“The rich gazed at their superyachts, and decided they were not enough. The new breed of megayachts, which are at least 70 metres (230ft) in length, may be the most expensive moveable assets ever created.”

“First and foremost, owning a megayacht is the most polluting activity a single person can possibly engage in. Abramovich’s yachts emit more than 22,000 tonnes of carbon every year, which is more than some small countries. Even flying long-haul every day of the year, or air-conditioning a sprawling palace, would not get close to those emissions levels.

The bulk of these emissions happen whether or not a yacht actually travels anywhere. Simply owning one – or indeed building one – is an act of enormous climate vandalism.”

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      Per person, cruise ships are probably a couple of order of magnitude better than mega yacht… but yeah both are good.

      I’d love to see cruise sail ships.

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        Sailing is hard work on a two-person vessel; World fare be a nominal fee plus n hours of labor? Sign me up!

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          Sailing is hard work on a two-person vessel;

          Why do you say two-person vessel specifically? Are there no automated sail boats on the small scale?

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            Small scale you don’t really benefit from automation, it’s just more that can go wrong.

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            I mean, in theory you could equip all the winches with electric motors, but for me it would just take part of the fun away

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            I don’t know, but would they be cleaner and greener? I specified two-person because that’s the last boat on which I sailed. It was a long time ago.

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              I just asked because you said it was hard work on a 2 person vessel. I don’t sail so I was just wondering why that would be. Is it labor intensive with moving the sails, or more mentally fatiguing to constantly calculate where to position sails? I’ve not so seriously considered crossing the Altantic (which I heard requires a year of preparation). So to the question as to whether an automated sailboat for two would be greener, I would say /yes/ to the extent that it might encourage more people to sail.

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                To me, the mental part is easy, but I suppose it would depend on how familiar one is with the winds and tides. It is extremely labor intensive.

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        Commercial? Private? We’re going to have to work hard on teleportation. From my understanding, disassembly isn’t the problem; reassembly is.

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        Some of these megayachts are the size of a cruise ship, but only for one dude and his family. Hence all the pollution just for a handfull of people, who do not even use it most of the year.