Motoryacht Never Say Never is a classic for yacht crew
While most camera lenses are focused on the shiniest new yachts at the show this week, it’s one of the oldest that has veteran yachties talking.
The 122-foot M/Y Never Say Never, a 30-year-old Oceanfast, looks as cool as it did when it launched in 1985, drawing comments from people walking past and stirring up memories from those who can’t believe it’s been 30 years.
“I was coming out of Nantucket as it was coming in and I remember saying, ‘Oh wow, look at that’,” said Capt. David Nichols, now a broker with IYC.
“We docked at Shooters one night, and everyone in the two adjacent restaurants stood up and applauded,” said Capt. Peter Nord, who was first mate on the yacht from late 1986 to late 1987. “She used to draw crowds when we docked in Newport and Boston, and the U.S. Coast Guard stopped us over 20 times in ’87, mostly so they could get tours.”
Others can still remember seeing the yacht getting off a transport ship in La Spezia, or cruising up the New River in Ft. Lauderdale, or running a charter in the Caribbean.
122-foot M/Y Never Say Never, a 30-year-old Oceanfast. Photo by Lucy Reed
The yacht was revolutionary when it launched, perhaps the beginning of the reason concert pianist Jon Bannenberg is so famous as a yacht designer. Built on spec by the Oceanfast shipyard in Perth, Australia, this yacht helped create Oceanfast, which gained its identity as the yacht was built and launched. The yard gave Bannenberg free reign to design whatever he wanted. And it was a rocketship.
“Never Say Never was tied up at Pier 66 and Mercedes was docked at Bahia Mar,” Northrop & Johnson broker Kevin Merrigan remembered. “Both were revolutionary at the time. Bannenberg was just on fire back then.
“We were all used to a more classic look like, well, pick any Feadship,” he said. “It was the coolest thing any of us had ever seen.”
American car parts dealer Gary Blonder bought it, and Capt. Gary Wright took command. (Wright is now a co-founder of the Y.Co yacht management and brokerage firm based in Monaco.)
Within about a year or so, Wright left to join the brand new Feadship M/Y Confidante and Capt. Bill Zinser took over, running the yacht up from the Caribbean for a busy summer charter season in New England, taking guests for 45 of 50 days that summer.
“It was fun to drive,” Capt. Zinser said. “It was like a spaceship.”
And she was fast.
“At that time, there were only four or five yachts in the world that could get up on a plane,” Capt. Nord said. “We could only do about 27 knots, but that seemed like light speed compared to the 10- to 12-knot 100-footers of the day. It drank a lot of fuel though, and smoked so much coming up to speed that I couldn’t see behind us for at least the first minute on a plane.
“She was primitive though; no bow thruster, no stabilizers, one radar, and no real navigation equipment,” Capt. Nord remembered. Capt. Zinser said he sometimes had to drop anchor to dock.
The yacht was launched as Never Say Never, but at just 112 feet (34m). According to old magazine articles, the yacht was extended 3m in 1994, had a helipad added in 1998, and went through some name changes, including Apocalypse and Prosper. She did a yard period at the Intermarine yard in Savannah in 1998, then named Odyssey.
Recognizable windows on 122-foot M/Y Never Say Never, a 30-year-old Oceanfast. Photo by Lucy Reed
Her latest owner, Victor Bared, bought her in 2001 and renamed her Never Say Never. In 2004, he extended the aft deck to create an outdoor dining area, added a swim platform and added a hard Bimini top.
She has been a staple in South Florida and the Bahamas for the past 10 years, still in charter. In 2009, she was the setting for a music video spoofing rappers, “ I’m on a Boat ” by The Lonely Island and featuring T-Pain that debuted on “Saturday Night Live”.
Based in Coral Gables, the yacht is listed with HMY for $4.9 million. Capt. Zinser walked by the yacht while taking in the show on Thursday and noted that she “still looks good.”
Remembering her presence in the late 1980s, Capt. Nord said, “Still, a very cool boat, thanks to Jon Bannenberg and a couple of Western Australian boat builders who took a big chance and steered yachting in a very new direction. It was fun to be involved in the beginning of that.”
Lucy Chabot Reed is editor of The Triton, [email protected] .
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‘Jamaica to the world’
A small town on a small island celebrates kamala harris’ meteoric rise.
By Fredreka Schouten, Zoë Todd, Curt Merrill and Byron Manley, CNN
Published August 17, 2024
BROWN’S TOWN, Jamaica — Three and a half years ago, Sherman Harris gathered together a clutch of family and friends at his home on a hilltop here in rural Jamaica to watch his cousin step into history.
As Kamala Harris took the oath of office as vice president of the United States, the room erupted in screams and tears, he recalled.
“Even talking to you now, I feel some sort of tears from my eyes too, you know,” Sherman Harris, 59, said in an interview with CNN. “It's like tears of joy.”
Next week, they will gather again before his widescreen television to watch Harris make history once more, when she formally accepts the Democratic presidential nomination — becoming the first Black woman, the first Jamaican American and the first Asian American to become a major party’s White House standard-bearer.
Although the milestone will be celebrated by her relatives in this town of some 12,000 people on the island’s northern coast, Harris’ Caribbean roots still are coming into focus for the millions of Americans getting acquainted with her after she was suddenly thrust to the top of the Democratic ticket a month ago when President Joe Biden ended his reelection bid and endorsed his vice president.
Already, her Republican rival, Donald Trump, has sought to question her Black identity as the two vie for support among African American voters in states such as Michigan and Georgia who could determine the outcome of this fall’s race. At a gathering of Black journalists last month, Trump falsely claimed that Harris had only recently opted to identify as Black out of political opportunism.
“I don’t know, is she Indian or is she Black?” Trump asked in widely derided comments.
Harris is both. She’s the daughter of an Indian-born mother, Shyamala Gopalan, a breast cancer researcher who died in 2009, and a Jamaican-born father, Donald Harris, an 85-year-old retired Stanford University economist, who has largely remained in the background of his daughter’s public life.
