Giga-Yacht A - attracts A Lot of Interest
by Power Boat World on 24 Sep 2008
Gigayacht A SW
With a name like 'A', this boat, the sixth largest superyacht in the world was always going to attract 'A Lot of Interest'. One lighthearted example was recently published on Gizmodo, unfortunately the author Jesus Diaz mixed up one of the Get Smart villian groups with a popular synthetic rope material
Giga-Yacht A probably is Spectra's Mobile Headquarters
This is A, a giga-yacht that looks like a cross between a First World War battlecruiser, a submarine, and a spaceship. The A is 387 foot long, with three pools, one master suite, six guest suites, and rooms for 42 staff. Or 42 trained evil *Spectra ninjas. The scale of this thing is just mind-blowing, you just have to look closely at the side gate, which seems big enough to hold a dozen of torpedo boats.
To give you an idea of the carbon footprint this thing has, the fuel tank is so big that it costs $1.4 million to fill up. It's owned by Russian billionaire Andrey Melnichenko, who got it built for about 150 million euros at the Blohm & Voss shipyard, Germany, following a Phillipe Starck design.
* Not SPECTRA but actually SPECTRE (the SPecial Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion).
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