DeVos' $40 million yacht vandalized at Huron dock

[douglas9]

HURON, Ohio — A boat owned by the family of U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos was vandalized over the weekend while moored at a Huron dock, according to the Huron Police Department.

The Seaquest was moored at the Huron Boat Basin, 330 Main St., according to a police report. The captain of the 163-foot yacht, worth a reported $40 million, called police at about 6 a.m. Sunday, telling them that he and the crew realized at sunrise that someone had untied Seaquest from the dock, setting it adrift.

The crew eventually got control of the yacht, but not before it struck the dock, causing an estimated $5,000 to $10,000 in damage from large scratches and scrapes, according to the police report


http://www.toledoblade.com/local/2018/07/25/DeVos-40-million-yacht-vandalized-at-Huron-dock-npr.html

[lapfog_1]

1. Before we get all weepy over the minor damage done to her yacht

remember that this is only 1 of the TEN yachts that she owns.

[dhol82]

2. Yeah, I believe that her son races them.

[A HERETIC I AM]

9. Nobody is racing this boat.

No one.

Sailing boats, sure. 163 foot motor yachts? No. Not at all.

[dhol82]

39. Poster said they have ten boats.

I have read that he races them.
Some of the ten have to be racers.

[A HERETIC I AM]

46. I agree

I've been doing a bit of looking and it appears that they have owned at least ten large boats, but whether or not the DeVos family currently owns ten is a dubious assertion.

According to this page, they have pretty good taste. They owned the 53 meter (174 foot) stunning Italian built Perini Navi sailing yacht "Independence", now "Jasili II. This is the kind of thing I would own if the old "If I won the lottery" thing came true.



Now...having said "pretty good taste" let me be clear, I have no love at ALL for Ms. Betsy. She can fall off the pier at her house in Holland, for all I care.

But I like boats, and I can appreciate the naval architects hand. That Perini Navi is one gorgeous boat.

FWIW, the page I linked above has some inaccuracies, but I'll let that go to those more inquisitive to find them.

[lark]

3. NO tears ever for this thief.

Charging $700/day to cage children in inadequate facilities and drug them into a stupor is so vile. Nothing that happens to her will be sufficient to make up for her crimes against these children and our country.

[lapfog_1]

11. oh, and a detail about those drugged children

the agency that drugs them refuses to release them to relatives that show up unless that relative can show proof that they can afford to pay for the psychotropic drugs that the agency placed the kids who were "acting out" when removed from their parents and placed into cages for months.

I just tried to find the Huffpost article on this that I read a few hours ago... no longer obvious on the web page.

[lark]

28. Horrific.

They will use every trick, every excuse to keep these kids locked up and on the russian repug gravy train. They are making a killing, it's all major drumpf donators, no bid crap, and you know for 100% sure drumpf is getting a huge kickback. That is why this is being fought so very hard. Plus they really love the torture and destruction of brown people, bet drumpf jacks off thinking of the money he's making and the massive hurt he's causing to innocent Hispanic children.

[lpbk2713]

27. 700 x 2500 ... 1,750,000 per day

Someone connected to the Trump Regime is getting fat and happy.

[B2G]

66. Luckily no other boats were damaged.

It could have been far worse.

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

4. "Someone had untied the Seaquest"

Maybe the "Old Salt sea hands' failed to properly secure the boat themselves. That's my guess. Probably scared to death for their job and safety just for making a docking mistake...so they lied to get insurance to cover it, hoping that devos creature wouldn't have them thrown overboard mid-Lake Erie. Always the boogey-man w the gop.

[ProfessorGAC]

7. I'm Leaning Your Way

Somebody surreptitiously untied a freaking yacht? At a docking point for luxury boats?

I smell something fishy, and it isn't because it's near the lake.

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

10. Pretty sure

they have cameras there as well. I have a hard time believing some saboteurs attacked her stupid boat. If they did, methinks the crew probably would've heard the bump...as it hit the bottom.

[LisaM]

31. My thoughts exactly.

You can't even get into those marinas unless you know someone there and you have to go through electronic checkpoints. They're gated. And I also don't think you can just "untie" a boat of that size!

[EX500rider]

56. "And I also don't think you can just "untie" a boat of that size!"

Sure you can, if they are just bowlines over a bollard you just lift the line off and drop it in the water....if they are cleated you just un-cleat the line....repeat for all 4 to 8 lines and she will drift away.
That's why we had a night watch dockside on the Tall Ship i crewed on...plus to watch for dock rats, drunks, thiefs, stowaways ect..

[LisaM]

58. Well, that's kind of what I meant, though.

It's not just tied up with one little knot.