He hails from a family that stretches back for generations in Brown’s Town, a market town in St. Ann Parish, where vendors clustered along the main drag on a recent Sunday morning to sell glossy green avocados, yams and bundles of fragrant thyme.
It's a place Kamala Harris knows from childhood visits and readily claims.
“Half of my family is from St. Ann Parish in Jamaica,” she told the country’s prime minister, Andrew Holness, during a 2022 visit to the White House. “I know I share that history with millions of Americans.”
And it’s a town that proudly claims her.
“You have to recognize individuals who come from humble abodes and really excel,” said Michael Belnavis, the mayor of St. Ann Parish who is mulling ways to honor Harris should she prevail in November. “Coming from Brown’s Town is as humble as it gets.”
Deep roots and a powerful matriarch
The town was named after Hamilton Brown, a slave owner who came to the island from Ireland and, according to family lore, is believed to have been an ancestor of Kamala Harris’ great-grandmother, Christiana Brown, also a descendant of enslaved Jamaicans.
“Miss Chrishy,” as Christiana Brown was known, helped raise her grandson, Donald Harris, who described her in an essay first published in 2018 in the Jamaica Global Online as “reserved and stern in look, firm with ‘the strap’ but capable of the most endearing and genuine acts of love, affection, and care.”
Harris has said his interest in economics and politics was sparked, in part, by observing Miss Chrishy as she went about her daily routine of operating her dry goods store in Brown’s Town.
Although she died in 1951, Miss Chrishy looms large to this day among her descendants, who still talk of her elegant dresses, proper manners and the high standards she set for her children and grandchildren.
“She was the backbone,” said Latoya Harris-Ghartey, Sherman Harris’ 43-year-old daughter. Harris-Ghartey is executive director of Jamaica’s National Education Trust, a government-aligned organization focused on developing the island’s education infrastructure.
Her great-grandmother “believed in getting your books and having a solid education, those sorts of things,” Harris-Ghartey said. “I think that has passed on throughout the line. Everybody always pushes you to be better, to excel.”
Miss Chrishy had several children with Joseph Harris, who raised cattle and grew pimento berries — allspice in its dried form — on a farm perched high above Brown’s Town. He died in 1939, a year after Donald Harris was born, and is buried on the grounds of St. Mark’s Anglican Church — a sanctuary founded by Hamilton Brown and where Harrises have long worshipped.
Brown’s Town might be a small place, but the family has occupied a prominent position there as landowners and businesspeople.
Today, Sherman Harris — Donald Harris’ first cousin — still lives on and works the Harris land, in an area known as Orange Hill for a citrus grove that once stood there, he said. One of its dominant features is the Harris Quarry, started by Sherman Harris’ late father, Newton. Sherman runs it now, and it still produces crushed limestone and bricks.
It’s one of his ventures. On a tour with CNN journalists, he proudly pointed out the three-story commercial building he owns in the heart of Brown’s Town.
It’s to this landscape that Donald Harris would bring Kamala and her younger sister, Maya, on holidays, according to his 2018 essay — taking them through the town’s bustling marketplace, touring his primary school and other landmarks he found meaningful. He recounted the trio trekking through the cow pastures and overgrown paths on Orange Hill during one memorable visit in 1970, as they retraced his boyhood ramblings over the family property.
“Upon reaching the top of a little hill that opened much of that terrain to our full view, Kamala, ever the adventurous and assertive one, suddenly broke from the pack, leaving behind Maya the more cautious one, and took off like a gazelle in Serengeti, leaping over rocks and shrubs and fallen branches, in utter joy and unleashed curiosity, to explore that same enticing terrain,” he wrote. “I couldn’t help thinking there and then: What a moment of exciting rediscovery being handed over from one generation to another!”
Sherman Harris remembers all the cousins playing together during those jaunts to Jamaica in the 1970s, while the adults feasted and socialized. He and Kamala are the same age, born just days apart in October 1964.
What stands out most from those memories, he said, is how smart the girls were – just like their dad, who rose from a rural boyhood to earn a doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley and become the first Black economics professor granted tenure at Stanford .
“Brilliant girls,” Sherman Harris said of Kamala and Maya. Even as young children, they would quiz him on the island’s current affairs, and “I wasn’t able to answer them,” he recalled. “I had to ask Daddy.”
Sherman Harris views his cousin’s ascension as yet another example of “Jamaica to the world,” a reference to the island’s culture, reggae music and food catching fire across the globe. It’s also a sign to him of the Harris drive.
“We have never ventured in much failure, you know,” he said of the Harris clan, adding that the family members are “always successful in whatever we do.”
Out of the spotlight
Even as his daughter climbs to new heights, Donald Harris has remained largely out of the spotlight.
He and Shyamala Gopalan, who met in the 1960s as graduate students at Berkeley, fell in love fighting for civil rights, Kamala Harris wrote of her parents in her 2019 memoir, “The Truths We Hold: An American Journey.” But by the time she was 5, “they had stopped being kind to one another” and soon separated.
They divorced a few years later, and Gopalan became the parent who had the greatest influence in shaping her daughters’ lives, raising them, Kamala Harris wrote, to be “confident, proud black women” in a country that would see them, first and foremost, as African American. Kamala Harris would go on to attend one of the country’s most storied Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Howard University in Washington, DC, and pledge as an Alpha Kappa Alpha while there, joining the nation’s oldest Black sorority.
In her book, Harris “goes on for page after page about her mom,” said veteran California political reporter Dan Morain, who wrote a 2021 biography, “Kamala’s Way: An American Life,” that charted the Democrat’s rise through Golden State and national politics. “She’s really important in her life, and I believe her mother is still with her on a daily basis,” years after her death, he said.
“But she passes over her father,” Morain said.
Harris wrote that her father “remained a part of our lives” after the divorce, spending time with them on weekends and in the summer.
The senior Harris complained that his relationship with his daughters was subject to “arbitrary limits” after a contentious custody fight. The state of California, he wrote bitterly in the essay, operated on the “false assumption … that fathers cannot handle parenting (especially in the case of this father, ‘a neegroe from da eyelans’ was the Yankee stereotype, who might just end up eating his children for breakfast!)”
