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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: twyacht on June 13, 2009, 08:18:04 AM
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Being a "lowly" yacht electrician, this caught my eye.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1192640/Admiral-Abramovich-launches-300million-mega-yachtski-The-worlds-biggest-submarine.html
Admiral Abramovich launches his £300million mega-yachtski: The world's biggest (and it even has its own submarine)
By Mail Foreign Service
Last updated at 10:33 PM on 12th June 2009
It is the biggest private yacht in existence and comes with a missile-detection system, two helipads, a luxury spa, swimming pool and a miniature submarine.
But when you're Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich, only the most ostentatious displays of wealth will do.
His latest baby is the Eclipse, a 557-footer reported to have cost a staggering £300million.
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Eclipsing the opposition: Roman Abramovich's new yacht slides out of the ship-yard in Hamburg, Germany. It comes with a raft of features including two heli-pads, a pool and a missile-detection system
As it glided out of the Blohm & Voss shipyard, in Hamburg, Germany, it was so breathtaking that many stopped to watch, barely able to believe their eyes.
To keep the oligarch safe, the Eclipse has a military-grade missile defence system, armour-plating around Abramovich's master suite and bullet-proof windows.
Roman Abramovich is building a yacht that will become the largest privately owned yacht in the world
Eyeing record: Roman Abramovich is building a yacht that will become the largest privately owned yacht in the world
There is also a private submarine, which doubles as an escape pod.
(http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm182/twyacht/article-0-05523E53000005DC-286_964x.jpg)
More pics at link,... Wait until the electronics and tower go on top of the superstructure. That is a bad ass boat right there.
Can I just win the lottery, just once pleeeeeeeeeeze?
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My yacht's going to have a missile launching system. ;D You know what? Forget the boat, just give me the damn missiles. Sweet boat, must like the ocean water. Not fond of it myself. 'The ocean experience; 1. Get swimming pool 2. Dump truck full of salt in pool 3. Get neighborhood to piss in pool 4. Throw a couple of dead dogs, or cats, in pool' Bam, instant ocean water!!!
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Unless I'm mistaking, that thing has the lines of the German frigates, no? Very damn nice boat, and I ain't even a sailor.
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SWEET ! The troop ship I was on was shorter by 7 feet.