Aussie John Symond was in the Netherlands with his family overnight and it wasn't to look at windmills or flowers.

Instead, the Point Piper clan were in the small village of Kaag to see his new 73-metre (239-foot) yacht launch at the Feadship yard. For the uninitiated, the rough rule of thumb with these beasts is a cost of €1 million per metre so you can pencil in €73 million ($109.8 million) for Aussie John's new toy. Thank you very much Ian Narev, who still has the final 20 per cent of Aussie Home Loans to mop up in the coming months, which would just about cover it.