“Nevertheless, I persisted, never giving up on my love for my children or reneging on my responsibilities as their father,” he added.
Donald Harris did not respond to several interview requests from CNN and largely has shied away from publicity — even as his daughter stands on the cusp of another history-making milestone in his adopted country.
He did emerge publicly during Harris’ 2020 bid for the Democratic presidential nomination to publicly chastise her for joking that of course she had smoked marijuana , given her Jamaican background.
In a since-deleted statement posted on Jamaica Global Online, Donald Harris said his ancestors were “turning in their grave” to see their “family’s name, reputation and proud Jamaican identity” connected with a “fraudulent stereotype of a pot-smoking joy seeker.”
Damien King, a retired economics professor at the University of the West Indies in Jamaica who now runs a think tank on the island, first met the elder Harris in the mid-1980s and said he was not surprised by the public rebuke. “He is somebody who has always been unafraid to speak his mind,” King said.
And among the economists who know him, Harris is considered a free thinker, willing to challenge his field’s “orthodoxy,” King added.
Former Harris student Steven Fazzari, an economist who teaches at Washington University in St. Louis, described his former professor as someone who thinks “deeply about economic theory.”
“He’s not the kind of economist who’s going to talk to you about what the GDP is going to be and what inflation is going to be in the next quarter,” he said.
Harris, who served at Fazzari’s doctoral thesis adviser at Stanford, encouraged originality and was a friendly and supportive figure to his students, Fazzari added.
Fazzari had not seen Harris for years, until he and several other former students arranged a dinner with him last fall in Washington, where Harris maintains a residence.
“It was wonderful,” he said of the dinner. “Don Harris in his mid-80s is just like the Don Harris I knew at Stanford. He was articulate. He was gracious. He remembered all of us. He remembered all of our dissertation topics.”
‘That’s my cousin running’
Kamala Harris’ ancestry has already been thrust into the center of the presidential campaign, as Trump grapples with how to confront her last-minute candidacy and reaches for a strategy to blunt her momentum.
During a combative interview at the National Association of Black Journalists’ convention late last month, Trump went personal — falsely claiming that Harris had opted to “turn Black.” He later inexplicably called her “Kamabla” in series of posts on his Truth Social site.
Trump’s running mate, Ohio Sen. JD Vance, meanwhile, has questioned her authenticity — calling her a “phony” who “grew up in Canada,” a reference to the years she spent living in Montreal, where her mother had taken a teaching position at McGill University.
The mischaracterization of Harris’ racial identity “plays into these tropes of the tragic mulatto who’s doomed and sneaky and deceptive” and belongs nowhere, said Danielle Casarez Lemi, who studies race and ethnic politics as a Tower Center fellow at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. She’s also the co-author, alongside Nadia Brown, of “Sister Style: The Politics of Appearance for Black Women Political Elites.”
“It’s a way to try to damage her credibility anyway that he can,” she said of Trump. “Whether it’s going to work, who knows?”
Dahlia Walker-Huntington, a Jamaican American lawyer and longtime Harris supporter, called Trump’s comments challenging the vice president’s racial identity “condescending.”
“It is also ignorant to think that we can only have one identity” in a society that is increasingly multiracial and multicultural, said Walker-Huntington, who divides her time between South Florida and Kingston. “The America of 2024 is the America that Kamala Harris represents.”
Walker-Huntington said she has followed Harris’ career for years, going back to her time as a local prosecutor and California attorney general. She first met Harris at a Florida fundraiser in 2018 for Florida Sen. Bill Nelson’s campaign and would go on to become an enthusiastic backer of Harris’ short-lived presidential bid.
Now, along with other Caribbean American supporters, Walker-Huntington is activating networks of friends, relatives and acquaintances in the hopes of getting Harris over the top this time.
“I support her because she’s a strong woman, and she stands up for her convictions,” Walker-Huntington said. “The fact that she’s Jamaican, that’s icing on the cake. It makes me feel like that’s my cousin running for the presidency of the United States.”
CNN has reached out to the Harris campaign.
Those who know her say she celebrates her ties to the island to this day. On the eve of her swearing-in as vice president, Harris told The Washington Post that her father instilled in her and her sister a deep pride in Jamaica and its history. Walker-Huntington and Winston Barnes — an elected official in Miramar, Florida, who also hails from Jamaica — said she was quick to banter with a group of them in a Jamaican accent when they first met her at the Nelson event a few years ago.
The vice president’s cousin, Sherman Harris, said he has not seen her for years, but Donald Harris still visits with the family.
Jamaica has formally recognized Donald Harris, bestowing on him an Order of Merit in 2021 for “outstanding contribution to National Development.” Over the years, he has served as an economic adviser to the Jamaican government and helped craft a 2012 strategy to encourage economic growth on the island.
Back in Brown’s Town, there’s been talk of adding Kamala Harris’ visage to the mural of prominent Jamaicans that encircles the grounds of St. Mark’s, her cousin said. It currently includes figures such as sprinter Usain Bolt and Black nationalist leader Marcus Garvey, who was born in the parish.
But Belnavis, the mayor of St. Ann, said he is thinking bigger — a statue, perhaps, in or near a municipal building if Harris wins the US presidency.
“The murals that you see on the walls eventually will wear away and so on,” he said. “We want something more permanent.”
