Dinghy on the left

I got here by different means. It was last week that the Monaco Yacht Show was on and I watched a few video’s from people who were there. There was of course a lot to behold and plenty of yacht fanatics beheld what they could. I merely watched these overpriced water scooters for their elegant design and technology hubs that some of them are. It was then that I remembered something. I watched some marketing film from Palmer-Bugatti on a yacht called the Niniette 66. This is what I personally thought an overgrown speedboat that was 66ft (20 metres) in length. Don’t think I am dissing this boat, because I am not. It was one of the most beautiful yachts I ever beheld in my sight.  

So I went looking 1-2 days ago and I found something disturbing. The dozens of video on this vessel fall in the following categories. 80% are all the same and represent an edited version of released marketing materials, 10% is some clever video person implying that they were ON that vessel but they were not, it was a different vessel altogether and the last 10% is a mix of the first two categories. I watched at least two dozen videos, none of them taking me on a tour on that $4,000,000 vessel. Don’t get me wrong, I do not now, or ever expect to have that much money (until someone buys my IP). I am decently certain that (at present) I do not have enough to even buy the steering wheel of that vessel. I also looked at renowned yacht vloggers like eSysman SuperYachts, SuperYacht Times and a few others, none of them (as far as I can tell) have been on the Niniette 66. Youtube is absent of people who have been there. And I merely wonder why.

You see, the Bugatti is exclusive, we all get that. We all get that not every Tom, Dick and Sean will ever see it, but no one? That does not make sense to me. And the renowned Yacht vloggers haven’t seen this yacht either. In this age where social media is everywhere, this is an almost startling revelation. It seems to me that the Bugatti Niniette 66 is a better guarded secret than the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II is. And that got me puzzled. I get that the F-35 is a guarded secret, it is military hardware. Yet it seems to me that when you get more cockpit video’s from the F-35 than a $4,000,000 yacht, something seemingly is off.

Now, this might be me and this might be the instance where the heart is fonder than the media is (which is also weird) and in this case I have seen more revealing pictures of Olivia Wilde and Laura Vandervoort than I have seen of the Bugatti Niniette 66. It does not add up and I get it, it might merely be me and that is fine. But no video’s at all from the inside of the yacht, a walkthrough, not even one made by Bugatti themselves is a little weird. I am not talking about the marketing materials. I am talking someone taking us on a tour on that yacht in Monaco or Dubai and showing off just how exclusive and amazing that yacht is. When you consider how much of a hard on a man like Andrew Tate gets from his cars (he owns several Bugatti’s), he would be the perfect choice to show of the Niniette 66 in Dubai as I see it. But we haven’t seen this and the next one starts on February 28th 2024 (146 days and 9 hours roughly). I will keep an eye out and I wonder if someone at that time will have covered the Bugatti Niniette 66.

Enjoy the day and if you are lucky enough to enjoy the sea breeze on a dinghy, please do that too.