Chelsea Owner's Yacht Problem

terpkristin · 08-08-2005, 07:17 PM

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20050807...E0BHNlYwN0bWE-

Too funny. First, everybody here probably knows why anything related to "bad news" for Chelsea makes my day. Second off, this is my BIGGEST fear with my parents' boat, that one of the few times I'll have to fill it up (it's a sailboat, we don't run the motor too often, and even when we do, it's pretty efficient), that I'll somehow mess up and put regular fuel into the diesel engine. Poor guy, that's an EXPENSIVE repair (5th largest yacht in the world?!!!!), but still, some part of me is satisfied...

Quote:

Yacht fuel mix-up leaves Chelsea boss fuming

Sun Aug 7, 3:57 PM ET

Chelsea football club owner Roman Abramovitch was left fuming after the wrong sort of fuel was pumped into his luxury family yacht, forcing him to re-arrange his summer holiday, a report said.

The Russian-born tycoon was said to be "disappointed" after the fuel mix-up involving his 72-million pound (100-million euro, 125-million dollar) yacht the Pelorus, while it was docked in Malta to prepare for his family holidays last month.

Any motorist who has put diesel instead of petrol into a car will know the feeling -- although not the cost of the error -- filling up Pelorus' tank costs 120,000 pounds, and cleaning up the mess could cost at least one million pounds.

"The engineers discovered that the fuel that had been used was incompatible," Simon Borg Cordona, Abramovitch's Maltese agent, was quoted as saying by the Sunday Telegraph.

The Pelorus, which is longer than the pitch at Chelsea's Stamford Bridge ground, is the world's fifth-largest yacht.

Abramovitch was due to have joined it in mid-July with his wife and five children, but they were forced to re-schedule their holidays, flying instead direct to Sardinia where the yacht joined them later.

A spokesman for the Royal Yachting Association said it was not "a common mistake, but an expensive one."

/tk

JeffR · 08-08-2005, 07:46 PM

Better picture of it than the one in the article, which really doesn't do justice to the size of it:

http://www.nrk.no/img/388968.jpeg

Damn.

jeff061 · 08-08-2005, 07:49 PM

It's a cruise ship, not a yacht.

terpkristin · 08-08-2005, 07:51 PM

JEEBUS.
/tk

Airhog · 08-08-2005, 07:55 PM

I could easily live on a yacht that size.

jeff061 · 08-08-2005, 07:56 PM

.... with family and friends....and not see a single one for years at a time.

DaddyTorgo · 08-08-2005, 07:58 PM

wow. that thing is damn big! that's absurd. it makes me angry.

BigJohn&TheLions · 08-08-2005, 08:08 PM

I hear size doesn't matter.

KevinNU7 · 08-08-2005, 08:11 PM

Someone is over compensating

Mac Howard · 08-08-2005, 08:36 PM

$120,000 to fill up the tank

TazFTW · 08-08-2005, 09:37 PM

I think I found the Aruba girl.

Galaxy · 08-08-2005, 09:53 PM

You should check out Paul Allen's FLEET of super-yatchs and Larry Ellison's new yatch.

Galaxy · 08-08-2005, 09:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DaddyTorgo

wow. that thing is damn big! that's absurd. it makes me angry.

Why? And I believe he jets around in a Boeing 767 jet.

dacman · 08-08-2005, 10:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TazFTW

I think I found the Aruba girl.

Gold.

cartman · 08-08-2005, 11:03 PM

/* cue the world's smallest violin */

08-08-2005, 07:49 PM	#3
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08-08-2005, 07:55 PM	#5
Airhog Captain Obvious Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Norman, Oklahoma	I could easily live on a yacht that size. __________________ Thread Killer extraordinaire Yay! its football season once again!

08-08-2005, 07:56 PM	#6
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08-08-2005, 08:08 PM	#8
BigJohn&TheLions College Benchwarmer Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: New York	I hear size doesn't matter. __________________ In the immortal words of a great alcoholic, "Can't we all just get along?"

08-08-2005, 07:46 PM	#2
JeffR High School JV Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Kelowna, BC, Canada	Better picture of it than the one in the article, which really doesn't do justice to the size of it: http://www.nrk.no/img/388968.jpeg Damn.

08-08-2005, 07:58 PM	#7
DaddyTorgo Hall Of Famer Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Massachusetts	wow. that thing is damn big! that's absurd. it makes me angry.

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KevinNU7 College Starter Join Date: May 2003 Location: Beantown	Someone is over compensating __________________ Boston Bashers - III.14 - (8347) Last edited by KevinNU7 : 08-08-2005 at 08:11 PM.

08-08-2005, 08:36 PM	#10
Mac Howard Sick as a Parrot Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Surfers Paradise, Australia	$120,000 to fill up the tank __________________ Mac Howard - a Pom in Paradise

08-08-2005, 09:37 PM	#11
TazFTW Pro Rookie Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Honolulu, HI	I think I found the Aruba girl.

08-08-2005, 09:53 PM	#12
Galaxy Coordinator Join Date: Apr 2005	You should check out Paul Allen's FLEET of super-yatchs and Larry Ellison's new yatch.

08-08-2005, 11:03 PM	#15
cartman Death Herald Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Le stelle la notte sono grandi e luminose nel cuore profondo del Texas	/* cue the world's smallest violin */ __________________ Thinkin' of a master plan 'Cuz ain't nuthin' but sweat inside my hand So I dig into my pocket, all my money is spent So I dig deeper but still comin' up with lint

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