Gold-plated super-yacht worth $4.3 billion!
Hey, want to impress your neighbours at your cottage this summer? Or maybe you're seeking a discreet boat to smuggle things into U.S. waters so you can finance your retirement travel plans?
Well your search is over, my friend, as I’ve found your perfect travel vessel. In this edition of Travel Gear Guide, I’m previewing a ‘gold-plated super-yacht’ worth a reported $4.3 billion CDN. It was supposedly completed in Malaysia two weeks ago for a man known simply as an “anonymous businessman.”
So what makes his new yacht so valuable? Are the bed sheets woven from human skin? Is the galley wallpapered with the Dead Sea Scrolls? Is the ship’s wheel clustered with mint condition 1979-80 Wayne Gretzky O-Pee-Chee rookie cards?
Maybe! But meanwhile here are the boat’s features that we do 'know' about. According to The Australian, this 30-metre History Supreme yacht is “adorned with 100,000 kilograms of gold and platinum.” The yacht’s anchor, rails, base, deck, and dining areas are wrapped in solid gold, while the sleeping areas are decorated in warm, cozy platinum.
But that’s not all. The paper claims there’s a “wall feature” (whatever that is) in the master bedroom made from the stone of a meteor (!), an aquarium constructed from 68 kilograms of 24 carat gold, plus a “luxury liquor bottle” featuring a rare 18.5 carat diamond.
Now, I have no idea what a “luxury liquor bottle” does differently than a “regular get-you-drunk liquor bottle.” I also have no idea how the designer acquired the stone of a meteor, unless he is, in fact, a superhero. Which makes more and more sense when you hear that this multi-billion yacht comes with a statue “made from the bone of a T-Rex dinosaur.” Wait, a dinosaur? Yes, a dinosaur! To construct this amazing travel vessel, the boat's superhero designer went out and killed a dinosaur!
So who is this mystery designer who can smash meteors and kill dinosaurs with his bare fists? Stuart Hughes of Liverpool is his name, and designing luxury travel gadgets is his game. It apparently took him 3 years to complete the super-yacht but if you’re seeking bejewelled travel gadgets (MP3 players or laptops), cars, beds, yachts, mobile phones, or even “the world’s most expensive suit,” then Mr. Hughes can design them for you even faster.
Perhaps his most accessible travel gadget is his precious gold iPad. According to Mr. Hughes website, his gold iPad’s frame is made from the world’s oldest rock, Ammolite. Sourced in Canada, this rock is “over 75 million years old”!!
And, of course, this amazing gadget is also made from a 65 million year old thigh bone from a tyrannosaurus rex that was “splintered and then shaved into the Ammolite,” then finished with a “single cut 8.5 carat flawless diamond inlaid in its own platinum surround with 12 outer flawless diamonds.” I love it!
Why wait till your next payday? I urge you to buy this iPad NOW at a specially marked low low price of 5-million British pounds ($7,726,569.43 CDN). Order it today, and by next weekend, you can use it to navigate the world on your $4.3 billion CDN super-yacht (you’re buying the boat, too, right? Of course you are.).
Picture yourself using your T-rex iPad to post boastful Facebook status updates as you sail your mega-meteor super-yacht into Monaco or St. Tropez.
Because let’s face it: there’s no better way to spend your hard-earned money these days, now that everyone in our big beautiful world is free of poverty, hunger, and despair.
-- Ken Hegan
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Posted by: Shane Killoran | 2011-07-25 4:50:38 PM
Haha, brilliant article. I dig the sarcasm!
Posted by: Francisco | 2011-07-26 12:15:04 AM
All that is and has been wrong with this world. The designer, and the purchaser of the boat are ILL as in sick not well demented, vulgar, evil even perhaps? How can people, after all the history of the world that is available to us now, thousands of years of history of inequality, starvation, abuse, etc etc have the dementia and insecurity, insensibility to have this built? Id take their money and put them in a long intervention of therapy. Sick. Oh and they both are probably religious? All thats wrong with humans and this world.
Posted by: T.S.Sveinson | 2011-07-26 12:30:21 AM
Some of us are born with gold in the swimming pool gold.Gold at the ship they own and how to get
an invite on board their palace.
Posted by: T.S.Sveinson | 2011-07-26 12:31:32 AM
I want one.
