Wally Hermes yacht: floating cheese wedge

I don't know if any multi-billionaires are reading this, but if you are, I have just found a Christmas present you can buy yourself.

For everyone else I present an enormous floating wedge of cheese which has been neatly carved out to resemble a luxury yacht.

This is the Wally Hermes super yacht (WHY. Indeed). At first glance it looks like someone has sheered off the front of an ocean liner, but upon closer inspection you will see that it has been built like that.

The design has something to do with the fact that this is the most fuel efficient superyacht ever to be created. A good proportion of its power comes from things like sails, solar panels and windmills. If it didn't, in this day and age, no-one would have touched it with a barge pole. It is also questionable if there would be any oil left to power it in 50 years.

The trouble is, hybrid propulsion isn't very fast - about 12 knots - and massive yachts need speed to make them stable in rough weather. Enter 85-year-old naval engineer Roar Ramde who had desinged a super-wide hull for slow-moving boats laying cables in the stormy north sea.

The result is a 58m x 38m palace of opulence which floats, and would probably have a job getting much further up the Thames than Tilbury docks.

I'm sure there's a helicopter tucked away in there somewhere for that final leg of the journey.

How much? €1m per square metre. You do the math.

Via Oceansvibe

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