Cars

How Big Is The Biggest Yacht In The World?

You remember the Eclipse, the 170m long yacht by Russian gazillionaire Roman Abramovich. It is the largest private yacht in the world. But maybe that claim is hard to visualise… until you see it compared to a 747.


June 15, 2010
Cars

Undersea Yacht Submerges When Your Sunburn Starts Hurting

It’s like something from a James Bond film. You can just see Daniel Craig jumping effortlessly from the land-dock onto the deck of a yacht gliding away slowly, and as he hurries into the cabin the yacht submerges, bubbles rising.


June 9, 2010

Origami Yacht Folds Onto Itself For Optimum Speed

Just when I thought that yachts couldn’t get any crazier, here comes Origami, the daughter of an Imperial Star Destroyer and an F-117 Nighthawk.


May 30, 2010

Someone Finally Realised That Super Expensive Yachts Need Garages

There are plenty of super yacht concepts that I’ll never touch, much less own – such as ones with three-level designs or impossible masts – but I’m still happy that a design finally includes a built-in garage. And a super car.


May 11, 2010
Cars

Paul Allen’s Yacht Could Be Yours For $177 Million

The 92m-long Tatoosh is number 26 on the world’s largest yachts list, but don’t worry too much about Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen: he still owns the world’s ninth largest, the Octopus.


April 22, 2010
Cars

Lamborghini Yacht Is The Perfect Playmate This (Italian) Summer

Hey it’s summer here in the States, what better excuse do we need for posting three yachts in one week? Especially when one of them has been styled after Lamborghini’s sportscars, taking the angle of the chassis and creating a 15m-long waterbeast.


April 21, 2010
Cameras

Anti-Paparazzi Yacht No Match For Video Camera

It must be superyachting season, with Russian billionaires fighting for column inches about their most expensive/lavish/largest/laser-equipped yachts. Roman Abramovich’s $US1.2billion, 170m Eclipse has appeared on film, as it sets sail from Germany this week.


April 19, 2010
Cars

Never-Before-Seen Look Inside A $US300m Phillippe Starck Mega-Yacht

This site is no stranger to multi-million dollar mega yachts, but rarely do we see such an in-depth video tour of these modern day sea monsters as we do in this video of Andrey Melnichenko’s “A” from the WSJ:


March 27, 2010
Cars

Supernova Is First Zero-Carbon Footprint Megayacht

The Sauter Formula Zero Solar Hybrid Megayacht is a 60m catamaran, with four diesel-electric, counter-rotating propellers, rotational wingsails and solar cell arrays. All that to enable it to cruise at 17 knots with zero carbon footprint. [Sauter via Born Rich]


March 22, 2010
Cars

Plastiki, The Ship Made From Plastic Bottles, Set Sail Saturday

After four years of development, the Plastiki finally set sail on Saturday from San Francisco, where it will travel 17,700km to Sydney. Its website has useful tracking stats for all nautical nutters, well worth checking out. [Plastiki]