Greg Norman's New toy

[smoothmove]

Maybe I should have worked a little harder on my golf game!

http://www.wacolab.com/ej/gregnorman.pdf

eric

 

[ThirdHatt]

That was back in 2002 or 2003. He only owned the boat for a year or so then he sold it. It now belongs to the Florida Marlin's owner and she is named "The Floridian". This boat was the subject of a thread a while back but nobody knew why Greg Norman would take so much time and money to custom-design and build his dream yacht only to sell it a year or so later. Makes you wonder. I'd jump on it and never look back........

 

[Boatsb]

Makes you wonder about getting away from it all. If youre boat is that "posh" how can you sit back with a cigar and a drink on the back deck in your shorts without the servents interupting you. ( Shorts not draws for the ones wondering).

I would like to live on that and get rid of the house but still have my SF for escapisim.

 

[MicroKap]

Supposedly, since Greg Norman is a master at marketing, he made a deal with the yacht builder to promote the company and he would get the boat at cost or even below cost.

I understand that the top deck has been completely reworked to now include a helipad.

 

[thoward]

Makes you wonder about getting away from it all. If youre boat is that "posh" how can you sit back with a cigar and a drink on the back deck in your shorts without the servents interupting you. ( Shorts not draws for the ones wondering).

I would like to live on that and get rid of the house but still have my SF for escapisim.

I think once you pass about 70' you start needing crew and such. I can tell you it would not be hard to keep a full time person busy on a 60'er! I never really understood the need for 100'+ unless you entertain high end clients on a regular basis

 

[labrador]

Yea Larry, while bringing my boat down to N.C. it was blowing between 35 and 40 one day and there were only two boats out on the Chesapeake that day. Mine and Floridian with a beautiful 12 person heli on the aft deck. I thought the owner of the Miami Dolphins owned it as it was flying their flag and the heli was painted their color also. Didn't see anything about the Marlins and we were close as we just had to take a look!

 

[ThirdHatt]

Sorry, I guess it's Dolphins instead of Marlins.

 

[dastahl]

I saw Aussie Rules in 2004 at Bahia Mar. Her 40 ish foot tender was called No Rules. She had a working crew on board and they were taking her to Spain for structural repairs after heavy weather crossing the Pacific. Mr. Norman wasn't happy according to the crew. He sold her later that year. All this is hear-say, dock talk of course.
David
42 LRC 401

 

[MarioG]

Here's a close up of the Floridian that we took while on the final leg of our ICW trip in November.

 

[Imthebeachgirl]

It may have alittle to do with his soon-to-be X-wife did all the interior decorating for the boat and it was to be their "dream boat"..

 

[Freestyle]

I was reading a yacht magazine and noticed that Mr. Huizenga has Flloridian listed for sale or charter.

In fact many of the largest and most notable yachts that I read about one week as someone's custom dream can be found a few months later in the charter or for sale classifieds.

I know some of these people but not well enough to ask why.

Are they all playing the sales tax game where they buy the boat in a special purpose entity that is qualified as a "boat dealer" under Florida law and therefore sales tax exempt. To maintain the exemption they hold the boat out for sale or charter and when they use it personally they just pay the charter hire and sales tax on that amount.

Or is there some other scheme I do not know about?

Or maybe these people that otherwise have the ability to amass fortunes just can't make up their mind about the type of yach they want.

Bruce

Freestyle
43 DCMY 1976
Tampa