This monster arrived in our small harbour today

Though he could just spend the money himself to feed them.. it's not like he couldn't if he did want to.

People can have a fairer society, but unfortunately they're going to have to find the will to choose it, the communists tried to force it on people and it led to disaster, and eventually corruption.

Personally I don't believe in enormous amounts of (though some justified) government intervention.

Michael W

This was my only venture into boat ownership, after three years afloat. Another two years in the garden and we sold it to a Geordie.

My stepson has got a Dawncraft in rather better fettle.

My other stepson used to have (indeed live on) a narrowboat. He loves boats, sailed two up from Grenada to the UK, used to work at a marina and has now joined a company that services bigger boats - he will be working on HMS Queen Elizabeth when it's commissioned later in the year!

Neil

I console myself with the thought that the annual running cost of a large Paul-Allen-style boat is approximately 10% of its running cost. Paul Allen owns TWO of the world's 100 largest super yachts. Octopus cost $200M and Tatoosh cost $160M, so the annual bill just for his water-borne transport is, er..., enough to keep the economy of a small country afloat.

I have to say that, like Neil, I do rather like those big boats.

That's clearly an aspirational statement, because all my yachts are currently models under 1metre. I need to think bigger.

Marcus