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| Originally Posted by AMG I think it is more up to the owner. The Feadships Charade and Meduse was used for expeditions before the owner built Octopus.
Maybe the expedition style yachts are better in remote locations in that they are more discrete? |
Well, I may show some ignorance here so please forgive me. When I visited Trinity Yachts in November of 2003, the 192' Ulysses was still there (the yacht had suffered a serious fire just before the yacht was done, so all I saw was a raw superstructure).
If anything about the Ulysses bothered me it was that the Owner's Deck was not all
that spacious, especially compared to the normal white boat styles of other yachts at the yard. Thus, I could imagine an owner eschewing the expedition style in favor of a white boat design and thus more space on the upper decks, though still engineering and building in the features that make an expedition yacht just that: massive fuel reserves, water supplies, dive shop, heli pad, etc.
Sooooooo, you could then get a true expedition capable yacht and still retain the interior space of a traditional white yacht.
Finally, maybe some owners do not like the rugged looks of the aft style expedition yachts and feel that they might look like savages while docked in the Med amongst all the shiny white boats???
And maybe an owner would feel that their shiny white boat in the wilds of the distant oceans might look more enticing to pirates...as opposed to that massive threatening expedition yacht???
Who really knows????
Cheers,
Mark