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Joel Johnson

AT 1:22 PM
Friday June 12, 2009

Vehicles

boats • excess • sailing • yacht carrier • yacht express

We're going to need a bigger boat

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How do you get a boat from Florida to the Mediterranean? Easy—just put it on another boat. The Yacht Express is a semi-submersible float-on/float-off yacht carrier, now carrying 18 yachts on its first trans-Atlantic voyage. At 209-meters long, it's the largest yacht transport in the world. (And the only that's purpose built just for yachts.)

14 Comments

Agies

#1 – 8:42 PM June 12, 2009

I took a good, hard look at that motherfucking boat

Rtarara

#2 – 10:06 PM June 12, 2009

There's something about transporting sailboats via a fossil fuel driven ship that seems wrong to me. Is it really that much cheaper to ship it that way than to get someone to sail it...

dculberson

#3 – 7:34 AM June 13, 2009

They just need to put enormous sails on it.

Brandon West

#4 – 10:01 AM June 13, 2009

I would love to see a BBG theme day on boats, as long as T-Pain isn't involved. There are some awesome boats out there.

douglas

#5 – 12:27 PM June 13, 2009

are all the drug lords finally fleeing florida? how many owners on this shipment would be shady characters with ill gotten fortunes?

Bryan Price

#6 – 8:45 PM June 13, 2009

Yeah, I keep wondering if it wouldn't be cheaper to hire somebody to just pilot the boat, but I guess it would cost in human time and other consumables anyways.

philipb

#7 – 6:22 AM June 14, 2009

The idea is to summer in the Med, winter in the tropics. A lot of these boats are not really designed for an Atlantic crossing if the going gets rough. Add in the 3-4 week trip with a captain, crew, return air tickets & the provisioning needed and financially it probably starts to make sense.

#2 - Most of these boats would spend a good deal of time under power so the Yacht Express may actually be more environmentally sound.

JamesProvost

#8 – 11:48 AM June 14, 2009

Yo dawg! I herd u like boats, so I put ur boat on a boat so you can sail while you sail!

arun

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#12 – 7:30 PM August 25, 2009

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#13 – 7:30 PM August 25, 2009

Atlantic crossing if the going gets rough. Add in the 3-4 week trip with a captain, crew, return air tickets & the provisioning needed and financially it probably starts to make sense.Research Paper Help | Essay Help

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