Steve Jobs' Yacht Revealed

schwit1 writes "Venus, the incredible luxury yacht Steve Jobs had been designing up until his death a little over a year ago, seems to have made its first appearance as a finished product in the city of Aalsmeer in the Netherlands. Unsurprisingly, its design is breathtaking. Reportedly designed in a joint effort between Jobs himself and Philippe Starck, the stunning ship first showed up on the blog One More Thing, which posted some stills as well as a few other details. The ship is about 230 to 260 feet long, for instance, and made entirely of aluminum, which makes it particularly light. And if you had any doubt this is Steve Jobs' yacht, there are seven 27-inch iMacs in the wheelhouse. According to One More Thing's sources, the Jobs family will be present for the yacht's christening ceremony proper, thought it's unknown whether or not they intend to use it, or what its ultimate fate may be. Regardless of what may happen to her, she sure is a beauty. It's certainly a shame Steve Jobs never got the chance to see her finished."

Comments

iSore?

[Anonymous Coward]

I don't know, it looks more like an iSore to me.

Re:iSore?

[gfxguy]

No joke... "breathtaking" in a bad way, maybe.

Re:iSore?

[Anonymous Coward]

None of the corners are rounded. Philippe Starck didn't want to get sued.

Re:iSore?

[Anonymous Coward]

Congrats on first dickishness. Very clever.

I don't own any Apple products, and likely never will - I have major philosophical differences with that kind of closed-source approach.

But y'know what? Jobs was a fucking genius, and that boat is a clear expression of how his vision matured over the years. Just because I don't like the underpinnings of Jobs' genius doesn't mean I can't appreciate it for what it was.

Oh, and y'know... he's dead. Those wars are over, asshole.

None of what you said alters the fact that the boat is sort of ugly. When vision matures in this particular manner it's usually called cataracts.

Re:iSore?

[slashmydots]

Don't worry, it will use Apple Maps and crash into something in Nebraska. Yeah, that far inland, lol.

Re:iSore?

[Maxo-Texas]

You're right. It's matured in a sort of Lucasian way. You know the way that the last star wars movies made were so mature and superior to the first star wars films made.

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I don't hate jobs or apple. Even owned an iphone 3.

That boat is ugly.

Re:iSore?

[donscarletti]

An hater would say that it shows that Jobs had no design talent of his own, an admirer would say it shows he was too professional to waste Jony Ive's time designing his personal possessions. Either way, his legacy as a man of taste would have been greater if the executor of his estate scuttled her before she was complete.

Bandwidth saver

[Anonymous Coward]

For those of you who wish to save bandwidth and not seek out a picture:

Imagine USS Seal and Merrimack having a love child.
Imagine a hurricane depositing a pagoda on top.
But not as pretty.

I can't wait to see

[Anonymous Coward]

Samsung's CEO's new yacht. I hear they'll be debuting it next year.

Re:I can't wait to see

[Duhavid]

Did you mean debugging?

It's a fake.

[aurashift]

And if you had any doubt this is Steve Jobs' yacht, there are seven 27-inch iMacs in the wheelhouse.

Why yes I do. I doubt any egocentric billionaire could afford one of those $1800 27-inch iMacs, much less seven of them. Good lord, such opulence!

Jobs' Yacht Released

[Stephen Gilbert]

No sails. Less space than an aircraft carrier. Lame.

Re:iSnored?

[ozmanjusri]

And they named her Venus.

They probably didn't realise "The Good Ship Venus" had a fair bit of prior art. I wonder who they'll sue for that?

I don't mind it...

[xQx]

Sleek and mirrory with floor to ceiling windows... until you see the wheelhouse. Seriously, WTF?!

It looks like Steve Jobs took the designs of the black ship that Zaphod Beeblebrox stole from the restaurant at the end of the universe, built it in white, then jammed a old corrugated iron shack on the top for a wheelhouse!

Re:Seaworthy?

[OhANameWhatName]

What happens when one of them takes a good sized wave?

It's important to hold the ship at the correct angle to the wave.

Re:Seaworthy?

[Anonymous Coward]

wait, WHAT?!? are you saying it has WINDOWS?!?

Where can it dock?

[ExploHD]

Too bad it needs a proprietary port

Nice looking??

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah it looks positively beautiful. When compared with a pile of steaming dog shit smeared into your living room carpet.

Re:iBox

[Garridan]

Worthless? Didn't you look at the pictures at the end of the article? It seems that the craftspeople who worked on the ship got an iPod shuffle each! That's a $50 value! Hardly worthless.

Re:Definitely not an Apple product!

[RespekMyAthorati]

He should've had his designers build models (for him to poop on) ..

Hence the iPoopDeck.

Nice packaging

[xs650]

Like most Apple iproducts the ibox it came in looks OK. When are they going to take the iyacht out of the box?

Re:You aren't so good looking yourself

[Anonymous Coward]

It's funny how children like you assign some kind of great validation to the act of sexual intercourse. It's as though you believe it to be some mystical thing that only happens to a select few of the chosen elite.

This might be a huge shock to you, but it's not. Attractive, ugly, skinny, fat, young, old, smart, stupid, rich, poor, good, evil; it's extraordinarily easy to "get some" no matter who you are. That fact that you seem unaware of this is indicative of your own immaturity.

Re:iSnored?

[flyneye]

Wash the bridge windows? Stand on the roof and pee on them.... Lager, rinse,repeat.

Re:iBox

[StripedCow]

And the Chinese galley slaves received a promise for better working conditions. Also very generous!