Business World

At Majorca we quickly found a placement at a Canadian-built 114 footer called "Act IV".

She was just being bought by her new owner, too, who was such a smart businessman he decided to sail her off Spanish regulatory waters so he wouldn't pay any taxes on the purchase.

He also took all shotguns - quite a few - that were sold with the boat by its previous Arabic owner, and simply dumped them overboard right at the main harbor. 

Needless to say there were quite a few divers searching for them a couple of hours later.

This piece of exaggeration had a piano and a jacuzzi aboard it, and also two immense Caterpillar generators. I could literally run from one side to the other of the galley. She also had electric winches, so efficient, that on the sail towards Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Antigua, and Grenada, I hardly saw the sails. So we weren't very happy.

Our Captain was this George Bush-type with a sullen character, and our boss used to pay us counting bill by bill and saying: 'EASY COME, EASY GO'... Ah, and the typical business world deal - my pay as a hostess was half the amount Paul earned, even though that large ship was solely kept clean by me.

That's just some people's natures - and they've made the world turn, up until today, as it is. A world were many still starve and few have enough to keep all these people alive with just a quaint gesture into their pockets. You make your judgement.