Mirabella V photo

[Noah]

The other boat is around 40ft so I've heard...

http://www.mirabellafunds.com/open/M5%20in%20bay.jpg

[ 08-04-2004, 12:26 PM: Message edited by: Noah ]

[Hwyl]

Much as i like big boats, the thought of never being able to go under any bridge horrifies me. Imagine mnot being able to get under Verrazano narrows for instance.

[JeffH]

Do they seriously have a warp from the stern to shore, or is that just a wake of a power boat going by?

I hear the design, engineering, manufacturing and testing of the main halyard alone cost many tens of thousands of dollars. Surely they could find a better use for those funds than to build an over-sized ugly boat.

Not that I'm opinionated or anything.. ;)

Jeff

[dmede]

how do the boats in the stern bay get in and out? is it submerged?

by the way, there are at least 5, count them, 5, "little" boats in the stern bay. and probably 7 but cant really see the lower part of the bay in the drawing.

http://www.ybw.com/gallery/album16/abe

[John Bell]

Originally posted by dmede:
how do the boats in the stern bay get in and out? is it submerged?

by the way, there are at least 5, count them, 5, "little" boats in the stern bay. and probably 7 but cant really see the lower part of the bay in the drawing.

http://www.ybw.com/gallery/album16/abeThey have a matter-energy teleporter. All the superyachts have them now, at least the GOOD ones... ;)

I thought I read that one of the dinghies in that garage is a Hickley Picnic Boat(tm). :eek:

As for the money, who cares? If I had it, I don't think I'd have the imagination to spend it as spectacularly as he did. BTW, if anyone out there wants to invite me along as guest when you pony up the $250K/week charter rate, I'll gladly come along.

[Dave Gray]

I'm sure Paul Allen will want at least one. Doesn't he have one of the largest yachts in the world, with his own internal submarine dock for one of those transparent submarines?

[mmd]

The boats in the "garage" are launched and retrieved with telescoping overhead hydraulic cranes, I believe. And, yes, that is a stern line to the shore.

From an article in Yachting World on the stepping of her mast:

"Take the weight of the rig. The all-up weight of the dressed mast is 42 tonnes (92,593 lbs) which means little until you imagine six Beneteau 40.7's all strapped together and suspended from a single point like a bunch of bananas. Imagine that being swung out over the water by a giant dockside crane, as the mast was when it was stepped. Or the 320 tonne (705,467 lb) mast jack pressure that provides the pre-load in the mast, which is equivalent to a Boeing 747 sitting on the masthead...

...the V1 shroud...at 75mm (3 in)in diameter with a breaking load of 500 tonnes (1,102,293 lbs) this stay alone could suspend a fully laden 747 with a 737 strapped to its belly... Each of the V1 spans weigh 1.23 tonnes (2,712 lbs) including end fittings. The rigging screw for the V1 weighs 592 kg (1305 lb), is 3m (9ft-10in) tall when fully open and takes a custom-built spanner (wrench) 2ft (630mm) long to wind it down."

Why build such a monster boat? Aside from the disire to have the biggest, or the fastest, think of it as the Olympics for engineers - just how big can we build one of these? Or maybe think of skyscrapers - does anyone really need a building that is a quarter-mile tall for anything other than bragging rights? ;)

[rbgarr]

IIRC, the mainsail is made of separate horizontal panels that are seized together along monster battens. It would have been just too much to handle if it had been all one sail.

[Leigh]

If I had that much money to have a "superyacht" built, you could be darned sure it would at least look like a yacht. I have no idea why some rich people find acres of white plastic and black windows so appealing.

[Garrett Lowell]

With a boat that big, why not just stay home?