Pizza At 75MPH

Posted by Adam Kuban, April 15, 2004 at 1:46 AM

Not only can rich folks afford their own personal pizza ovens, they can afford to put them in $25 million high-speed yachts.

Luca Bassani, owner of Italian yacht-making company Wally, has designed the WallyPower 118, a luxury seafaring vessel that, according to the New York Times's Frank Bruni, solves "one of humankind's most vexing challenges: how to get, quickly and comfortably, from Portofino for breakfast to Sardinia for lunch and then, should the whim strike, St.-Tropez for dinner."

But why would you need to breeze to St.-Tropez for dinner when you could cook up pizza on board: "It splits the difference between a lightning-quick motorboat with no room for a pizza oven (which the WallyPower has) and an individually tailored Titanic that can do a party of 500 people but just 20 miles per hour." (The WallyPower 118 is capable of sustained speeds of 75 mph.)

Watch the promotional video for the boat, complete with a weird James Bond-y/calypso-y/operatic soundtrack.

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