World’s 100 Largest Yachts 2007 #50: Coral Island

#50: CORAL ISLAND—236'0"Eight years and counting, a theft aboard this yacht remains unsolved. In March 1999 a Picasso painting worth a reported $6 million was stolen, despite a high-tech security system and the fact that it and about $220 million worth of other original works from great painters were in a locked room.Y: 1994; B: Lrssen,

By Mike Smith

August 1, 2007

#50: CORAL ISLAND—236’0″

Eight years and counting, a theft aboard this yacht remains unsolved. In March 1999 a Picasso painting worth a reported $6 million was stolen, despite a high-tech security system and the fact that it and about $220 million worth of other original works from great painters were in a locked room.

Y: 1994; B: Lrssen, Germany; N: Jon Bannenberg; H: steel; E: 2/1,877-hp Caterpillars

World’s 100 Largest Yachts 2007

This article originally appeared in the August 2007 issue of Power & Motoryacht magazine.