“Billionaires are evil.”
The wealth gap, growing, is a real issue as
America teeters on the brink. Haves having more than ever. Have
Nots less. Lessons from history, French Revolutions and Russian
Revolutions, going entirely unheeded by the Mark Zuckerbergs, Elon
Musks and Jeff Bezoses of this once-great nation.
Real quick, though, did you listen to Kai Lenny’s former BFF on
the Joe Rogan podcast, recently, touting his commitment to free
speech and whatnot? A ludicrous little man sprouting wild hair and
wearing gold chains, these days.
The dictionary definition of “goober.”
Well, in other ostentatious news, a mega-yacht pulled into San
Diego’s harbor, over the weekend, and was met with derisive hoots
from the city’s many and varied surfers.
The Attessa IV, worth one half of a billion dollars, arrived in
America’s Finest City and thereby caused a firestorm of
complaint.
“It doesn’t even look good. Sad,’ one surfer declared on Reddit,
while another claimed, “Y’all should trash these yachts. Stop
letting billionaires pollute the earth.”
“I don’t know the owner, but I already know I don’t like them.
The audacity it takes to have a 150 million dollar yacht.
Billionaires are evil,” yet another chimed.
The owner, Dennis Washington, made his filthy lucre via marine
shipping, railroads and mining. Old school financial rape, I
suppose.
Boat
International shared details surrounding the refitting
of the superyacht:
Washington’s concept for Attessa IV was ambitious: new bow,
new stern, new foredeck tender garage, new spa, new superstructure
shape, all new helipad, and totally new interior layout, including
crew areas. The yacht originally had a large karaoke bar, 15 owner
and guest cabins and room for 21 crew in rather packed
conditions.
The main deck and above were gutted to the shell, the mains
and generators overhauled, virtually every bolt and wire was
replaced, engines re-bedded, fuel tanks moved, flume tanks removed
and the space stripped, soundproofed and painted. That and
reconfiguring the crew areas, extending and widening the bow
section, adding the folding mast, a forward tender garage with
gull-wing doors, bulwarks that slide down and aft simultaneously to
allow the large tenders — an 11.5-metre Novurania Chase and a
10-metre Riva — to be launched over the side, and the huge
aluminium stern door that disappears completely from view down and
under the aft deck sole.
Washington, as noted, liked the yacht’s size and overall
structure, but thought it looked entirely too commercial, like a
cruise ship. The puzzle he worked on was how to keep such a large
vessel intimate, both inside and out. To control the vastness of
the space, he envisioned Attessa IV having a waist at the area of
the central ventilation and exhaust trunks amidships, and flares to
widen the side decks fore and aft.
But let’s pretend, for one moment, that you were unfathomably
wealthy. Would you superyacht?
Or supernot?
The Attessa IV once smacked a fishing
boat killing folk.
More as the story develops.
