Monday, August 4, 2014

Parking Mr. Wheeler's Yacht

"How do you park into a narrow harbor a super yacht nearly the length of a football field? You back it in, of course. Very carefully. Yachtsman Andy Wheeler enlisted a drone last month to make a video of his Chopi Chopi backing into the harbor at Corsica’s port of Bonifacio. Wheeler’s yacht, the largest ever built in Italy, launched last year. Analysts at that time valued the boat at $107 million." (Photo and caption from Too Much 08/04/14)

Everybody thinks the rich have it so easy. But where do you park your extravagant yacht? Sometimes the vacation spots just don't have the extra long dock yours requires. But you don't want to anchor it out on the Mediterranean Sea where it will get lost among the other mega-yachts, where very few will see it and you'll have to row ashore in your dinghy. 


This member of the profligately wealthy managed to get his floater where everyone will see, "How much more money I can waste than you paltry peasants with your skiffs." 


You think you have problems, Punky, what if you had a boat?