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Pelican lake yacht club and sailing school, learn through practice, a lifetime of adventure, welcome to plyc.

The Pelican Lake Yacht Club  (PLYC) supports safe and fun sailing on Pelican Lake. We hold numerous social events and activities throughout the year, and we operate the PLYC Club House and sailboat moorings. As well, we are associated closely with  the Pelican Lake Sailing School (PLSS) – a Minnesota non-profit organizaion that focuses on youth sailing. Adult lessons are also available.

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• Club Membership: $75 per family/household;  supports fun and safe sailing, access to the Club House & supports social activities.
• Racing Members: $310; includes per boat racing fee & Club Membership dues.
• Mooring/Members: $840; includes sailboat slip rental & Club Membership dues; add $85 (total $925) to become a racing member.

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Membership & racing fee, membership & mooring fee, membership, mooring and racing fee, additional fees, racing fee-student, items online pay, plyc officers for 2024.

• Commodore - Evan Furr Commodore - Evan Furr
• Vice Commodore - Tom Frei Vice Commodore - Tom Frei
• Treasurer - Ryan Grindeland Treasurer - Ryan Grindeland
• Secretary - Teri Lantz Secretary - Teri Lantz
• Sailing School Chairman - Jeff Peltier Sailing School Chairman - Jeff Peltier
• Sailing School Director - Evan Furr Sailing School Director - Evan Furr
• Facility/Slip Chairman - Dick Chadinha Facility/Slip Chairman - Dick Chadinha
• Communications - Jeff Peltier Communications - Jeff Peltier
• PLYC Regatta Chairman - Tom Frei PLYC Regatta Chairman - Tom Frei
• MC Fleet Captain - David Schlossman MC Fleet Captain - David Schlossman
• Open Fleet Captain - Dan Sprouls Open Fleet Captain - Dan Sprouls
• Commodore Retired - Paul Horstmann Commodore Retired - Paul Horstmann
• Commodore Retired - Bob Leonard Commodore Retired - Bob Leonard

Support Our Youth Sailing Program

For more information about the Yacht Club  or Sailing School, contact us at   [email protected] Pelican Lake Sailing School, Inc. is a 501(c) non-profit and donations can be made online or sent to: Pelican Lake Sailing School, PO Box 7492, Fargo ND  58106.

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Hub of healing finds new life The lake — once a main draw for the sanatorium location committee — is still inarguably Ninette’s calling card Free Press Field Trips By: Ben Waldman Posted: 12:52 PM CDT Friday, Sep. 1, 2023 Last Modified: 4:19 PM CDT Friday, Sep. 1, 2023 Updates

NINETTE — Mere months before the post office opened in Ninette, the German biologist Robert Koch peered into his microscope and spotted a deadly bacterium that would soon give the picturesque Manitoba town a life-saving purpose.

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Hey there, time traveller! This article was published 31/08/2023 (200 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.

It was 1882. Koch turned his singular focus to pleural matters, studying a disease known colloquially as consumption, marked cinematically by a cherry-red cough splattered into a white-linen napkin.

Tuberculosis was a merciless killer, responsible for one-quarter of all deaths in Europe between the 17th and 19th centuries. But by the leading scientific minds of the era, the disease of the lungs was rom-comically misunderstood.

“Among the intervening causes of pulmonary consumption, I know of none more certain than sorrowful passions,” wrote René Laennec, the inventor of the stethoscope, in 1826.

That romantic pseudoscience was for generations “unquestioned dogma,” David S. Barnes writes in The Making of a Social Disease.

Until Koch looked down through his objective lens and saw a reddish rod that signalled the oncoming era of germ theory: rather than heartbreak, tubercle bacilli was the real killer.

Transferable through air by coughs and sneezes, the bacterium thrived in densely populated areas with poor sanitary conditions. While the disease’s cause was airborne, so too was one of its cures: clear air and isolation in an idyllic setting was often prescribed to help patients get back on their feet.

Manitoba wasn’t immune. In 1909, with both the population and the incidence of tuberculosis rising, the province searched for a location for a sanatorium — a haven of rest and relaxation for those suffering from the disease.

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The Ninette Sanatorium in 1910.

