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. welcome to a world with the super rich compete to and the biggest and most expensive yachts. this is the is that the 500000000 euro 180 me too long but it is probably the largest privately owned jot and belongs to the mia of abu dhabi if you play in the making goes on the league. from to buy to miami. to monaco where we got special access to this secret vault. to huge sales swell in the wind the deck the size of the tennis. court and

a 12 member crew. we're off the coast of miami aboard one of the world's largest siling yachts the super us. to catch is 70 meters long and was built for the american multimillionaire built to cut the sea is a bit rough today just how he likes that. kind of mission if you. think. it is sunday bill invited some friends along for the study trip. crew members in casual sailor outfits k.c. to the guests every nate. for lunch a casual selection of sandwiches made from the finest ingredients in fact

everything on board is top quality and expensive. like. when you finish it said trying to get it right about where says she can help you get. things like that even though it was spent more than that. favorite joke. if the rest of the. americans what it's like to live on the go like this we're going to bring back the guillotine. if the. bill paid 17000000 euros for this cage. after a few hours the boat returns to its port in miami florida.

bill you do have has a luxury askant house condominium at the harbor entrance his home covers about 2000 square mazes and is spread out over 3 floors. the interior looks like an art museum there are works by frank stella manalo valdez and john de buffet. on the top floor there's a swimming pool the apartment was valued at around $60000000.00 euros bill is proud he developed such a project. you're at in the best apartment in the best building in miami you have the most spectacular views of miami fisher island in the ocean on that side of miami beach and ocean on this side i don't know that anybody else we've done this i don't know that anybody else could have done this and i think it's unique apartment it is in my view the best apartment in miami beach it's the

best apartment i think on the east coast. like many ultra wealthy bill has an entourage interior designer peter how relive each draft of the plans for both bill's condominium and the sybaris he only works for bill. 2009 i learned that i had melanoma and that the melanoma had spread to my loved ones. and. you know you certainly begin to think that life is short and a day or 2 after that i called peter and i said that i was going to go forward with this apartment or with the boat. and that the end of that week i said to myself i can't live like that i can't however long i have i can't live without a plan and a a a reason to do something special and so i called him back and i said forget it we're going forward with the boat we're all for with the apartment. building

because started out as a business aware but was found guilty of fraud in 997 he started over and has since made a fortune in computer software. enjoyed by more rain during a payment plan. they were smack. right back. though doesn't go sailing every day but the crew is always on cool and in a yearly salary for example the captain earns between 16022000 euros per month there. is a total of nearly $1000.00 square metres of living space on board the sybaris including fitness and wellness room. this is the master bedroom there are also fine sleeping cabins for guests like the apartment the boat is full of works of art

like this fresco inspired by popular picasso's masterpiece. that. is especially proud of his custom made storage trunks and bill said what if instead of wood trays we did elevator. i was like yeah that could be very tall many alligators it's a dog for $150.00 alligators farmer is. praised very stressed for it now in florida there's alligators everywhere they eat our dogs. because they were crocodile. crocodiles are endangered but alligators are not and no this really is this beautiful thing so they're all that oh. another day and bill has invited out a close friends to visit him on his yacht. david boies is one of

america's most prominent attorneys. still ahead. good to see david and his wife mary also own a yacht but it hardly compares to this one. this. one of a kind i've never seen anything like it and i've been on 20 premies over the years . every time mary steps on board a yacht she takes part in an unusual ritual climbing the must i just like not going to hold the life of chair up close i'm sure all the way to the top. but. well she's done it before i think she's crazy i think that i would use is by lawyers their eyes. first a little liquid courage. this is a. thing you do this you feel like a bird. your weight was very high and you see the world in

a very different way the way of her. long way up there. are spread on the board put up with. a crew member is sent up 1st. then it's mary's turn to the $73.00. i said. i. was worried. and she interviewed this so please help i never get you she. a list strenuous way to climb. up to 15 minutes mary is lowered back to the deck she's happy. about it. but the back of my favorite. pair of better. that evening bill hosts

a cocktail party his sumptuously appointed yosh shows the world that he has once again become financially successful and he enjoys sharing his good fortune with his inner circle. they say that is all these people they are all very best lawyers like to hurt their droid jobs or are going to have a good time and they could see something that they don't really see this is an opportunity for them to see a new piece of art. it makes you happy that's all it. took up just a little. bit bill doesn't only have friends in america they're also those in europe. so he's having the super a sale to monaco. monaco

