A yacht has been moored in the middle of the Hudson River around 76th street since the weekend, and a helicopter even landed on it on Monday.
All sorts of boats sail through the waters around New York, but four days in the Hudson in the middle of a heat wave?
A website that tracks marine traffic says the “pleasure craft” is registered to the Cayman Islands and is traveling to Portsmouth, but reveals few other details. Earlier in the week, a transponder indicated that the boat is known as T6, and was built by one of the richest men in New Zealand, John Spencer. Back in 2008 it was up for sale for a modest $58 million. It’s not clear who owns it now.
Our Facebook fans theorized that the person is a) James Bond b) “Someone told me Tom Hanks” or c) “Deboatio.”
Thanks to our tipster for the photo.
I heard they are opening a nail salon on board.
I used to live in BPC, and there were actually a lot of yachts moored there during the summertime, complete with onboard helicopters, scooters, etc. Must be nice!
A 3 hour tour? GILLIGAN!!!!!!
“Dude, where’s my yacht?”
Must be a slow news day. A Bentley and a Rolls Royce are sometimes parked in the same garage as my VW. Would you like to investigate what they cost, who owns them, and track how they travel? Not sure if you’re simply envious of the decadence, but this coverage of a boat in the water seems a bit creepy.
You want fast breaking news? Hard hitting, headline scrolling news? Go watch CNN. This is the West Side Rag, my favorite upper west side news source. Love it.
I think this level of animosity directed towards a blog that most of us absolutely love and appreciate is much creepier, to be honest.
Anyone remember when the Highlander (Malcolm Forbes) was often @ 79th st? They often had bagpipers to serenade arriving guests. Ah the 1%………….
I always looked forward to seeing “The Highlander” moored at the 79th Street marina — thought it gave the area a bit of class…
Who cares?!
Really!
“You didn’t build that!”
As former, very long time Westsider, I remember in the 60s Aristotle Onassis’s yacht moored just about this one is. It was there for many days and had Winston Churchill
aboard.
I heard “Al” Sharpton recently acquired this boat so he could transverse Manhattan without the traffic.