Steve Jobs’ high-tech yacht impounded over bill dispute

BBC News ^ | 21 December 2012 | Last updated at 12:29 ET

[Olog-hai]

Venus, the minimalist high-tech yacht commissioned by the late Apple founder Steve Jobs, has become embroiled in a row over a disputed bill.

French designer Philippe Starck claims Mr. Jobs’ heirs still owe him €3 million of a €9 million fee for the project, according to Dutch paper Het Financieele Dagblad.

Mr. Starck called in the debt collectors and had the yacht impounded. …

The sleek, 260-foot-long aluminum super-yacht cost €105 million ($138 million; £85 million) and was launched in October, at Aalsmeer, The Netherlands. …

[Travis McGee]

Ugliest. Boat. Ever.

[Cementjungle]

She isn’t exactly a beauty queen, but perhaps the “high tech” aspect might be redeeming. I wonder if the design is supposed to be some sort of radar/sonar evading stealth technology or something. I wonder what sort of gadgets it has in it.

[YOMO]

Hey now, don’t knock the LST’s.
I was on the 532 and 1160
during the 1960’s.

[xrmusn]

Unwritten ‘law’ ..... allowed to knock (but I wasn’t) <:

1157 1960-62.......great duty

[hosepipe]

The designer of that vessel should be SLAPPED and his eyes poked...

[BlueDragon]

Antidote

From Martinac shipyard, Tacoma, Wa

Line in lower foreground leads to seine skiff which tows just hard enough to keep the web coming up over the quarter on other side of boat, as pictured. I don't see purse rings in the picture...wonder if they are fishing half-purse. Always thought all the tuna seiners were full purse. Oh, well, never seined tuna , only salmon in WA & AK, and squid & 'chovie, Monterey Bay, plus some lampara for live bait among other things, bottom trawling, set & drift gillnets, some hook & line fisheries, a little bit of long-line, some crabbing.

Nice boat though, huh?

[Ezekiel]

I know what that thing is, an iSore.

[Wonder Warthog]

"I know what that thing is, an iSore."

LOL. Great shot!

[Right Wing Assault]

It's a Vietnamese cruise boat.

[Right Wing Assault]

You can’t do anything with until you download several thousand apps.

[Daffynition]

[hosepipe]

Now thats a good looking boat and the Helopad was brilliant..

[BlueDragon]

170 ft., I think.

Looking closer, I see San Diego as hailing port, and I think they might be fishing something other than tuna, as the mesh looks possibly too small to be for tuna. That would leave mackerel, sardine/anchovy or possibly squid(?) but there seems to be some needed deck equipment either missing or not visible, for that latter one.

Even knowing what I'm looking at for the most part, I can't tell exactly what fishery it is. The purse winch appears to be forward of the structure (on the starboard side adjacent to where they are stacking the net) set a bit inboard from the starboard rail. I think I see a line or wire crossing the deck at an "overhead" height. The davits are visible on the port side, aft of the main cabin, with a guy seemingly tending them. I think I've got it figured...

I've seen large-boat purse rings. Instead of being simple a round brass ring, they are more like a giant carabiner, but with rollers built in. Something like this, but possibly sleeker, for the pic is from a patent filing, 1989, updated 1996;

Other purse rings used by those who use wire rope for purse line, have side openings, but lack rollers, so get worn out, while also chaffing the cable (wire rope)

The guy standing at the davit at the portside rail, is detaching the purse "rings" from the purse cable, as the net is dryed up. All of the bottom line of the net, or "leadline" is bunched up out-of-sight to us, along the port side of the boat, hanging in loops from the purse cable(s) and davits, so as the rest of the net is dryed up (taken out of the water, corks, webbing etc.) then the lead line too needs go along with the rest (up through the powerblock hanging from the large main boom). So as the slack is taken up, releasing some of the weight, the man at the rail unhooks each purse ring in succession. He has to, and do so before it becomes taunt between the davits and the powerblock. It looks like he's able to simply disconnect & drop one ring at a time, periodically, leaving a low arc or small amount of slack of leadline hanging off the side, possibly above the water, but if a little leadline at a time was dropped into the water, it wouldn't matter much... until they come to the bunt-end of the net, and whatever they've caught is crowded and will seek escape through any perceived opening.