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But for others, one partner can feel resentful if they are spending all of their money on bills while the other has much more to spend and is living a different lifestyle as a result. At what stage of the relationship can you talk about money? "We've kind of formally agreed there is some point in a relationship you start talking about kids - there is no generally agreed time that we start talking about money," says Sarah Coles, head of personal finance at Hargreaves Lansdown. Some couples may never get around to mentioning it, leading to "lopsided finances". Ms Coles says if you want to keep on top of finances with your partner, you could set a specific date in the year that you go through it all. "If it's in the diary and it's not emotional and it's not personal then you can properly go through it," she says. "It's not a question of 'you need to pull more weight'. It's purely just this is what we've agreed, this is the maths and this is how we need to do that." While many people start talking about finances around Christmas, Ms Coles suggests this can be a "trying time" for couples so February might be a "less emotional time to sit down". How do you have the conversation if you feel the current arrangement is unfair? Relationship counsellor at Relate , Peter Saddington, says that setting out the balance as "unfair" shouldn't be your starting point. You need to be honest about your position, he says, but your conversation should be negotiating as a couple what works for both of you. Before you have to jump into the conversation, think about:
Mr Saddington says if your partner is not willing to help, you should look at the reasons or question if there are other things in the relationship that need sorting out. If you're having repeated arguments about money, he says you might have opposite communication styles causing you to "keep headbutting". Another reason could be there is a "big resentment" lurking in the background - and it may be that you need a third party such as a counsellor, therapist or mediator to help resolve it. Mr Saddington says there needs to be a "safe space" to have these conversations, and that a third party can help untangle resentments from what is happening now. He also suggests considering both of your attitudes to money, which he says can be formed by your early life and your family. "If you grew up in a family where there wasn't any money, or it wasn't talked about, or it was pushed that you save instead of spend, and the other person had the opposite, you can see where those conversations go horribly wrong. "Understanding what influences each of you when it comes to money is important to do before you have significant conversations about it." What are the different ways you can split your finances? There's no one-size-fits-all approach, but there are several ways you can do it - with Money blog readers getting in touch to let us know their approach... 1. Separate personal accounts - both pay the same amount into a joint account regardless of income Paul Fuller, 40, earns approximately £40,000 a year while his wife earns about £70,000. They each have separate accounts, including savings accounts, but they pay the same amount (£900) each a month into a joint account to pay for their bills. Paul says this pays for the things they both benefit from or have a responsibility for, but when it comes to other spending his wife should be able to spend as she likes. "It's not for me to turn around to my wife and expect her to justify why she thinks it's appropriate to spend £150 in a hairdresser. She works her backside off and she has a very stressful job," he says. However, their arrangement is still flexible. Their mortgage is going up by £350 a month soon, so his wife has agreed to pay £200 of that. And if his wife wants a takeaway but he can't afford to pay for it, she'll say it's on her. "Where a lot of people go wrong is being unable to have those conversations," says Paul. 2. Separate personal accounts - whoever earns the most puts more into a joint account This is a more formal arrangement than the hybrid approach Paul and his wife use, and many Money blog readers seem to do this in one form or another judging by our inbox. There's no right or wrong way to do the maths - you could both put in the same percentage of your individual salaries, or come up with a figure you think is fair, or ensure you're both left with the same amount of spending money after each payday. 3. Everything is shared Gordon Hurd and his wife Brenda live by their spreadsheet. Brenda earns about £800 more a month as she is working full-time while Gordon is freelance. Previously Gordon had been the breadwinner - so it's a big turnaround. They each have separate accounts with different banks, but they can both access the two accounts. How much is left in each account - and their incomings and outgoings - is all detailed in the spreadsheet, which is managed weekly. Whenever they need to buy something, they can see how much is left in each account and pay from either one. Gordon says this means "everyone knows how much is available" and "each person's money belongs to the other". "We have never in the last decade had a single disagreement about money and that is because of this strategy," he says. Money blog reader Shredder79 got in touch to say he takes a similar approach. "I earn £50k and my wife earns just under £150k. We have one joint bank account that our wages go into and all our outgoings come out of. Some friends can't get their head around that but it's normal for us." Another reader, Curtis, also puts his wages into a joint account with his wife. "After all, when you have a family (three kids) it shouldn't matter who earns more or less!" he says. Reader Alec goes further and says he questions "the authenticity of any long-term relationship or the certainly of a marriage if a couple does not completely share a bank account for all earnings and all outgoings". "As for earning significantly more than the other, so what? If you are one couple or long-term partnership you are one team and you simply communicate and share everything," he says. "Personally I couldn't imagine doing it any other way and I do instinctively wonder what issues or insecurities, whether it be in trust or something else, sit beneath the need to feel like you need to keep your finances separate from one another, especially if you are a married couple." A reader going by the name lljdc agrees, saying: "I earn half of what my husband does because I work part-time. Neither of us has a solo account. We have one joint account and everything goes into this and we just spend it however we like. All bills come out of this too. Sometimes I spend more, sometimes he spends more." 4. Separate accounts - but the higher earner pays their partner an 'allowance' If one partner is earning much more than the other, or one partner isn't earning for whatever reason, they could keep separate accounts and have the higher earner pay their partner an allowance. This would see them transfer an agreed amount each week or month to their partner's account. Let us know how you and your partner talk about and split finances in the comments box - we'll feature some of the best next week The centre-point of a significant week in the economy was inflation data, released first thing on Wednesday, that showed price rises accelerated in July to 2.2%. Economists attributed part of the rise to energy prices - which have fallen this year, but at a much slower rate than they did last year. As our business correspondent Paul Kelso pointed out, it felt like the kind of mild fluctuation we can probably expect month to month now that sky high price hikes are behind us, though analysts do expect inflation to tick up further through the remainder of the year... Underneath the bonnet, service inflation, taking in restaurants and hotels, dropped from 5.7% to 5.2%. This is important because a large part of this is wages - and they've been a concern for the Bank of England as they plot a route for interest rates. On Tuesday we learned average weekly earnings had also fallen - from 5.7% to 5.4% in the latest statistics. High wages can be inflationary (1/ people have more to spend, 2/ employers might raise prices to cover staff costs), so any easing will only aid the case for a less restrictive monetary policy. Or, to put it in words most people use, the case for interest rate cuts. Markets think there'll be two more cuts this year - nothing has changed there. Away from the economy, official data also illustrated the pain being felt by renters across the UK. The ONS said:
