Posted on 11/28/2023 11:30:09 AM PST by Red Badger
The $500 million vessel was finally docked next to gigantic oil tankers at the South Florida seaport.
The biggest sailing yacht in the world, Koru, owned by centibillionaire Jeff Bezos, is a goliath that has completed its Mediterranean sojourn and has finally come to the United States of America. The 416-foot luxury schooner is currently in South Florida, docked at Port Everglades, per Marine Traffic. The largest space at the port caters to superyachts up to 400 feet. So massive is this $500 million megayacht of the Amazon boss that it doesn’t fit even in there. The floating asset is docked near a 610-foot-long oil tanker, Independence, and a similarly-sized tanker by the name of Seakay Sky.
Docking a luxury vessel as massive as Bezos’s boat is no cheap affair. According to Port Everglades docking rates, it costs $2400 (though chump change for the Amazon founder) for the Oceanco Yacht, previously known as Y721, to dock per day. The vessel, inspired by the Black Pearl, has been moored at the port for over two days and is not listed in the schedule for departure for the next week.
That’s a docking bill of almost $22,000 for 10 days that it may remain anchored at Port Everglades. However, it’s not the financial aspect that’s most remarkable, but rather the ship’s enormous size and stature, which challenge even the largest docks to accommodate it.
Koru is one of the world’s most luxurious ships, incurring a daily upkeep cost of $137,000 for the billionaire owner. These docking charges, in comparison, are relatively insignificant. The half-a-billion-dollar boat is nearly twice the length of an Airbus A380 with an internal volume of 3,300 GT. Moreover, its triple masts measuring 230 feet make the vessel nearly half the size of the Great Pyramid of Giza. Accommodating this maritime masterpiece is a formidable task, achieved by positioning it next to oil tankers.
In addition to being so gigantic, Koru is followed by a $75 million support vessel, Abeona. According to the port’s website, Abeona is headed to Freeport, Bahamas, and it’s likely only a matter of time before Koru follows suit. The 416-foot yacht left Gibraltar on November 9th and arrived in Florida on the 23rd, blocking its AIS and even prompting Port Everglades to delete details of the ship to maintain secrecy.
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Good comments by Buffett...
Wealth gives you options to do things you want to do.
You are under no obligation to do things that don’t interest you—and you are the sole judge of what interests you.
I would not want a yacht or even a canoe—just have no interest.
OMG - am I the only freeper who likes the way it looks?
The support craft carries a spare set of galley slaves.
Isn’t that about the same size as a Sa’ar 6-class corvette?
Maybe some people like it. To me, it looks like someone stuck fancy sails on top of a much more utilitarian-type boat.
For the money he must have paid, I think he could have done much better.
Great to see the youtube of that sleek modern sailing ship. Thanks for posting, Jamestown.
It’s not very pretty or elegant. Looks strictly industrial. But probably amazing inside.
Centi- means 1/100 (making Bezos worth a paltry 10 million), as in centimeter. If he has 100+ billion, that would make him a hectobillionaire.
Jeff Bozos needed the biggest yacht to make up for having the smallest wee wee
Absolutely! A veritable nightmare!
According to the genius author (docking @ $2,400/day is almost $22.000 for ten days)
Accommodating this maritime masterpiece is a formidable task, achieved by positioning it next to oil tankers.
So not only does he need the support ship, but also at least one oil tanker to park next to! That's quite the flotilla to move around, and some of his rich buddies will be sore about the stinking oil tanker blocking the view.
Hmmm...
Since they didn’t include a trolling motor on the bow, wife & We cannot use it for bass fishing...
There’s also the problems at the launch ramp...
Guess we’ll stick with the old Ranger...
Maybe it’s my unruly imagination, but that support vessel looks a lot like Bezos’ floating bunker. Should his soon-to-be well-known yacht come under attack, pirate, kidnap, or whatever, my guess is that support vessel “steams” full speed to the yacht, assuming airlifting Bezos by helicopter becomes untenable. That support ship just looks to me like it’s very fortified and built for defensive purposes, although, I’m sure it can function for much more mundane support tasks as well.
Maintenance: “...a daily upkeep cost of $137,000...”
Or, roughly, $4,000,000/month, which is ~$48,000,000/year.
And he uses it ... how much?
I think Perkins was involved in a lot of the tech design.
It belongs to someone else, now. I hope they love her as much as he did.
It’s a big Sailboat.
Back in the 70s I did exactly the same thing up in the gulf of Alaska out of Seward. Great experience.
I’d be willing to bet that most of the folks on FreeRepublic are happier than Bezos is.
Was it a mention in a Curb Your Enthusiasm episode?
Psssst, my yachts bigger than that tin can.
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