is located on the french riviera and has been a playground for the ultra rich since the late 19th century. some of the world's largest yachts amours here at this marina in monte carlo most of them cost at least $50000000.00 euros. this is s. been going to one of the world's most renowned yacht designers he's no wage and but his office is here in monaco. all of us all that all of you all it's great to have an office that's right here on the harbor about those there are ships as far as you can see this is like the monaco is home to a lot of yachts and also the shipping industry in general more than 300 companies have their offices here all sorts of shit a q one yeah they can go thing with me. there's a lot this is our design office of different projects here when this all.

it's been designed shots that often cost several 100000000 euros he employs about 20 engineers and designers. his career was launched by this boat the octopus the 1st negative in history the 126 metre long boat was once owned by microsoft co-founder for alan the shift has to landing pads for helicopters and 3 mini submarines more recently it's been designed the deal which was built at the listen shipyard in braman and delivered in 2016. it's considered the world's largest yacht by volume. the deal by is owned by a russian billionaire alan scherr man of. when and spin

has an idea for a new york design he 1st makes a sketch just like other designers do. so there we start with the general plan of the boat which i do by hand and then we make a 2 d. image on the computer and then a 3 d. model through the parts come together like a puzzle it takes between 3 and 5 years to complete a project from the 1st meeting with the client to the actual delivery i want to work the feeling that he was on the earth. is spinning is a little like the car lagerfeld if you're saying he manages to give classic design a modern twist. for do you have to hunt for customers. no they find us we don't even have a website but this is really a small world with a lot of word of mouth it's like

a pyramid the closer to the top you are the fewer people there are and they all know each other it's all on the one on the more on the screen as. i did in a week it's been will travel to the de by international boat show. not far away in monaco interior design a sabrina monte-leone i was also getting ready for the same event. and up to my paper hit by the plates ready. and the letter samples as well sabrina sells accessories and furniture for luxury yachts a brand is simply called sabrina monte carlo. no 0 point but if you took a boat in flipped over we do everything that falls out. everything that isn't fixed from teaspoons to sofas to curtains. sabrina started out in the fashion industry before switching to luxury decoration of the 20 years ago she's

learned all the codes. citizens this way here it's the men who choose it's. because with houses usually women pick but boats are male domains 80 percent of our clients are men and. they're often the only ones who have the money to buy a yacht. and they want complete control over it it's their baby yes that makes my job a lot easier. it is the. next stop dubai situated on the shores of the gulf dubai is the financial center of the middle east when we meet and spend he's working as usual. i can't because i have a client meeting in kept on t.v. on thursday 5 o'clock i'd love to but i'm 430 i can't i'm flying to london on thursday nights at 20 something and then i'm flying to the neighbor in the afternoon we could have a late lunch in london perhaps on friday if he's in london the friday. about to

bite by bite problem. sorry that was a broker who's trying to set up a meeting for me with a client but it's always been like i'm here when he's there or vice a versa on march 11th but isaac. esben will be in to buy for just 24 hours but he couldn't miss the big boat show everyone who's anyone in the york industry will attend. for more than a quarter of a century the super rich have come to dubai to check out the york market at least half of the world's largest shots are owned by wealthy arabs. and the amir of dubai sheikh mohammed bin rashid al maktoum arrives with his usual contingent of advisors and bodyguards.

but rather the she this is the aft deck. and spin doesn't need to rent an exhibition hall he simply welcomes potential clients on board one of his yachts this one is called the silver fast. enough where c. comes up when. you sit here you can look out over the water. there's over to the boat shows give us a chance to show our know how so we're very happy we could show this boat here today it's not always the case because the bigger the boats are the more private their owners are use to feel for the lives on the sort of so people don't really want to show them in a fair. also because it's their home because that's to give us a going to. a bus if i see the owner of this yacht the german multimillion it wants

to sell it so he asked esben to put it on display here. this superfast is powered by 23600 horsepower diesel engines and can reach a top speed of 27 knots 50 kilometers an hour the original asking price of this yacht was about 18000000 euros that's been says it was designed for a new generation of your highness so it is for about 10 years now we've been designing boats that are more contemporary and that reflects that ship owners are getting younger these days it seems that a lot of people are getting rich more quickly the average age of yacht owners has dropped significantly and 30 years ago when i got started in this business all the owners were at least 60. today our customers are more like 30 to 40 years old haunts to halt.

