Photo Credit: Carl Groll / www.theyachtphoto.com
Lürssen’s Project Rocky emerged from the sheds this week with the moniker ACE clearly emblazoned on her sides. The 87-meter (285-foot) vessel is one of the largest launches of the year.
Madsummer | ( tie ) 257’2″Do you have a million bucks you’re looking to do something with? Well, you could use it to charter this American-owned 257-footer for the week. And what a yacht you’d get. From a fleet that includes mid-20-foot sportboats and a plethora of
Room for 12 guests, 32 crew, and two 20-plus-foot sportboats.No, your eyes do not deceive you: This yacht’s hull is blue. Not just any blue, but baby blue—perhaps the babiest blue ever applied to that ultimate symbol of technological machismo, the megayacht.That something so apparently insignificant as hull color can, in
#1: RISING SUN—452’8″Rising Sun kicked off 2008 by anchoring in one of her preferred places: North Sound in the British Virgin Islands. Good choice, Larry (that’s Larry Ellison, head of Oracle Corporation, to the uninitiated). Given the expanse of windows lining her upper decks, we’re sure Ellison and his guests thoroughly enjoyed the views in the
#16: KISMET—223’1″Persian carvings flank the elevator in Kismet’s lobby, just outside the master suite. Guests have no reason to complain about their accommodations, considering the four staterooms are each 323 square feet. And there’s also a massage room aboard. Y: 2007; B: Lrssen, Germany; N: builder/Espen ino Naval Architects; H:
#11: SKAT—233’0″To get a good sense of just how big this yacht is, visit mefeedia .com/entry/lum-120-simonyis-yacht/9910193/, You’ll see a video of bicyclists and people passing her by while she was docked in Copenhagen in June (after she’d already visited New York
#4: LIMITLESS—315’8″Eleven years after her delivery, despite being eclipsed by larger yachts, this blue-hulled lady continues to impress. Apparently so does her owner, clothing titan Leslie Wexner. A 2006 article in Slate magazine stated that he’s the exception to the Yacht of Doom Rule, which holds that “When someone who’s supposed to be looking out for
#2: OCTOPUS—414’0″There’s no way Paul Allen’s Octopus was going to host the wedding of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie (a.k.a. Brangelina) this spring, despite the breathless claims made by our celeb-rag brethren: The yacht was scheduled for a maintenance visit to a shipyard in Saint Nazaire, France. She’s been there since May and is expected to
If you’re familiar with Monaco, you’ll also be familiar-unless you’re very rich or very lucky-with the neck ache you get from looking up at those enormous motoryachts. Last time I was in town, I got lucky: I was looking down. Lrssen’s Martha AnnOn one side there was Mohammed Al-Fayed’s 208-foot Sokar. Beyond her was Wedge
#14: LIMITLESS —315’8″If the largest yacht to fly the American flag from her transom is too rich for your blood—she’d easily cost a few hundred million dollars to build today—then how about a $2,900 scale model of her? It’s yours if you visit
#13: CARINTHIA VII—321’5″Carinthia VII is the largest yacht in the world owned solely by a woman, Heidi Horten, a German retail giant. The vessel rarely leaves the International Yacht Club of Antibes in the South of France, but when she has within the past few years, it’s been for Dubai. Y: 2002; B: Lrssen, Germany; N: Builder/Tim
#1: AL SALAMAH—456’10″When it comes to private yachts, oftentimes a small group of people is paid to keep quiet. But in reference to this nearly 500-footer, a lot of people seem to be getting paid—and apparently pretty well—because few details (well, at least reasonably reliable ones) have come out. We know she spends most of her time
#3: OCTOPUS—414’0″Leave it to The New York Times to refer to this yacht as “relatively miniscule.” In a wide-ranging article that ran last March, the paper compared Octopus
#2: RISING SUN—452’8″One and a half football fields long. About 140 feet longer than the distance from home plate to the Green Monster in Fenway Park in Boston. And 16 feet longer than the height of the iconic Arch of Wembley Stadium in London. No matter how you measure her, Rising Sun is just huge, and that means it’s hard to find docking
Number 18 on our 2015 list of the World’s 100 Largest Yachts.
