This monster arrived in our small harbour today

When someone has that sort of money, the problems arise when they DON'T spend it.

He's no doubt got all sorts of tax benefits, but even so a large part of £100M has been put into jobs and specialist industry that wouldn't have been spent otherwise. In the grand scheme of things it is hard to fee fair that so much wealth sits with one person, but he's injected the equivalent of 2-3,000 Range Rovers into an economy, and you could argue that a new Range Rover is as far out of reach for the average person as that yacht.

Equally, how many people does it keep in employment? And no doubt it generates significant income - I might even pay for itself if he uses it instead of staying in Saudi Hotels.

Neil (the born-again capitalist)

A lot easier access than when Mr Jones visited Whitehaven in 1778

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Edited By Dave Martin on 09/05/2017 07:51:44

Children around the world aren't dying of malnutrition because Mr Mordashov has a big boat.

Children around the world are dying of malnutrition for many reasons.

Children around the world are dying of malnutrition because the circumstances they are born into cannot support them.

Children around the world are dying of malnutrition because there are 7+ billion people on the planet and it cannot support them.

It is cruel, but it is nature's way of finding a balance.

I see it was built in the US, I love how the Americans are always going on about how corrupt the Russian state is but are happy to take their money when it suits them.

Edited By mark smith 20 on 09/05/2017 09:59:23

A product of many years of Communism where everyone is equal. I can only assume that every Russian has a big boat

We get quite a few of similar "super-yachts" coming into Cairns here, owned by guys like Rupert Murdoch, Microsoft founder Paul Allen etc. Pricetags of $150 million and upwards are not uncommon. They support a small but growing local industry catering to them, doing maint/repairs, upgrades, crewing etc. Some very expensive designer interior decorating goes into them too. And they bring some very cashed up VIPs to the area who then splash their cash about on local luxury tours etc It's quite a lucrative business apparently.

No more sickening than one of us driving a $20,000 car while children die of malnutrition worldwide. To the starving child, $20,000 is the same as $150 million. I'm sure they view us just the same as Mr Murdoch or the Russian.

Of late I look aghast at charity organisations, In Kenya I participated in a drop of bags of maize to an area and a village completely cut off by floods. Triple bagged the maize was dropped and then a few months later I traveled through the area and was amazed to see bags of maize lying in grass sprouting through the sack. We went to the village and asked why they had not picked up the maize and the reply was, 'You did not send a lorry to bring it to us'

A while later I met the Swiss company who supplied filtered water kits and swimming pool size storage, they lived in luxury on the top floor penthouse apartments in the best hotels. That is not charity. Parties every night.

In contrast I also visited the El Molo who live on the edge of Lake Rudolph, they were very pleased to receive from me a pile of 1/2" steel bars to make harpoons for catching Nile Perch, a staple of their diet. I call that a useful charity.

Women with children let the dogs lick clean the babies bottom, also they drink water from wheel ruts in the tracks.

I think the principle of Oligark's is to get out of Russia with as much loot as they can, they feel safer away from their mother country, today sees the fact that there are more Billionares in the UK than anywhere else nearly all Russian. Bill gates is giving his money to Malaria research and other diseases.

Our harbour was `done up` , to attract tourists but we the council tax payers dont even have a public toilet in the town ,whilst the yachters! have a specially built toilet and washroom facility on the harbour side.

I being old fashined prefered the old working harbour along with all the old mining .rail and large tower silos that used to be there holding phospate minerals from Africa. I remember as a kid sorting through the pils of dust looking for fossil sharks teeth etc..

I remember my sister telling of when they met up with ?? Murdock's yatch in Fiji when she and her hubby were cruising in the area in 2006.

One of my nephews, a cabinet maker was fitting out luxury yatchs in Brisbane for a number of years.

Ian S C

Robert Maxwell had a yacht...

Neil

Nice boat. I bet his lathe is not a Warco........

I bet he didn't make his handrails on a Warco

And I bet his boat anchor isn't a Super Adept

Will He buy a magazine subscription while He is here?

proberbly already got a digital subscription so he can view it on his 120 inch TV

Here is Folie a Deux the 16m power cat built by my brother in law, it has a pair of 150hp Volvo diesels, and a cruising speed of 9kts. My sister and brother in law were cruising up in the islands in 2005.

It now lives in Australia, northern NSW I think.

Ian S C

Nope, he's got a restored Monarch 10EE. Obvious, innit...

There are always people who know how to spend other peoples money and I often wonder how much they gave to help others!

Brian

For my brother in law's boat, the lathe and mill were mine, I suppose I was a subcontractor. Of the visible parts, drilling the holes in the stainless steel stanchion for the hand rails, among many other bits and pieces.

Ian S C

This one popped up in our small harbour

Edited By Cyril Bonnett on 19/05/2017 22:02:21