the spin continue to meet with potential customers well into the evening. there is not a homer you. michel if you tell me there's any oh you want to sort. that next to me there's a hi michelle i brought some friends with me if i do if you do a google google that gives us. michelle braman is the science to. rector of the world renowned lowson shipyard in braman in northern germany. one of 3 mega yachts comes from this yard the company has established a solid reputation for the quality of its boats and for maintaining the privacy of its clients. on the eve i don't know how many boats together you know let's not tell everyone more than 20 i'm sure we need to talk. as if this is business so no microphones because you're wearing a mike yes. how come you're taken off the mike.

we're talking business the business. has been and michelle know that in this world discretion is king. the by international boat show is an annual event the world's leading shipyards engine manufacturers designers and decorators are represented here and that includes sabrina modeling on air. she enjoys meeting new clients and old friends. that i see. this every day are far more one of the more i know you all thank him and there are many. of the letters we have that are that move to get it yet. not see it bring him out rush it is a wealthy saudi businessman and he owns one of the world's largest yachts so the smaller

pocket that this gentleman owns the lady mora which is usually docked at monaco but i think it's a german shipyard right now for refitting. the lady mura was launched in 1900 it's 105 meters long and cost over $200000000.00 euros everybody has to face our rush it has made his fortune in the saudi construction sector he'll. so sits as an advisor to the royal family is with his ears. so you have boatless know we are missing the boat on the bay in one echo it's it is strange you go into walls a lot is where you know it your fault is a part. of one of the pool this is 10 she said exam average for just that they decided they did it in 2030 in monaco issued a postage stamp that featured the lady more. this morning sabrina's waiting for another important client. he's from kuwait we can't find him he's out there

somewhere. i don't know what happened to him. he's been going around in circles but i guess he'll get here eventually. they'll fix it and this customer visits me in monaco all the time he heard that i was here so he wants to stop by and see me. all gone he's a very good customer it's but now he's lost he's been trying to find us for 90 minutes i can't figure it out. there's been a. doctor now at the kuwaiti is finally located the kid is here with me you know. great michelle found him perfect. finally my dear lady. but then why didn't you tell that it's very easy the way that the man flew all the way from kuwait to buy furniture from sabrina she set up a show room on one of the yachts. everyone think you can see how i

take everything in this on this is what ok so you remember that you have the same at home mom will send you something like this is this color for sure what it is or the little you make the way to making all of this yeah well we'll see it and then we'll see what we. know if the time comes from one of kuwait's wealthiest families. well that sucks is when. he turns up every year and buys loads of stuff i ship it to him and then he sends me photos of all the new things he wants to buy. now he wants to order some more he's a very nice man but he's disappeared again. but i did. good. if there is her client ended up placing an order. with more than 200000 euros well worth the white . sankey all said that he's a great customer he's always happy he sends me what's out photos of what he wants.

and if the customers happy i'm happy to go with it but. alex jiménez isn't rich and he doesn't own a yacht and yet everyone here knows him. without the new oh you really self yeah absolutely they have a dollar so you're the young guy here and you see you with the boys you see this thing a trouble busy busy show yet sounds like you've been busy oh yeah we got a little i'm doing great and so i think they're going to go good essential request if they are good enough and it's a go it's many things. alex is this social media stuff and it goes well the name do your current born in brooklyn he's turned his passion for these luxury boats into a profession and now has nearly a 1000000 followers on instagram his photos and videos of jobs are popular with

people he found to science about living the good life brands and your companies pay him to post content promoting them. so i'm here thanks to you did for dubai international show who has brought me in all the way from boston to come and bring exposure to the show i'm selling exposure and selling exposure the majority of the people that follow probably dream is right and probably young kids but there is if one percent of $1000000.00 people. who are potential clients that's still a huge number so there to pay you to see all you are in this is how i are in my living this is exactly how i am i live in it's not a bad living i mean it's it's great i mean how often you get to travel the world you know visit all these amazing places. state spend time on board yachts and get paid for it. right now alex is meeting with mahmoud attorney marketing and