Not seeing a "prick" to slide the rings upon as the net is stacked, or seeing a trough or channel to place the rings in along the bulwarks in order, with the openings kept facing for-and-aft, I'll venture a guess the channel to set the rings in is set flush into the deck. I see three inlet/inset channels running fore-and-aft, but in the photo the stacking crew seems to be crowding the one they would need, with a bit much webbing.

All of that ring placing business is so the purse line (cable) can be run back through the rings before the net is set again.

[YOMO]

It looks like we hit the same beaches in Nam.
Merry Christmas and WELCOME HOME, Brother.

[xrmusn]

It looks like we hit the same beaches in Nam.
Merry Christmas and WELCOME HOME, Brother
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A Merry Christmas to you and yours also, and
Welcome Home Brother.

“Sad” to say but my VN adventures were before all the ‘official’ fun started. I was ‘there’ before we were there.<:
Only took em 35 yrs or so to ‘own up to it’.
Glad I wasn’t severely wounded or such, ‘they’ tend to forget one if they weren’t were they were and it wasn’t recognized...

Took them that long to recognize and THEN it was a ‘if you earned 2 of these’ you rate one of these...

Typical Govt work...Like all those years they basically ‘denied’ AO, after many deaths and now that ‘we’ are starting to fade off, they will make people that never left the Pentagon ‘eligible’ for AO ‘benefits’, I guess just to ease their conscience....

[xrmusn]

Looking closer, I see San Diego as hailing port, and I think they might be fishing something other than tuna,
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When I relooked that picture I said - “wow, this guy is good, recognizing San Diego from the ocean alone then I saw the San Diego on the stern”...<:

As to the ocean, like we say “AND that is just the top”.

Maybe this particular “fishing boat” is like one of the World Wide Fleet of Russian (fishing) Trawlers from way back when....

[BlueDragon]

Maybe this particular “fishing boat” is like one of the World Wide Fleet of Russian (fishing) Trawlers from way back when....

Naah, I got the pic from Martinac themselves. Shipyard is in Tacoma Washington, and that boat was purpose built as a seiner. One could possibly make a trawler out of it, but why ruin a perfectly good round haul boat of that size?

I went to that web page looking for good 'shippy' lines, for Martinac has long been known for producing some real beauties when it comes to open water seiners. Some of the bigger ones 210' 220' or back in the 70's were even prettier. The big flaring bows are distinctive, I'd recognize them anywhere, even though they may not be all that practical. It's great when punching into a sea, (save for some extra windage) and the seas just curl away from the cap rails, but once the bow get's buried, all that well shaped flare to the forward bulwarks turns into a giant scoop.

This much smaller 75' boat, in heavy weather would catch a load of windblown spray on the bow, and buck so hard (up bows) that it would toss the water high enough for the wind to carry it aft and soak a guy when on the back deck. We used to laugh about it, when we weren't cussing it.

But it was fun to watch the water peel off the caprails when trying to get around around Cape Mendocino in a blow. Boat built in Rockport, Texas, Rockport Yacht & Supply Company (RYSCO) in the mid-Seventies. Vessel now scrapped, sadly enough. This was the first RYSCO of this design. There were many later, but with subtle changes, making them overall better boats. Picture taken in Morro Bay, CA. [but not by me].

Vessel as picture rigged for bottom trawl, but the trawl cables still configured to run wire out to the blocks on the ends of the outriggers, Gulf Shrimper style, then angle back towards the stern to run through towing blocks hanging off the outwards facing arms, or gallows, of net reel assembly. Pictured is the second net reel and gallows set-up that boat carried after cutting a stern ramp into her, and switching over from double-rig shrimp, to single-rig bottomfish trawl.

[xrmusn]

One could possibly make a trawler out of it, but why ruin a perfectly good round haul boat of that size?
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I was referring to the so called “Russian Trawlers” which -though they probably had to fish to feed themselves - were essentially Communications/Spy Ships, out to track the US Fleet etc...

[BlueDragon]

Oh sorry, missed that. The mention brought to mind actual Russian trawlers. Sort of a one track mind here...fish boats on the brain today.

[xrmusn]

Oh, sorry, missed that.
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My fault, I was being ‘cute’, you know mention something that those who ‘know’ pick up and those that don’t scratch their head and move on...