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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."
I don't know, it looks more like an iSore to me.
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.
What an ugly monstrosity. Well, we know Steve was a minimalist. Look at the pictures of the bridge. No buttons!
"Freedom in the USA is not the ability to do what you want. It is the ability to stop others from doing what THEY want"
Samsung's CEO's new yacht. I hear they'll be debuting it next year.
That is the ugliest seagoing thing I have ever seen. Job's design taste obviously didn't come from Jobs himself. He should've had his designers build models (for him to poop on) until he found one that was sleek and attractive.
Only the dead have seen the end of War. - Plato
Kind of Frank Lloyd Wrightesque... not my impression of a ship for rough seas.
... with all the profit from all the overpriced iDevices.
Looks like the Jobs reality distortion effect persists after death!
Never understimate the power of human stupidity -Lazarus Long
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!
This is a yacht!
http://diamondsyacht.com/
Sigs are for losers
At least it's not a rectangle with rounded corners, then he'd have to pay royalties to a certain company.
Big panels of vertical glass. What happens when one of them takes a good sized wave?
Have gnu, will travel.
No sails. Less space than an aircraft carrier. Lame.
Minimalist?
I barely want it to float. I've seen many beautiful ships. There is nothing on that that has any grace to it.
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've got more toys than Teruhisa Kitahara."
If you want sleek and minimalist, take a look at Wally Yachts. Personally, I prefer the ones with the big stick in the middle with those cloth things hanging from it.
Have gnu, will travel.
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!
I'd have thought a Buddhist would strive to be unencumbered by such monuments to worldly wealth.
But then, I might not be well enough informed.
How is it a shame that a cruel, lying, megalomaniac who disavowed his daughter's existence for nearly 20 years didn't get to out on his yacht?
I hate to be a nit-picker, but are those iMac monitors daylight readable?
Have gnu, will travel.
Damn, what a horrid yacht. It looks like a 1920s steam ferry.
Excuse me, but please get off my Pennisetum Clandestinum, eh!
As much as I dislike Apple, the company, they do have some smart looking gadgets. And they owe a lot of that to Steven Jobs, I'm sure. But that thing looks like the Staten Island Ferry. A nice one, but a ferry none the less.
I just went to Google, typed in yachts and hit image. There were some truly beautiful boats; sail and powered. Steve Jobs was NO boat designer.
....the first floating Apple Store.
Not at all. When men went to sea, the boat they were on, nurtured them and kept them safe from harm and alive.
When men aren't being stupid, they know women are the stronger sex. It is women they lean on when they are afraid. It seems only natural to think of that boat beneath their feet as a woman.
Ocean air is not the only corrosion to worry about. I've no clue what they intend to use to protect the alu hull with.
Story time folks, been told before but there may be new readers here.
In '59, I had the pleasure of being a bench tech, at a little place on Mission Bay called Oceanographic Engineering, helping to assemble the electronics for the 2 cameras that were mounted on the Trieste when it went down onto the mohole in the Pacific a few months later. The Navy had come in and bought the first 2 we made but instead of the cases we were going to use for towing them thru sewers to inspect the sewers, they gave us specs for a bronze case, with quartz windows they supplied. Designed to withstand about 25 kpsi, its 17 or 18 kpsi in the mohole. But they wanted to play a bit before the real show and asked us to make the first one out of 7078-T6 alu. It took us about 6 weeks to get a lathe that big AND accurate setup and we made the first case out of a 6" diameter alu rod about 2 feet long. Fixed it up with all the packing glands it would need. They picked up the whole kit on a smallish cruiser, 65' for so and took it out about 50 miles to give it a dunk test. We had sent it out and had the heaviest cad plate we could get put on it. They brought it back the next day and having been scratched by rolling around on the deck deep enough to penetrate the plating, and in one days time over the side and down about a thousand feet, those scratches came back to us 1/2" wide and an inch deep, just from being in the sea water for about 12 hours.
Needless to say, the real cases for the Trieste trip were cut from some special bronze that started out nearly 8" in diameter. The camera itself was 2.5" in diameter, so we bored a 3" hole for it in the bronze and padded it with weather stripping to hold it centered in the hole. Those 2 cameras, a rounded box with some relays in it to turn the stuff around and switch the lights, and the gondola of the Trieste were all that was pressure sealed, everything else was running at the ambient pressure which was considerable. Except for chewing thru the rubber diaphram separating the sea water from the oil in the pan & tilts for one of the cameras, that trip down with Picard and Walsh, it all worked. The P&T wasn't disabled & still worked when they came back up. With some very interesting pix I got to see a few of.
