If it didn’t crash and the crew never alerted the authorities, I bet you the Devos’ wouldn’t even notice for many many years it was missing. That is what is disgusting about people like that, a 40 million dollar yacht can go missing and they wouldn’t even bat an eye. 

They have a boat on the Great Lakes, and I bet they’ve got a boat somewhere in California, a boat somewhere on the Gulf or the Atlantic, a boat in Europe on the Mediterranean Sea, etc, etc.

I don’t doubt it. They probably have a massive, completely stocked bunker somewhere to flee to when the revolution starts. 

The better to escape in when the indictments come down.

I think a better question would be why? Why would you want or need 10 fricken yachts?  What do they have one in every body of water in their state or something?

If he were still around covering Society and their misdeeds, the late Dominick Dunne would surely dub the Prince-DeVos clan as strictly NOCD.*

I fucking hate her. 

If they called it the Ryan Seaquest, I might forgive them this one yacht.

Building a fortune on pyramid schemes and death squads has a way of coarsening people.

I think the word they would use is “gauche.”

No, life with two toilets is superior especially if you have more than 3 people living in your house. I am an expert in this regard because I married a slow pooper, who is the son of a slow pooper, and spawned a slow pooper.

Colour me surprised that such a filthy disgustingly rich family of openly evil people have amassed a large collection of mammoth boats. Ugh, how do such evil people have so much power?

And to think my mom yelled at me (when I was 35) because I bought a house that had more than one bathroom. "Anything beyond one bathroom is keeping up with the Joneses! Stop showing off!"

The DeVos clan also owns at least four planes and two helicopters, the Journal reports.

I think the Seaquest was just trying to get back to the ocean. 

Eh, I think your surprise is overblown. They need a yacht near each of their mansions and villas. 

I mean, obviously. How else does one protect oneself from bears, other than by putting guns in schools? An escape fleet, that’s how.

The Prince - DeVos family is so self absorbed by their ill-gotten wealth that they can’t see how vulgar having ten yachts is (and incidentally, 163' ship is the size of a fucking Apartment House!); tangible proof they live like the gauche nouveau riche pigs they are.

Fair point.

For #4 (my favorite choice btw) the leftover $50k should be set aside for maintenance.