Minisubs, Helicopters Are The New Yachts

International Herald Tribune:

Massimo Vilardi, an executive with Eurocopter, came to this year's Monaco yacht show to sell helicopters.

Helicopters? At a boat show?

Yacht sales have increased 10 percent to 15 percent a year in the last few years, and this year was no exception. Since everyone who is anyone has to have a yacht, and increasingly does, what buyers want most now, naturally, are accessories: minisubmarines and helicopters.

Olivier Milliex, head of yacht finance at the Dutch bank ING, summed it up best. "Today, a mega-yacht is indispensable," he said. "It's not like 15 years ago, when a yacht was a luxury item."

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Comments

[Meldrethx1138]

This just in:The ludicristly rich stop using toilet paper and start wiping with $100 dollar bills!

[realitytrumpsbull]

Yep, lifestyles of the rich and famous, there...
does megayacht go good with ketchup? LOL