And Steve had it made with an ALU hull? 'scuse me, but... I predict it will spend a lot of time in dry-dock, getting patched. It likely won't last much longer than I will since I have a 78 year head start on it.
Cheers, Gene
I think they gave them one of those one things. You know. Those things. What're they called? It's right here on the tip of my tongue. I hate it when this happens. One of those one things. Ah-ha! I got it: a paycheck.
The card the the iPod are just thank you's. Going above and beyond. Ya putz.
You mean this?...
It was on the good ship Venus
By Christ, ya shoulda seen us
The figurehead was a whore in bed
And the mast, a mammoth penis
The Captain of this lugger
He was a dirty bugger
He wasn't fit to shovel shit
From one place to another
Friggin' in the riggin'
Friggin' in the riggin'
Friggin' in the riggin'
There was fuck all else to do
Captain's name was Morgan
By Christ, he was a gorgon
Ten times a day sweet tunes he'd play
With his fuckin' organ
The first mate's name was Cooper
By Christ, he was a trooper
He jerked and jerked until he worked
Himself into a stupor
Friggin' in the riggin'
Friggin' in the riggin'
Friggin' in the riggin'
There was fuck all else to do
The second mate was Andy
By Christ, he had a dandy
Till they crushed his cock on a jagged rock
For cumming in the brandy
The cabin boy was Flipper
He was a fuckin' nipper
He stuffed his ass with broken glass
And circumcised the skipper
Friggin' in the riggin'
Friggin' in the riggin'
Friggin' in the riggin'
There was fuck all else to do
Friggin' in the riggin'
Friggin' in the riggin'
Friggin' in the riggin'
There was fuck all else to do
The Captain's wife was Mabel
To fuck, she wasn't able
So the dirty shits, they nailed her tits
Across the barroom table
The Captain had a daughter
Who fell in deep sea water
And by her squeals we knew the eels
Had found her sexual quarters
Friggin' in the riggin'
Friggin' in the riggin'
Friggin' in the riggin'
There was fuck all else to do
Friggin' in the riggin'
Friggin' in the riggin'
Friggin' in the riggin'
There was fuck all else to do
Friggin' in the riggin' ...
Friggin' in the riggin'
Friggin' in the riggin'
There was fuck all else to do
I'm sure there's triple redundant navigation systems onboard. While the custom iMac thing is flashy, a backup Garmin or similar commercial system is only going to add $40-60,000 to the cost of the boat. The bridge (as well as the rest of the boat) is likely climate controlled (my friend's $15,000 sailboat is, at least) and corrosion is going to be pretty minimal over the 20 year lifespan of this boat (megayachts seem to have a pretty short lifespan for whatever reason; styles change).
moox. for a new generation.
That the bridge has a 13 foot wide white surface with one silver coloured ball in the middle of it .. and no other instrumentation :)
Starck is the very embodiment of style over substance. His products often look kinda striking or eye-catching, but they function incredibly poorly. The man is a charlatan who threw out the first rule of design: form follows function. A great artist might just about be able to get away with that, but the only person who puts Starck in that category is Starck.
He's no genius, just an egomaniac with the ability to fool a surprising number of people at least some of the time.
I wouldn't be surprised if this thing is sunk in the first rough seas it encounters, if its design is anything like as poor as his laughable lemon squeezer.
Can someone knowledgeable about boats and yachts tell me if it that is a good design for a yacht? I only know what I see on TV/movies/web/Bay area, so while I don't consider it as aesthetically pleasing as others I've seen (okay, I find in almost ugly), I would like to know if there is some sort of functional/minimalistic reason why that is a great boat (I don't "understand" most modern art either, so I'm curious if this is something along those lines that a trained designer might appreciate).
Fark....the Wally//118 is 12 kinds of awesome!!
Would have suited apple's style much better than the hideous monstrosity they have now.
"Regardless of what may happen to her, she sure is a beauty."
No she isn't, she's hideous - a barge with a couple of boxes and some cardboard on top. Worse yet, with that straight bow and huge expanses of glass in the forepeak... she's not designed to keep the sea either. (And what kind of moron puts passenger spaces in the fo'c'sle anyhow? Other than a bunk slung between the mains, that's the worst part of the ship.)
She's obviously designed for nothing more than staying in calm waters or moored to impress the impressionable - an as a sailor, I say that's a abomination.
but I always thought the Astoria perfectly reflects Gilmours more laid back persona.
