"two 45-foot speedboats that deploy out the back."

::sings theme to Thunder in Paradise::

*so angry*

No comment can fully express my ARRRRRGH.

Must have one hell of a desalination plant aboard to keep the grass watered. It's shaped like a tug boat

With the sailboat on the back of teh yacht in the wireframe, does that make it a hybrid?

Now now, Blood of the poor?

What you should be really outraged about is how much fuel this thing burns to get moving. With gas approaching 4 bucks a gallon and supplies dwindling, this thing is just evil.

If someone can afford it (and doesnt ask me to pay for it) then hey, knock yourself out and have a great sail (or whatever you would do on this). The fake plants/grass/palm trees are really badly done though, and I would hope for better considering the bucks they will ask for this.

Yea, I like what I see here, but is the Gazebo included?

Looks bigger and a hell of a lot more comfortable than sealand, which is its own freakin country.

Gotta love ugly renders that look way too artificial.

When the real thing exists... I totally wanna visit it.

Wally has some pretty sick boats.

2 of my favorites:
[www.wally.com]

and
[www.wally.com]

What great lines!

@Curves: you do realise this is just a rendering and if the person buying it wanted the garden, they'd get real trees.

@Way: That's the first thing that popped into my head too.

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Come on down to Wally's Yacht Emporium where the deals are crazy hot, but you won't end up getting all wet.

Want a floating island? We got 'um!

Want a giant boat that compensates for... only one supermodel wife who of course loves your for you and not for your money? We got 'um!

If you need a really big boat, come on down, but understand I am currently under federal grand jury investigation, so if you want it before the raid, hurry in to Crazy Wally's Yacht Emporium!

I'll just go to north korea and buy their nuclear material, convert the yachts engines to nuclear turbines and everybody wins!

I'm surprised no one has thought of putting a garden on a boat before. Cruise lines should do this.

That has to be one of the ugliest yachts ever designed. As someone else pointed out, it looks like an oversized tugboat.

Maybe if the hull was white, not cargo ship black, it might look a hell of a lot better.....

"Blood of the Poor" - really Jason?

There is no "finite" amount of wealth available. You can apply yourself, and with some luck, you can be a millionaire also. The notion that a few are hoarding the wealth from the poor in America is nonsense. That kind of thinking is what leads to socialized redistribution of earnings. And currently being taxed at 55%, I'm tired of that. I worked hard, put myself through college, and have had a number of jobs that each paid me more for the talents I have acquired at the past job. Just because my salary is in six figures now does not mean someone working at Taco Bell is getting a smaller paycheck because I am hoarding the "finite" wealth available. It actually means that I have to give up over half of it, and hope that the government has the good sense to do something good with it. I haven't seen much evidence of that yet.

I'll take the Maltese Falcon any day.

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@EBONE

I would have to disagree with your concepts of economics and social responsibility. There is no such thing as limitless wealth. It just doesn't exist, if you got to the bank and keep taking out money eventually the bank will run dry. You've mentioned that you are got yourself a degree and are earning 6 figures, congratulations in America you are now middle class. You've also earned your salary by the collective buying power of the masses, exactly like everyone else does. You are contributing to a service or product which one or more people are willing to pay for.

When liberals discuss the redistribution of wealth, they are generally referring to the people who actually have it, which wouldn't be you. They would be referring to the 1 percent of Americans who hold the vast majority of wealth. The reasoning is that if those of it who aren't spending it impart some of their earnings to the people who made them rich in the first place, then those people who are actually going to use the money will, through a spending multiplier, have a much larger impact on the overall economic health of the society.

Oddly enough this is exactly the reason why Bushes economic stimulus package involves giving out money. Because spending money is good.

Oh and there is no 55% tax bracket here.

@BaileyJ: I agree with SOME of your points.

And the 55% taxation is cumulative of Federal, State, and Local taxes I pay, plus Social Security, which I never expect to see.

"ALL POWER TO THE ENGINES"

"Eh.. Sir, we've run out of fuel"

"You mean we don't even have enough to get back to port?"

"Well.... no"

"It's no problem, we haven't quite left the dock area yet, I'll just jump over and swim back and call for help."

Anyone remember "Freedom Ship"? Floating city. Excellent school system. Make a revolution every 7 month or so? This is a baby by comparison.

BaileyJ, I would call you a moron, but that wouldn't be very nice. I'll just call you misguided. Sure, all you poor kids hate the rich "man", but Obama promised to raise taxes for the middle class. The theory is one thing, but that's the way the big liberal socialists get their foot in the door. The libs want to reinstate socialism in increments, like their blatent socialist practice of the death taxes. It's anti capitalistic, and just plain wrong.

