9 incredible reasons to play the lottery this week

On Saturday evening, two people had their lives drastically changed. The moment the bonus ball landed, their £2 ticket was suddenly worth £33 million. Unless you’re Mark Zuckerberg or Bill Gates, that’s an awful lot of money.

We’ve all fallen into the dangerous trap of thinking what we’d do with our winnings if it were ever to happen to us. It starts the moment you have the ticket in your hand: who you’ll split it with (your generosity astounds you), where you’ll take all your friends, what your new car will be, whether a Scottish estate is a good purchase or not, and which yacht you’re going to charter.

Let’s not beat around the bush now. Yacht charter is the reserve of the well heeled – it is to sailing what the Airbus A320 is to aviation. Such exclusivity and luxury is reflected somewhat honestly in the price – you’re talking tens if not hundreds of thousands; the sort of financial separation that only the most successful can afford. Or the fortunate who have just beaten the odds to add an extra 6 zeros to their bank balance.

In case you needed any extra inspiration to buy a lottery ticket this week, or perhaps put a few more hours in at the office in pursuit of that pay rise, these 9 incredible pictures of yacht chartering ought to do it.