I can't believe this is actually real.

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"$4.5 billion gold-plated super-yacht the History Supreme brings bling to the high seas The 30m History Supreme yacht is adorned with 100,000kg of gold. A gold-plated super-yacht that is claimed to be worth a staggering £3 billion ($4.5 billion) has taken the title of the most expensive in the world. UK designer Stuart Hughes claims that the 30-metre long History Supreme yacht is adorned with 100,000 kilograms of gold and platinum that covers more than half its surface and even comes with a statue made from the bone of a T-Rex dinosaur. The base of the yacht as well as the deck, dining areas, rails and anchor are wrapped in solid gold and the sleeping areas are covered in platinum. There is also a wall feature in the master bedroom that is made from meteoric stone and an aquarium made from 68kg of 24 carat gold. Also on board is a luxury liquor bottle featuring an 18.5ct diamond, one of the world’s rarest. Designed by jeweller Stuart Hughes, the “mammoth” project took over three years to complete. The vessel even outshines Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich’s $450 million yacht Eclipse, which has its own missile defence system and a submarine. It is claimed the History Supreme was completed in Malaysia two weeks ago for an anonymous businessman."

http://www.news.com.au/travel/holiday-ideas/bn-gold-plated-superyacht-the-history-supreme-wows/story-e6frfqf9-1226098872900

7/21/2011 12:31:35 PM

Q: How can you eclipse and eclipse?

A: With a ballin' ass boat

7/21/2011 12:34:23 PM

He's a JOB CREATOR!

7/21/2011 12:35:49 PM

ibtIMONABOAT

7/21/2011 12:36:06 PM

i would LOVE to see this in person

7/21/2011 12:37:31 PM

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"TREX BONE STATUE"

7/21/2011 12:43:05 PM

What. The. Hell.

How anyone can be rich enough to afford 4.5 billion for a damn yacht is lost on me. I also hope they plan on sailing with a full-on armada of protection, or they're going to lose that thing (and their lives) in a hurry. The idea of something like this probably has every pirate in the world salivating. Hell, one diver with a saw and chisel could probably make off with quite a haul of gold.

Though, it can also be said that he's really investing the money in gold, just in an odd way.

7/21/2011 12:46:28 PM

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"How anyone can be rich enough to afford 4.5 billion for a damn yacht is lost on me."

i thought this too.

7/21/2011 12:47:22 PM

It can't be real.

100,000kg of gold at roughly $50/gram would cost $5billion on its own.

7/21/2011 12:48:50 PM

Maybe its for corporate use.

[Edited on July 21, 2011 at 12:50 PM. Reason : ]

7/21/2011 12:49:45 PM

^^maybe you get a break buying in bulk

[Edited on July 21, 2011 at 12:50 PM. Reason : ^]

7/21/2011 12:49:58 PM

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"The vessel even outshines Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich’s $450 million yacht Eclipse, which has its own missile defence system and a submarine."

Give me the missile defense and submarine...and some T-Rex Bone Earrings. Vastly superior.

7/21/2011 12:50:43 PM

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"T-Rex Bone Earrings"

hell yeah

7/21/2011 12:52:24 PM

I don't think I will ever understand people.

7/21/2011 12:52:29 PM

http://stuarthughes.com/newdawn/product_info.php?products_id=107

7/21/2011 12:52:34 PM

FYI this is what Abramovich's 170m long yacht looks like: (at over 500 ft how can you call that a yacht?!)

7/21/2011 12:54:20 PM

come on board, ya broke mothafuckas

[Edited on July 21, 2011 at 1:02 PM. Reason : puck_it said it first ^^^^^^^^]

7/21/2011 12:56:02 PM

I also don't think it's real. I mean, maybe it's real...but the person who paid for this thing would have to be mentally compromised.

And I normally don't like to judge people's financial decisions or whine about how the money could have been better spent, but we're moving into some really screwed up territory here....4.5 billion dollars could have done a tremendous amount of good.

[Edited on July 21, 2011 at 12:59 PM. Reason : ]

7/21/2011 12:57:47 PM

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"100,000kg of gold at roughly $50/gram would cost $5billion on its own."

They never said when he bought the gold.

7/21/2011 1:08:44 PM

^i don't follow you

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"claimed to be worth a staggering £3 billion ($4.5 billion)"

the boat by itself (without the gold) is probably still worth $50 million



[Edited on July 21, 2011 at 1:12 PM. Reason : 0000]

7/21/2011 1:11:17 PM

They could have bought the gold when it was cheaper.

7/21/2011 1:12:53 PM

110 tons of gold


yeah i doubt that

7/21/2011 1:13:15 PM

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"4.5 billion dollars could have done a tremendous amount of good."

