Red Corner: Moscow Yachting
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Perhaps the last place in the world one might expect a yachting trend would be Moscow. Sure, the city sits on a river, but it's a river that one can literally sit on for 3-4 months of the winter when it is frozen solid. That's not exactly great yachting conditions.
And yet, yachts have become the new plaything for Russia's growing class of uber-rich. Sales are booming for all types of vessels. According to a Reuters article in the Moscow Times, salespeople can't keep half-million dollar boats in their docks. And these are the low end boats. Those going for millions of dollars are selling like blinis as well.
I can't imagine that Moscow will ever be the next Cannes or St. Tropez, but then again, "Luxury Yacht" and "Moscow" would never have been uttered in the same sentence ten years ago.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Oct 24th 2006 @ 2:35PM
Astana said...
10 years ago Moscow wasn't so reach
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Oct 24th 2006 @ 2:38PM
David said...
But wouldn't it be cold in Moscow to go yachting
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Oct 24th 2006 @ 9:57PM
Bonnie said...
After reading the article about being an Ugly American, I wanted to laugh!!!! Obviously, the person who wrote this doesn't live anywhere near vacation sites in America.
I live in Central Florida, the vacation capital of the world!!! The 10 things he stated that we should know when we go abroad are trivial compared to how international tourists act over here.
Please, I guess the worst thing I ever witnessed (with my young children at the time) was a 9 or 10 year old girl deficating in front of Wet n' Wild on the side of the walk way. She didn't have a top on, only a bikini bottom, so we all assumed she was not from America.
Please do an article on the dos and donts of International tourists visiting us. We can't hold a candle to them when it comes to 1. not speaking the language, 2. tipping poorly or not at all, 3. Demeaning people at tourist sites who are working there for their enjoyment, 4. Renting cars and driving like idiots all over Interstate 5., dressing in the most ridiculous clothes that any Floridian wouldn't be caught dead in.,etc, etc.
I could go on and on but I think I have made my point.
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