Yesterday, we found the UK economy grew 0.6% over three months to the end of June. That growth rate was the second highest among the G7 group of industrialised nations - only the United States performed better with 0.7%, though Japan and Germany have yet to released their latest data. Interestingly, there was no growth at all in June, the Office for National Statistics said, as businesses delayed purchases until after the general election. "In a range of industries across the economy, businesses stated that customers were delaying placing orders until the outcome of the election was known," the ONS said. Finally, a shout for this analysis from business presenter Ian King examining what's gone wrong at Asda. It's been one of our most read articles this week and is well worth five minutes of your Friday commute or weekend... We're signing out of regular updates now until Monday - but do check out our weekend read from 8am on Saturday. This week we're examining how couples who earn different amounts split their finances. Each week we feature comments from Money blog readers on the story or stories that elicited most correspondence. Our weekend probe into the myriad reasons for pub closures in the UK prompted hundreds of comments. Landlords and campaigners, researchers and residents revealed to Sky News the "thousand cuts" killing Britain's boozers - and what it takes to survive the assault. Here was your take on the subject... I've been a publican for 19 years. This article is bang on! It's like you've overheard my conversations with my customers - COVID, cost of living, wages - the traditional British boozer going out of fashion. (My place: no food, no small children). Hey Jood I own a small craft ale bar or micropub as some say. The current climate is sickening for the whole hospitality sector. This summer has been ridiculously quiet compared to previous ones. Micropubs were on the rise pre-COVID, but not now even we're struggling to survive… Lauren I am an ex-landlord. It's ridiculous you can buy 10 cans for £10 or one pint for £5 now. It's not rocket science, it's a no-brainer: reverse the situation. Make supermarket beer more expensive than pub beer, then people will start to go out and mix again rather than getting drunk at home. Ivanlordpeers Bought four pints of my regular drink at a supermarket for less than one pint in our local pub. It's becoming a luxury to go to a pub these days. Torquay David Traditional pubs are being taken over by conglomerates who don't sell traditional beer, only very expensive lager, usually foreign, and other similar gassy drinks. How can they be called traditional pubs? Bronzestraw The main reason for pubs closing is twofold! 1: The out-of-reach rents that the big groups charge landlords. 2: Landlords are told what stock they can hold and restrict where they can purchase it from. Strange, but most pubs belonged to the same groups! A pub-goer Less pubs are managed now, pub companies are changing them to managed partnerships, putting the pressure onto inexperienced young ex-managers. Locals complain that their local pub has gone. but they don't use them enough. Can government regulate rents and beer prices for business owners? John Darkins I was a brewery tenant in Scotland for many years and sequestrated because of the constant grabbing at my money by greedy brewers who wanted more and more. I made my pub very successful and was penalised by the brewery. James MacQuarrie The only reason pubs are closing is locals only use them on Boxing Day, New Year's Eve, and one Sunday a year. Plus breweries don't need pubs, they sell enough through supermarkets! Use them or lose them. Peter Smith The closing of pubs is a terrible shame. I still go to my local and have great memories of getting drunk in many in my hometown. They are important places in society. As someone once said: "No good story ever started with a salad." Kev K It's the taxman killing pubs. £1 of every £3 sold. Utter disgrace. Stef I go with my girlfriend, Prue, every day to my local. It's a shame what's happening to prices. It used to be full of people and joy but now it's a ghost town in the pub since prices are too high now. I wish we could turn back time and find out what went wrong. Niall Benson Minimum wage is around £11 and the tax threshold is £12,600 per year. How can you possibly afford a night in a pub out when a pint costs between £3 and £8 a pint on those wages? Allan7777blue Unfortunately, the very people who have kept these establishments going over the years (the working man) have been priced out, and they're paying the price. Dandexter The pubs are too expensive for people to go out regularly as we once did a decade or so ago. People's priorities are on survival, not recreation. Until the living wage increases beyond an inflation that wages haven't risen above in years, then we will see shops, pubs, etc. close JD Who wants to spend hard-earned money going into a pub that's nearly always empty. It takes away one of the main attractions - socialising. Michael Monzo has been named the best bank in the UK for customer satisfaction, according to a major survey. More than 17,000 personal current account customers rated their bank on the quality of its services and how likely they would be to recommend to friends or family. Digital banks made up the top three, with Monzo coming out on top, followed by Starling Bank and then Chase. Some 80% of Monzo customers said they would recommend the bank. The digital banking app said topping the tables "time and time again" was not something it would "ever take for granted". Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) was bottom of the ranking for another year. 