A former superyacht worker has penned a piece in the Sunday times to
talk a little bit about what it was like being employed on a superyacht and
what the ultrawealthy demand.
It's a lot of stuff that you would expect, but
it even goes a little further than you'd expect.
So he or she, we don't know the person,
they decided to do this anonymously rights.
For the owners, it's all about one upmanship,
adding a $5 million bowspirit to secure a longer total length than that
of a friend's yacht, commissioning the fastest boat in the world.
As per the american entrepreneur, John Staluppi's 1988 Octopussy built
to break through the 50-knot barrier or being the first to install a cryochamber,
interactive wall display or staircase made entirely of glass.
So these are just some of the fancy bells and
whistles plays that they're putting into their ships, their yachts in
order to engage in the genitalia measuring contest they like to engage in.
>> Yeah, you don't have a car in cryochamber,
I don't even know what that is.
>> It's like you go into like a little area that's like super cold and
it's supposed to have health benefits.
>> Yeah, I think that's sort of like the evil mastermind freezes himself and
then unfreezes later.
And like Bezos has the $750 million yacht and
he's looks just like Lex Luthor.
In the war in the superman series now, Lex Luthor is mainly on a yacht.
It's like these guys are like comic book villains.
Okay.
>> It's 50 mile.
Sorry, this was written in the Sunday times, so I didn't know what that meant.
50 million.
I think it's bow sprits, bow spread.
>> It doesn't, who cares guys?
Yeah, I'm not familiar with it either.
But look, first of all, are there good guys who own yachts?
Yes.
Okay.
Are there good guys who?
Yes, and the guy the insider says that too.
He's like, there's actually brilliant guys, good guys, et cetera, right?
But the main point of the story is, are they in, let's put it this way,
a yacht measuring contest?
Yes, definitely.
Do you need a yacht that has a yacht within it that has another yacht
within it?
Some of these yachts have submarines, like literal submarines.
That could put 10 people in going.
I get it.
It's badass.
Like, I'd like to go on a 10 person submarine, right?
And the yachts are amazing.
I get it, right?
But they're ruining the world just to do a yacht measuring contest.
If they didn't do the other bad stuff, no problem.
>> All right, let's go to graphic three here.
There's a yacht owner who much like the great tennis player
Ivan Lendl never wears the same shirt twice.
He couldn't understand the need for
wardrobes in his master suite stating I buy it, I wear it, I throw it away.
It helped to explain why the gleeful crew aboard his yacht were
scrubbing decks dressed in Armani cashmere jumpers.
That actually sounds pretty freaking good.
>> Okay. Yeah.
And he said, look, some people treat their people on the their staff terrible.
Some people treat him good.
So by the way it's Ivan Lendl, he's a former great tennis star.
And but to me, the most interesting part of that particular anecdote was you don't
understand why people don't throw away their clothes after wearing it just once.
Like that's a foreign concept to you.
They're so out of touch is unbelievable.
>> And then finally, I found myself in a dayheads boat, speak for
the bathroom covered from floor to ceiling and emerald-green snakeskin.
And the stools of Aris's bar aboard the late Aristotle Onassis's
yacht Christina O, are indeed covered in whale foreskin.
But why?
But even that doesn't match the owner I met in Australia who likes to dine
on fresh lobster whenever he's aboard, yet
never gives the crew notice of his imminent arrival.
So they prepare fresh lobster every day of the year, just in case.
>> Tax the rich, for God's sake, tax the rich.
Some of these guys pay $0, find all their hate tax havens,
find their loopholes and tax them.
Then they can go on any yacht and do any lobster and
whale foreskin thing that they wanna do.