Part of the executive team of this new venture comes from the now-defunct original Life at Sea Cruises. They should borrow their slogan from Bullwinkle the Moose: “This time for sure!” .
We learned so much from last time!. Like how to squirrel money into Switzerland, and this next venture will be bigger and better in every way for us.
Back when Weird Earls was a part of the weekly SD page, in 2006 I submitted one (House Boat) where a company was selling cabins on a ship they were building. They were truly live-in; even the smallest included items like a cooktop and midget refrigerator you could put onboard-bought groceries in. There was a a hefty annual fee to cover crew and fuel costs but I don’t remember how periodic maintenance was to be paid for.
Alas, it didn’t survive the 2008 downturn in the economy. I don’t know if anyone got their money back or not.
“There’s a sucker born every minute…and two to take him.”
Stranger
$115,789 before taxes and bankruptcy
Well, at least they got that, in a way.
As the widely esteemed poster @enipla often says:
When you don’t get what you expected, instead you get experience.
Why thank you LSL.
In my case, I often get experience… and repetition. Experience I have.
I’ve incorporated this wisdom into my doin’s, and have retroactively gained vast experience as I look back over the many miscues of a long and mostly mis-spent life.
I seem to be a magnet for “experience”. 
… there are no stupid mistakes, except the one’s you make twice …
:: golf clap ::
Nah. $115,789.99 Need that extra buck.
FYI, here is a gift link to a New York Times article about some people who booked passage on the three-year cruise.
Very interesting article - thanks for the link. Those poor people.
An update, with gift link: some of the stranded passengers are going the legal route now… although, pressing for fraud charges, I guess no direct lawsuit? Not that that would likely yield anything.
At least they weren’t stuck on an island with a blustering skipper, an incompetent mate, a billionaire couple, a YouTube influencer, and a scientist who can make a battery out of coconuts but can’t figure out how to patch a small hole in the hull.
Stranger
Yeah, it could always be worse!
Small hole you say?
Holes are barely even below the waterline on an island with enough foliage to build multiple well-equipped huts without note. A couple of patches reinforced by tarps should get that sufficiently seaworthy that at least the crew could limp the boat over into a shipping lane.
Stranger
He tried to fix the hole, Gilligan’s glue caused the boat to disassemble itself.
Come on people, it’s not the professors fault. It’s right there in black & white. 