“The traditional sanatorium should be built in a quiet restful country,” wrote Dr. David B. Stewart, the son of the sanatorium’s first superintendent. Some municipalities weren’t keen on hosting a “pest house.”

“The thinking at the time was that in order to cure the disease, one needed to be in a bucolic environment, close to water and surrounded by fresh air,” says Neil Johnston, the CEO of the Manitoba Lung Association. It also needed to be along a rail line.

Ninette was exactly what the doctor ordered, and the sanatorium took in its first patient in May 1910.

“The San” became Ninette’s hub.

Dozens of residents worked there — in the kitchen, in the infirmary, maintaining the 103 acres of lush, green grounds, sequestered between the lake and an ever-rare Prairie valley — while medical professionals from across the country visited.

Hundreds of patients were treated at once, often for stretches of several years, bringing in a steady stream of visitors to the town’s train station.

“What really got this town on its feet was the sanatorium,” says Glen Johnston, the councillor of Ninette’s governing body, the local urban district. His mother received her nurse’s training there. Many in Ninette share a similar story.

In its original state, the sanatorium complex somewhat resembled an alpine retreat, the perimeter of its infirmary wrapped in airy verandas where patients would recline to respirate each day, not far from the lip of the lake.

Though it was a facility marked by illness, the patients who were well enough to do so kept life interesting. There was an Icelandic coffee club, there were Halloween parties, and there was an official sanatorium orchestra, with patients and staff playing together.

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The old sanatorium in the town of Ninette

John K. Samson, a songwriter known primarily for his contributions to the renowned band, the Weakerthans, grew up hearing stories about the San from his mother, who grew up in nearby Killarney; a relative of hers had been a patient.

His mother would read passages from a book called A Hill for Looking , written by Martha Brooks, a Ninette author whose father, Dr. Paine, was one of the institute’s longest-serving superintendents.

“I can’t find my copy of it now, but it made a deep impression,” says Samson. “The close and isolated community of people from all over Manitoba, and the mysterious and frightening illness of tuberculosis, and the big, bustling complex of buildings.”

When Samson decided to focus on Manitoba roads for his 2011 album Provincial , he was drawn to Highway 23, giving him an excuse to explore the San in verse.

While doing research for his song, Letter in Icelandic from the Ninette San — “In another year, I’ll be buried or shivering here, coughing at the grey spittoon, painted orange by the harvest moon” — he made sure to explore the sanatorium, which was the province’s first public health facility. He calls it a “deeply haunted and beautiful place.”

As the sanatorium expanded, so did the town, located 200 kilometres southwest of Winnipeg, or about a 40-minute drive to Brandon. Along its main drag, grocery stores and hardware shops sprung up.

A curling rink was constructed, along with a hockey arena — nostalgic marks of a Prairie town’s true arrival. A constant flow of visitors arrived by train, where each locomotive was equipped with a separate sleep car for contagious patients being transferred to the San.

Tuberculosis patients ‘taking the cure’ recline in the sanatorium’s sleeping pavilion in 1910.

Some patients, enamoured of Ninette, became permanent residents after they recovered. Of course, there were those who never saw their health take a turn for the better. While rest, nutrition and relaxation were helpful therapies, they were by no means a cure-all: death was a constant spectre in the town.

Indigenous people were not treated at the provincial facility until the 1960s, a government policy Johnston calls racist. In poorly ventilated, overcrowded residential schools, TB ran rampant: in the 1930s, the overall TB mortality rate in the residential school system was estimated to be 8,000 per 100,000, or eight per cent; in the general population, the mortality rate was somewhere between 50 and 79 per 100,000, or less than .1 per cent.

The arrival of anti-bacterial treatments in the mid-20th century revolutionized the battle against tuberculosis — which continues to affect over one million people worldwide — but in doing so, hastened the end of an era in Ninette history: the sanatorium closed its doors in 1973.

Fifty years have passed, and Ninette is as quiet and restful as ever, home to young families and retirees. And just as it did in 1910, a gentle breeze still crawls into town off the surface of Pelican Lake, where a group of young lakefarers prepares to set sail.

In 13-year-old Ben Schwartz’s humble opinion, Pelican Lake is the finest body of water in Manitoba. “It’s so peaceful,” says Schwartz, who’s been sailing Pelican for several years. “Personally, I like the calmness of the water.”

