Now that is one FUGLY looking yacht.

The yacht is cool and is in line with Job's minimalist approach to design. It's like Frank Lloyd Wright meets Code-X.

I agree with Zanzibar. Even if you had not told me it was Jobs' yacht, I would have said that it looks sleek and kinda Frank Lloyd Wright-esque.

I'd have to see it in person to really judge, but to me MOST yachts that size are god-awful ugly and ostentatious. Perhaps this one is as well, but even if that's true it at least has a distinct look.

We don't normally associate Jobs with these kinds of projects, and I think that may be why some people who AREN'T trolls also think (on first impression) that its not in sync with his minimalist style. Fair point, I'd say, but remember this is occupational therapy for billionaires (and a wonderful gift to his family).

Ufffff.

I cannot fully agree on this one with Wrenchy, for It's a wave piercing design and I am a sucker for those yet; I did expect something a lot nicer.

Actually WAAYYY nicer,
what's with the chicken house up at the top?
Is there going to be messenger pigeons kept there in case the Apple comms fail?

Actually it looks like Mr Stark did not spend to much time with the design, as it is basically a blown up version of Melnichenko's A yacht tenders. Well blown up and white.

And check out the bridge's instrumentation consoles, a bunch of Cinema displays - wonder if they are sea worthy, well never mind sea worthiness they are SHINY!!! Good luck reading them in a vehicle... And let's not get started on the officer's command chairs, or lack of them... Or the very sharp edges on the console's base and no cushioned railing protecting the crew from it...

Can just imagine the shore crew tales...

Hehe, "that seaman Simpson cracked his skull on the console's edge because he has walking next to it wrong..."

Or "Poor seaman smith ended up with an imperforate anus, after slipping on the bridge and in an effort to avoid all sharp corners misplaced his rectum on the highly polished station rests..."

Can't say is FUGLY looking, maybe just more architectural than vehicle inspired, with an almost complete disregard to motion orientation rhythm... a no-no on most design schools, but overall just a big let down; uninspiring and sad, maybe the music IS appropriate!

All I can think of is if Steve were alive this is one design he would have not allowed to go into production.

The look is interesting. Too bad the bridge is a non-starter for operation under way. That will get renovated. Ideally before it leaves port.

iMac displays are perhaps ok if the ship is only used at night.

It looks absolutely stunning!!!!.... If it was 1984. K bubbye

...what's with the chicken house up at the top? Is there going to be messenger pigeons kept there in case the Apple comms fail?


Probably just a mesh fence to hide/mask the doppler weather radar(s) and communication arrays, if I had to guess.

It does look more like a houseboat than a modern yacht, however it is an interesting design.

They really knocked themselves out with those uber-generous "gifts" to the poor saps who busted a nut building the boat. But a few peanuts tossed to the rabble, that's how the 1% do it. Or in this case the .001%.

Vootie: I think you are forgetting that the workers were already well-paid for their work. The thank you gift is an extra; the Jobs family didn't have to do that (and in fact knowing one super-yacht owner myself, let me tell you such a thing is unprecedented).

So tell me, what thank-you gift did you give the people who assembled your last car? Oh right, double standard applies, I see. :lol:

So tell me, what thank-you gift did you give the people who assembled your last car? Oh right, double standard applies, I see.

Oh, please. A Toyota Camry vs. a one-of-a-kind super yacht is an extremely poor comparison at best.