Diddy's Ocean Ride

This is the yacht on which Poofy Dude is cruising around. More pics here. Obviously, Soulmates has 14 iPads that control her interior systems. Read below for its suite of toys.





Tenders & Toys: (and more specs)
2 7.5 m VIKAL Custom tenders
1 tender equipped as rescue boat
2 Waverunners
2 Sea Bobs
Diving Equipment
Fishing Gear
2 x Power Surfboards
Golf Clubs with tee box & biodegradable balls
Two, Tandem Kayaks
Water Trampoline
Towable Banana Boat
3 Remote Control Racing Sloops
Wakeboards, multiple sizes
Water Skis, multiple sizes
Towable Tubes

Bond Toys

The most obscure television channel in 'Merica picked up the slack on a Thanksgiving tradition gone missing. 007 was back in the Turkey mix as SyFy Network picked up the Bond Marathon over the weekend. This will crush Crash, but I gave up the standard Thanksgiving fare of Home Improvement in favor of Connery, Lazenby, Moore, Dalton, Brosnan and Craig and, more importantly, their ladies. Bond's prowess with the female is rivaled only by his arsenal of gadgets and cars as well as his enemy's toys. One of the best is the yacht of villain Maximillian Largo from Never Say Never Again. The boat was called the Flying Saucer in the movie and in non-Bond real life was once owned by The Donald.





For Bond geeks, Flying Saucer is from the Italian Disco Volante, the name of bad dude Emilio Largo's yacht in the fourth Bond installment Thunderball. Never Say Never again is pretty much a remake of the 1965 original.

Top Five Cliff Jumps

I came across a great venue for one my favorite past times this weekend. Fawns Leap on Kaaterskill Creek definitely makes my list of Top Five cliff jumps.

5) Cousins Island Bridge


Definitely not a cliff. But, it's in Maine and the jump is into salt water so it makes this list.

4) Fawns Leap, Kaaterskill Creek, NY


This guy went to the 'skillz this weekend and it was way sweeter than he thought it would be. Leaping off this sucker was a definite highlight.

3) Random New Zealand Glacial River

Like most of the month I spent in New Zealand, I have no idea where I was when I took this epic leap...but, like most of New Zealand, it was beautiful, cold, remote, and there were sheep nearby.

2) Devil's Punchbowl


I lived for a month one summer in a cabin in an abandoned gold mining town near Independence Pass in Colorado and each morning me and the ghosts would get up and jump into the Punchbowl. The 40 foot drop and freezing cold temps definitely a substantial wakeup call.

1) Intuition


This is presumptuous and self-serving, and technically cheating, but then again Phil gave me authoring privileges for this blog so I can write about whatever I want. A good friend of mine's family belongs to the behemoth above and the number one "cliff" jumping spot in the world. Period. Climb up to the top deck of the Intuition - a 197' retrofitted Danish Pilot Ship - and take the 50' plunge into the salty water below before the radars zap you too good just once and you'll be racing back to the top in no time.

Boat Name

Row v. Wave

Brown v. Centerboard of Education