Schwartz, along with brothers Jace and Gavin Garabed, Aiden and Liam Sisson, and Alexander Grodek, was standing ankle-deep in the water, getting ready to launch from the nearby headquarters of the Pelican Yacht Club, founded in 1965 with Dr. Paine as its first commodore. The boys, all part of the club’s popular Learn to Sail program, were taking part in a generations-old summer tradition.

Pushing away from the shore, Capt. Schwartz climbed aboard, joined by Jace Garabed, 10, who quickly flopped into the water after splashing his superior. “That backfired,” he shouted, fluttering in the water.

Ben Schwartz (left), 13, and Jace Garabed, 10, get ready to sail.

There was a time when falling into Pelican Lake was not so pleasant, says Brandon’s Trevor Maguire, a former Yacht Club member who moonlights as the chair of the Healthy Lake Committee.

The committee formed in 2012 in response to a stinky situation. Every five or seven years, the shallow body of water would experience a mass ichthyological die-off each spring, with expired walleye, jackfish and perch transforming Pelican Lake into a sulfuric seafood gumbo; the first one, the last one, and every one in between really did smell like a rotten egg.

“It stank to the high heavens,” Maguire says. However, the effect on the nostrils wasn’t as concerning as the effect on Ninette’s greatest natural resource and perhaps, its strongest asset.

Members of the committee knew the periodic fish deaths were suffocating the lake, flooding it with an abundance of nutrients like carbon and phosphorus and creating conditions ideal for cyanobacterial blooms, which coated the water with a thick scum of algae, depleting the water of oxygen. They realized quickly that the key to the lake’s overall well-being was year-round aeration.

“There’s not a lot of magic (being done) here,” says Maguire. “It’s aquarium science, expanded to the size of a lake.”

“There’s not a lot of magic (being done) here. It’s aquarium science, expanded to the size of a lake.” –Trevor Maguire

Maguire, an insurance agent and a one-time co-ordinator of Learn to Sail, is also the chair of the Western Manitoba Science Fair. “The Healthy Lakes Committee is my version of a science fair project,” he says, and it hasn’t been without its share of trial and error. Other aeration systems, Maguire says, weren’t designed with a cold climate in mind, so the committee leaned on the expertise of Gerry Paradis, a geothermal specialist.

The first system installed was an “unmitigated disaster,” says Maguire, who designed it. But as testing continued, subsequent systems showed immediate promise. Eight micro-bubblers were installed in the lake in the winter of 2012, and by the spring time. The next year, the volunteer committee installed 26 bubblers, leading to a 300 per cent increase in cubic feet of air per minute over the previous winter.

In 2015, the committee received $46,500 of funding from the Federal Recreational Fisheries Conservation Partnerships Program Grant and raised an additional $44,000 in local fundraising to establish its largest aeration field yet, a 98-bubbler system covering an area of 42 acres. At full capacity, the field can supply 350 cubic feet of air per minute.

Other communities have taken note, with similar technology being installed in Killarney Lake, Sandy Lake and Shoal Lake, north of Brandon.

The Healthy Lake Committee’s work has been a success from both an empirical and anecdotal standpoint. There have been no major die-offs since the systems were implemented, and in just over a decade, Pelican Lake has cleared up to a point Maguire expected to take 20 or 30 years. In 2016, Maguire could see the bottom of the lake for the first time in over 50 years of visiting.

Bill Terry, 77, has been a member of the yacht club since the 1970s.

It’s a noticeable change, especially for yacht club members like Bill Terry, a shaggy-haired 77-year-old who has been a member since the 1970s. The lake is as clean as it’s been in his lifetime, he says.

Ninette’s thrived in large part due to volunteer effort, with community members rallying around common causes like the lake’s recovery or the refurbished Terry Fox Memorial Park, found in Ninette because Fox’s grandparents had lived in town. A young Fox would have spent his summers fluttering in Pelican Lake.

With cleaner, less nutrient-clogged water in the lake, fish also started biting the lure with greater zeal.

“Once the lake became more sustainable, there’s been much better fishing,” says Jaylene Evans, 32, who has lived in Ninette all her life. “A lot of people are now saying that Pelican Lake is a better spot for walleye than Lake Winnipeg, and that’s all because of the work the committee has done.”

