So many UGLY yachts!

But if You look at picture 2 of Pascals post number 1. Here You can clearly see the Italian trick with the detachable bow, in order to stay within the 24 meter EC pleasure boat range.

Install a new EC rule and the Italians will build ASAP a trick around it. Only we Germans adhear to all stupid rules invented in Brussels . I love that Attitude.

HTMO9

Mapism, You got me on the VW diesel emissions fraud but I am a pure Mercedes driver and owner. But this Princess is build for the Italian market. Germany would not accept that removable bow by removing it from the LOA. But mapism, I explicit said, I like the Italen way of doing things. And that was a compliment and not any criticism, my friend.

But if You are telling me, that Princess is a car ferry and the bow is the car ramp of that ferry, I will buy that too .

HTMO9

Hello mapism,

As long as the percentage of the Chineese shareholding stays below the blocking minority of 25 %, I would not call that controlling a company. And the Kuweity slice of the cake is very old, since the 1970th. They are just parking their petro dollars at Mercedes. I am pretty happy with my pretty big percentage of Mercedes shares. I would be much more in sorrow, if the German Government, with the Green party included in it, would be in control of the healthiest German Company.

HTMO9

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Nostalgic Looks

Are nostalgic looks viable in todays market?...or am I just getting too old?

I keep coming back to this Pilgrim 40 design.

I even went so far as to compare it with the old Trumpy-Mathis houseboats.
brian eiland said: ↑
Please don't take this as scariledge, but I can't help but think that the designer of the Pilgrim 40 canal-trawler certainly had in mind's eye these older Trumpy-Mathis designs when he created this design,....just restrained to a 40' foot length vessel.








Is nostalgia marketable, or is it just older eyes? I get the impression that a lot of Americans are reaching back to older more glorious days. I feel really lucky to have grown up in a 'golden age'.