Posted by: T.S.Sveinson | 2011-07-26 12:33:08 AM
Someone has all the wealth.
Posted by: T.S.Sveinson | 2011-07-26 12:33:09 AM
Someone has all the wealth.
Posted by: cj | 2011-07-26 12:46:15 AM
this is a perfect xample of human ignorance. thousands of people starvin to death while some ritch jerkoff is cruizin carefree
Posted by: Stan | 2011-07-26 12:57:44 AM
Maybe all the rich people in the world should just redistribute their wealth and become just like everyone else?! What a bunch of bullshit.
Posted by: Shark | 2011-07-26 1:57:33 AM
Wow, I see there are a bunch of leftist cry babies out there, who think we should all be living in a communist state of some sort where no one is allowed any presonal wealth or the freedom to spend as they please. Who is to say that some guy that spends 4.3 billion on a toy has not spent a small fortune helping the less fortunate as well ? Why should some person be persecuted and defamed just because they have means at their disposal ? What is the point of wealth if not to enjoy it ? Afterall, when you die you can not take it with you. Now by no means do i even fathom the thought of ever having that kind of money at my disposal but i certainly will not ridacule someone for enjoying what is theirs to do with as they please ? Who does this hurt ? No one and in fact it probably employed a great number of people in the process of building it and through that process suppourted the many families of those who built it. I think i smell the ugly scent of jealousy in the air.
Posted by: Shark | 2011-07-26 1:57:33 AM
Wow, I see there are a bunch of leftist cry babies out there, who think we should all be living in a communist state of some sort where no one is allowed any presonal wealth or the freedom to spend as they please. Who is to say that some guy that spends 4.3 billion on a toy has not spent a small fortune helping the less fortunate as well ? Why should some person be persecuted and defamed just because they have means at their disposal ? What is the point of wealth if not to enjoy it ? Afterall, when you die you can not take it with you. Now by no means do i even fathom the thought of ever having that kind of money at my disposal but i certainly will not ridacule someone for enjoying what is theirs to do with as they please ? Who does this hurt ? No one and in fact it probably employed a great number of people in the process of building it and through that process suppourted the many families of those who built it. I think i smell the ugly scent of jealousy in the air.
Posted by: mrcbuds | 2011-07-26 2:41:17 AM
I agree with shark.. just a bunch of h8ers ..
Posted by: Err... | 2011-07-26 2:46:22 AM
That designer really has a thing for dinosaurs. Poor things.
Posted by: Err... | 2011-07-26 2:46:22 AM
That designer really has a thing for dinosaurs. Poor things.
Posted by: TDog.... | 2011-07-26 2:59:29 AM
If it has 100,000 kg of Gold and platinum, that's 100 million grams. There's ~ 31 grams in a troy ounce, so that means there's 3.2 million ounces of gold and platinum. Assuming it's all gold, and no platinum, the metal alone would be worth over $4.8 Billion CAD. It's actually a steal at that price. You could melt it down and make money selling the metal, then put the meteorite in your rumpus room. I think someone is making up some figures.
Posted by: Jordan | 2011-07-26 3:20:10 AM
Having worked on mega yachts for 5 years and on some of the most expensive and exclusive ones, and knowing others on some even more "exclusive" ones, I can tell you outright that this article was completely made up, but with a fantastic out of this world imagination. I would be surprised if anything in it was true at all. Possibly their interesting wall feature of a meteor..... but that is about it.
The most expensive yacht at the moment is valued at just over $750million Euros, which would be a fraction of this price, and it took nearly 3yr to build it. It is also owned by one of the top 5 richest men in the world.
A yacht made of Gold and Platinum... really??? Has anyone thought this through really.. dont forget that the yacht is not sitting on dryland. Ever thought what salt water is going to do to the gold? Corrosion, discoloration... bump your yacht gently into anything at all... oops, there goes your gold again!! hahaha
Clearly a fictional article, but not well written at all. TDOG made a great point with the price of gold. Clearly could not be solid gold and platinum if the meltdown cost is more than the price of the yacht.
Posted by: Dave | 2011-07-26 3:43:45 AM
Boys toys!! Too bad it takes so much away from so many other people on this planet to make the toys of the crazy rich tiny minority. Well, whoever has the most toys when they die, wins! If I ever meet this guy I will tell him he is a rich, selfish idiot! It's not brains that enables someone to accumulate this kind of wealth, it's greed!
