What I didn't know about yachts

[Buccaneer]

We have a stack of magazines here at work where we donate to the hospital. On top of the stack is a recent issue of Yachting. I had never been on a yacht and I was curious about the interiors. In this issue, there was a spread on Jeff Gordon's 104-footer.

http://www.lazzarayachts.com/images/106_ext1.jpg

The next page shows shots of the interior.

http://www.lazzarayachts.com/images/106_int2.jpg

http://www.lazzarayachts.com/images/106_int1a.jpg

I am a very visual person but I cannot reconcile the wide-angle shots of the main salon and main bedroom with the exterior. I just don't see how something so spacious looking can fit on a rather sleek boat. Anyone been on one?

[Fritz]

Elmer J Fudd owns a mansion and a yacht

[Ksyrup]

Is that the yacht his ex-wife renamed Jackpot?

[Bee]

I've been on one (though not as nice as the one in the picture above).

They are amazing. The one I was on had 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, a small kitchen and a "living room" space. With that being a 104' yacht, I'm guessing if you see it in person it would look a lot larger than that picture implies.

[Fritz]

Originally posted by Buccaneer
I am a very visual person but I cannot reconcile the wide-angle shots of the main salon and main bedroom with the exterior. I just don't see how something so spacious looking can fit on a rather sleek boat. Anyone been on one?

look at the launch on the top of the boat. That thing has to be at least 16 foot long. That would suggest the main section is 18 feet wide. What are the dimentions of your living room?

[Ksyrup]

Although I know zip about photography, my guess is that the picture of the salon appears wider than it really is.

Either that, or it's one big-ass boat.

[scooper]

Originally posted by Ksyrup
Although I know zip about photography, my guess is that the picture of the salon appears wider than it really is.

Either that, or it's one big-ass boat.

Good point. The salon isn't really that wide. Look at the space left after the length of what is basically a love seat.

[cuervo72]

Originally posted by Ksyrup
Although I know zip about photography, my guess is that the picture of the salon appears wider than it really is.

Either that, or it's one big-ass boat.

I vote big-ass boat.

I wonder if Jeffrey ever uses that crystal chess set...

[scooper]

Originally posted by cuervo72
I vote big-ass boat.

I wonder if Jeffrey ever uses that crystal chess set...

If the usual nascar crowd is correct, you don't want to know what he does with those chess pieces.

[cuervo72]

I wonder if Yachting is a favorite among the patients.

edit to remove dola

[FrogMan]

I work for a company that makes coach shells for conversion into motorhomes, you know the kind that many bands use on tour and let me tell you that they have all kind of tricks to make it look more spacious than it really is.

We don't do the conversion, simply the shell. Whe the coach leaves our plant, the floor is simply plywood. Then it goes to a converter where it'll gain many hundreds of thousands of dollars in value...

Link to where I work: Prevost Car (http://www.prevostcar.com/eng/default.htm)

This is the kind of vehicle that will leave our plant...
http://www.prevostcar.com/images/photo1H345vipmh.jpg

And this is the kind of interior they put into one of them...
http://www.prevostcar.com/eng/produits/gallery_shell/inter2.jpg
http://www.prevostcar.com/eng/produits/gallery_shell/inter3.jpg
http://www.prevostcar.com/eng/produits/gallery_shell/inter11.jpg

While I agree that the effect of width in the yacht is much more impressive, you have to see that this boat is a "bad ass" boat. It looks huge from the outside pic...

FM

[illinifan999]

So Jeff owns like the 6th or 7th largest navy in the world?

[clintl]

Based on the exterior picture and Fritz's estimate of the size of the launch, I'd guess that the interior space must be about 80' X 16', giving a living space of 1280 sq. ft. That's not that much smaller than my 3 bedroom, 2 bath house. So I can believe that the interior pictures are a pretty accurate representation of the real size.

[bamcgee]

mirrors in both rooms help the illusion as well. Beautiful boat.

[scooper]

Originally posted by illinifan999
So Jeff owns like the 6th or 7th largest navy in the world?

Yep, right behind FOFC and our aircraft carrier. Whose driveway did we park that thing in anyway?

