? There's no money in yachts!
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A real ship
I prefer one that I was the CMC on that is faster than any of them plus has weapons.... 
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Now this is a yacht
Spent 35 years going to sea on ships. Want nothing to do with hauling cargo that talks.
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"When the war is over, and If I live through it, Bea and I are going to sail her around the world." - General George S. Patton
General (Then colonel) George S. Patton commissioned John Alden, one of America's greatest designers, to conceive him a boat to be build by F.F Pendleton of Wiscasset, Maine in 1939
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http://smith-wessonforum.com/139054709-post7.html
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Twenty two years in the Navy has taught me I don't want to go to sea nor kiss my wife goodby on the pier. In fact, if I was ever lucky enough to win the Lotto, a boat/ship would be the last thing I would buy period. 
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I’ll stick with the “LADY J” she’s beautiful and classy just like my wife whom she’s named after….. but when were able to spend 6 months a yr in Naples we’ll get the 22’ Center Console.
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Thanks Greyman…… believe it or not it’s a 2009. It’s a Giesler built exactly the way they built them in 1920, in Powasson Ontario Canada near North Bay. I grew up fishing Lake Nippising and the French River with my dad. All the lodges up there used big cedar strip tiller steer Giesler boats. I always loved them. They handle so much better than a typical 14’ aluminum. Especially when things get rough. When this popped up locally for sale through an estate there was no doubt I was buying it. She turns heads everywhere and I always get asked how old she is.
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I really feel sorry for Jeff Bezos - NOT.
He just had a Super Yacht built which the boat maker didn't pay attention to it size. It is so big it cannot make it out of Rotterdam harbor, cannot go under bridge. Boat builder was going to dismantle the bridge, the citizens put a stop to that idea.
Now Bezos can fly one of his jets to Rotterdam and party on his docked super yacht.
Cost for yacht $500 million.
Do you have any idea what $500 million could do for building homes for the homeless, caring for our veterans, cancer research, alzheimer's research, Children's Hospitals and on and on.
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"When the war is over, and If I live through it, Bea and I are going to sail her around the world." - General George S. Patton
General (Then colonel) George S. Patton commissioned John Alden, one of America's greatest designers, to conceive him a boat to be build by F.F Pendleton of Wiscasset, Maine in 1939
Many have seen a copy of the letter the then LTC Patton sent from Fort Shafter in Hawaii to S&W when he ordered his Registered Magnum.
http://smith-wessonforum.com/139054709-post7.html
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Thanks, I did not know this.
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"When the war is over, and If I live through it, Bea and I are going to sail her around the world." - General George S. Patton
General (Then colonel) George S. Patton commissioned John Alden, one of America's greatest designers, to conceive him a boat to be build by F.F Pendleton of Wiscasset, Maine in 1939
Many have seen a copy of the letter the then LTC Patton sent from Fort Shafter in Hawaii to S&W when he ordered his Registered Magnum.
http://smith-wessonforum.com/139054709-post7.html
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Went for a sail on her. Really nice. Thank heaven they don't make thim like they used to.
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