Rich Boat Owner 'Forgot' About His Docked Luxury Yacht
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For 2 years, a yacht abandoned in a Swedish harbor was the subject of much speculation, many a story, and finally a search for its owner. If you owned a hundred thousand dollar yacht, can you imagine docking it somewhere and simply forgetting about it? For 2 years, a yacht abandoned in a Swedish harbor was the subject of much speculation, many a story, and finally a search for its owner. Well, thanks to a Facebook campaign, local police found him, and also finally solved the mystery of why it sat there unattended for so long. According to the owner, he'd forgotten about 100-thousand-dollar vessel. When he was finally located and told that he'd left his yacht behind, the proprietor told a local officer that he could have sworn he'd sold it. That, however, is not the only incredible part of the tale. All the time it was docked, its keys were hanging from the deck railing, in plain view. Not once did anyone take it, not even out for a brief joyride. Despite the fact that it's been ignored for years, the yacht is said to be in pretty good shape. Now, all the owner needs to do is pay the mooring fees, which are assessed daily so will likely be significant, and sail the boat away. It's not believed that coming up with the cash will be a problem for the man.
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Geeeezzz!
- that rich dude
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"Honey, where's that $100 grand that we got when we sold the boat? I can't find it. What, wuddya mean we didn't sell it? Where is it?"
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Somehow I knew you would follow up with a long ridiculous retort. I'll be sure to let my titling company know they may be in danger of committing fraud by registering my 'boat' ('75 Gulfstar 43') as a yacht. After all, I only spent $27k to buy her, then another $39 on a makeover, currently appraised at $110k ... that's far below a Million I know ... and the living space only pushes nearly 300sf of cabin space. The deck is of course larger, but who wants to hang out on deck, right?
She was rebuilt in Annapolis where I had her parked all of last year. Then in early November we floated her down to Panama where she's currently docked in Amador Harbor. I will have the name MINE painted on her butt next week. And damned if I forgot to hire a captain to drive her down to the canal.
Yes, we live in Panama.
I have family in the Marine Surveying business BTW who deal with these things sinking, sometimes intentionally for insurance payouts since the yachts stay parked by most owners and are hard to sell for more than 60% of what they cost new. I am about 40 miles from the Atlantic.
A yacht isn't defined by cost. It's by size. This would be better classified as a cabin cruiser.
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A yacht implies luxury, so, a 60 foot houseboat might not be a yacht, but a 40 foot sailboat could be called a yacht.
This would be an "express" cabin cruiser, and cost more like $300,000
so don't break my balls, I'm betting you never owned a boat in your life and you only want to give your uneducated opinion.
Harbors charge a mooring fee also have power and security fees as well. if it was docked that's be dry docked not in water.
You must make plans, check weather and tides.
Fuel, batteries and safety gear must be checked.
Engine compartment must get vented.
The captain must be qualified.
Even if the keys were there you would be a fool to try to just take it.
so i would rather have an safe boat that informs me if anything is wrong than maybe blowing away the signs of a fuel leaking death-trap like you want in your boat
another thing is that boats have to be built so that gasses escapes by its own and the fuel-tank need to be certified. if not and the boat is not allowed for sale here.
if something where to happen and its not certified it will be zero insurance payout and if anyone dies and you have built the boat yourself or modified it, it is then automatic classified as premeditated murder and you will be in deep shit.
but then again... finding an cabincruiser of that size here with not an Diesel-engine is like finding the needle in the haystack. pay 80cent the liter for it or up to 2$ for the gasoline...
i would be far more concerned though if it uses a LPG\LNG based kitchen as that stands for more than 85% of all the fires here,,. would say its not enough regulations when it comes to building those systems.
have seen an brand new 400K $ 38' Flybridger gone up in flames next to my work because of those systems... the protective plastic was not even removed from glasses.
Yes, every time if it's a gasoline (petrol) engine, because gasoline vaporizes into heavier-than-air explosive vapor that can accumulate in the engine compartment, bilge, etc. And it's not just in the USA; any prudent mariner anywhere in the world will ventilate a gasoline-powered boat before starting the engine(s).
tides is like max 45cm in Skagerrak. depending on fuel and how long it have been laying you can get problem with the diesel only because of those pesky microbes, and 90% of all in-boards are diesel here...
engine compartment vented? seriously, is that something that have to be done every time over in the US? o.O
but then again US-spec engines are all banned from use over here so it might be something with that.
if you born before 1981 and its below 50 fot it rock'n roll and just drive. born after 1981 and older than 16 and you need to take a license that will cost you 2 evenings and 200$
Americans are incredibly greedy, In the states if you keep your boat at a privately owned marina and you're more than 10 days late on slip fees they automatically place a lien on your boat and tack on several 100 dollars in late fee's and lien fees for the first month. If after after 30 days you haven't paid the slip rent and the additional late fee's and lien fees which by now are substantial they will scheduled your boat to be sold at auction then they will chain your boat to the dock and lock you out of the marina.
At the end of 90 days your boat will have been sold at auction unless you managed to have paid all the outrageous accumulated late fees and slip fees which will by now will have accumulated to several 1000 percent of the monthly the slip fees.
If you ever visit the states do your research and make sure you avoid private marinas that don't have well established reputations. It's best to stay at government run municipal marinas and public docks. Government run marinas are required by law to follow international maritime lien sale procedures. This prevents them from unethically manipulating lien sale laws to steal your boat and sell it to their friends for a fraction of its value like private marinas often do .
