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| Originally Posted by AMG . On a distance, she looks good if you like this kind of ascetic designs. But up close, she is just a wall of shiny painted steel. Not really appealing and I blame it on the size. Scale her down to 100 meter would make her look much better.
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In last autum I was in hospital. In the bed next to me was a director of a company which worked for Lürssen on the LE 120 project. He gave me the date when she would have left the great indoor dock for a short period. So a few weeks later I went down to the Weser with a friend of mine to see LE 120.
There was a ship, white, and from the distance of 100 m, not that big yacht I expected. I remenber that my friend and I came to the point that it would be an modern island ferry for overhaul at some other company who are located there.
The next day I saw a picture of the same ship in our local newspaper. The surprice for me, it was LE 120.
As she came back earlier this year we passed her a few times on a small Zodiac and there was the same effect as on your pictures, but not that worse I would have had expected after the telling of my hospital-mate.
Octopus on the other hand is a big monsters. If you believe in a soul of a ship or any feelings, than this giant is used in a wrong way, so that her feelings must be bad. If I would be Paul Allen my first trip would be Antartic or Kerguelen Islands, Greenland or some other place where this ship really can show what it is made for.
If someone has a need for yachts over 100 m, then hopefully not to lay them for 340 days in the harbour of Monaco or Cartagena. Then those people had to ask the yards better for a houseboat in old american style. To cruise the Med or even crossing the Atlantic and than beeing in the Cab, 30 to 40 m is a good size, 40 to 60 m when there has to be more comfort.
But at the end as some unknown buisnessman once said:
"When entering the yachtshipyard please leave your brain at the wardrobe."
Leveller
Blame the journalist 
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