Yeah, maybe he could have donated it to the people in a poor country. Like Malaysia.

7/21/2011 1:13:29 PM

If I'm spending that kind of scratch, I'm ponying up an extra $1.6bn and gettin' myself one of these:

7/21/2011 1:13:40 PM

7/21/2011 1:13:51 PM

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"They could have bought the gold when it was cheaper."

It doesn't say the boat cost 4.5 billion, it says it's worth 4.5 billion.

I think this story is fake TBH, or at least greatly exaggerated. Doesn't look like it's that big of a yacht, adding 100 tons of gold would be sure to give it serious displacement problems.

7/21/2011 1:30:01 PM

Bill gates can afford this.

7/21/2011 1:34:14 PM

how well would gold hold up in salt water??

7/21/2011 1:35:28 PM

Very well

7/21/2011 1:36:16 PM

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" come on board, ya broke mothafuckas"

I have tears in my eyes from laughing

7/21/2011 1:37:11 PM

^The Dave Chapelle skit is the first thing that came to mind when I saw this article.

Damn, that boat has 1% of the world's gold supply (of what has been mined since the dawn of civilization)

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"how well would gold hold up in salt water??"

[Edited on July 21, 2011 at 1:39 PM. Reason : gold is not corrosive]

7/21/2011 1:38:02 PM

well i guess i was thinking more the ocean than salt water, i mean if he takes it across the Atlantic then would he have to worry about some pretty harsh waves beating against it

7/21/2011 1:44:44 PM

I just got this exclusive photo of the captain of the vessel






and you people think the illuminati don't exist

7/21/2011 1:45:03 PM

I don't believe this really exists, as is being described:

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"UK designer Stuart Hughes claims that the 30-metre long History Supreme yacht is adorned with 100,000 kilograms of gold and platinum "

built for an "anonymous businessman" so none of said claims can be verified. if it is real, i hope pirates take it.

[Edited on July 21, 2011 at 1:47 PM. Reason : .]

7/21/2011 1:45:43 PM

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"well i guess i was thinking more the ocean than salt water, i mean if he takes it across the Atlantic then would he have to worry about some pretty harsh waves beating against it"

Fair statement, but I'd imagine the gold is not used in a structural capacity.

7/21/2011 1:49:51 PM

Wonder who this "anonymous businessman" is

[Edited on July 21, 2011 at 2:02 PM. Reason : Probably an internet media mogul like **** ****]

7/21/2011 1:56:04 PM

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"The 30m History Supreme yacht is adorned with 100,000kg of gold."

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"UK designer Stuart Hughes claims that the 30-metre long History Supreme yacht is adorned with 100,000 kilograms of gold and platinum"

Something (else) is wrong here. Anyway, I just want to know how big the t-bone weigh.

7/21/2011 1:56:04 PM

well the gold won't corrode...so if its plating and not too soft and not structural, I'd think it would be ok in general.

5.18 m^3 of gold is a lot...a sphere with a 7ft diameter...


I highly doubt this is real, and if it is the photoshopper still did a bad job

7/21/2011 1:59:44 PM

bunch of people who don't know anything about boating or naval architecture ITT

stategrad100 takes a stab at this:
the sacrificial cathodic protection usually reserved for vessels of a metallic hull wouldn't apply to a gold plated vessel, and the durability of a fiberglass hull typically seen in vessels of this magnitude would be forsaken in the name of conspicuous consumption. Use of the gold in itself as a plated keel would be very susceptible to disruption by sea life such as buildup of barnacles, algae, so forth. The plating would have to be at a certain thickness as a function of draft mark, and the architects may have determined a line where the plating should remain exposed at the expected mean water draft mark.

While the chemical composition of the sea water itself wouldn't affect the gold, external influences such as sea life, bilge, etc. would quickly tarnish the appearance of the hull, which is why white fiberglass is usually the perferred material.

It would have to be drydocked in a secure facility at all times and not used often, as a result of the raw material value and as the vulnerability of the veneer.

This is also impractical as most megayachts maintain a 24 hr crew to maintain the vessel, at least a skeleton crew or full time maintainer to keep the vessel running.

Safely crossing the Atlantic is more of a function of the draft than of the composition of the hull, assuming the material meets minimum tinsel-strength requirements.

7/21/2011 2:01:00 PM

I want to torpedo this thing to the bottom of the ocean.

