Saturday, November 19, 2022

Wow. Bet that cost a fortune

 


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  1. How much fossil fuel went into that?

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  2. What…???. You mean the amount of fossil fuels needed for mining refining assembling and transporting all the raw materials that goes into a product should be considered…

    The Watermelons don’t ask that question for solar panels, windmills or EVs…

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    1. do the pumpkins or eggplants ask?

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  3. The Devo-style uniforms alone would cost a fortune. Then there’s the months of training for extensive formation deck posing. That’s gonna cost.

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  4. Look like port and starboard daggerboards with a crewman doing something with the port one. Except there appears to be a line attached to one of them going to a outrigger boom. I really can't make heads of tails of that setup.

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    1. Those are not daggerboards in the traditional sense; they are foils. The spar is telescoping for headsails. (retracted in the picture)

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  5. Purpose built, single use. Used (and battered) $1.5MM
    Expect to dump another $150K+ into her.

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  6. Expensive toy used to inflate the ego of the owner.

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    1. As a local pool builder said "Thank God for rich people, poor people don't buy swimming pools." If the wealthy want high performance sail boats for cup races, I can profit buy selling them material, parts or my labor. They benefit and so do I.

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    2. Anon 3:53 PM
      Why despise people for their wealth? Hmmm, it seems we've heard that whine before.

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    3. i want a free one nowwwww.

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  7. Yachting is and has always been a sport for the uber wealthy.

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  8. tell 'em down at the marina.

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