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 By Amy Qin and Keith Bradsher Amy Qin reported from Washington, and Keith Bradsher reported from Foshan, China. In the summer of 1989, Tim Walz faced a difficult choice. A newly minted college graduate from small-town Nebraska, he had just turned down a stable, 9-to-5 job offer and moved across the world to teach at a local high school in China. He had made it as far as Hong Kong, just across the Chinese border, when People’s Liberation Army tanks rolled into Tiananmen Square to crush pro-democracy protests. Rumors were flying about a possible civil war in China. Many foreigners, including most American teachers, had fled the country. Should he go back home or continue his journey into China? He decided to go in. “It was my belief at that time that the diplomacy was going to happen on many levels, certainly people to people,” Mr. Walz recalled in 2014 during a congressional hearing marking the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown. “The opportunity to be in a Chinese high school at that critical time seemed to me to be really important.” The one year that Mr. Walz spent teaching English in southern China was the start of what would become a decades-long relationship with the country. As high school teachers in Nebraska and Minnesota, Mr. Walz and his wife, Gwen, regularly led trips to China in the 1990s and early 2000s to introduce students to China’s history and culture. Mr. Walz has said that he has traveled to China some 30 times, including for his honeymoon. That deep history of engagement with China reflects a lesser-known international dimension of the Democratic vice-presidential candidate. If elected vice president, Mr. Walz would bring to the White House unusually extensive personal experience in China — a history that supporters say could be an asset at a time of volatile relations between Washington and Beijing. But the campaign has so far made little mention of Mr. Walz’s experience there, even as it has leaned into depictions of the Minnesota governor as an avuncular Midwestern dad, coach and teacher. And it has yet to lay out how Vice President Kamala Harris or Mr. Walz would handle China, which both the Biden and Trump administrations have treated with toughness. Republicans, by contrast, have already begun to seize on the governor’s personal experience in China to accuse him of being soft on a country that is now seen as America’s greatest military and economic rival. Richard Grenell, who served as ambassador to Germany and acting director of national intelligence in the Trump administration, said on X that “Communist China” was “very happy” with Ms. Harris’s choice of Mr. Walz as her running mate. Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas said that Mr. Walz owed “the American people an explanation about his unusual, 35-year relationship with Communist China.” A spokesman for Ms. Harris and Mr. Walz’s campaign accused Republicans of “twisting basic facts” and “desperately lying” to distract from former President Donald J. Trump’s agenda. “Throughout his career, Governor Walz has stood up to the CCP, fought for human rights and democracy, and always put American jobs and manufacturing first,” said James Singer, the spokesman, referring to the Chinese Communist Party. “Vice President Harris and Governor Walz will ensure we win the competition with China, and will always stand up for our values and interests in the face of China’s threats.” Mr. Walz’s record in the House, from 2007 to 2019, showed a lawmaker who often drew on his personal experience in the country to lay out sharp critiques of China’s human rights record. He took a special interest in Tibet and Hong Kong, meeting with both the Dalai Lama and Joshua Wong, a prominent Hong Kong pro-democracy activist. An adventureYears before Mr. Walz became an outspoken critic of the Chinese government, he was a wide-eyed college graduate eager to learn more about the world beyond the farms and ranches of Nebraska. Mr. Walz was 25 when he arrived at Foshan No. 1 High School in southern China, near Hong Kong, as part of the WorldTeach program, a nonprofit affiliated with Harvard University. The school is in one of Foshan’s oldest neighborhoods, where thick banyan trees dangle aerial roots over sidewalks and streets. Mr. Walz soon settled into the cocoon of daily life on a small-town campus, even as the chaos of the Tiananmen Square crackdown more than 1,100 miles away rippled across the country. He taught four English and U.S. history classes a day with about 65 students in each class. As one of the first American teachers at the school, he was afforded small luxuries like an air-conditioner and a monthly salary of around $80 — double what the local teachers earned. Students loved their “big-nosed” teacher, giving him the nickname “Fields of China” because his kindness, they explained to him, was so expansive. For Christmas, some of his students and friends cut down a pine tree, decorated it and brought it to his room. “No matter how long I live, I’ll never be treated that well again,” Mr. Walz told the Star-Herald in Scottsbluff, Neb., in 1990. He also took a train up to Beijing and visited Tiananmen Square, where soldiers had fatally shot hundreds, maybe thousands, of protesters and bystanders not long before. Upon his return to Nebraska in 1990, he told the Star-Herald that going to China was “one of the best things” he had ever done. But he said he also felt that the Chinese people had been mistreated and cheated by their government for years. “If they had the proper leadership, there are no limits on what they could accomplish,” Mr. Walz said at the time. “They are such kind, generous, capable people.” Returning again and againBy 1994, Mr. Walz had taken a job teaching social studies at Alliance High School in western Nebraska. There, he met and fell in love with a fellow teacher, Gwen Whipple. They married on June 4 — which happened to be the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown. He later would say, “There was no doubt I would remember that date.” Shortly after, they left for a trip that effectively became their honeymoon: a field trip to China with 60 students. Mr. Walz was determined to share with his students the marvel of discovering the wider world beyond small-town America, according to interviews with four former students and a professor who went on the yearly trips that the Walzes had organized in the 1990s. The students, most of whom had never traveled abroad, barely spent any time in the classroom. In addition to sightseeing, they met with tai chi masters, practiced their chopstick skills at family-style meals and tried Chinese calligraphy. On the trip in 1993, Mr. Walz brought the group to meet his former students at Foshan No. 1 High School. One of Mr. Walz’s friends guided them throughout the two-week trip and was so beloved that one of the students, Kyle Lierk, recalled crying when they had to say goodbye. “It was clear that Tim was able to build the trip around humanity,” recalled Mr. Lierk, now 47. Shay Armstrong, a former student who went in 1993 and 1994, recalled learning about some of the more disturbing aspects of Chinese Communist Party rule. They were told about the harsh “one-child” policy, under which most couples who had more than one child were forced to pay fines. While visiting Tiananmen Square, Mr. Walz explained the history of the bloody crackdown and the brutal governance of Mao Zedong, China’s former chairman, she said. “It wasn’t all bubbles, hearts and rainbows,” recalled Ms. Armstrong, now 46. The Walzes continued leading the student trips to China even after they moved in 1996 to Mankato, Minn., organizing the visits through a company that they had established called Educational Travel Adventures. A vocal critic of ChinaAs a congressman, Mr. Walz did not shy away from talking about his experience in China. But he was also critical of the Chinese government from the start. And over his 12-year tenure in the House, Mr. Walz’s criticisms of China’s human rights record became even sharper, especially as the Chinese government took a more authoritarian turn under Xi Jinping. Mr. Walz served on the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, a bipartisan group of lawmakers focused on monitoring and reporting on human rights and the rule of law in China. Transcripts show that other commission members often praised Mr. Walz for his expertise. “You are a great asset to our commission,” Representative Chris Smith, Republican from New Jersey and then-chairman of the commission, said to Mr. Walz during a 2011 hearing. Mr. Walz cosponsored a resolution demanding the release of Liu Xiaobo, a Chinese dissident and Nobel laureate. He criticized China’s unfair trade practices and crackdown on rights lawyers