Of course not all government run marinas are run ethically you still need to watch out for small town city marinas especially throughout Texas, the south and the inter-coastal water way as they can be as bad as private marinas. Most of these small town marinas do what ever they want regardless of the law, you mainly find this in predominately conservative anti government states who don't believe that federal law and maritime law based on international treaties apply to them.
I know a boat owner who was seriously injured in a car accident while on vacation and was in the hospital for 2 months, By the time he got out of the hospital the marina had already sold his boat at auction. Whats really scary is that even after selling his boat he still owed the Marina several $1000 dollars in fees.
The boat was sold at auction to a friend of the harbor master for a fraction of what it was worth. They literally lien sale'd a $50,000 sail boat for $500. To add injury to insult not only did he lose his boat in a lien sale but he still had to pay the marina several $1000 dollars in late fee's and lien fees on 2 months back rent.
Even though it's illegal, this doesn't stop unethical private marinas because they know they can get away with this. The victims are usually on vacation and not a locals. The marina owners know it would cost the owner more to recover his boats then it's worth. I've seen this same scenario played out 100's of times all across the US. That's why I pay my slip in advance.
in Norway an 2012 Rinker 260 EC will go for 800000,- NOK,
if you say it was in Sweden the funny thing was that the Boat was Norwegian, and the town Stromstad is just 15min in car over the boarder...
In Amsterdam they don't just steal your watch, but your hand with it...
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M O N E Y
Good job!
Yeah I think I saw that movie.
No, but it certainly makes it a lot lot lot lot easier to pursue it.
aka: insurance fraud.
"it's SWEDEN where society is not corrupt yet."
And Somalians don't know how to sail (unless they're pirates, of course) !
Hahaha. Are you Swedish who sell bullshit, or from another country who knows about Sweden only from Internet? You are way wrong about what you saying.
Everything is irrelevant to americans because they dont know shit.
Not to mention you have the picture of a pretend Viking for a TV show (whose actually Australian) as your profile picture.
1. I'm Norwegian.
2. You sound like an idiot.
3. You have a Spanish name.
4. You aren't Norwegian.
Yeah we wouldnt want to watch any news and read papers would we.
You still sound like some crazy person. Living in a reasonable country doesnt change that for you.
Yes there's crime every once and awhile - but 99.99% of them are from outsiders - primarily muslims - in Norway (I can't speak for Sweden and Denmark). Look at the facts instead of being a moron - this isn't racism, it's fucking reality!
Wow... You think Swedish people are their own race now ? you crazy or something ?
you mean like number 1 would be plagarism and number 2 would be politicians speeches, etc.
I agree, The U.S. is not wealthy but yet corruption runs ramped. So his logic fails.
You're a college educated adult man. You don't browse Tumblr or other extremist social justice hugboxes; how can you support the displacement of your own people?
How the hell did you get there?
you people are whats wrong with this world today.
Valkryie is a Ted Geary design, go look him up, his boats are highly prized on the west coast, similar to Colin archer. his boats won many races like the transpac, and lipton cup something like 16 years in a row, he finally gave away the design to the competition, because he was tired of winning.
also designed some of the best express boats of the 1920's. I'd rather have a Geary boat than a hearshof.
for 100k USD you could get one of those >50 fot old wooden things easy over here, problem is that no one wants em unless its an Colin Archer, Riva or Furuholmen and if they got its age and condition the prices can go skyhigh. but even those you can get for Ok prices if you can do some work yourself. mostly because it will cost a kidney per year to keep em floating over here. and since its so ridiculous priced for maintenance on wooden boats prices drops trough the floor unless its in very pristine condition or something very special.
(if American, old and anything else than ChrisCraft it wont sell so people that import boats like that cant get rid of em and its not unusual that they are for sale in more than 5 years before they get sold\exported with heavy losses or just "accidentaly" burns up )
some would call my boat far more "yacht"ish than this but still my 1984 model Princess 42' upgraded with lots of fancypancy stuff costed me way less than half of the boat shown in the video
So, since you apparently know the owner, explain how he's "screwing working people out of what they earn"? You envious socialist losers always accuse anyone more successful than you, (which is generally just about everyone), of somehow screwing you out of something you never owned or earned to begin with, without ever being able to actually connect the dots on how they did it.
Piss off, you greedy, needy little social parasite.
Karl Marx
Barak Obama
Stalin
Pol Pot
Fidel Castro
etc,etc.
Go take a logic class, learn how to construct a fucking argument, then come back after you've learned something. Because right now you wouldn't know a logical argument from a hole in the ground. This is why America is so fucked up, dumbasses like you who think you can make the most tenuous of connections between two things, & think it will stand the barest of scrutiny, don't think so.
"I think there is something wrong with kiss-asses like you being concerned with rich douchebags like that."
Do you have anything else to say?
you dont know much about the rich :)...Look around you its not hard to see :) If you are going to be one of the rich you have to play along with the others ..no rocket science here...Yea the rich can try to hide it better but its still very clear..I am a builder and I know about them all:) you folks best stop letting a suit blind you of whats obvious..mansion trash ,nothing on this planet including a maggot that more disgusting.. guess you think we get rich by being honest and good clean folk..you got a lot to learn lol I sure didnt get what I have by being a good guy :) rich are open game to me and a working man I will not dare mess with or do wrong..rich are open game..you best get over that slavery mentality..
I'm not motivated by jealousy, it's contempt for a dipshit who doesn't take care of his possessions.