These are private (personal) yachts. They really have things like:
basketball court
multiple helopads
swimming pool(s)
launches bigger than most people’s private boats.
Since these things are essentially parodies of themselves, we soon came up with other “must have items” to include on board:
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[li]A football pitch[/li][li]A regional airport[/li][li]A full regiment of Gurkhas[/li][/ul]
So, what else should we add? What are the “must have” items on your Lifestyles of the Obnoxiously Wealthy yacht?
According to the NPR quiz show Wait wait, don’t tell me, the designers of the Octopus seriously suggested a torpedo. The owner (Paul Allen) turned it down.
SMERSH…but that was a Russian counterintellegence and counterinsurrection bureau in Stalin’s day. They really existed and (even in the Bond novels) didn’t have all that great a collection of toys.
It was SPECTRE (SPecial Executive for Counterintelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion) that had all the neat underground lairs and cocooned hydrofoils disguised as a luxury yacht.
Allen probably has enough goodies on his boat to be a legitmate target for pirates, so it’s not totally an off the wall idea. I imagine that he does have security-trained crew and some pretty potent small arms.
Your own time zone? Your own lake? Kid stuff. Although the idea of a yacht created expressly for the purpose of containing a body of water does win points for irony.
No, I want my yacht to be its own effing CONTINENT, complete with mountains, cities, suburbs, rivers, lakes, railways, roadways, airports, sports stadiums, industrial sectors, nature preserves, classified government laboratories, at least 3 time zones, forests, deserts, temperate zones, subtemperate zones, and (obviously) other yachts.
Anyone who doesn’t know what this uber yacht must be named gets a :smack: upside the head.
