Probably not unintentionalLooks like a battleship.
I assumed that was the idea.I had a ski boat back in the eighties, it seemed to attract a lot of hangers on
Motor Yacht A, which either is, or was, owned by the same bloke, makes that look graceful and elegant.
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The trustees (or some formalish role) for my old school were the "Worshipful Company of Brewers". As a pupil we got "beer money" once a year, which was promptly spent on cheap cider. I guess at some distant stage in the past pupils actually got some worshipful beer, but getting your own cider was seen as moving with the times.Ostentatious yachts must be the quickest way to get rid of an embarrassment of dirty money.
Would that we had more genuine philanthropists like the Joseph Holt brewing family in Manchester who endowed what later became the Holt Radium Institute and eventually the Christie Hospital. Their money may have come from brewing booze but at least it benefits somebody.
Ostentatious yachts must be the quickest way to get rid of an embarrassment of dirty money.
Would that we had more genuine philanthropists like the Joseph Holt brewing family in Manchester who endowed what later became the Holt Radium Institute and eventually the Christie Hospital. Their money may have come from brewing booze but at least it benefits somebody.