We're getting a Yacht!

Wow, that sounds amazing. When is the hitched launch party?

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Blimey that sounds fabulous!

i can now say i know someone who owns a yacht. well kinda. i won't mention its via a forum ?

(edited as the first line was identical to lois's ?)

Ohhhh, how exciting!! Where in Cyprus will it be based. Do Hitchers get mate's rates? ?

Can you imagine! A hitched launch party on a Yacht, I am sure it would create some kind of international incident ?

Its been in the pipeline for absolutely ages and TBH, I lost interest in it a while back but finally it looks like its going to happen.

Yes, you're right. You should invite only a select few in that case, Lannie. ?

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The boat will be based out of Paphos but can be chartered for collection at any port apparently.

How bloody fantastic!

I was thinking of some tiny thing, then googled and am now drooling, looks fab

Ooooh how glam and exciting! Sunseekers are luvverly!

Sounds amazing - I am very jealous! ?

[nosey, innappropriate and very rooood musing]how much do yachts cost? are they more or less than a million pounds? or £500k?[/nosey, innappropriate and very rooood musing]

i have no idea whatsover ?

Hi,

Congratulations! I'm very envious. I'm sure your friend has all the details and it's covered, but having just spent 5 years in the BVI I have quite a few contacts for people who do deliveries. Many of them use deliveries as their tickets back to the UK for the summer (Hurricane break), so it's usually a cheap deal. The now editor of the BVI Yacht Guide (www.bviyachtguide.com - it used to be me) is one of them.

Or will you put it on the ship?

Let me know if I can help,

Lu

Keef, lets just say that I'm very embarrassed as I thought maybe yachts cost a few hundred thousand.

I've just looked at a picture of the one Lannie mentioned and it had a price on it.

I need to add a nought?

But I don't mind clubbing togther with you if you fancy one.I've got some loose change down the back of the sofa for a start.

[totally don't mind you asking the question but do not want to appear crass so wont say exactly]

Very much more than your highest mentioned figure

mr c has a jack daniels bottle full of 5ps. shall i get counting? and there's the money in my percy pig

and i have about £200 in an isa

(can you pm me the link? ?)

I was thinking '"ooooh, freaky coincidences all round here" because my friend G is selling a yacht just now and his charter fleet are currently based in.... BVI, Cyprus and Marmaris. However, his are sailing yachts, Moodys I think.

I do love sunseekers, you flash buggers! My folks had a fairline which they kept in Scotland- they sold it because they didn't think they used it pften enough, but my dad has started buying boating mags again and muttering on about getting a princess and putting it out in mallorca (I am pushing for symi!)

Anyway, my friend G is an expert in relocation logisitcs, so let me know if you need me to pick his brain. Insurance is going to be your most important investment, followed by a decent charter manager.

Wow, that's a whole lotta dubloons!

Wow that is one gorgeous looking yacht, congratulations ?

I'd say you had that covered anyway.

Well quite. ?

And no,. no, I'm not jealous in any way, shape or form. This post just smacks of "we're considerably richer than yooow"

Thanks Lu and Lou. This has been ongoing for about a year and one of the major stumbling blocks was the insurance, mooring fees and finding the right charter manager. Although its not a done deal as yet pretty much everything is now in place. The current owner is going to do the relocation for us, it was part of the deal as far as we were concerned.

TBH, if it wasn't this particular seller, then we would never had gone for it in the first place, it will be a business for us though with very little personal use (although I am sure that I might force myself to use it once or twice, you know, just to check it out).

Percy has yielded 59p ?

That wouldnt even buy you a plastic teaspoon for the galley Kev

I knew this sort of comment would come and it saddens me deeply. This is the exact sort of thing that makes me not want to use Hitched anymore.

Well I'm sure the Yorkshire Coastliner is more comfortable than a yacht anyway.

I like hearing about other people's yachts. (she says like its an every day occurance ?)

so i'm never gonna have one. ?

[gritted teeth]i have my incredible job satisfaction instead[/tongue firmly in cheek]

Wow - although I can't see mentally a sunseeker as a yacht. I'm a wooden boat fan - made even more so after a trip on the boat that BIL captains:

http://www.rnryachts.com/ShamrockV.html

Now that's a yacht!

I hope you get to play on the boat - there's nothing quite like it ?

Wow, that does look amazing Boop. I agree, it has far more class and presence.

Lannie, you do seem to post a lot about things you're buying / have bought - links to £1,000,000 houses, posts discussing electric gates for your house, the number of cars you own, the plasma screen in your kids playroom, how comfortably off you and your husband are... I just find it a bit unecessary really. There's plenty of wealthy people on Hitched who don't feel the need to tell everyone about it.

The comment "very much more than the highest figure" can't be taken as anything but crass. If you didn't want to tell us all how rich you are, you could have just said "I'm not telling you how much it costs"

So - apologies if it makes you want to leave Hitched (that seems a touch over the top) but I'm quite bored of hearing about how much money you've got.

Sounds like you have it all under control! You must make sure you skim off the odd week for yourselves- silly not to!

I don't think it does at all. We all have different incomes- if noone could ever mention anything they were doing for fear of appearing to boast, Hitched would be even quieter than it already is. The fact it's a yacht (rather than something cheaper) is neither here nor there- people post about having a new car or even a new jumper when there are bound to be others reading thinking, "I can't afford that". Lannie's obviously excited- why shouldn't she share that?

How fantastic, Lannie ?

I don't think it does at all. We all have different incomes- if noone could ever mention anything they were doing for fear of appearing to boast, Hitched would be even quieter than it already is. The fact it's a yacht (rather than something cheaper) is neither here nor there- people post about having a new car or even a new jumper when there are bound to be others reading thinking, "I can't afford that". Lannie's obviously excited- why shouldn't she share that?

How fantastic, Lannie ?