That's got to sting!

[Uther]

Superyacht in flames in Torquay. Wonder if it's Russian!

Firefighters tackle huge blaze on superyacht in Torquay Marina

Three fire engines were dispatched following 47 calls to reports of the fire on Saturday afternoon. The crews reported that large plumes of smoke and the blaze were visible from some distance as they rushed to the scene.

news.sky.com

 

[Diddums]

Insurance fraud innit.

 

[Tony Edwards]

Now we find out if insurance companies are willing to pay out to russian oligarchs. If so expect the Chelsea grounds to go up in smoke. (yes I know the value isnt the pitch)

 

[Destination]

Sees it has gone from being a superyacht to a yacht, and from £6M to £2M in a few different stories.
I thought the truly 'super' ones were 50M and 100M type values.

Have they said who owns it?

 

[builder22]

at first, looking at the thumbnail I thought a plane had crashed in to the yacht!

 

[[FnG]magnolia]

at first, looking at the thumbnail I thought a plane had crashed in to the yacht!

If the plane crashed into the yacht which was on a treadmill, would it take off?

 

[Begbie]

Sees it has gone from being a superyacht to a yacht, and from £6M to £2M in a few different stories.
I thought the truly 'super' ones were 50M and 100M type values.

Have they said who owns it?

Yeah it's not a super yacht.

 

[Quartz]

It's more than you, or I can afford!

 

[[FnG]magnolia]

That is a comma war crime.

 

[Diddums]

Yeah it's not a super yacht.

It is, by a whopping 6ft

 

[Diddums]

Sees it has gone from being a superyacht to a yacht, and from £6M to £2M in a few different stories.
I thought the truly 'super' ones were 50M and 100M type values.

Have they said who owns it?

This one was 85ft, yachts gain "superyacht" status at 79ft, which is a bit silly as the costs of owning a yacht that size are insane. So whilst this yacht just scrapes by the measure to be called a superyacht, the returns on that money are for an additional 6ft. Mental. I'm sure Esysman will have a vid out on it soon enough.

 

[chaparral]

I bet the clean up going cost a fortune as it meant to have sunk now and it could have thousands of litres of diesel fuel on board

 

[Gerard]

6 million, so basically a floating 80s skoda?

 

[chaparral]

It's more than you, or I can afford!

Am not sure about that as how much is a totally burned out yatch worth

 

[arknor]

I don't see the point in owning a boat, sitting at sea unless your fishing must be boring as hell...
It must in the fun metre by slightly above a hot air baloon

 

[Freefaller]

Superyachts are definitely larger. That's just a yacht. More than I could afford but that's not the point. In the superyacht world that would be a dingy.

 

[dlockers]

Superyachts are definitely larger. That's just a yacht. More than I could afford but that's not the point. In the superyacht world that would be a dingy.

Why would you make such a subjective comment at such an objective issue? The question has already been answered with facts versus feelings.

 

[Freefaller]

Why would you make such a subjective comment at such an objective issue? The question has already been answered with facts versus feelings.

I spent 10 years working on superyachts so just wanted to offer my 2 cents.

 

[mattyfez]

It was certainly worth a pretty penny regardless of whether it's defined as a super yacht or not.
The maintenance costs on these things are off the scale.

Definitely an insurance job or if Russian owned, maybe an angy Ukraine citizen.

 

[Freefaller]

One of the yachts I used to work on cost $1m a week to run (back in the late 90s early 2000s). Absolutely insane. But that included, staff wages, docking fees, electricity, diesel, food, traces, contractors, basically everything to make the yacht fiction. It's on another scale of wealth.