FoRKcon/Miami in international waters?

Rohit Khare (rohit@uci.edu)
Tue, 27 Apr 1999 09:27:17 -0700

Hey, three miles offshore, and we can start some serious parties...
from the lifestyles of the nouveau riche, courtesy of an article in
Forbes on www.yachtstore.com :

http://yacht-charters.com/charters/images/octop/octop.htm (go see the
picturees!)

So, where *are* we going to spend the 2000-eve (I refuse to call it
millennial!)? I'm still toying with calling a general foo in Vegas --
there's lots of FF miles sitting around for a subsidy :-)

Rohit

PS. I have to say, the world of power yachting -- million dollar and
up yacht sales are booming, per the NYT -- is extremely
Web-resistant. Not one of the major nesstand magazines appears to be
on the Web ('cept Big Boy from France: http://bigboy.waw.com/). Too
damn much tradition, I say: http://www.lurssen.com/ dates to 1875...

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* Beam:26'/7.9m
* Guests: 10
* Crew: 6/7
* Built: 1988 Holland (rebuilt 1996)
* Flag: US
* Speed: 22 knots (max 40 knots) 3 x 3500 MTU (waterjets)
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