Oppresion of the Superyacht Owners!

Can't they eat cake, the poor things? (*)

Sympathy for superyacht owners may not have been enhanced by a recent intervention from Australia’s richest woman, the mining magnate Gina Rinehart. In a video recorded from the deck of her own vessel in front of an emerald sea, she complained that there were not enough spaces to dock superyachts in Queensland.

“For instance, we’ve just experienced days of very rough water from the southern Queensland border to the Capricorn Coast,” she said. “Then, when we arrived at the coast not feeling that great after two very rough sleepless nights and a rough day, many yachts were outside the marinas, given the lack of marinas.”

Queensland might suffer because overseas superyacht owners would be less likely to visit, she added. “‘These superyachts need marinas too – sadly lacking for vessels over 50 metres. It’s time for more marinas large enough to cater not only for small and medium yachts but larger ones too.”

"[...] days of very rough water [...]

Not enough to drown'er, sadly...

Grauniad.

H/T Harry Feldman

(*)Attributed to Marie-Antoinette (AM), (very) late Queen of France, AM never said this (or words to that effect). In the heady days leading to the French Revolution, she was the subject of an intensely vicious and often pornographic smear campaign, not helped by some youthful exuberances (she was married to the future Kinloving France at the tender age of 15) and the fact that she was born Austrian and not French. She later developed into a pious woman, loving wife and devoted mother.