7/21/2011 2:02:11 PM

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"Hughes, who also built a diamond-wrapped £5 million iPhone"

I find the iPhone owner to be more outrageous than the yachtsman

7/21/2011 2:02:30 PM

1) Its a little tough to move a 30m boat that weighs 110+tons

2) Don't fuck up scraping barnacles off that hull

7/21/2011 2:13:02 PM

i sent it to snopes

they'll get to the bottom of this

7/21/2011 2:22:26 PM

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"Damn, that boat has 1% of the world's gold supply (of what has been mined since the dawn of civilization)"

you are off by an order of magnitude. it actually comes to less than 0.1%, roughly 0.07%.

all the gold ever mined can be made into a cube just under 20 m on each edge. that's 8,000 m^3 of gold, and at 19.3 tons/m^3, that's about 150,000 tons. and this boat has a 100 tons.

still impressive, err, i mean, outrageous.

i don't believe it, though. if the dude is having it made so he can keep it inside his palace, then maybe yeah. but you can't really expect to take it to water.

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"How anyone can be rich enough to afford 4.5 billion for a damn yacht is lost on me."

why is that hard to believe? you know there are many people in the world with more than $15 billion, right? this is just a third of their money. when you have that much, you can spend/give away 90% and still live like a king.

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"Wonder who this "anonymous businessman" is"

HAS to be an:

Arab or
Indian or
Russian or
Chinese

billionaire. they like to show off their wealth, like holding $60 million weddings for their daughters, buying 100s of luxury cars, mansions all over the world, etc., unlike American/European billionaires in general.

he will be outed soon (if it is real).

7/21/2011 2:24:38 PM

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"you are off by an order of magnitude. it actually comes to less than 0.1%, roughly 0.07%. "

True you are! I was quoting the below from an article on the ship and didn't bother checking the math:

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"According to the World Gold Council, some 165,600 tonnes had been mined at their last estimate in 2009, meaning that the craft has nearly one per cent of the world’s gold."

That's what I get for relying on shoddy journalists!

7/21/2011 2:29:03 PM

somehow, 0.1% is "nearly 1%"

i guess they meant to say/should have said "nearly 0.1%". (even though 0.06% is NOT "nearly 0.1%").

[Edited on July 21, 2011 at 2:31 PM. Reason : ]

7/21/2011 2:30:34 PM

^ True


I highly recommend this book




It opened up the whole world to me about the commodities market and how the supply/demand markets of precious minerals/metals are truly artificial, and it provides an answer to the water/diamond paradox.

My favorite mind-blower is that gold is more valuable than silver because silver is more abundant in the marketplace than gold. Yet in nature, it is determined that more gold exists on earth than silver. However, the price amounts are a result of the fact that man has extracted more silver than gold from the crust, so the market responds by setting prices at comparative scarcity, although when all mineral deposits are completely extracted in a theoretical world, it is expected that silver is much more scarce on this planet, and would be presumably priced as such.

Similarly, the book describes how DeBeers controls the diamond market and threatens potential competitors with dumping a glut on the market to slam down diamond prices and crush competition before they can establish a foothold on the marketshare. They can depress prices at a net loss for a long enough time to squash any competing company.


Really makes you think.

7/21/2011 2:34:27 PM

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"the sacrificial cathodic protection usually reserved for vessels of a metallic hull wouldn't apply to a gold plated vessel"

How so? Gold can be coupled with nearly any other metal to have a sacrificial cathode. Not to mention it is highly corrosion resistant on its own.

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"Use of the gold in itself as a plated keel would be very susceptible to disruption by sea life such as buildup of barnacles, algae, so forth. "

Source? I don't think gold is susceptible to biofouling, but I can't confirm one way or the other. Sunken gold coins at least don't appear to have nearly any corrosion at all from a quick google search.

Biofouling sea critters seem to be generally repelled by the use of heavy metals (copper, zinc, nickel) in biofouling control paints, so its reasonable to assume that gold would serve in this function as well; that is, preventing any sea life from attaching or growing on the boat hull. There seems to be an understandable lack of information on the use of gold in seawater applications.

I also doubt the bilge would tarnish gold. You have more to worry about from objects impacting the vessel and puncturing the gold plating to expose whatever is underneath.

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"tinsel-strength "

lawl

7/21/2011 2:45:29 PM

so basically buying diamonds makes you an asshole and a terrorist


SORRY BABE

7/21/2011 2:47:09 PM

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"Source? I don't think gold is susceptible to biofouling, but I can't confirm one way or the other"

this.

apply this to everything you said. You really don't know one way or the other.


But tell me when your gold plated hull is still shiny after taking it on a trip.

tensile

sorry - but I actually have done some naval architecture shit
It's its own body of knowledge and the stuff's been adjusted and you won't actually get the correct numbers or information by googling around

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"sacrificial cathode. Not to mention it is highly corrosion resistant on its own. "

If I have to explain to you why corrosion resistant gold doesn't need a sacrificial cathode then I automatically win the internet.

[Edited on July 21, 2011 at 2:53 PM. Reason : ]

7/21/2011 2:49:08 PM