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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forumsbezos $500 million, 3 mast yacht - stymied by Dutch values.
The Dutch public emotionally stopped the historic landmark alteration, needed by bezos, despite bezos and his money.
" . . . Its unclear how the yacht, now known as Y721, will be completed. In February, the City Councils municipality liaison, Marcel Walravens, was quoted in the media saying that it was impractical to float the mast-less yacht to another location and finish it there.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/29/business/bezos-yacht-rotterdam.html
unweird
(2,550 posts)Hell, seems to me it was impractical to build it upstream from existing infrastructure that limits its transit.
ripcord
(5,523 posts)maxsolomon
(33,396 posts)there has to be a solution, a way to leave the masts off and finish it at another shipyard.
again, it is essentially an unused bridge, a historic remnant.
mathematic
(1,439 posts)Is shipbuilding not an important industry for the area? Nobody's even inconvenienced by this!
Mysterian
(4,591 posts)No need to step and fetch it for billionaires. Protect your history.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,360 posts)in the world capable of fitting a new one. Which seems highly implausible. Not to mention a huge design flaw.