Try not to imagine the upkeep costs on the historic-listed 2 acres that you paid $4M for - which are only accessible by helicopter, or by risk-tolerant boat (Wikipedia notes a dozen wrecks in the immediate vicinity) and lots of stairs.
Amazing and only £3 million!? Out of my budget but that's probably about the cost of a normal house in London.
Things like this fort make me convinced that automated electric drone taxis could open up a lot of living possibilities. Get one of those and you could turn it into an amazing Airbnb or alternatively a community.
I grew up in that area and went to school with a member of the family that owned Thorne Island at the time.
There are times of the year that access is not possible at all due to weather which does limit the usefulness of the location.
The Angle lifeboat isn’t far away in an emergency though, so that’s helpful.
There are other Victorian fort locations in that area in private hands. A different school friend owned more than one of these for a while. Maintenance costs are outrageous!
Looks like this island doesn't have a real beach or even easy access to the sea for a swim or watersports.
I feel like this heavily defeats the point of owning your own island.
Every other private island I've seen on Wikipedia looks like some kind of paradisiac resort. With beaches, greenery, confy gazebos etc..
Why does the article say it's 3 nautical miles off the coast? If you just zoom out a bit on google maps, I measure the mainland to be less than 1000 ft. away.
If anyone wonders about motivation for this sort of thing, Adam Nicholson's Sea Room might be worth a look. Nicholson was the owner of the Shiants, three small islands off the Hebrides.
Each of the Shiants are a bit larger and have more features than this fort on a rock though. And Nicholson inherited them and passed them on to his son.
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Try not to imagine the upkeep costs on the historic-listed 2 acres that you paid $4M for - which are only accessible by helicopter, or by risk-tolerant boat (Wikipedia notes a dozen wrecks in the immediate vicinity) and lots of stairs.
Things like this fort make me convinced that automated electric drone taxis could open up a lot of living possibilities. Get one of those and you could turn it into an amazing Airbnb or alternatively a community.
There are times of the year that access is not possible at all due to weather which does limit the usefulness of the location.
The Angle lifeboat isn’t far away in an emergency though, so that’s helpful.
There are other Victorian fort locations in that area in private hands. A different school friend owned more than one of these for a while. Maintenance costs are outrageous!
I feel like this heavily defeats the point of owning your own island. Every other private island I've seen on Wikipedia looks like some kind of paradisiac resort. With beaches, greenery, confy gazebos etc..
Being an island, I sort of expected that.
Each of the Shiants are a bit larger and have more features than this fort on a rock though. And Nicholson inherited them and passed them on to his son.
This made me laugh. Props, there are far less productive things he could have done.