The lake — once a main draw for the sanatorium location committee — is still inarguably Ninette’s calling card, its cleanliness creating a localized fishing and sailing boom.

Recognizing the shift, Evans and her husband Eric started E and J Live Bait out of their home in 2018, opening its first standalone store in January. Some locals refer to the shop as a small-town Cabela’s, referring to the outdoor recreation retail giant.

Fishing on Pelican Lake is a major tourist attraction.

Pelican Lake is now enjoying a bit of a renaissance as outsiders learn of its charm, something insiders have known as long as they’ve called Ninette home.

“The town is excited, the campgrounds are full, and everyone seems very happy with the overall situation,” says Maguire. Now, the lake is staring down another potential problem as its popularity grows, posed by the potential arrival of invasive species.

“Zebra mussels are the main threat to this town,” Maguire says. The pesky invasive species hasn’t been spotted in the lake yet, so it’s imperative that boats from other lakes dealing with them don’t arrive and mess up that clean bill of health, he adds.

Carp, another invasive species, have already made their way into the water via the Pembina River, threatening to undermine the last decade of lake destratification.

Last spring, carp, which thrive in turbid water, were targeted and captured in known spawning areas using an electrofishing boat, stunning 1,186 of the fish before removing them from the lake.

Overall, the situation is still better than it has been in a long time, the next generation of Pelican Yacht Club members agree.

“Pelican Lake is the best,” says Jace Garabed, who quickly scampered back toward the sparkling water.

While established businesses like the Grocery Box and the Hot ’N’ Frosty restaurant endure, Ninette is attracting new investors on the strength of its lake’s notable improvement.

Among them is Ali Tarar, the owner of the grocery store for a decade. A former criminal lawyer in his native Pakistan, Tarar says that of all the places he’s lived in his life, Ninette is easily his favourite. “The people here are simply good people,” he says.

Also new in town is Corlee Pushka, a Brandon-raised real estate agent who moved to town in 2017. Pushka now owns the former post office on the town’s main street, converted into a 24-hour laundromat with an Airbnb rental suite on the second floor.

She also owns and manages a local gym, operates a few rental cabins, and operates the Pelican Campground and Lounge. She saw Ninette as a place “bursting with opportunity.”

The Hot ’N’ Frosty, the town’s classic drive-in restaurant, draws a daily crowd of day-trippers and motorcyclists, who’ve fallen for the newly paved sections of highways 18 and 23 near town, says Glen Johnston, wearing a Harley Davidson T-shirt. The restaurant is owned by Maguire’s daughter, Breanna Cullen.

Ali Tarar, owner of the Grocery Box, is a former criminal lawyer who has lived in Ninette for 10 years after a previous career in Gujrat, Pakistan.

The town has changed significantly, says Johnston, especially considering the loss of the rail line and the closure of the local school in the 1990s. The curling and hockey rinks are gone too, with residents using facilities in nearby towns like Killarney. But as it nears 150 years old, Ninette persists.

Since it closed, the San has changed hands a few times, used for a stretch as a facility for adults with intellectual disabilities. Held in private ownership for nearly 20 years, the site, visible from the nearby Hill for Looking, named for Brooks’ book, fell into disarray.

“It has the perfect amount of disrepair,” says Alec Chambers, a Westman-based film producer who plans to shoot Homesick , an independent movie about a man driving his brother home from rehab, at the sanatorium in September. “Not quite destroyed, but not quite new.”

With the infirmary long ago demolished, an eerie quiet still permeates the verdant grounds. But the complex isn’t abandoned. In fact, someone just bought it, raising every set of eyebrows in and around Ninette.

“It has the perfect amount of disrepair. Not quite destroyed, but not quite new.” –Film producer Alec Chambers

“I took possession June 1,” says Geoff Gregoire, 42, who owns the Brandon-based company Contractors Corner and along with Pushka, his partner, owns and operates the lounge and campground.

His plans for the complex, whose doors are currently plastered with provincial health orders, are ambitious: he plans to convert the smaller buildings on the sanatorium grounds into condos and to renovate the large administrative building into a wedding and events venue.

There’s a lot of work to be done: mould and asbestos damage must be remediated, the leaky roof needs to be completely replaced and reshingled, and then come all the interior renovations and restorations.