[Mendocino]

15. Agreed

Nobody with a yacht of such value wouldn't have security in place. Even the most modest vessels have motion/deck sensors in place. A $40 million yacht without somebody on board...?

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

19. Motion sensors...my word.

And she's dictating public policy for school kids w that smirk on her face. Bigger they are, the harder they fall.

[fescuerescue]

57. Actually I could see this happening

I've parked my tiny tiny 24 ft ski boat in the same marinas as 100 to 200 ft yachts. The lack of external security is quite amazing. Its very common for the owners of all the other boats and yachts to share the same dock/deck. So its not secured.

Literally anyone could walk by and pull a few ropes within a minute or two, and then be gone.

Motion sensors? on a boat? Not to that degree. It is on the water mind you and a few feet of drift is very normal.

Finally. While these things are huge and expensive, they don't have dedicate security teams until you get into the super-rarified 250 to 300+ plus mark. The security team on a boat this "small" (150ft) is the same crew that drives about (probably about 7 people including the cook) . And they aren't armed (lots of problems as these are international vessels)

If you are ever in Ft lauderdale, take a walk through one of the several major marines. You can get right up next to any of the superyachts, and its interesting to lookup up, to see who they are owned by.

[Mendocino]

61. It something that could happen,

but I don't see the billionaire Devos family leaving their $40 million yacht unsecured in todays political climate.

There's something fishy in this vandal story.

[JDC]

18. I think this is on point. "Vandals" are their excuse for incompetence

[TheRealNorth]

32. +1

Seems to be jumping to conclusions that it was vandalism without any proof.

[defacto7]

40. ditto...

That was my first thought.

[EX500rider]

54. Hmmmmm...unlikely...

....a boat that big would have at a minimum a bow line, a stern line and 2 spring lines, so either 4 lines or 8 if they doubled them up.
4 lines to un-cleat themselves seems unlikely if they were even half-assed cleated.
Now if they were stern to they would have had a least 2 stern lines plus the anchor or buoy they were tied to.
(I worked the fwd spring line on a 173" Tall Ship for 3 years)

[ProfessorGAC]

68. In Other Words...

...we all agree this is a lie!

[dalton99a]

5. $5,000 damage. Her net worth last year: $1.3 billion. Her husband's net worth: $5.2 billion.

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

14. They pay 5k for dinner.

The crew was scared for their jobs and possibly lives w old bro Erik bringing up the rear in that family. Rule number ONE in repub ethos...Never take the blame, for anything.

[defacto7]

41. And 5 to 10k is nothing on a boat like that.

It probably needs a little paint Touch-up.

[haele]

6. Vandalized, or someone was just negligent and a squall had come in overnight?

An unsanctioned by the owner Saturday Night party onboard has caused many a trip from the slip, if you know what I mean.
My observation from many decades in several popular port-o'-call towns, this sort of "vandalism" happens quite a few times during the season.

The crew had a bit too much fun Saturday night when they were "off the clock", mistakes were made, and they're just covering their butts.

Haele

[A HERETIC I AM]

13. This marina is not far from "Put-In-Bay"

which is a well known (to folks of the area, anyway) SERIOUS party spot for boaters in the summertime.

If you want to have a good time and you have a boat and it is late July and you are on or near the west end of Lake Erie, (Edited because I'm a dummy sometimes) you go to Put-in-Bay.

Not sure if that explains anything, but I'm just going with your thesis.

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

16. Just checked it on the map..

Lake Erie near Cedar Point eh? Who do the crew blame for the green scum on the sides when the algae blooms? Were I in the area, I'd be sailing to Canada for a trip, not anything Ohio.

[A HERETIC I AM]

23. I said Huron,l didn't I?....

Oops.....I'll change that.

Actually, the lakes are much better than they used to be.

much, much better.,

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

25. It's perfectly alright.

[Mendocino]

20. Well it is the Devos family

Putin Bay

[A HERETIC I AM]

24. LOL...I see what you did there!

https://goo.gl/maps/jqyJ5uaqEu82

[Mendocino]

29. Put-In-Bay

Is a freshwater Key West, they even have a Jimmy Buffet knockoff, Pat Dailey. Beer flows like vomit, the streets are hosed every morning.

[A HERETIC I AM]

33. Been there. Done.....ahem......that

Used to live in Detroit

Rode my Harley down there and took the ferry over.

Found out later that I took the wrong fucking ferry. I took the one that DIDN'T allow motorcycles! From the Ferry landing to the town is a bit of a hike!

Seriously, South Bass Island is very pretty and a cool place to spend a weekend.

[Mendocino]

35. I worked at Cedar Point

for two summers. Good times! I live SW of Toledo.

