#21: ICE—295’3″Do you remember your 40th birthday party? As cool as it might have been, it has to pale in comparison to what Suleiman Kerimov, the owner of Ice, did: The Russian oilman and investor paid singers Christina Aguilera and Shakira to perform. (When your estimated worth exceeds $17 billion, you can do things like that.) Seems he views
#2: AL SAID—508’5″Code-named Project Sunflower, Al Said was delivered in March to His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said of Oman. Yacht-spotters worldwide were surprised when the nameboard was revealed, since they were convinced the yacht was going to be the new
Lürssen’s KismetI nibbled on a pineapple skewer as the rain fell in a hush against the gray hull of Kismet. At 223 feet LOA with a beam of 42 feet and towering 66 feet to the top of her radars, she turned heads from the 17th Street Causeway during last year’s Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show. At the behest of
#10: SKAT—233’0″Benoit Donne/Yacht-Images.com#10: SKAT—233’0″Open letter to Charles Simonyi, owner of this militaristic-looking lady: It’s been a year since we discovered the Web site for your yacht,
#3: LIMITLESS—315’8″Smile, you’re on candid camera—or at least the undersea world is. Limitless is equipped with a dolphin cam in her bulbous bow. Here’s a little story you can impress your friends with at your next yacht-trivia party: When the yacht was still undergoing tests on the river outside of Lrssen’s build shed, everyone initially
#14: KISMET—223’1″#14: KISMET—223’1″Forget the gym; hit the disco if you charter this yacht (550,000 EUR, or about $742,000 at presstime) and need to burn off some calories! The skylounge transforms into the floating version of Studio 54 with little effort: moving some chairs aside to
#2: OCTOPUS—414’0″Gabriel Whiting/monacoeye.com#2: OCTOPUS—414’0″Former Navy SEALs as crewmembers? A garageful of luxury cars? Who knows whether these “facts,’ reported and repeated seemingly every month by multiple media sources worldwide, are true
#1: RISING SUN—452’8″Merijn de Waard/Yacht-Images.com#1: RISING SUN—452’8″Is the sun setting on the largest yacht in American hands? You may recall that Larry Ellison, sailor extraordinaire and Oracle software superior, lamented last year that
#14: LIMITLESS —315’8″You’re apt to see this lady in St. Barts around the holidays, as the island is a favorite of her owner, Leslie Wexner. Wexner, who heads the clothing company Limited Brands, made it clear to Lrssen when he commissioned her that he wanted a 25-knot yacht, and he got his wish. (Picture something roughly the size of a football field
#20: ICE—295’3″Despite being seriously burned in a car crash last fall, Suleiman Kerimov of Russia apparently recovered enough to have his yacht travel from France to Malta and then on to Greece during the first half of this year. You can immediately recognize the yacht due to her dark-grey hull. Kerimov is indicative of the growing popularity of
#13: CARINTHIA VII—321’5″Christopher SuffeleersAvid yacht watchers gave this the Readers’ Choice award on our Megayachts forum this spring. Some folks got suspicious that she was about to sell to a new owner last
#2: RISING SUN—452’8″Could it be? Could Larry Ellison really have given a stake in this yacht to David Geffen? That’sthe news reported back in January by Valleywag, a tech-world gossip site: The Silicon Valley mogul gave his Hollywood buddy partial rights, perhaps to help offset costs at the
#1: AL SALAMAH—456’10″If this yacht’s length astounds you, then her beam—all 77 feet of it—will give you pause. Everyone ever associated with the project has kept tightly sealed lips, as per the wishes of her owner, Prince Sultan bin Abdul Aziz, the Saudi Arabian defense minister. Rumors abound as to what she has onboard, including 13-foot
#3: OCTOPUS—414’0″Why bother watching movies ranging from Imagining Argentina to The Lady From Shanghai in your onboard cinema when you can visit the cities themselves with your yacht? That’s the spirit that Paul Allen and Octopus seem to have been embracing since the start of the year. We say “seem” because the yacht stopped in
Good things come to those who wait, or so the saying goes. If that’s the case, then the owners of Linda Lou should be reaping the rewards tenfold.It all started sometime in 2002—the husband half of the owners isn’t quite sure of the exact date, you see, as by his own admission, he and the Lrssen team met “over a lot of time” to determine what size and style yacht he and his wife