Photo Credit: Carl Groll / www.theyachtphoto.com
Lürssen’s Project Rocky emerged from the sheds this week with the moniker ACE clearly emblazoned on her sides. The 87-meter (285-foot) vessel is one of the largest launches of the year.
Madsummer | ( tie ) 257’2″Do you have a million bucks you’re looking to do something with? Well, you could use it to charter this American-owned 257-footer for the week. And what a yacht you’d get. From a fleet that includes mid-20-foot sportboats and a plethora of
Room for 12 guests, 32 crew, and two 20-plus-foot sportboats.No, your eyes do not deceive you: This yacht’s hull is blue. Not just any blue, but baby blue—perhaps the babiest blue ever applied to that ultimate symbol of technological machismo, the megayacht.That something so apparently insignificant as hull color can, in
#1: RISING SUN—452’8″Rising Sun kicked off 2008 by anchoring in one of her preferred places: North Sound in the British Virgin Islands. Good choice, Larry (that’s Larry Ellison, head of Oracle Corporation, to the uninitiated). Given the expanse of windows lining her upper decks, we’re sure Ellison and his guests thoroughly enjoyed the views in the
#16: KISMET—223’1″Persian carvings flank the elevator in Kismet’s lobby, just outside the master suite. Guests have no reason to complain about their accommodations, considering the four staterooms are each 323 square feet. And there’s also a massage room aboard. Y: 2007; B: Lrssen, Germany; N: builder/Espen ino Naval Architects; H:
#11: SKAT—233’0″To get a good sense of just how big this yacht is, visit mefeedia .com/entry/lum-120-simonyis-yacht/9910193/, You’ll see a video of bicyclists and people passing her by while she was docked in Copenhagen in June (after she’d already visited New York
#4: LIMITLESS—315’8″Eleven years after her delivery, despite being eclipsed by larger yachts, this blue-hulled lady continues to impress. Apparently so does her owner, clothing titan Leslie Wexner. A 2006 article in Slate magazine stated that he’s the exception to the Yacht of Doom Rule, which holds that “When someone who’s supposed to be looking out for
#2: OCTOPUS—414’0″There’s no way Paul Allen’s Octopus was going to host the wedding of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie (a.k.a. Brangelina) this spring, despite the breathless claims made by our celeb-rag brethren: The yacht was scheduled for a maintenance visit to a shipyard in Saint Nazaire, France. She’s been there since May and is expected to
If you’re familiar with Monaco, you’ll also be familiar-unless you’re very rich or very lucky-with the neck ache you get from looking up at those enormous motoryachts. Last time I was in town, I got lucky: I was looking down. Lrssen’s Martha AnnOn one side there was Mohammed Al-Fayed’s 208-foot Sokar. Beyond her was Wedge
#14: LIMITLESS —315’8″If the largest yacht to fly the American flag from her transom is too rich for your blood—she’d easily cost a few hundred million dollars to build today—then how about a $2,900 scale model of her? It’s yours if you visit
#13: CARINTHIA VII—321’5″Carinthia VII is the largest yacht in the world owned solely by a woman, Heidi Horten, a German retail giant. The vessel rarely leaves the International Yacht Club of Antibes in the South of France, but when she has within the past few years, it’s been for Dubai. Y: 2002; B: Lrssen, Germany; N: Builder/Tim
#1: AL SALAMAH—456’10″When it comes to private yachts, oftentimes a small group of people is paid to keep quiet. But in reference to this nearly 500-footer, a lot of people seem to be getting paid—and apparently pretty well—because few details (well, at least reasonably reliable ones) have come out. We know she spends most of her time
#3: OCTOPUS—414’0″Leave it to The New York Times to refer to this yacht as “relatively miniscule.” In a wide-ranging article that ran last March, the paper compared Octopus
#2: RISING SUN—452’8″One and a half football fields long. About 140 feet longer than the distance from home plate to the Green Monster in Fenway Park in Boston. And 16 feet longer than the height of the iconic Arch of Wembley Stadium in London. No matter how you measure her, Rising Sun is just huge, and that means it’s hard to find docking