Posted by: xjim | 2011-07-26 6:28:03 AM
"To construct this amazing travel vessel, the boat's superhero designer went out and killed a dinosaur!". I guess you`re trying to be funny? That`s where i stopped reading. I see you`re a screenwriter, judging from this article you must write Jersey Shore or something along those lines. Heh, don`t know what a wall feature is, that explains why there`s so much drivel on tv nowadays.
Posted by: xjim | 2011-07-26 6:49:28 AM
Clearly Jordan you have no clue and i bet you`re a liar also. You`ve worked on mega yachts for 5 years? BS! If this yacht exists, and why wouldn`t it, there`s pictures of it right there you dummy. The reason it`s so expensive is it`s content of precious metals and other rare items. "Ever thought what salt water is going to do to the gold? Corrosion". Perhaps you should think about this Jordan, wait, never mind google it. Here, i`ll do it...
Gold nuggets do not naturally corrode, even on a geological time scale. or....
The materials most resistant to corrosion are those for which corrosion is thermodynamically unfavorable. Any corrosion products of gold or platinum tend to decompose spontaneously into pure metal, which is why these elements can be found in metallic form on Earth, and is a large part of their intrinsic value.
Jordan, stop pretending you have a clue and get one, that took me all of 15 seconds to find and read. I would hate to be floating in the middle of the ocean on one of those yachts you supposedly worked on.
Posted by: Raphael Amerio | 2011-07-26 7:56:08 AM
Being a Master Boatbuilder for the past 40 years I have experiences many kindy of egotistical whimsy on yachts.
The important thing is that although there seems to be extravangaza in this craft... it is the clients money and he/she can invest it anyway they want to.
During construction of such a vessel there are many Tradespersons employed and from experience the Owner is more than generous to his Builder Crew.
So , although it is an extreme , there are industrial spin offs.
At least the yacht will not depreciate 50% over the first few years as do most luxury vessels.... the precious metals will keep the price up there.
What is your problems, other than being Socialists, without multi-billion dollar yachts!
Get a life, and let the rich spend their money, who knows maybe you will see some benefit as well.
Posted by: Al | 2011-07-26 8:55:54 AM
I love all the haters on this. Yes, there are starving people in the world and when you give them food they are still starving in 24hours. You can give people welfare checks and that's exactly where they stay forever. Like another poster said, redistribution of wealth doesn't make everyone rich it makes everyone equally poor and when you subsidize someone you create another.
Want to help starving people? teach them to farm or farm or soemthing productive instead of brushing flies from their eyes and waiting for the next yearly hand out. Aslo cut off the dicks of these animals so they stop having kids they can't provide for.
Posted by: Meh | 2011-07-26 8:59:10 AM
I have no issue with the money spent but I never really saw the point in building anything out of precious materials for purely visual purposes. What would be the visual difference between a regular earth rock vs one from a meteor. Unless of course you plan on examining it under a microscope to view it's molecular differences. I can see using expensive material if it added some physical benefits, lighter, stronger, more corrosion resistant etc. but what's the real advantage of building something that looks the same as a cheaper material? Really you're just spending the money to spend it. I realize I also just argued against the whole jewelry industry.
Posted by: AlexK | 2011-07-26 9:19:01 AM
1 m(cubic) of Gold weighs 19,32 tons, so the amount of Gold in the yacht is approx. 5 cubic meters. For just the plating of a body it is too much - I think the author added a zero (or two!) into these 100,000 kg.
Posted by: Jamie I | 2011-07-26 11:36:24 AM
Seriously unbelievable!!! What is this world coming to?? Spending that kind of money cause you can? What does one person need that much money for? This world would be a better place if everone shared their wealth instead of spending it on stupid things like a boat. Can we say greed!!!
Posted by: Raj | 2011-07-26 12:09:08 PM
Send this to Somalia. People these will use it better than the owner will get out of it. What is more important on this earth - food for every one or tons of gold for just few greedy filthy rich people?
Common-share your wealth and make yourself pride.
This designer should also put pictures of children dying with hunger on this boat (perhaps in a gold and diamond studded frame). This will be priceless.
Posted by: bcd | 2011-07-26 1:03:08 PM
people write things just to antagonize stupid people guess it workss