The Island Yacht is for sale!!!
Last week, I received a forwarded email about something quite amazing, it was about an island on a boat! Conceptualized by a Monaco yacht brand ‘Wally’ and Parisian fashion house ‘Hermès’, the Wally Hermès Yacht (WHY) built yachts to cater for billionaires wanting both mobility in the sea and space on the property.
With a price tag of $160 million, the yacht is 58 metres long and 38 metres wide. It has a total guest area of 3,400 sq metres, capable of catering up to 12 guests and 20 crew. The yacht consists of 5 bedrooms, a 25 metre swimming pool, cinema, music room, dining room, and even a beach. It is also environmental-friendly with it’s 900 sq metres of photovoltaic panels generating solar energy during the day. This feature allows the yacht to save up to 200 tones of diesel per year!
I would not buy a yacht for sure, but this was interesting to share. Do you like this??? Or do you have better ways to spend money?? hehe
Tsem Rinpoche
Boat for Sale
Want to buy a boat? Think about this “island yacht”, and make sure I should be invited to its inaugural sailing…
Yes you read it right, a whole amazing island built right on a beautiful yacht. Created by UK-based yacht design company Yacht Island Designs, bringing a whole island onto a yacht.
The design as you can see is inspired by tropical islands, with huts, a pool and to top of that, a whole volcano that is sure not to erupt. Since this is a yacht, it comes packed with special VIP rooms, arcades, gym, lounges, spas and even a helipad. The volcano adds a lot of beauty to the whole look of the yacht, it also happens to have water flowing out of it onto the pool creating this amazing river complementing the whole tropical look.
The back of the yacht has a retractable beach deck where structures float on the sea making the sea accessible to swim in and of course grant access to various water activities such as wake boarding and jet-skis. The whole concept is pure genius and the result looks even better.
The $160 million ‘Island Yacht’.
The main deck is a beach”cove” of cabanas surrounding a massive ocean view swimming pool, with a waterfall falling nearby from the volcano.
A bar area, outdoor dining, there’s a private spa and four VIP suites for friends, all with their own private balcony.
Underneath the swimming pool, the recreational area includes jet skis, kayaks and a rest in bed.
An upclose aerial view on the man made island.
There’s also a helicopter landing pad for friends to drop in.
An upclose image of the recreational area.
As for me, I would use the money to benefits millions of people rather benefiting myself. The money can be used to curb proverty in 3rd world country and helping people in need
Although it is very interesting. but i Agree with u ^^, ^^,
This planet has enough resources for everyone from the smallest single cell life form to the now extinct dinosaur. Nature has her way of keeping things in order. But human greed messes things up. Humans want more and more and more and thus creating an imbalance. But the good news is that we can un-create this imbalance by making different choices that are focused on love, giving and compassion; when we choose “we and us” instead of “me, myself and I”.
Blessed be. _/\_
You are so right! I really like your words and I am with you!
Wow the yacht is beautiful! But I would never buy it. I was having a conversation with some friends the other day, and we were talking about the ways wealth fools and entraps us. Everyone thinks it is so glamorous to own your own plane or yacht, but they don’t think about the ‘suffering’ that goes on behind the scenes.
Once you have all expensive toys, what happens? There are the costs of keeping the plane in the hangar, your yacht moored in the marina, the crew always ready to fly the plane or launch the yacht… after all, how many of us can live all year long on a boat or plane? You have more laws and regulations to follow. And once we have bought the latest toy, how long before the novelty wears off and we look for something else exciting to do?
The old adage that money can’t buy happiness is really true!
Dear Rinpoche,
I don’t know if I would buy this yacht because it all depends on whether by buying it would end up benefiting many people such as giving them employment. I think the building of this yacht may entails many people getting paid by my money and kids get to go to school and in maintaining my beautiful yacht a few families suddenly have work to do. And if this is a way for me to redistribute my wealth, why not?
At the end of the day, it does not matter whether I own a cheap plastic car or an extravagant cruise ship, it all boils down to my intention. If the cheap plastic car, I clutch with attachment and own it out of greed and it brings severe unhappiness to all my friends but the cruise ship brings three villages out of poverty because it sustains their livelihood and it is managed with love and joy whereby all the cabin crew, the engineers and staffs are totally happy and we also get to learn Dharma on board, it may not be a bad thing after all.
hahaha!
All these arise when our mind is clear and we have the wisdom to see beyond physical appearances. It is the mind, not the yacht, which is greed.
This is just my 2 cent worth.
Namaste. Thank you, Rinpoche for posting this article.
Sincerely,
Wendy
If I have that money and if it creates benefit why not. What is the benefit I can’t figure it out yes, unless one does business transactions and this business is used to support a beneficial cause.
Oh my Buddha! The design is so BEAUTIFUL! If I have like hundreds of millions, of course I will buy 1 to cruise around the world with my loved ones and friends. We can do retreat on the yacht as well. Wouldn’t it be fun?