Posted on 10/28/2012 8:12:44 PM PDT by Swordmaker
“Earlier this year, it was revealed that French designer Philippe Starck was working with Dutch shipbuilder Feadship on a new yacht for the family of Steve Jobs,” Eric Slivka reports for MacRumors. “The yacht had been mentioned in Walter Isaacson’s biography of Jobs as a project he had been working on since 2009, but the ship was not completed before his death last year.”
“Dutch site One More Thing now reports [Google translation] that the ship, christened “Venus”, has officially launched, with Jobs’ widow Laurene Powell Jobs and their three children participating in the event,” Slivka reports. “The aluminum-hulled ship is said to be 70-80 meters in length and features seven 27-inch iMacs lined up in the wheelhouse to help run the controls.”
Read more at onemorething.nl
Does it come with it’s own F-18?
My Mom and Dad made lampshades for the Truman Presidential Yacht. Mrs. Truman (Bess) picked out my Mother’s unique ‘Dogwood’ pattern for the shades.
That thing is a crime against aesthetics.
Looks more like a Microsoft product...clumsy....
floating 1960s era dentist office.
You, sir, have an exceptional sense of humor!
+1
I’d bet the wine stock on that boat cost more than my entire boat, but that is one very ugly barge.
FDRs yacht in white paint? You must be kidding. The Potomac was build as coast guard cutter/subchaser. It was converted into a yacht. Having seen it overtake us, at speed, her lines were like a budget version of a four piper speeding by.
Plenty of reasons not to like FDR, but the Potomac is a fine Yacht. And a more seaworthy design than the Jobs disaster.
“There was this travelling salesman”
It is their money let them spend it how they want- capitalism at its finest
Geez, a six year old with a Laddie pencil and a napkin could have designed that during his poop break.
If you want to see a super yacht, look at the “Octopus” owned by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. Now THIS is a yacht! Here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octopus_(yacht)
Jobs made a statement with this yacht, a silly one as silly as his death.He made all those billions but couldn’t find a way to keep death away. I am sure he had the best people looking into every conventional and every alternative treatment but his money couldn’t find what would keep death away. But his billions were able to buy an absurd and ugly aluminum yacht. Yacht yes, life no.
It looks like a sterilized barge.
I needed to see something more yacht-ish. Now, THESE are clean lines.
Yeah, as opposed to all those populist 200-foot yachts.
Prairie Schooner
I’ve seen better looking LST’s.
I rather like it. As if Frank Lloyd Wright designed a boat with Apple sensibilities.
I was getting tires of seeing boats (which don’t move particularly fast) looking like high-performance spacecraft.
What it will, in fact, be used for evades me.
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