and religious groups. In 2015, Mr. Walz participated in a rare American delegation to Tibet led by Nancy Pelosi, then the House minority leader. The next year, he met with the Dalai Lama in what he later described in a social media post as a “life-changing” lunch. Jeffrey Ngo, a prominent Hong Kong pro-democracy activist, credited Mr. Walz with being at one point the only House Democrat willing to continue backing the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act, which would compel the U.S. government to impose sanctions on officials responsible for human rights abuses in Hong Kong. Mr. Ngo said Mr. Walz’s support helped keep the bill alive at a crucial time until it was eventually passed. “Walz is perhaps the most solid candidate when it comes to human rights and China on a major-party ticket in recent memory, if not ever,” Mr. Ngo said. Toward the end of his tenure in Congress, Mr. Walz continued to stress the importance of identifying areas of cooperation with China. But he also began to question the long-held wisdom that opening up trade with China would lead the country to become more open and democratic. “I certainly was under the illusion that liberalizing trade and openness would have a significant impact on liberalization of personal freedoms,” Mr. Walz said during a congressional hearing in 2016. “I have now seen that is not the case.” In the decades since Mr. Walz arrived at Foshan, the high school that launched his lifelong interest in China has expanded considerably. On a visit to the high school on Wednesday, news of Mr. Walz’s ascent to the Democratic ticket drew vastly different reactions. As students in blue and white uniforms exited the school’s gates, they said that their school’s connection to a suddenly prominent American politician had been the talk of classrooms and online chat rooms. Meanwhile, a school dean said that the school had no comment on Mr. Walz. And guards at the school gate prevented journalists from entering the grounds to see the campus museum. Dionne Searcey , Amy Chang Chien , Li You and Alain Delaquérière contributed reporting and research. An earlier version of this article misstated the last name of the person who took the photograph featuring Mr. Walz and students at the Great Wall of China. She is Jillian Walker, not Jillian Taylor. How we handle corrections Amy Qin writes about Asian American communities for The Times. More about Amy Qin Keith Bradsher is the Beijing bureau chief for The Times. He previously served as bureau chief in Shanghai, Hong Kong and Detroit and as a Washington correspondent. He has lived and reported in mainland China through the pandemic. More about Keith Bradsher Keep Up With the 2024 ElectionThe presidential election is 80 days away . Here’s our guide to the run-up to Election Day.  Tracking the Polls . 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We don't have any additional photos of this yacht. Do you? Never Say NeverMotor Yacht Never Say Never is a semi-custom motor yacht launched in 2014 by Monte Carlo Yachts, in Italy. Genuinely Italian in its management, designers and artisanal skills, Monte Carlo Yachts is the Italian brand in the luxury motor yachts segment. Never Say Never measures 26.21 metres in length, with a max draft of 1.88 feet and a beam of 6.45 feet. She has a deck material of teak. Never Say Never has a composite hull with a composite superstructure. It is not necessary to live, it is necessary to sail; This is the firm belief of Italian design company Nuvolari & Lenard. No stranger to high-profile yacht design, the studio has stamped its distinctive style on a number of the ocean’s biggest and brightest. Never Say Never also features naval architecture by Monte Carlo Yachts. Never Say Never is a semi-custom MCY 86 model. Performance and CapabilitiesNever Say Never has a top speed of 29.00 knots and a cruising speed of 24.00 knots. She is powered by 2 diesel engines. Never Say Never has a fuel capacity of 7,098 litres, and a water capacity of 1,500 litres. AccommodationNever Say Never accommodates up to 10 guests in 5 cabins. She also houses room for up to 3 crew members. Other SpecificationsNever Say Never has a hull NB of 86005. Never Say Never is a CE Category A class yacht. She flies the flag of the USA.
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 NEVER SAY NEVERNEVER SAY NEVER is a 26.3 m Motor Yacht, built in Italy by Monte Carlo Yachts and delivered in 2014. She is one of 12 MCY86 models. Her top speed is 29.0 kn and her cruising speed is 24.0 kn and her power comes from two MAN diesel engines. She can accommodate up to 8 guests in 4 staterooms, with 3 crew members waiting on their every need. She has a gross tonnage of 130.0 GT and a 6.46 m beam. She was designed by Nuvolari Lenard , who also designed the interior. Nuvolari Lenard has designed 120 yachts and designed the interior of 108 yachts for yachts above 24 metres. The naval architecture was developed by Monte Carlo Yachts , who has architected 33 other superyachts in the BOAT Pro database - she is built with a Teak deck, a GRP hull, and GRP superstructure. NEVER SAY NEVER is in the top 30% by speed in the world. She is one of 5853 motor yachts in the 24-30m size range, and, compared to similarly sized motor yachts, her cruising speed is 1.79 kn above the average, her top speed 2.49 kn above the average, and her volume 17.73 GT above the average. NEVER SAY NEVER is registered under the United States of America flag, the most popular flag state for superyachts with a total of 1654 yachts registered Specifications
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18 September 2013 • Written by Tom Isitt. Word comes from Fraser Yachts that they have signed as Central Agents for the sale of superyacht Never Say Never. Never Say Never is a Sunseeker Predator 40m launched in 2011, built under the supervision of an experienced owner and captain. She accommodates 12 guests in a master suite on the main deck ...
8.1 m. GUESTS. 10. NEVER SAY NEVER is a 39.12 m Motor Yacht, built in the United Kingdom by Sunseeker and delivered in 2011. She is one of 5 Predator 130 models. Her top speed is 26.0 kn, her cruising speed is 20.0 kn, and she boasts a maximum cruising range of 1500.0 nm at 12.0 kn, with power coming from two MTU diesel engines.
The 39.12 metre motor yacht Never Say Never has been sold with Deebie Beere at Dbeere Yachts acting for both buyer and seller. Built in GRP by UK yard Sunseeker International,Never Say Never was delivered in 2011 as a Sunseeker 130 Sport Yacht and was presented in immaculate condition, having never been chartered. One of the most highly specified Predator 130s ever to be built, she is fitted ...
About Never Say Never. Never Say Never is a 40 m / 131′3″ luxury motor yacht. She was built by Sunseeker in 2011. With a beam of 8 m and a draft of 2.67 m, she has a composite/grp hull and composite/grp superstructure. She is powered by MTU engines of 3,460 hp each giving her a maximum speed of 25 knots and a cruising speed of 16 knots.
Never Say Never has a top speed of 26.00 knots and a cruising speed of 16.00 knots. She is powered by 16v4000 m90 diesel mtu engines. Never Say Never is a semi-custom motor yacht launched in 2011 by Sunseeker and most recently refitted in 2013. Sunseeker Yachts has been building highly-distinctive motor yachts since the mid-1970s, basing their ...
The yacht was launched as Never Say Never, but at just 112 feet (34m). According to old magazine articles, the yacht was extended 3m in 1994, had a helipad added in 1998, and went through some name changes, including Apocalypse and Prosper. ... Her latest owner, Victor Bared, bought her in 2001 and renamed her Never Say Never. In 2004, he ...