communications manager at an emirate your building. by where i've got to go on board and do my thing of which more do you want me to to show on facebook 100 to 100 you haven't done much on that. and we are now what's up everybody we are live from the dubai international ball show so we are going to take a toll on the majesty 100. 1 of the newest lines they just they just launched it and i am here with mahmoud one of the big guys here he's going to give us a tour and walk us through the book write a song goes to the does do it all spin you guys around we're going to follow mahmoud. for a live 15 minute visit on instagram alex charges nearly 3000 euros on social networks you can check viewer numbers straightaway to warn only that you were.

was also there was cool also try to form a strategy do you want to catch back up you want to go and do a whole cool photo shoot of this both i mean i want to post it on facebook but then i catch you with one of our right of all because it was. perfect so now i get to do it all over again facebook so this is the province is the place everybody thinks. oh you've got such a great life you know you're out there just hanging out i'm not i'll get on a boat and i have to spend time on a boat race i have to go through and take photos for one social media thing and then i got to go through it's a photos for the next social media thing so when you go work this is work. alex will probably never be as rich as the owners of the yachts that he photographs but he loves his job. so he. the lifestyle for the one percent not everybody can do this and if you are blessed enough to be able to do it. for your best that's just

it. after sunset dubai turns into a posh e-zine and once again alex was on the job. growth thank you become alex the gakkai. be arriving today with your guests and a good way to go. thank you very much. thank you. so we are here. coming on board check it out sticks pretty crazy. mostly one of the biggest party both here and all of you a. huge. figure out. that. you. ilona the owners russian wife gave alex a tour of the yacht called the lotus it has room for up to 1000 people and features a nightclub cinema and dining room.

were on board lotus with the largest fortune all of the virus. placed the device in saying 100-1000 people. it's one of the biggest in the world and yeah in the middle of a city these guys take party bars to another level. the consumption of alcohol is forbidden in dubai but the lotus has a special planet. one last sophie and alex is working day came to an end he left the ship before it set off on a mini cruise.

back to monaco. where we found bill duca as well as his sailing yacht sybaris. this is a special event shadowed for today at the local golf club. you got to know i had a brother to go to. bill transfers too small a boat to get to shore he paid nearly a $1000000.00 for this craft. a ride on the dock he was welcomed by an old acquaintance bernardino sandri the yacht club manager we were. nice to see you everything's good and you know that it is already a little slow on this is the the commodore of the monaco yacht club. and that's the commodore but it's not the concert that they're for the secretary general the same thing i didn't. eat don't have to own

a boat to join the yacht club but you do need to be sponsored by 2 members and able to afford the annual fees rumored to be approximately 9000 euros. the monaco yacht club has only a few female members one of them is pound a tree for oh an attorney from milan because. this is the official presentation ceremony for her new sailing yacht called the rebel reports say the boat cost around 30000000 euros. the rebel is about 32 meters long and was delivered by the manufacturer to the yacht club marina the whole and superstructure and made of lightweight carbon fiber which makes the ship. the competitive price of vacation cruises below is the boat's unofficial godfather. yes. q

you have a very good friend. who is the proud owner of this beauty this is so cal but they don't know as my friend told me how to all spike. in they said they didn't have that. anyway. and clouds. paula has invited friends from all over the world to the ships in operation and she takes a few of them on a guided tour. nobody. so let's go out with this go see. we have got that is that there is everything is a little world. ok. and just based on a case for why does this change what they feel so they don't. have to would bill invites palm and some of her guests to come aboard to super us.

but i. think. i am picturing. like. sorry that i'd love to give you tour but maybe 1st it's to start with the absolutely on the 2 border where you have what. you have to particularly make sure you have. a fever really a. big family. that you'd be about maybe. this little get together give still another opportunity to show off his yacht. while her back if you will like. i want to live like the softness of your life in south jersey that is our you see if you look at. the guests are

impressed as bill knew there would be this is a street artist in new york. the most famous. bill likes to talk about the real estate he owns. more of an integral part of the miami orlando. york miami when i am house and world york miami mostly i go to the park whether they're on resident miami beach i have an apartment in new york as well and i have a house upstate new york and then i have a partner role. after about an hour the party breaks up and the guests head back to shore. bill's yacht was delivered in $26.00 staying after just 6 months he began daydreaming about a bigger one and put the super us off the sale price tag some $90000000.00 euros.

