What up Greg...

I am loving the pictures..


I am just up late crunching numbers for this short sale that I am looking at.

See avatar. it may be my next chance of a lifetime.. i thought the place I am in was my chance of a lifetime,REO, but with the rates so low, and this mansion in Bankrupcy, I may have to go into contract this week..


It will be my vacation every day..

Those pictures of the harbor at night are stunning...

Enjoy yourself.We are enjoying your vacation from far away...

So -- now this is photography class 102?? :lol:

I took those night shots handheld using my Nikon D7000 (purchased new for this trip to replace my D70s) - flashless - with my 18 - 200 f3.5-5.6... using the index finger on the right hand (some call it the pointy finger) to modulate the shutter release... with my arse bent over so I could steady the camera on the balcony railing.

Like most other things in my life -- I try to just keep it simple 'cause more than that is over my head.:woot:

Hey! Good luck with the possible purchase! Right now is the opportunity of a lifetime to make these kinds of deals...

Do like I do if you need money -- just PM Charley... he's loaded with it and is an easy touch. :D

Thanks Greg.. Yes I am moving up one more time while the timing is perfect..

Too good to pass up and no harm if it does not go through..

I get to get my bid in before it hits the MLS, so that when it hits, it will say "sale pending" to scare people off..

The numbers crunch, although I wasn't ready to jump, but sometimes the opportunity is too good to pass up...

If I need to ask for money then I shouldn't be buying it,haha.

I will only put enough down to make the payment reasonable and to stay out of a Jumbo loan..At 3.5% apr, the rest stays in investments .

Sorry for the high jack...I am excited...

TMI :woot: :woot:

Nothing in life would piss me off faster than some arse telling me about his "yacht".... that was a 32' Bayliner.... I purposely always referred to my BOAT.

Yes -- these are real YACHTS with a capital Y.


The amazing thing is the relativity of the boats in these photographs - because they are all so dang large they make each other look "normal" like a group of basketball players without reference from us short guys standing around. The 280' just looks like a nice boat. And 262' looks small when you see the 300+'r .... and then a nice one steams in... and I get a glimpse of the name and look it up - and it's ONLY 196' and it actually does look SMALL! OMG.... I can't imagine the "shrinkage" the owner has just experienced! :rofl:

Just the magnificence of some of those Yacht's..

Incredible pictures.. In the daytime, or the night time..

Beautiful...Crazy Rich, but just Beautiful..

Yes there is always someone with a bigger yacht or nicer car..

What would look the the Biggest yacht that you have ever seen, is soon trumped by an even larger yacht..

Takes my breath away, and surely the smaller yachts have penis envy..

Smaller being 200' OMG... Crazy...

Taken with the lowly iPhone during my Ferrari drive.... which was really quite fun BTW - to be in the hills of these windy "streets"... and with this kind of view. Too bad - as my "instructor" said -- that it wasn't sunny and that he (in broken english - holding two hands in front to indicate large breasts) wasn't a "Bimbo" to ride with me. :lol:




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One must have just a "hint" of color.... <stolen from a great movie>



This is in the lobby of our hotel... I'm not sure why... but it is.



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Again - taken with my iPhone from our terrace table for dinner last night...


The largest "boat" in this picture is the Indian Empress --- a paltry 311' <the owner should be ashamed>... and in the interest of an automotive forum... has only THREE puny 10,000 hp engines. Yes you read that correctly.... THREE 10,000 hp engines.




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