“With the yacht inverted, preparing it had to have been extremely difficult. Salvage crew would have had to cut the mast off, seal the boat, turn it over and then tow it.”
Richard Crockett
“With the keel missing, the yacht would have immediately inverted 90 degrees, and within less than a minute would have completely inverted. Anyone on deck would have been flung into the water.”
Matthew Thomas
“Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it.”
David Lee Roth
“The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.”
Gore Vidal
“The America's Cup, yachting is great and garish grail, is a tumorous tureen no handsomer than a camel.”
Tom Callahan
“Yachts are the closest a commoner can get to sovereignty.”
Charles Simonyi
“Compared with the X-Yacht, I really, really preferred the steering setup. It was real comfortable back there, and the walk-through access to the transom and the swim-ladder setup, which was also very clever, was superb.”
Ed Sherman
