“Steve Jobs’s superyacht Venus was free to leave Amsterdam port on Monday after the late Apple co-founder’s estate paid a deposit to resolve a dispute with designer Philippe Starck, who had had the yacht impounded,” AFP reports. “‘The Venus is no longer impounded, we have found a solution,’ said Gerard Moussault, a Hague-based lawyer for the Jobs estate.”
“The vessel, which reportedly cost over 100 million euros ($127 million) to build, was impounded after Starck said Jobs’s estate still owed him three million euros for his contribution to its design,” AFP reports. “The Dutch-built yacht, which was only unveiled in October – just over a year after Jobs died – is in Amsterdam harbour because of bad weather. ‘The captain is waiting for better weather to set sail,’ Moussault said.”
AFP reports, “The yacht will reportedly be shipped by another ship to the United States, where Jobs’s family, including widow Laurene Powell Jobs and their three children Reed, Erin and Eve, are to take charge of her. The aluminium-hulled yacht was built by Royal De Vries shipbuilder’s in Aalsmeer, just south of Amsterdam, with interiors designed by Starck.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Yay, Steve’s white whale is free to ugly up harbors and waterways for years!
“Venus.” When you have to resort to the power of suggestion, you’ve failed.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Lynn Weiler” for the heads up.]
Related articles:
Steve Jobs’ mega yacht impounded over unpaid Starck designer bill – December 21, 2012
Insights into Steve Jobs’ design process revealed; spent 5 years working with Philippe Starck on super yacht ‘Venus’ – November 19, 2012
Steve Jobs’ yacht ‘Venus’ unveiled in Aalsmeer, The Netherlands (with video) – October 28, 2012
Philippe Starck: Oui, that ‘revolutionary Apple product’ is actually Steve Jobs’ family’s yacht – April 17, 2012
The real genius of Steve Jobs, the perfectionist – November 7, 2011
Steve Jobs’ quest for perfection could make even buying a sofa into decade-long ordeal – October 25, 2011
It has ‘inner’ beauty. Show us your beautiful yacht MDN.
I see Wright’s “Prairie School” architecture in Venus.
Kinda sorta, but I don’t think the sloping roof line was “Prairie School”. I like the needle-like hull. I’m not sure the squarish superstructure fits or is as sea-worthy as it could be. It’ll probably be an expensive houseboat.
Its recessive genes have clearly descended from an earlier disaster:
http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-usn/usnsh-m/monitr-c.htm
“Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.”~ Steve Jobs
The yacht will reportedly be shipped by another ship
Makes me think it doesn’t work too good. Although I’m sure it will be OK cruising the placid waters inside San Francisco Bay.
I definitely don’t think the rear of it is attractive at all, but the picture above does not show this ship in its proper perspective. It doesn’t look nearly as slab sided when you can actually see the length of the ship. The rear definitely looks like a huge afterthought though.
All that said, beauty is definitely subjective, and if each of us had a yacht commissioned, I’m sure that there would be people who found our vision to be ugly no matter what it looked like.
A better pic of the ship is found in the linked article.
At first blush, this yacht might be one of the few Jobs-okayed designs I don’t care for.
But maybe a few days aboard would change my opinion.
Hey MDN, how about you just S.T.F.U. on this thing. You wouldn’t know class if it it bit you on your fat ass.
Speaking of fat asses, have you seen the back of this floating mess?
No, but I did recently see a picture of Kim Kardashian wearing tight leather pants, and it will haunt me forever. I swear she has one humongous ass cheek that looks like it belongs on a hippo.
Butt it already does belong to a hippo…
Your photo is of the yacht under construction, with the front portion missing. MDN, you are stooping pretty low to try to prove your point!
Au contraire, this is the finished eyesore in all of its “glory.”
I’m no expert but don’t board under construction sit in some shop somewhere and only get put into the water when they are completed?
Who cares what MDN thinks about design anyway…. Look at this POS app they designed and force is to use…. Their design aesthetics are suspect in my book.
I second this. Please fix your crap app before giving any design comments. Even surface has better interface than this crapp. Titles are truncated. Only app with font issues. Not to mention very slow…
Uh yea… MDN is the last place I go to for feedback on yacht design. Stick to what ya know
Please, someone write an app to allow access to MDM and filterout MDM’s prejudices, which are many. He’s more offensively intrusive than Flash; and there’s an app for that.
MDN’s take leaves me mystified as to who is at the helm. They must be on vacation and left the bratty kid in charge.
Let’s face it, Steve okayed an ugly boat. It’s not the first time he had a rare lapse in judgement (hockey puck mouse).
The hockey puck mouse wasn’t ugly it was just annoying to use. It was designed to be used with fingertips which is not the way most people use mice. Frankly Apple has never made a mouse I particularly liked.
It cost 100 million Euros.
Do you have any idea how many MDN fanatics could have been given a million Euros if Steve had just given that money away to MDN posters and not built an ugly yacht?
100?
I still say it looks spectacular. Especially from the linked photos (stern and all…). The foreshortened one posted by MDN is a highly distorted perspective. Don’t be surprised to see this beauty in SFO for the Americas Cup in 2013.
35 years in the business.
Properly-designed craft look gorgeous from any angle.
In general, I will agree, but with one caveat… you have to see something in person for that to be true.
Photographs are not the best thing to make aesthetic judgments on.
Waiting for better weather? Hmm. Was it the white personal flotation devices that were still waiting for the delivery of the matching white buckles, or was it the black ones that were waiting for the black strobe lights? One good thing: the ship will have a very good radar cross-section. Other ships will be able to avoid it or find it.
‘The captain is waiting for better weather to set sail,’
Surly it’s no sail boat.
And no, you don’t say like that.
I’m not sure why MDN thinks Steve’s yacht is ugly. Would he be happier with that fat, bloated, pig Ballmer floats around Lake Washington?