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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Blue439" data-source="post: 823180" data-attributes="member: 53455">What money will buy...In the early 2000s, there was among a certain fringe of the wealthy and fashionable a marked revival of interest for classic sailing yachts. Many of them were refurbished and beautifully restored. However, some of the rich people quickly found out that those boats were also markedly lacking creature comforts (such as air conditioning!), that heir wood hulls would keep leaking in spite of all efforts or that their outdated rigging required not only a large crew, but a very competent one as well...Furthermore, there were only so many period vessels left, and it appeared demand exceed supply.Then, as supply was plentiful on the money side, a new fashion emerged, and those tycoons and moguls took to replicating old sailing yachts, i.e., building them again from scratch, as the plans were in most cases still available. The boats that were replicated were mostly from the 1920s–40s, as those decades where the ones during which the most outrageously enormous yachts had been designed, in particular for the America’s Cup. And for those tycoons and moguls, nothing but outrageously enormous would do, as a matter of course.For hulls, aluminum and carbon fiber promptly replaced wood, which was reserved for decks and furnishings, where it would achieve the most **bling** effect. “Utterly ridiculous” and ”preposterously show-off” being not a part of the mogoons’ vocabulary, the richest and stupidest of them did not hesitate to populate their decks with the latest generation rigging, such as those enormous powered, multi-speed, self-tailing winches in carbon fiber that each cost the price of a large family car (if not more) and turn at the lazy push of a button (one finger is enough, the other hand can still hold the mojito, or whatever it is they drink these days). However, having a fake classic yacht look like an “ordinary” racing boat wouldn’t do, and so this particular mogoon had everything copper-plated to make it “look, like, old, ya know!” <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🤮" title="Face vomiting    :face_vomiting:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.6/png/unicode/64/1f92e.png" data-shortname=":face_vomiting:" />[ATTACH=full]409272[/ATTACH]When you see this thing barreling down on you, it means it’s time to get out of the way, quick! <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite17" alt=":LOL:" title="Laugh    :LOL:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":LOL:" />[ATTACH=full]409273[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

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