“A complete cosmetic facelift is what it needs,” says Gregoire.

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Happyland Campground

353 front street east , ninette , mb.

  We offer full serviced camp sites - 65 in total, with seasonal, monthly and overnight sites available.  

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Come stay at Happyland Campground, located at Ninette, MB, and along the north shores of beautiful Pelican Lake. Stay for a night or stay for a month, you will enjoy one of our 31 fully serviced sites (excluding our seasonal sites). Monthly sites are located along the entrance road leading the way to the lake. Overnight sites are located in the middle of the campground and along the highway. All sites are equipped with power, water and sewer, a picnic table, and fire pit. You will be sure to enjoy some fishing, boating, or horseback, quad, hike on the trails nearby.

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Happyland Campground is located on the eastern side of Ninette, MB on highway #23. The campground is walking distance to Queen Street (350 meters), where you can enjoy a meal at a restaurant, shop at the convenience store, or visit the Terry Fox Memorial Park. Other nearby attractions include a golf course at Pleasant Valley Golf Club (35km), hiking/quad trails just across the highway from the campground,  sailing at the Pelican Yacht Club and so much more. 

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• Check in time is 3:00pm and Check out time is 2:00pm. Please report to the office upon arriving and leaving.
• Please speak to the Campground Manager if you request a later checkout.
• Online reservations are the preferred method to reserve campsites. Telephone reservations will only be accepted when the campground is open (May-Sept)  To call for a reservation please call (204) 528-2653 or 204-523-2545. You will be required to give credit card information over the phone.
• There will be no refunds for late arrivals, early departure, or weather conditions.
• Seasonal campsites can not be booked online. For more information about seasonal sites contact the RM office at 204-537-2241 .
• Cancellations require a minimum of 4 days notice for a refund, and will be subject to a $5 service fee.  Please visit campreservations.ca or contact the Happyland Office at 204-528-2653 or 204-523-2545 to cancel a reservation.
• Only one camping unit per site. One small tent may be allowed, with approval from the campground management.
• Quiet time is from 11:00 pm to 8:00am. Please be considerate of others and keep all noise to a minimum. No loud music, vehicles, generator, etc.
• Speed limit is 10km/hr. Please watch out for children
• Only two vehicles are allowed at each campsite at any time. Vehicles must be licensed, and kept on the roadway or parking lots. Do not park in unoccupied sites or block driveways or roadways.
• ATV’s or Dirt Bikes, and Golf Carts are permitted within the Campground from point A to B (no joy riding). Speed limit of 10km/hr must be followed, and be driven only on the road.
• Visiting hours are between 9:00am and 11:00 pm. Information about who is occupying a campsite will not be released without written consent from the person(s) occupying the site.
• Please do not walk through other campsites, stay on the roadway.
• Please keep alcoholic beverages within your campsites.
• Alcohol beverages are prohibited in open areas; roads, washrooms, playground, and any other public area.
• Lawful consumption or smoking Cannabis is permitted at the CAMPER’S SITE ONLY. It is prohibited in all open areas within the Campground. In the event that consumption or smoking is subject of a valid nuisance complaint by other Campers, as determined by the Campground Manager, then the Campground Manager may further restrict such on-site consumption or smoking as deemed by the Campground Manager as appropriate.
• Children in the campground should be supervised at all times.
• Please help keep our washrooms and showers neat and clean. An adult should accompany children to the washroom.
• There are no lifeguards at the beach. Swim at your own risk.
• Anyone wishing to install a Boat Dock must submit a R.M. of Prairie Lakes Boat Dock Application Form.
• One watercraft per site is allowed.
• No cleaning fish in campground, please use the fish cleaning shack at public dock launch.
• Fires are permitted but only in the provided fire pits. Please do not move the fire pits, as it kills the grass underneath. Do not put any garbage in the fire pits, use the centralized garbage bins.  Bundles of firewood are for sale at the office. Please ensure your fire is extinguished before going to bed or leaving your campsite.
• Please put your bagged garbage into centralized garbage bins. Please note that we recycle here, and would appreciate it if you could separate recyclables from household garbage.
• Please turn off your water, lights and air conditioners when leaving for an extended period of time (going home). If you’re A/C if found running for an extended period of time while you are away, you will be charged for the extra hydro use.
• No gray water is to be drained into trees, work areas or grass. There is a sewage dump station located at the north side of the washroom. Do not flush feminine hygiene products or baby/disinfectant wipes in trailers or the main washroom. The sewer system is not designed to handle this.
• Keep in mind our water supply is limited. Lawn watering, or washing vehicles is NOT permitted. Campground water should only be used for purposes within your RV.
• Pets are permitted, however please be considerate of your neighbours. All pets must be kept leashed, attended and controlled at all times. Pet litter must be cleaned up. No pets are allowed in any of the campsite buildings.
• We are proud of our local campground, and with your help we will keep it beautiful. We work hard to continually improve the operation of the park and make your stay as enjoyable as possible. Please help us by leaving your campsite clean for the next camper. Thank you for picking up garbage, even if it isn’t yours.
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• We reserve the right to immediately evict, without refund any guest who fails to adhere to any of our campsite rules. If you have any questions or concerns please contact the Campground Manager at 204-528-2653 or the R.M. of Prairie Lakes Office at 204-537-2241 .

