Jaw Dropping French Riviera Video Reveals Why SuperYachts Never Open Their Sails
An inconvenient truth…
Whether you’re in a billion buck superyacht or a rusted old rig, we all hit doldrums every once in a while. But while, when the wind drops, Superyacht owners breeze through with bikini-clad nymphs rather than dead albatrosses around their necks, it doesn’t escape society’s notice that The Super Rich commit a sin worse than the Ancient Mariner’s every summer.
They hardly ever open the sails.
This has been pointed out time and time again, by Yacht fans and (more modest) boat owners. Enter: the following video, posted recently on luxury yachting Instagram fan page Top Yacht, which shows a 400 million dollar (according to Forbes) Superyacht cruising along the south of France.
Besides providing a jaw-dropping glimpse of what life is like on The Other Side, it also reveals an awkward truth: Super ‘yachts’ like Sailing Yacht A depend on their diesel engines most of the time.
“Never seen a video of it with its sails open” one fan pointed out. “Sailing yacht,” wrote another....MUCH MORE
Intrigued, DMARGE exclusively interviewed Istanbul-based luxury yacht manager Candaş Balci, to ask: is there a reason these vessels so rarely open their sails?
“This is a very spectacular design [Sailing Yacht A] and this sailing yacht is very famous after being introduced 5 years ago,” Balci told us. “They have very big propulsion engines.”
“It’s not meant to be sailed – it’s not like a classic sailing yacht – they just make it a sailing yacht so they can say it’s the biggest sailing yacht in the world.”....
