Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2022/03/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Tardy vis-a-vis Boris is, unfortunately, an oxymoron! I think that this is the boat that Zelensky wanted impounded and converted for military use by Ukraine. Abramovich is getting hit now, The sale of Chelsea has been frozen by HMG. He was asking $3Bn. Peter On 10/03/2022 23:35, Douglas Barry wrote: > I went for a walk down by Dun Laoghaire today and was looking at yachts > when I thought of this one. > Summer '19, I was in Juan-les-Pins in the south of France and took this > photo of the superyacht Eclipse owned by Putin's pal Roman Abramovich, > an oligarch who has finally just been sanctioned by the tardy Boris > Johnson's government. > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DouglasBray/France/Cote+dAzur+2019/Cap+d_Antibes+Eclipse+in+Golfe+Juan.jpg.html > > > > The yacht is currently in the Caribbean, but was moored a good bit off > Cap d'Antibes where I took the shot, so it looks almost small, but it > certainly isn't. It's over 500 feet long, was built by Blohm & Voss who > built the Bismarck, and is fitted with a mini submarine for quick > escapes, military level radar, missiles, helicopters, and cost a pretty > penny. Unfortunately, those pennies appear to have come from a dirty > source. > > I only had my Fuji X100S with me, so a 23mm lens didn't exactly cut the > mustard. > > Douglas > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- Dr. Peter Dzwig