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Chelsea Football Club Owner Building $US400 Million Mega-Yacht with Submarine, Missile Defenses Posted by Jack Loftus at 10:30 AM on October 6, 2008 Russian billionaire and Chelsea soccer club owner Roman Abramovich is building a $US400 million mega-yacht. Yawn, you say? You have two? OK, well, this yacht has its own submarine.

September 2008 (Miami) – Can’t get enough of the luxury aboard The Yachts of Seabourn? Now guests can be pampered longer thanks to a new partnership between the ultra-luxury cruise line and Venice Simplon-Orient-Express.

“We worked for five years to avoid any small details like that which are common in boats… to finally have a boat which looks like the computer rendering. Such a boat is the vision, the dream”. - Philippe Starck The Giga Yachts A is 387 foot long, with three pools, one master suite, six guest suites, and rooms for 42 staff.

Life is an adventure for brave hearts and water sports is a favorite haunt of these kinds of species. The thrill of riding a yacht is unbeatable and the excitement will surely double if you are sitting in the Thea. Thea is the latest beach bird coming from the house of Fraser Yachts and can be all yours for $8.5 million.

The Yachts of Seabourn has been honored as the “Best Small Ship Cruise Line” by Virtuoso in the luxury travel network’s 2008 Virtuoso Performance Awards. Virtuoso’s member advisors voted on the peer-to-peer awards. “We’re very gratified to be named ‘Best Small Ship Cruise Line’ by the Virtuoso network,” said Pamela Conover, Seabourn’s president & CEO.

Life is an adventure for brave hearts and water sports is a favorite haunt of these kinds of species. The thrill of riding a yacht is unbeatable and the excitement will surely double if you are sitting in the Thea. Thea is the latest beach bird coming from the house of Fraser Yachts and can be all yours for $8.5 million.

Whilst not fitting the term “Luxury real estate,” in the traditional sense of the word, i.e. on land, the current crop of giga-yachts or mega-yachts certainly fall under my definition of the word. Massive, spectacularly-outfitted floating mansions in fact. Conspicuous over consumption? Absolutely.

Porsche Design is teaming up with Singapore-based yacht concern Royal Falcon Fleet on a new line of luxury catamarans and megayachts. The companies’ initial collaborative project will be a high-tech 135-ft. motor catamaran, dubbed the RFF135 (above), to be sold under the Royal Falcon Fleet brand.

sent by Joe Rossano Better late than never, this week, I learned what a "dahabiya" was. I am knee deep in translating a book, and an entire chapter was about this family's dahabiya, and I was grateful the author explained the word. Then, I received this from Joe, and thought to myself it was an uncanny coincidence.

Taking Luxury to the Next Level With Luxury Mega Yachts Saturday 13 September 2008 @ 6:03 am We all know what luxury yachts are. These are expensive sea vessels that are privately owned by individuals or at times owned by companies for exclusive use of their clients and the owners of these companies and corporation.