South Bass is nice, but summer there especially the weekends are crazy.

[A HERETIC I AM]

42. I passed within just a few miles of you 24 hours ago!

I drive OTR for a US mail contractor and left Allen Park, MI yesterday morning at 11ish. Down I-75 to I-280 then down to the Ohio Tpke, passing over the Maumee River around 12:30 or so, after we stopped for brekkie at exit 6 in Michigan (Luna Pier).

I lived in the Detroit area all through the 90's, in various places. Dearborn, Farmington Hills, Redford, etc. Went to Cedar Point once by myself! Still had a blast. "The Roller Coast"!! GREAT park. Just great.

I kind of miss that area, even the winters. I had friends in the Western UP I used to visit at Christmas time.

The Great Lakes has some spectacular beauty. Many people aren't aware that there is more miles of coast line in Michigan (including the Upper Peninsula) than there is on the entire East Coast of the US.

[Mendocino]

45. Pictured Rocks

The Porkies, the Trapp Hills, the Keweenaw....the UP rules!

[A HERETIC I AM]

50. Lake of the clouds

Ca: 1997 or so.

On the street out front of their place on Lake Gogebic.


Driving that truck from Brainerd, WI across the UP and then down to Indianapolis.


Ahhh...the good old days.

[donkeypoofed]

8. And she and her husband STOLE that money with their pyramid scheme

The stupid boat was bought and paid for with money from people whose lives they've ruined. Amway.is the biggest scam out there. The Devoses are disgusting

[defacto7]

43. But that's ok.

It's in the name of jesus.

[fescuerescue]

12. $10k in damages?

Or about 1 day in maintenance expenses.

A $40m yacht incurs about $70,000 a week in maintenance.

That $10k scratch is no doubt well below the insurance deductible.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

17. Yep. Maybe one of the gold pinstripes were nicked.

[A HERETIC I AM]

34. Yup. The ten percent rule.

Assets like that over a certain amount will cost ten percent of it's purchase price PER YEAR to own.



Forty million dollar yacht = $4 mill a year to own = about $76,000 a week.

https://www.businessinsider.com/how-much-it-costs-to-operate-a-luxury-yacht-2013-3

[SoCalNative]

21. Thoughts & Prayers

[busterbrown]

26. Best Post this month.

Maybe for the year..

Maybe the Decade..

[smirkymonkey]

22. Such a display of wealth is obscene.

A $40mm yacht? Ten yachts? Time to bring back this:

[crazycatlady]

55. walking the plank should be brought back

[A HERETIC I AM]

30. Just for fun, here's their place on the water in Holland, Mi

https://goo.gl/maps/EWfK7njrtEE2

[lpbk2713]

36. That is disgusting.

People that live like that should have no right to feed at the public trough.

[A HERETIC I AM]

38. Well, it is a nice house!

It's just that the money that bought it came from a Ponzi scheme.

Amway. One of the originators of the first legal Ponzi schemes

[defacto7]

44. You have to think like an evangelical to understand them.

Most of us understand there are limits to what the world can produce. We think there are limits to wealth. Evangelicals believe God makes all wealth and natural resources unlimited to the believer sort of like magic. It comes out of nowhere. No true believer would be hurt by their scheme unless it's the will of God. So they can just rape the rest of us in the name of christ.

[A HERETIC I AM]

51. Yeah, but.......

soap.

[onecaliberal]

37. I don't really care, do you?

[shockey80]

47. They should have sunk that motherfucker.

[Tipperary]

48. I am quite sure these boats are insured. We can cheer at vandalism if we want (not I), but

I doubt this hurts them a bit.

[A HERETIC I AM]

52. As someone else pointed out.....

ten grand is likely well below the deductible for this vessel.

But yeah....it's pocket change.

[Kingofalldems]

62. The OP cheered nothing.

What are you talking about?

[tenderfoot]

65. As opposed to Cheering DeVos's vandalism to Public Education

Hurts libs good.

[Meadowoak]

49. Betsy probably vandalized it herself, to collect the insurance money.

[A HERETIC I AM]

53. See above.

No way any insurance company is going to send a check for a scratch on a boat like that.

[Loge23]

59. Let it sink

...with her in it.

[NewJeffCT]

60. If anybody was wondering - I have an alibi for the time in question

I was on the Hollywood Walk of Fame that night.

[budkin]

63. Too bad they didn't sink it

I have no empathy or sympathy for this vile woman.

[easttexaslefty]

64. Thoughts & prayers

[GulfCoast66]

67. 10K in damages? That's peanuts

It cost me 3K when my 23 foot center console bay boat lost a fight with a dock in a thunderstorm.

The boat was only worth 30k or so new.

This was a docking error.