[Fritz]

Originally posted by FrogMan
This is the kind of vehicle that will leave our plant...
http://www.prevostcar.com/images/photo1H345vipmh.jpg


Holy shit, a bed pops out of the driver's side. You could really take out some bikers with that.

[Bonegavel]

When Frog mentions that hundreds of thousands of dollars are added after it leaves his company, i almost worried until I remember the exchange rate for Canadian money actually makes all my Monopoly money worth its face value. :-) Gold 500's anyone?

[Fritz]

leave it to the Canadians to build an interstate cruising vehicle and forget to build interstates....

[FrogMan]

Originally posted by BoneGavel
When Frog mentions that hundreds of thousands of dollars are added after it leaves his company, i almost worried until I remember the exchange rate for Canadian money actually makes all my Monopoly money worth its face value. :-) Gold 500's anyone?

Yeah, yeah, yeah mock me :p A motorhome with the interior all converted like I showed you can be worth from 1.1 to 1.6 millions of AMERICAN dollars... no exchange rate in this my friend...

The shell only is worth about 400k US dollars when it leaves our plant. We're talking 45 foot long coaches here...

FM

[FrogMan]

Originally posted by Fritz
leave it to the Canadians to build an interstate cruising vehicle and forget to build interstates....

We don't forget to build them, we forget to take care of them :p

FM

[FrogMan]

Originally posted by bamcgee
mirrors in both rooms help the illusion as well. Beautiful boat.

using mirrors all around is quite usual in this kind of vehicle (as it is in coaches) to creat the effect of a wider space. That and using shiny surfaces for counter tops, like marble for instance...

FM

[Fritz]

Originally posted by FrogMan
We don't forget to build them, we forget to take care of them :p

FM

Without taking a potshot at our northern neighbor, "1" is more like a an American highway than a true interstate.

[Fritz]

Originally posted by FrogMan
That and using shiny surfaces for counter tops, like marble for instance...

nothing like going from 70 to zero with a chunk of marble right behind your head.

[FrogMan]

Originally posted by Fritz
nothing like going from 70 to zero with a chunk of marble right behind your head.

I hear you. There was a convention of motorhome converters in Quebec City about a month ago and employees were allowed to visit the motorhomes they had there. It's amazind the weight they add to teh structure of the vehicle. Marble and hard wood molding all over the place.

Many of them had widescreen plasma TVs (flat) coming down from the ceiling, very impressive... All of them with 2 or 3 tvs, sometimes one in the baggage bays for outside viewing... :)

FM

[Bonegavel]

Originally posted by FrogMan
Yeah, yeah, yeah mock me :p A motorhome with the interior all converted like I showed you can be worth from 1.1 to 1.6 millions of AMERICAN dollars... no exchange rate in this my friend...

The shell only is worth about 400k US dollars when it leaves our plant. We're talking 45 foot long coaches here...

FM

Just having fun. If you read my posts, you will see that I have themes that I bash to death. I crack myself up. I only wish it had that effect on others. :-)

[QuikSand]

Originally posted by FrogMan
I hear you.

Are you sure?

[Swaggs]

Very subtle, yet very funny. :)

[Buccaneer]

Frog, that is an excellent comparison.

I think clintl's numbers make sense, here are the floorplans (notice what threw me was that the bedroom is on the lower level - is it below water line?).

http://www.lazzarayachts.com/106/main_floor.asp

http://www.lazzarayachts.com/106/lower_floor.asp

[FrogMan]

Originally posted by QuikSand
Are you sure?

No, in fact I'm never sure, but hey, what the heck :p

FM

[Rich1033]

You guys are fooled so easily. What you are really looking at are miniature tables, chairs, well basically mini everything. Unless you are a smurf, there is no way you could fit inside.

[Leonidas]

So do ya think he gets a lot of NASCAR buddies out there on it? Wonder where all the chairs are for bass fishing?

[Buccaneer]

The article says he hosts VIP get-togethers. Probably sponsors, V.C.s and promoters.

[Fidatelo]

Originally posted by Rich1033
You guys are fooled so easily. What you are really looking at are miniature tables, chairs, well basically mini everything. Unless you are a smurf, there is no way you could fit inside.

what is this..... a centre for ants?!?