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An Inside Look At The Bugatti Niniette 66 Yacht

Bugatti has confirmed that there will be two other new models launched in the near future. But for now, let us take a quick glance at this superyacht.

Bugatti is no stranger to working with other brands to create extremely luxurious and limited items. From a $280,000 watch with a small working W16 in its case to a fully Hermes leather wrapped one-off Chiron , if it’s not opulent, it’s not Bugatti.

The French automaker has now partnered up with legendary yacht builder Palmer Johnson, to create a Chiron inspired superyacht. Much like the hypercar on which it's based, there is no shortage of exotic materials across the hull of the elegant ship. Dubbed the Bugatti Niniette 66, it will carry a starting price of around $4 million dollars. It's also just one of three new ships Bugatti has committed to building in the near future.

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A Bugatti For The Seas

A quick glance at the Bugatti Niniette 66's side profile reveals some heavy design inspiration taken directly from the brands flagship model, the Chiron. The C shaped line is a staple design cue of the brand and is known affectionately as the Bugatti line. This impressive design detail stretches across the hull of the yacht and serves to break up the design and provide some color contrast. In the rendered image above, the dark blue parts of the ship are all finished in exposed gloss blue carbon fiber.

The Niniette name is particularly special to the French automaker seeing as it was the preferred nickname of Lidia Bugatti, the daughter of company founder Ettore Bugatti.

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How Does It Stack Up?

Like the name suggests, only 66 examples of the Niniette will ever be built, ranging from 50 to 80 feet depending on the specification. Although it is a limited production run, the website for the ship does not specify a delivery date or if any have been yet been sold.

Under the hood you’ll find two Man V8’s propelling the yacht forward via a water-jet system. The Niniette 66 will be able to carry up to 3,000 liters of fuel. At full tilt, the opulent ship will be able to hit a top speed of  50 miles per hour (44 knots).

A long list of available extras are available and the yacht itself is completely customizable, in theory you would match your ship to your exact Chiron specification. The customized interior will be able to accommodate a maximum of 21 people at a time. A word of warning however, the top speed is calculated without the inclusion of the available extras onboard, adding them will greatly affect the overall performance.

Carbon Overload

Speaking of options, almost all of the optional extras available for the Niniette are made of carbon fiber. Consider the massive carbon fiber jacuzzi placed strategically in the very center of the vessel, or the optional carbon fiber fireplace situated directly behind the captain’s seat.

The carbon doesn’t stop there, entire hull and deck of the ship are covered in a carbon composite. Although it can be argued that the use of lightweight materials on such a massively heavy ship seems like a waste, in true Bugatti fashion, it is more an exercise of beauty rather than practicality.

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A lesser known fact about Bugatti is that back in 1930, they were commissioned by Prince Carlo Maurizio Ruspoli to create a one-off speedboat. Much like this modern interpretation, the original Bugatti speedboat was named the Niniette.

It seems as though this collaboration used one of Ettore Bugatti’s most famous quotes as its ethos “nothing is too beautiful, nothing is too expensive”. It's over $4 million price tag certainly confirms it. As Bugatti has confirmed that there will be two others, we can assume they will be launched as Bugatti launches new models in the near future.

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