Awesome sailing ship
 

http://www.wired.com/culture/design/magazine/15-07/ff_boat

so hatty.. when you going to get one like that?

as Borat would say "WAA WAA WEEE WOO."

That thing is hideous.

I sailed on a brigantine about 8 years ago. If I had that much money at 70, I'd build a traditional square rigged vessel and have it crewed by nubile 20 yr old female able semen.

I understand how it all works, I understand how the masts were built and the engineering that went into it but...Unstayed masts scare the hell out of me. Give me some standing rigging please.

With eyepatches and parots on there...ahem...shoulders. Sabres would be optional. Clothes would not.

It's hard to tell from the pics but it looks like the one that was featured on Mega Yachts. (If it is) the guy that commissioned it died before taking delivery and some fashion industry woman owns it now. It moves right along at full sail.

That reminds me of the yacht the guy who started Netscape built. It was all run by SGI computers. That sounds like a nightmare in the making to me.

The article mentioned that the guy didn't want the boat to be manned by computers but it is. There is no manual rigging or manual control of the sails? Is a 70 year old guy going to turn the 30 ton main mast....I would like to meet his personal trainer. :D

If you get a fishing smack I can be the assistant baiter,and that trucker fellow can be the masterba........forget I said that:mad:

Insane ... the dining area is kind of neat though ...:pleased:

Ha!

I visited this ship in the late 1950's when she visited Cartegena. My Dad went for a week-long cruise on her.

There's a square rigged sailing vessel that sails from Argentina to Antartica thru the Straits of Magellan. I'd like to make that passage someday.

I crewed on this brigantine across Lake Ontario. Had the 2am watch at the wheel.