Rich gulf oil sheikh buys really, REALLY huge yacht

[regexcellent]

"Yacht," anyway, it's more like a personal cruise ship. The title may make this seem pretty day-to-day but this thing is bigger than an Arleigh Burke destroyer, holy ****.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/18/travel/move-over-abramovich-azzam

^^^ See how it is 2/3rds the length of that container ship?

And it cruises at 30 knots. God I can't imagine how much the crew and maintenance costs on that ****er are.

[Hauldren Collider]

That thing is bigger than a destroyer? Holy ****! Why would you spend your money on **** like this?

[SlowwHand]

He has more money than he can spend. I wouldn't expect him to buy a bass boat.

[Wezil]

That is the bass boat.

[Al B. Sure!]

That thing is bigger than a destroyer? Holy ****! Why would you spend your money on **** like this?

I think he knows his own preferences better than you do.

[giblets]

People like him shouldn't exist.

I think he knows his own preferences better than you do.

Duh. The question is what does this decision say about him.

[Wezil]

That he's prepared to spend a pile of money to have a bigger yacht than the other gulf billionaires?

[ColdWizard]

Bah, if he was really serious, he'd have gotten an aircraft carrier and modified a Gulfstream 550 to land on it.

[Wezil]

It will probably come to that. Someone has to outdo him now.

I'd rather see them spend their money on this **** than on the latest weapons systems from Raytheon and GE.

[Elok]

I'm told that boats, in general, are an excellent way to solve an excess cash problem.

[DinoDoc]

That thing is bigger than a destroyer? Holy ****! Why would you spend your money on **** like this?

It's spare cash left over from his harem budget.