Dream on.

I think this would be more fun and sustainable, with the 80 mil to keep her going for the rest of my life and my children's should they wish to continue the lifestyle .

yachthub.com/list/yachts-for-sale/used/sail-monohulls/kanter-pilothouse-bougainvillea-62/245305

Serious yacht without pilothouse is a joke.

My aspirations are much les grand. I have been looking at this.

www.jboats.com/j-99-new#

I'm with Matt in that I wouldn't want anything too big. TBH with the collapse in prices we could pick up what used to be my dreamboat pretty damn easily, but once boats get too big then they won't fit into many ports and need too many people. Even if handling from port to port is no problem, if the boat is too big then those lazy days sailing as a couple around Port Stephens or Batemans Bay become hard work.

Would I rather be sailing with my beloved on a 32-36'er or with her and 10 paid crew on a 100 footer - no problems, it's the former.

40-50 ft custom built fast cruising cat. Modules for watermaker,generator,1 engine etc that were easily removable. Some interior the same. 2 sets of sails,cruising and racing. Go cruising and occasionally fly a load of mates in and do some regattas. Caribbean 600,fastnet etc.
Maybe just 2 cats. One for cruising and 1 for racing.

C,S.N&Y. If you can't be with the one you love, Love the one you're with.

Fortunately I am with the one I love, my Lotus 9.2. She is back in the water by the way.

If I won the $80 mil I would spend about $20k on new sails and any other little thing she might need. Then I would buy the local slipways here and turn it into the best little boat yard in Australia, buy Great Keppel Island and turn it into the go to place for sailors on the east coast and buy a Shelby Cobra and.....?? find something else worthy of my stewardship.

This would be nice ...

For lottery-winners: This mega-yacht can take you around the world, and if it sinks, don't worry, it's meant to!

edition.cnn.com/travel/article/luxury-yacht-submarine-carapace/index.html

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Speaking of loving big alloy boats here's one of my all-time favourites from the land of the long white alloy cloud...how can they do these and other superyachts year in year out, and Aussie can't. Take note those who err on the side of smaller yachts, even when they hit the jackpot, because they will likely be sailing short-handed, the owner of this 68 foot magnificent piece of kit is in his late seventies and often takes it out single-handed! Now that is a guy who knows his sh!t yachthub.com/list/yachts-for-sale/used/sail-monohulls/mcmullen-wing/239543

Kurtsey was a real character. He had a very successful real estate development company and back then it was commission only.
I met him once at a realtors gathering when I was about 34 years of age and he about 65 and expressed my desire to own a yacht and go sailing on my own yacht instead of somebody else's. His response was:- No, you are not ready to go sailing yet.

At the time I was working for Wayne Washington who also had a very successful development company and who had been one of Kurtsey's top salesmen.

So Washo was talking to us at a sales meeting and relating the qualities a salesman needs. He said when he was working for Kurtsey that all the salesmen were driving flash new cars but Kurtsey was driving a beat up old Volkswagen Beetle and kept talking about the Merc he was going to own.

Washo said he bailed him up one day and asked him when he was going to buy the Merc he was always talking about.

Kurtsey said:- When some salesman nails me to the wall.

Moral of the story:- People love to be sold.