Couple of things;
One maybe the gardens should be considered as Carbon Offsets, you know that kind of thing should make the tree huggers happy.
Two, if it takes forty people to crew this Mammoth then hey, at least the rich person that owns it is employing a small business with some of that money. Not sure how the employees are going to spend it, with the life at see and all, but that will be their problem.

True, but will he have to pay any payroll taxes? If this guy lives on his boat, could he avoid paying any taxes?

@wsnideman: He/she will already have been taxed on the income he/she earned to by the yacht, taxed on the purchase price of the yacht, if it's bought in the US, will pay a luxury tax on top of that, and tax on the fuel for it. He/she deserves to start their own floating country at that point and stop paying anymore taxes.

Of course his/her beneficiaries will have to pay taxes on what they inherit when he/she dies.

hmmm... All I can think of is what sort of milage does one get with the blood of the poor? Is it cheaper than the normal fuel? More expensive and just another ostentasious display of wealth?

If I ever get rich, I'm going to buy the Giz staff one of these boats.....

then sink it!

Muahahahahahaha

I kid. I love you guys.

@wsnideman:

Feel free to call me a moron, I never get offended by the mentally challenged. However since your an ass you've made several assumptions which I feel I should clarify.

1. I make 6 figures. For the NE coast thats a respectable if not exceptional sum. But hardly what you would call 'poor'

2. I'm a war veteran and a father and based on internet demographics that probably makes me older then you. I consider this more then likely since you don't seem articulate enough to make a point beyond name calling.

Rampant capitalism without controls is a far more destructive coarse of action for an economy then one that is overly liberal. Although I would hate to be in any economy where one ideology has completely won out over the other. The reason for this is that capitalism only works the way it does in a fair market. We don't have that, we never have had that and we never will. If you don't believe me go to someone who has actually studied economics and ask them.

Liberalism, if done in small doses provides the counter balance that allows an economy to soar.

I love folks like EBone and Snideman who once read an Ayn Rand paperback back in their frat days and now think they have an excuse for every excess they see.

@wsnideman: "Reinstate socialism"? With vast tracts of public land, at least half of income taken in taxes (all taxes), a central bank, federal regulation of radio/television/roads, farm subsidies, and education provided for "free" to everyone, what's to reinstate? The United States have already implemented most of the Communist Manifesto's planks.

It'll take a lot of blood from the poor to power this baby!

I like the plumb bow. It looks like a William Hand cruiser from the early 20th century. [www.dngoodchild.com]

@KazamaSmokers: and ayn rand was a card carrying member of the loonbat club.

@KazamaSmokers: Never read Ayn Rand. And I couldn't see the point of "paying" for friends, so never was in a frat.

I just don't think that it's my responsibility to give half of everything I earn to the government, and hope it spends the money wisely. Why did I have to pay taxes on money my parents left me when I died? It was their money. They paid taxes on it at least once already when they earned it. Because they gave it to me, I should owe taxes too? That's double taxation. It's the kind of government behavior that caused some radicals to decide to start a new government a little over two hundred years ago.

@EBone: If you think you can buy one of these things as a common 'millionaire', keep dreaming. I'm betting the price on this is over $250 million.

@mthrndr: Too be fair, I said if you worked hard and had some luck, you could be a millionaire. I never said you could buy that ship. It looks like it was made for Bill Gates/Saudi Emir money.

Those renders are more disgusting than the idea of the boat.

Blood of the poor??

Wow envy and jealousy are such ugly traits.

this combines three things i love: 1. my own private island, sort of 2. a huge and ridiculous yacht 3. sweet waves of hate from people that could never afford it. (not that i could either)

"blood of the poor"

???

Some has some serious class envy and hatred issues.

Disgusting!

i saw this a few months ago when researching the 118 Wallypower. its called the WallIsland...how appropriate

*Adds to shopping list*

Nice article, by the way.

@BaileyJ:

There is no real limit to the amount of wealth that can be created. Every year global wealth increases, and average wealth per capita increases. And all because of trade and free market ideals.

The poorest places on Earth on nations were rules declare they want to help the little guy as much as possible: North Korea, Myanmar, Zimbabwe.

The recent history of Zimbabwe is a case study in what populist edicts do to a country.

How long until Dubai starts producing even larger yachts (to park off shore from one of those amazing man-made islands of "The World")?