Maybe it's been fitted with great big lumps of magnesium to corrode in preference. It's going to be softer stuff than the 7078 and less likely to get such large corrosion cells within the actual material (up to 6% zinc in the 7078 so you could probably almost run a light bulb between areas of the zinc rich phase and the rest in salt water).
On the other hand, maybe it's not really meant to last, the old tax dodge was to use luxury yachts as a way to transfer money from one country to another by building something stupidly expensive and selling it in a year or two at cost or a slight loss in a different country. I don't know if that loophole is still open in any countries.
Too bad it needs a proprietary port
I'm a huge fan of art deco.
That boat is not art deco.
It's kind of blocky like the Victory Monument in Bolzano, northern Italy which an example of fascist art style.
And it kind of reminds me of the wells fargo plaza which is an example of the brutalist style except it's made from aluminum instead of concrete. The wiki says that brutalist examples are typically very linear, fortresslike and blockish.
Art deco was full of life, color, cool little design bits while also been clean and elegant.
That monochromatic floating white iron has none of those qualities.
She was like chocolate when she drank... semi-sweet at first and then increasingly bitter.
Yeah it looks positively beautiful. When compared with a pile of steaming dog shit smeared into your living room carpet.
It looks ugly, it does not look like a seafaring vessel, but I may be mistaken. Ugly lines
Jobs cofounded a company that built useful things, occupied a position of influence in its industry, made many employees and stockholders wealthy, and satisfied many customers.
Romney did what for his money, again?
Try as I might with these poor images, I can find only one hull. So many elegant multihull designs in recent decades and he has chosen a barge. It's not just speed that he's sacrificed, it's comfort, safety, fuel efficiency, ability to approach shallow water and, as so many have noticed, class.
...omphaloskepsis often...
Aren't various warships using aluminum hulls? Perhaps there is a better alloy?
I've sung "The Good Ship Venus" a few times, myself.
'Venus' is a head-turner/head-scratcher in the same way a person always looks at a Yorkshire Terrier doing #2 and wonders how it doesn't have its backside matted with dung.
1. It just does not look like it will be a good "sea-keeper", even with a slight turn near the bow.
2. The upright windows seem as though they will be hit bluntly by big seas, so must be quite strong.
3. There does not appear to be a way to wipe/wash the bridge windows, but they must have thought of that, surely.....
Looking at space, radio, science and computing from a 'down-under' amateur enthusiast perspective.
Russians like to refer to a boat or ship as "he"
Does that make you feel better?
lol
I've fallen off your lawn, and I can't get up.
Perhaps it's simpler than that. They loved women; they loved their ships. A backhanded complement to the ladies, methinks. Ever looked at figureheads? You'll find a lot of ladies, and generally very complementary artwork, too. Add that to the tendency to anthropomorphize things you depend upon, and... yep, seems pretty natural.
Ladies on ships of old would have been bad luck, too -- fights over them, rape, etc. Your average sailor didn't tend to come from the most cultured of roots, and privation doesn't tend to enhance behavior, either.
Just my opinion.
I've fallen off your lawn, and I can't get up.
Oh, that won't be a problem here. That thing has no style.
I've fallen off your lawn, and I can't get up.
Dude, come on, just look!
I've fallen off your lawn, and I can't get up.
Like most Apple iproducts the ibox it came in looks OK. When are they going to take the iyacht out of the box?
That ship shows Jobs' true design ability. The Apple products show the designer's ability, for which Jobs took credit.
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.
It looks like a boat designed by two people who weren't actually interested in boats or why good ones look the way they do. Let's just hope for the crew's sake that a proper marine architect was engaged for all the bits below the waterline.
From scarped cliff or quarried stone she cries "A thousand types are gone, I care for nothing, no not one."
Ocean air is not the only corrosion to worry about. I've no clue what they intend to use to protect the alu hull with....
Wow, for someone with such experience you seem to not know much about boats. Aluminium is quite a common material to make boats with, just google "aluminium boat" if you need more info.
It ain't just Steve Jobs/Apple, had the PC become owned by IBM, Atari, Commodore and god knows who else (japan had its own eco-structure and it becomes more and more obvious as the world gets smaller that back then every country had their own home computer brand), IT would have looked very different. ALL those companies were about owning the entire market, from the computers themselves (go buy a Commodore from Compaq) to the storage media, the joysticks EVERYTHING.
