# Most Ridiculous Thing to Stuff on a Yacht **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 2, 2005, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-ridiculous-thing-to-stuff-on-a-yacht/302116 "2005-05-02T19:55:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2005, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-ridiculous-thing-to-stuff-on-a-yacht/302116/1 "2005-05-02T19:55:55Z")
So, today we were perusing the Largest Yachts on the Planet [The Platinum](http://www.yachtforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2937) [The Rising Sun](http://www.powerandmotoryacht.com/megayachts/1104top100yachts/index1.html) [The Octopus](http://www.powerandmotoryacht.com/february04/octopus1.jpg) 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: [ul] [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? ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2005, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-ridiculous-thing-to-stuff-on-a-yacht/302116/2 "2005-05-02T19:58:06Z")
An SUV so you can drop the kids off at daycare up at the bow, then drive to your tennis class on the fantail. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2005, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-ridiculous-thing-to-stuff-on-a-yacht/302116/3 "2005-05-02T20:01:25Z")
Your own time zone. ---
**Author:** ![Daithi\_Lacha](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daithi_lacha/32/5430_2.png) [@Daithi\_Lacha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daithi_Lacha)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2005, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-ridiculous-thing-to-stuff-on-a-yacht/302116/4 "2005-05-02T20:05:44Z")
Dark Matter-propulsion drive system. A rain forest. A self-sustaining ecosystem. Biodome. Cloning lab. The Yankees Spring Training camp. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2005, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-ridiculous-thing-to-stuff-on-a-yacht/302116/5 "2005-05-02T20:07:47Z")
Your own internet suffix! www.octopus.boat ---
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2005, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-ridiculous-thing-to-stuff-on-a-yacht/302116/6 "2005-05-02T20:10:13Z")
A lake to float your smaller boats in. ---
**Author:** ![scr4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@scr4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scr4)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2005, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-ridiculous-thing-to-stuff-on-a-yacht/302116/7 "2005-05-02T21:14:23Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2005, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-ridiculous-thing-to-stuff-on-a-yacht/302116/8 "2005-05-02T21:16:50Z")
> [@scr4](#): > > 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. These guys used to work for SMIRSH(sp?), didn’t they? ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2005, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-ridiculous-thing-to-stuff-on-a-yacht/302116/9 "2005-05-02T21:31:51Z")
A flight deck. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2005, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-ridiculous-thing-to-stuff-on-a-yacht/302116/10 "2005-05-02T21:34:11Z")
> [@Governor Quinn](#): > > A lake to float your smaller boats in. Best possible answer. :: golf clap :: ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2005, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-ridiculous-thing-to-stuff-on-a-yacht/302116/11 "2005-05-02T22:17:49Z")
A subway? To carry your SUV from the bow to the stern, of course. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2005, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-ridiculous-thing-to-stuff-on-a-yacht/302116/12 "2005-05-02T22:18:17Z")
> [@ShibbOleth](#): > > These guys used to work for SMIRSH(sp?), didn’t they? 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. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Flander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8c91f0/32.png) [@Flander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flander)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2005, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-ridiculous-thing-to-stuff-on-a-yacht/302116/13 "2005-05-02T22:22:30Z")
A real working bathroom that doesn’t suck. ---
**Author:** ![Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a8b319/32.png) [@Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spatial_Rift_47)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2005, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-ridiculous-thing-to-stuff-on-a-yacht/302116/14 "2005-05-02T22:27:12Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2005, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-ridiculous-thing-to-stuff-on-a-yacht/302116/15 "2005-05-02T22:40:05Z")
Three landing craft (LCACs, of course), and a company of Marines (for onshore “beer runs”). The Playboy Mansion . . . in it’s entirety. It’s own tugboat for pesky tight-spots. Tripler The size of the thing is sheer nautical nonsense to me. . . ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2005, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-ridiculous-thing-to-stuff-on-a-yacht/302116/16 "2005-05-02T23:07:43Z")
An extensive collection of steam-powered origami animals. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cc9497/32.png) [@Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capt.Ridley_s_Shooting_Party)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2005, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-ridiculous-thing-to-stuff-on-a-yacht/302116/17 "2005-05-02T23:16:35Z")
[Sky TV, anyone?](http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/lovell_jod.gif) ---
**Author:** ![JohnBckWLD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d6d6ee/32.png) [@JohnBckWLD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnBckWLD)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2005, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-ridiculous-thing-to-stuff-on-a-yacht/302116/18 "2005-05-02T23:18:27Z")
A Grey Poupon Mustard processing plant An amphitheater A polo pony stable A statue of Robin Leach No yacht is complete until it can compete with [Nile’s backyard monorail](http://monorails.org/tMspages/NMT01.html) ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2005, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-ridiculous-thing-to-stuff-on-a-yacht/302116/19 "2005-05-02T23:22:36Z")
A bowling alley A blimp hangar A 1920’s style death ray ---
**Author:** ![Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/regallag_the_axe/32/445_2.png) [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Regallag_The_Axe)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2005, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-ridiculous-thing-to-stuff-on-a-yacht/302116/20 "2005-05-03T00:29:33Z")
A mighty Nordic hoard A mountain range for said hoard to pour out from An ancient empire to conquer Plenty of wild animals to hunt Fields for tilling Villages to burn Forests to cut down, and use for fuel and buiding materials Seas and rivers to launch longboats in Yeah, I think that about covers it. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-ridiculous-thing-to-stuff-on-a-yacht/302116.md?page=2)