#21: ICE—295’3″Do you remember your 40th birthday party? As cool as it might have been, it has to pale in comparison to what Suleiman Kerimov, the owner of Ice, did: The Russian oilman and investor paid singers Christina Aguilera and Shakira to perform. (When your estimated worth exceeds $17 billion, you can do things like that.) Seems he views
#2: AL SAID—508’5″Code-named Project Sunflower, Al Said was delivered in March to His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said of Oman. Yacht-spotters worldwide were surprised when the nameboard was revealed, since they were convinced the yacht was going to be the new
Lürssen’s KismetI nibbled on a pineapple skewer as the rain fell in a hush against the gray hull of Kismet. At 223 feet LOA with a beam of 42 feet and towering 66 feet to the top of her radars, she turned heads from the 17th Street Causeway during last year’s Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show. At the behest of
#10: SKAT—233’0″Benoit Donne/Yacht-Images.com#10: SKAT—233’0″Open letter to Charles Simonyi, owner of this militaristic-looking lady: It’s been a year since we discovered the Web site for your yacht,
#3: LIMITLESS—315’8″Smile, you’re on candid camera—or at least the undersea world is. Limitless is equipped with a dolphin cam in her bulbous bow. Here’s a little story you can impress your friends with at your next yacht-trivia party: When the yacht was still undergoing tests on the river outside of Lrssen’s build shed, everyone initially
#14: KISMET—223’1″#14: KISMET—223’1″Forget the gym; hit the disco if you charter this yacht (550,000 EUR, or about $742,000 at presstime) and need to burn off some calories! The skylounge transforms into the floating version of Studio 54 with little effort: moving some chairs aside to
#2: OCTOPUS—414’0″Gabriel Whiting/monacoeye.com#2: OCTOPUS—414’0″Former Navy SEALs as crewmembers? A garageful of luxury cars? Who knows whether these “facts,’ reported and repeated seemingly every month by multiple media sources worldwide, are true
#1: RISING SUN—452’8″Merijn de Waard/Yacht-Images.com#1: RISING SUN—452’8″Is the sun setting on the largest yacht in American hands? You may recall that Larry Ellison, sailor extraordinaire and Oracle software superior, lamented last year that
#14: LIMITLESS —315’8″You’re apt to see this lady in St. Barts around the holidays, as the island is a favorite of her owner, Leslie Wexner. Wexner, who heads the clothing company Limited Brands, made it clear to Lrssen when he commissioned her that he wanted a 25-knot yacht, and he got his wish. (Picture something roughly the size of a football field
#20: ICE—295’3″Despite being seriously burned in a car crash last fall, Suleiman Kerimov of Russia apparently recovered enough to have his yacht travel from France to Malta and then on to Greece during the first half of this year. You can immediately recognize the yacht due to her dark-grey hull. Kerimov is indicative of the growing popularity of
#13: CARINTHIA VII—321’5″Christopher SuffeleersAvid yacht watchers gave this the Readers’ Choice award on our Megayachts forum this spring. Some folks got suspicious that she was about to sell to a new owner last
#2: RISING SUN—452’8″Could it be? Could Larry Ellison really have given a stake in this yacht to David Geffen? That’sthe news reported back in January by Valleywag, a tech-world gossip site: The Silicon Valley mogul gave his Hollywood buddy partial rights, perhaps to help offset costs at the
#1: AL SALAMAH—456’10″If this yacht’s length astounds you, then her beam—all 77 feet of it—will give you pause. Everyone ever associated with the project has kept tightly sealed lips, as per the wishes of her owner, Prince Sultan bin Abdul Aziz, the Saudi Arabian defense minister. Rumors abound as to what she has onboard, including 13-foot
#3: OCTOPUS—414’0″Why bother watching movies ranging from Imagining Argentina to The Lady From Shanghai in your onboard cinema when you can visit the cities themselves with your yacht? That’s the spirit that Paul Allen and Octopus seem to have been embracing since the start of the year. We say “seem” because the yacht stopped in
Good things come to those who wait, or so the saying goes. If that’s the case, then the owners of Linda Lou should be reaping the rewards tenfold.It all started sometime in 2002—the husband half of the owners isn’t quite sure of the exact date, you see, as by his own admission, he and the Lrssen team met “over a lot of time” to determine what size and style yacht he and his wife
