Image Credit: Courtesy Riva Yachts/Ferretti Group As it turns out, 26 Glastrons were used in the filming, and nine were GT-150s-presumably to replace ones that were trashed during the action scenes. It involved ten minutes of running at speed through the backwaters of the Louisiana Bayou, jumping bridges and eventually seeing Bond blowing up his nemesis’ boat, all in the name of Her Majesty. The 1972 Glastron GT-150 used in Roger Moore’s chase scene in Live and Let Die was probably 007’s most action-packed water run. Sure, there are easier ways to board a yacht, but when does 007 ever play it safe? Now known as Trafalgar, this classic canoe stern yacht from the 70s is currently looking for a new owner via Ocean Independence with an asking price of $2,500,000. In the pre-title sequence of 1987’s The Living Daylights, Timothy Dalton smolders on-screen in his first outing as the gentlemen spy, quite literally, as he parachutes onto the aft deck of Moonmaiden II while on fire. Image Credit: Courtesy Ocean Independence ‘Trafalgar’ (ex ‘Moonmaiden II’) in ‘The Living Daylights’.He renamed it Kingdom 5KR and keeps the boat almost permanently based in Antibes on the Côte d’Azur. In 1991, another Saudi billionaire businessman, Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal, took ownership. After its turn alongside Sean Connery in the 1983 movie, the Sultan of Brunei seized the boat and sold it to Donald Trump and it became Trump Princess. Originally built for Saudi arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi by Benetti in 1980, Never Say Never Again’s fictional MY Flying Saucer has a Hollywood backstory of its own. ‘Kingdom 5KR’ (ex ‘Nabila’) in ‘Never Say Never Again’.Wilson is now 15 years into an extensive restoration project and hopes to convert the historic vessel into a museum and boutique hotel. After falling into a state of disrepair, the German-built cruise ship was snapped up by Wilson, a former tech-entrepreneur in 2008 when he found it listed for sale on Craigslist. ‘Delos’ (ex ‘Aurora’) in ‘From Russia With Love’Īs well as starring as Spectre headquarters in 1963’s From Russia with Love, which was Sean Connery’s second role as 007, the 293-foot Delos inspired, of all things, “The Love Boat,” according to current owner Christopher Wilson.
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