It is thanks to Compaq, MS and Intel (and the "failures" of the rest) that we got this accidentally remarkably open platform. Apple sold expensive PC's, thanks to Compaq creation of the IBM-compatible, we got cheap PC's and thanks to those who cloned Compaq's we got EVEN cheaper PC's. Some might point out the Apple Mini but Apple would NEVER have produced that IF they didn't have to because of cheap PC's. Proof? Apple didn't produce them when there weren't any cheap PC's. That is why Apple almost went bust the first time around.
Thanks to MS we got an OS that would work ACROSS cpu's... yes i know AMD and Intel both made X86 but if you think that makes them automatically fully compatible in all but their most base modes, you are a silly person. And this gave buyers, a CHOICE. Apple/Atari/IBM never gave you a choice. You buy what they choose to sell you. Intel thought 33mhz was enough for the 386(if I remember correctly) and AMD made a 40mhz version and people could choose. Could choose NOT to buy IBM or Dell or Compaq and roll their own.
It all happened by accident and thank god for it, wintel was/isn;t perfect but we narrowly avoided situations that would have been far far worse.
But that doesn't mean we are saved. The openess and freedom of the PC and internet might have come around by accident but that doesn't mean it can change.
Bootcamp, was that introduced because Apple wanted you to be able to use the OS of your choice or because they knew that if people couldn't run Windows on a Mac, they would sell fewer Mac's? I seen an amazing amount of Macbooks with the Aero design on the desktop.
Closed architectures are not just limited to niche attempts like Linux. If a mono-culture exists, control becomes easy. The US is rather famous for NOT having state censorship for TV such as England has. Instead, the TV broadcasters "choose" to censor themselves and no politician has to stand up and say"I want to limit free speech" but can "think of the children" thanks to self-censorship.
There have been countless stories of mega-stores in the US censoring products. Walmart censoring music CD's, App store refusing to carry apps. This doesn't matter, as long as a free alternative exist, the internet in general. But as AOL has shown and MS network and countless other attempts, there is a constant push to create walled gardens. And a walled garden isn't that bad, as long as you can get out with relative ease but nobody builds a walled garden with the idea that people should be able to get out easily.
When mega-stores are the only places to shop, their control becomes extremely risky to a free society. And with the app-store, Apple and Steve Jobs have given everyone who values real freedom a frightening look at how IT could have turned out if Jobs had sold cheaper PC's.
Jobs has the most depressing eulogy you could think off: "Thank god the man was a failure at the most critical time". And we can only pray that it remains true because if the app-store walled garden approach succeeds in W8 new app-store, the PC environment as we know it, is doomed.
MMO Quests are like orgasms:
You may solo them, I prefer them in a group.
Wow, for someone with such experience you seem to not know much about boats. Aluminium is quite a common material to make boats with, just google "aluminium boat" if you need more info.
I am not the person you're replying to, but I did google for aluminum ships. This was the first hit in my list.
Quoting the article:
You can't make this stuff up: the Navy concedes the first vessel in its latest fleet of warships - the 18-month old USS Independence (not to be confused with the late aircraft carrier sporting the same name) - is suffering from "aggressive" corrosion.
"The agriculture ministry is not in charge of Gundam" - Japanese ministry official.
To me it looks like a yacht designed to stay in a harbor and entertain guests with a occasional flat water cruise. If it looked something like a Ulstein X-bow then we would know that it is a serious bad weather vessel.
Passionately Indifferent
Wash the bridge windows? Stand on the roof and pee on them.... Lager, rinse,repeat.
*Repent!Quit Your Job!Slack Off!The World Ends Tomorrow and You May Die!
In fresh water, yes. Great boats till the rivets start leaking in 25-30 years. Salt water OTOH, is very corrosive to aluminium which I usually shorten to alu.
I personally think it looks horrible, it's a big triangle, it looks like a mac book case and overall it bulky and retro styled in a bad way. I would of expected to see something like this in an old star trek episode as a "future yacht", I would never of thought that anyone would build a massive yacht and make this ugly on purpose.
I don't know, this makes the Jobs family look like the biggest group of douches in history.
I've said it before that usually when some rich billionaire dies of some kind of disease, there is usually some kind of center for research that the family declares in his honour. I've heard nothing, no donations, nothing from Apple or the Jobs family about giving some of them billions into research that might help prevent other families suffer the results of cancer.
Instead the family happily reveals a superfluous yacht. What a bunch of douches.
Why do people love this company? The create inhuman working conditions so they can produce their devices a 2 - 5x profit margin, rake in billions in profit and then hoard the money away giving absolutely nothing back to society. Yet Bill Gates, who has focused his life to philanthropy, giving away billions, is regarded as an asshole.
I haven't thought of anything clever to put here, but then again most of you haven't either.