Greg Normans Boat

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DavidHickey

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Kingsman, Ohio. Near Wilmington and Waynesville
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Geez, someone sent me an email with pictures of the boat. I cannot figure out how to copy it all with pictures but I copied the text. Look at the dive capabilities of this friggin boat. MUST BE NICE!!!!




GREG NORMAN'S YACHT



Greg Norman, "The Shark," recently took delivery of his new toy, named "Aussie Rules," which he helped design. At 69.5 meters (228 feet) in length, it's the world's largest aluminum and composite private yacht.

A Cruising we will go...

He had it built for only $70 million dollars. The company meant to build it for him "at cost" in return for the excellent advertising of having! him as an owner, but they actually lost money on it.

Wn he first cruised into Sydney Harbor, onlookers remarked, "It's massive! Nearly three times the size of the ferries in the Harbor!" In addition to being opulent, it is also built for Jacques Cousteau type fun and exploration. There is onboard diving equipment for 30 people including a decompression chamber and two huge compressors. Dives of all types can be accomplished by operating the Nitrox Mixing Panel onboard, enabling each guest's air tank to be customized with a mixture of gases.

To get the people out to those choice dive spots, or maybe just for having a bit of a splash, the following additional "small" boats are kept onboard: 42-Foot Custom Built "Game Fisher" can be launched and retrieve! d from the deck. Perfect for a 4-person overnight fishing expedi tion. Has a gourmet galley for cooking up the catch while it's still fresh. 30-Foot SeeVee for a qic afternoon fishing trip. 22-Foot Novurania Equator with a meager 800 horsepower so you can get to the best diving sites ahead of everyone else. It has beach landing capability as well. (2) 18-Foot Hewes Bonerfishers for those special occasions when Greg and a close friend may wish to maneuver over the sand flats in Key West, Florida, 13-Foot Narwhal Rescue Boat in case someone falls off one of those other boats.

And finally, just for the hell of it, (4) Yamaha Waverunners!!!

Good grief already! Kind of reminds me of one of those Russian Matryoshka Dolls where the little ones just keep coming out of the bigger one!
Main Salon

Main Dining Room

The Cinema



The Bridge



Casual Aft Dining



Now, after looking at these, don't you wish you had taken your golf more seriously!!!!!!
 
If anyone is interested in seeing the pictures and are better at posting stuff I can forward the email with the pictures of the boat if you PM me with your email address and maybe you could post em.
 
Greg no longer owns that yacht. He sold it last year (After buying the company that made it)
 
I saw a special on it on Discovery or TLC or one of them and let me tell you the video was amazing. You could eat off the engine room floor! The wine cellar puts lots major restaurants to shame. It is amazing. but it doesn;t have a sumbarine like Larry Ellison's (or is that Paul Allen, I am not sure)

Either way, way more boat than I will ever own!
 
The 228' Aussie Rules was sold to Wayne Huisinga and was ranamed Floridian. Huisinga is the owner of the Miami Dophins football team and made his money in the trash dumpster business. Floridian went through a 2004 refit which, most notably, extended her main deck aft. Norman's Yacht Design company has all of it's yacht designs dive friendly, including dedicated holds with compressors for mixed gasses. Norman does not own the former Aussie Rules builder Oceanfast itself, which is a subsidiary of Austal, a huge Australian ship building group.
 
No need to take up golf... be someone savvy with software. After all, this yacht would be number five in size if it were in Paul Allen's personal fleet of similarly dive-equipped personal yachts (the longest of which exceeds 400 ft).
 

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