it's not unusual for the super rich to arrive somewhere by helicopter. this group of visitors is being flown to the yacht because it's tied up in a rather out of the white location just off the west coast of greenland near the city of italy set. below stairs thank you all there are 9 guests on board today. an experienced crew is here to look after them. the yours is owned by young for a dutch boat builder who also owns the charter cruise company the ship is called the legit and is just under 78 meters long the legend is actually a converted ice breaker and yun supervise most of its. refitting work himself over a period of 2 and a half years the advantage of such an expedition yacht is that it allows access to

hard to reach locations which a growing number of the ultra wealthy a seeking out the former icebreaker now looks like a 5 star hotel complete with a fireplace. the legend has 13 cabins timeless styling and beautiful furnishings create an elegant and comfortable atmosphere on board the yacht also features impressive leisure and entertainment facilities. yeah and wants people to feel comfortable on board his yacht with a private guests all passengers who've signed up for a charter cruise. simply to fill the few how many people come on board and they put a shoot out and they're going to sit with people on the cart with mr albert and that's the whole idea from i think of a perfect holiday and as a perfect time on about. built in one of over the past 25 years yan has owned

several luxury yachts the most a bigger boat that's obvious the boats are about 4 times bigger 5 times bigger even one of the 2140 meters so the whole scale is completely different. down in the ship's hold there's a special piece of equipment. a mini submarine the guests can use to explore the ocean depths one of the guests sons is receiving instructions. turning on to see. yes. yes. yes the young man in the cockpit is taking a certification test flew in the instructor from the netherlands to make sure he'll be saif. this before leaving if and then just to but i think sitting inside a call for the ball is 2000000 years. it takes 6 people to

lift the mini sub out of the hold and know it into the womb. this stop it is powered by 6 thrusters and can dive to a maximum depth of 300 meters. good. in theory you beat me. at. diving can begin. but there's not much to see the whoosh it's pretty murky. that there are no it might. visibility is. really really poor here.

for an hour. here. just. the student pilot continues his test. of my. ticket for the show. to open or not. if one of their. asteroids. 'd and his pos the test he's now certified to pilot. a mini sub. back on the surface his parents surprised him with champagne to celebrate. on the last day of the trip yan has organized a special dinner on the day the service manager marilyn is scrambling to get

everything ready. napkins water above water. ok a lighter. meanwhile the chef is prepared to deal with any spontaneous requests that yarn might have everything has to be perfect and it's a real challenge for marilyn she's up to the job she's from south africa and speaks 4 languages. can we have a bread knife i'm going to venture. clemens clemens marlowe. right now as close to his marriage that the staff members talk to each other via radio but there's just one frequency and that can cause chaos to do things with. paul said you know we all talk on the same channel right now people are just

babbling away jet ski ship captain so you really have to keep it short. and the consult are a little more up was even offered. anything else a little more as appropriate but it's ok it's not on you to do that or. the guests are already waiting in the lounge. but there's no sign of the host. to near the malls we had planned to start dinner around 6 but the boss decided to go diving. so we're just wait. around on standby. don't you know the party won't start until yon gets here but he's the host and all his friends are here so they should all celebrate together if the fit is also. after 30 minutes marilyn finds out that young is on his way back to the yacht. to. munich ation is the key when you hear will be there in 2 minutes everyone knows

what to do. here because the staff have to talk to each other so that will have towels ready for the boss and we can start the barbecue on time by. it's important for everyone to work as a team. welcome back to girls who have snow. here welcome. to the want to. go to the local right. time to start serving dinner and there was a lot of different foods to choose from it was the perfect way for young to wrap up his trip to the arctic. back to. the guests are enjoying eating outside in the cold and having a barbecue and for

a degree weather that is absolute luxury. never. has since sold the legend but you can still charter it for around 500000 euros a week. to the point of strong opinions clear positions from international perspectives. it's official the republican and democratic parties in the us have nominated donald trump and joe biden as their candidates in this fall's election now the campaign for the presidency begins in earnest will it be

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