Nope. I just wanted to somehow differentiate between combustion engines (eg. on boats which usually just belch out white / grey / black smoke when...
"Fuel consumption" vs. "fuel burn" "Uhmmm, Houston (or wherever YF are based)? I've got a problem..." I can understand using the terminology...
Touché, tirekicker11?! :) I've since advised all the "head-fishes" to continue their own private discussions related to the subject in another...
tirekicker11, I realise that drawing distinctions between humans and others can be difficult. Here is a human-being without arms or legs but able...
Before responding adequately, please advise whether they are "more equal" or "less equal" to humans, you didn't precise very clearly...?! (On...
That reminds me of an incident back in the early 1990s when I was an "inexperienced 1st mate" aboard a privately-owned 40m motor yacht based in...
I don't really believe that the cost of fuel is a very important consideration when it comes to the majority of superyacht-owners. When compared...
It would indeed appear to be the M/Y YOGI, apparently the biggest yacht so far built to conform to the French classification "RIF - Registre...
NYCAP123 wrote: Oh yeah. The price of oil is not at all affected by global politics, and this is not "the proper forum" to discuss my supposed...
I love this latest (and longest) version of Dashew's FPB. I've no idea how much it costs to build (so far as I'm concerned Dashew and FPB are...
Looks like the US military-industrial complex together with its' global affiliates are shaping up for the latest episode in middle-eastern...
All one can really contribute here is: "If I were a (wild or farmed) fish (and had internet access etc.), I'd be pretty distraught myself by the...
Hahahaaaaa, if only. PETA have apparently launched a court case in the USA involving orcas as the plaintiffs...?! I myself would be...
Innovative and shallow-draft underwater hull form, combined with long waterline length, narrow beam and minimal superstructure. Easily-propelled...
Dear K1W1, many thanks for your contributions: [IMG] Partly in response to my previous post when I wrote: It appears to me that my memories...
So far as I'm concerned, Facebook's founder, majority share-holder and CEO doesn't yet own his own superyacht. Having said that, a few well-known...
captjohn22 wrote: I distinctly recall working aboard a 30m Benetti motoryacht back in the mid '80s. Well before its' epoque apparently. With both...
brian eiland has so far come closest to exposing the problem IMHO: So far as I recall, displacement yachts (and commercial shipping) are subject...
From this BBC report: Literally 2 weeks to the day, after the Costa Concordia originally ran aground / and was basically "sunk", the Italian...
Ahhhh, I believe that I've "got it" finally. What colintraveller intended to say when writing was not follow this link, but follow the previous...
