The civilian XXI???

danurve · 02-08-08, 10:04 AM

Who do you have to pay off to add at least ONE forward tube

trongey · 02-08-08, 10:16 AM

I've been lusting after the Phoenix 1000 for years. Totally worth it if they can really hit the $78mil budget. Even the Seattle makes me drool a little.

Tony

seafarer · 02-08-08, 10:16 AM

Back 3 or 4 years ago, a friend at work and I tried really hard to think of any way to work the price of that boat into an NSF or ONR grant. No amount of beer led us to any enlightenment of how to finangle a budget for it. Plus, then we'd have had to share it with other people without our say, and that would suck.

My friend has since retired from academia, and works as the biologist at a venture capital bio-startup (he's one of the 3 founders) - he still talks about somehow appropriating company funds to order it built, for, errr, corporate retreats and such legitimate uses

02-08-08, 10:21 AM

Imagine the loan payments on that sucker if you bought it!!! Monthly payments would probably be more than I make in a single year!

trongey · 02-08-08, 10:25 AM

People who buy things like that don't make loan payments. They pay cash.

EDIT: But FWIW $78,000,000 for 6 years at 8.5% would be $1,386,714 per month. You'd be tacking an extra $21,842,408 in interest.

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seafarer Commodore Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 622 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Back 3 or 4 years ago, a friend at work and I tried really hard to think of any way to work the price of that boat into an NSF or ONR grant. No amount of beer led us to any enlightenment of how to finangle a budget for it. Plus, then we'd have had to share it with other people without our say, and that would suck. My friend has since retired from academia, and works as the biologist at a venture capital bio-startup (he's one of the 3 founders) - he still talks about somehow appropriating company funds to order it built, for, errr, corporate retreats and such legitimate uses __________________ My Father's ship, HMCS Waskesiu (K330), sank U257 on 02/24/1944 running SHIII-1.4 with GWX2.1 and SHIV-1.5 with TMO/RSRDC/PE3.3 under MS Vista Home Premium 32-bit SP1 ACER AMD Athlon 64x2 4800+, 4GB DDR2 RAM, 400GB SATA HD Antec TruePower Trio 650watt PSU BFG GeForce 8800GT/OC 512MB VRAM, Samsung 216BW widescreen (1680x1050) LCD

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02-08-08, 10:16 AM	#2
trongey A-ganger Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Oklahoma, USA Posts: 74 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	I've been lusting after the Phoenix 1000 for years. Totally worth it if they can really hit the $78mil budget. Even the Seattle makes me drool a little. Tony

02-08-08, 10:21 AM	#4
-SWCowboy. Stowaway Posts: n/a Downloads: Uploads:	Imagine the loan payments on that sucker if you bought it!!! Monthly payments would probably be more than I make in a single year!

02-08-08, 10:25 AM	#5
trongey A-ganger Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Oklahoma, USA Posts: 74 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	People who buy things like that don't make loan payments. They pay cash. EDIT: But FWIW $78,000,000 for 6 years at 8.5% would be $1,386,714 per month. You'd be tacking an extra $21,842,408 in interest.