Apataki North and Superyachts 15:23.04S 146:12.295W
Pacific Bliss
Colin Price
Sat 26 Nov 2011 17:31
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A weekend away to the North of the
Atoll
 A stunning 9
knot sail across the lagoon with s/v Aquamante  Colin
wakeboarding Long lunch with s/v Irene and Aquamante followed
by Pot-it    A master Class
from Eva and Tapio on Fish Smoking best taught by our friends from
Finland. Zin
wakeboarding, she has a real talent.Super Yacht
SuRi
But having watched our wonderful new friends on
'Orphee' finally splash after 6 weeks on the hard there's news of Tom Cruise
arriving in the caranage for the evening, on the mega Yacht SuRi. Both of
us find this too intriging to leave so we work as kitchen hands for the rest of
the day. or at least colin volunteers me. Obviously it turns out not
to be Mr T's boat and only the crew onboard relaxing having said goodbye to the
owners, they're all in civi's looking for a party - and again the Caranage
doesn't disappoint. Goodness knows how these guys are able to sustain
it. But as quick as a flash a last minute Tahitian oven is dug and the
provisions from the big boat are deposited in the Lau Kitchen, whole fillets of
steak, over sized ducks and vegetable not seen in these parts for a life
time. The crew are a delight and the evening is an enormous success,
I've just left Colin ashore with a request that he sing on final time
'Halleluliah' for our patrons daughter in law, it might take some time but
I suspect with alittle more pastis he'll get the courage. With any luck, Z
will see inside her first SuperYacht tomorrow morning. Never a dull
moment.
 m/v SuRi -
not your calssic super yacht, but a floating fun-boatAfter all the girls from the yacht had come to see the
family Lau to buy pearls we then headed off on the launch to super yacht
land, whilst the interior was lovely rather like a 6 roomed floating
boutique hotel, the toy cupboard was something else. No point banging on
about it here's the list of toys:
4 seater Helicopter; 2 seater foldup plane; 2 BMW
motor bikes; 4 seater Jeep; 8 surf boards; 5 wake boards; 4 kite surfers; 4
mountain bikes ; on childs tow along; 2 jet ski's; 1 landing craft; 1 classic 10
meter gentlemans Launch; 1 super fast luxury speed boat; and a mega crane to
lift the toys into the water, ohh and a massive box of sweets.
It's said that Bill Gates charters the boat as a toy
cupboard when aboard his own gynormous Super Yacht, it really is another world.
SuRi owner is said to be one of the original primary investers in Microsoft
so not short of a bob or two he now sells Water - suspect not the stuff we're
floating on.
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