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
This yacht looks bad. Just bad.
It, to me anyways, looks like a minimalist ( and much smaller) version of Capt. Nemo’s Nautilus from “The League of Extraordinary Gentleman”.
Being on a smartphone right now, If anyone wants to look up and post pictures of that I’d appreciate!
That’s a beautiful yacht. I would have expected Jobs to go for something like that.
That’s also a great-looking yacht. Doesn’t look like there’s much room for hanging out on deck. Bet it handles a roll well and bobs like a cork!
It looks like some sort of floating office building with a pointy-end. And is that a chrome prow and chrome anchors? Whatever for?
My first thought as well. lol
That is pretty, but it looks like an oversized cigarette boat. Not really yacht-like. It looks like Jobs went retro with a modern clean-lines approach. I’m not sure I like it, but I can see where his designer was going.
If anybody’s wondering why it doesn’t look Apple-like, this designer’s work looks nothing like Ive’s.
Looks nice to me....styled like an old Trumpy or DeVries
New yachts all look like Feadships
no, wright had style and function.
This is just like some kid made a boat out of a cardboard box.
I am not a ship designer, and aside from some college courses in fluid dynamics - I am no expert.
But, this ship looks like an awful ship to have on water that is going to be rougher than a small lake - and even then, only with mild winds.
With straight sides, the wind will push against the wall, and drive this craft to the side. The side walls are nearly perpendicular to the water, so waves will be absorbed, instead of deflected - causing the craft to rock. The prow of the ship is perpendicular to the water, thus it will exert no downward force into a wave - but rather ride up and over the wave.
This may be beautiful on the inside; but I have no desire to be on this craft with medium waves, or a wind exceeding 20 mph.
I hope those Macs have been ruggedized. Salt water (and salt in the air) is very corrosive - those computers won’t last very long in this environment. Conformal coating on the boards would be a start, then you have the constant vibration and motion to deal with - there is a reason why these ships use Ruggedized Computers.
My barber subscribes to a magazine called "Luxury Yachts" and it drives my adrenalin more than any Playboy magazine could at my age........
Luxury yachts of this size are not about what they look like on the outside (and all but this one are absolutley gorgeous) but rather what is contained inside........
I need to see the interior before I can call this boat a dog......
It does look more like a floating mausoleum rather than anything seaworthy. But this was clearly a vanity project for Jobs and I’m sure the yard was happy to take his money.
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