NEVER SAY NEVER yacht at Fraser. She is an exceptional motor yacht built by Sunseeker in 2011 to the highest standards. ... Specification NEVER SAY NEVER. Accommodation. Guests: 10 Staterooms: 5: Crew: 7 Construction & Design. Built / Refit: 2011 / 2013: Builder: Sunseeker: Model: Predator 130: Exterior Designer ...
The 37.18m/122' motor yacht 'Never Say Never' by the Australian shipyard Oceanfast offers flexible accommodation for up to 10 guests in 4 cabins and features interior styling by English designer Bannenberg & Rowell. Boasting an array of sumptuous living areas laid out invitingly to create a warm and welcoming atmosphere onboard, motor yacht Never Say Never is the perfect luxury charter yacht ...
Never Say Never measures 37.18 metres in length, with a max draft of 2.01 metres and a beam of 7.01 metres. Never Say Never has an aluminium hull with an aluminium superstructure. Her exterior design and interior design is by Jon Bannenberg. Jon Bannenberg is universally considered the founder of modern yacht design with an unparalleled ...
38.4m motor yacht Never Say Never is a luxury Sunseeker Predator 130 performance vessel launched in 2011. Never Say Never superyacht features great visual appeal thanks to her sculpted windows and angular facets. She is an elegant vessel in her overall design. Sunseeker Predator 130 luxury yacht Never Say Never easily sleeps up to 10 guests in ...
About Never Say Never. Never Say Never is a 37.18 m / 122′0″ luxury motor yacht. She was built by Oceanfast in 1985. With a beam of 7.3 m and a draft of 2.2 m, she has an aluminium hull and aluminium superstructure. This adds up to a gross tonnage of 216 tons. She is powered by MTU engines of 1960 hp each giving her a maximum speed of 28 ...
A General Description of Motor Yacht NEVER SAY NEVER. Being built by the Oceanfast (Austal) yard in Australia the NEVER SAY NEVER is 37 m 122 (foot) in length. Launched to celebration in the year of 1985 her interior design confirms the traditional interpretations from Bannenberg Designs Ltd / Eric Johnson (Refit) and their approach to interior ...
The legendary Oceanfast charter yacht NEVER SAY NEVER is an eye-catching 36,9m (121') vessel, originally launched in 1985, with last refit in 2009. Characterized by innovative modern lines, strategically placed windows and unique silhouette, luxury motor yacht NEVER SAY NEVER offers amazing superyacht charter holidays in the Caribbean, Florida and the Bahamas.
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This is the beautiful 122' Oceanfast Yacht, the Never Say Never. It is available for charter in South Florida and the Bahamas exclusively from The Advantage...
Never Say Never is a 40 m / 131′3″ luxury motor yacht. She was built by Sunseeker in 2011. With a beam of 8 m and a draft of 2.67 m, she has a composite/grp hull and composite/grp superstructure. She is powered by MTU engines of 3,460 hp each giving her a maximum speed of 25 knots and a cruising speed of 16 knots. The motor yacht can accommodate 10 guests in 5 cabins with an interior ...
The 40 metre motor yacht Never Say Never has changed central agencies and is now listed for sale by David Jones at Sunseeker Poole.. Built in GRP by UK yard Sunseeker International, she was delivered in 2011 as a Sunseeker 130 Sport Yacht and is presented in immaculate condition, having never been chartered.It is not just the exterior of Never Say Never which is striking: the yacht's very ...
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NEVER SAY NEVER Oceanfast | From US$ 75,000 /wk. NEVER SAY NEVER. Superyacht NEVER SAY NEVER was designed by naval architect Phil Curran and built by Oceanfast shipyards in 1985 and underwent a refit in 2009. The yacht NEVER SAY NEVER stands out from the rest with her innovative modern lines, strategically placed windows and unique silhouette.
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Never Say Never Again is a motor yacht with an overall length of m. The yacht's builder is Benetti SpA from Italy, who launched Never Say Never Again in 2022. The superyacht has a beam of m, a draught of m and a volume of . GT.. Never Say Never Again features exterior design by Stefano Righini Design and interior design by Benetti SpA. Up to 12 guests can be accommodated on board the ...
The yacht was built in 1980 by the yacht builder Benetti at a cost of $100 million [1] (equivalent to $370 million in 2023). Its original interior was designed by Luigi Sturchio. [2]She was originally built as Nabila for Saudi billionaire Adnan Khashoggi (named for his daughter). [3] During Khashoggi's ownership it was one of the largest yachts in the world, but as of March 2023, according to ...
The award winning 36.9m/121'1" expedition yacht 'Never Say Never Again' (ex. Goga) was built by Benetti in Italy at their Livorno shipyard. Her interior is styled by design house Benetti M&B and she was delivered to her owner in August 2022. This luxury vessel's exterior design is the work of Stefano Righini.
Benetti. NEVER SAY NEVER AGAIN is a 37.0 m Motor Yacht, built in Italy by Benetti and delivered in 2022. She is one of 10 B.Yond 37 models. Her top speed is 14.0 kn, her cruising speed is 12.5 kn, and she boasts a maximum cruising range of 5000.0 nm at 10.0 kn, with power coming from two MAN diesel engines. She can accommodate up to 10 guests ...
Never Say Never has a top speed of 29.00 knots and a cruising speed of 24.00 knots. She is powered by 2 diesel engines. Never Say Never is a semi-custom motor yacht launched in 2014 by Monte Carlo Yachts, in Italy. Genuinely Italian in its management, designers and artisanal skills, Monte Carlo Yachts is the Italian brand in the luxury motor ...
8. NEVER SAY NEVER is a 26.3 m Motor Yacht, built in Italy by Monte Carlo Yachts and delivered in 2014. She is one of 12 MCY86 models. Her top speed is 29.0 kn and her cruising speed is 24.0 kn and her power comes from two MAN diesel engines. She can accommodate up to 8 guests in 4 staterooms, with 3 crew members waiting on their every need.