Take A Look at Steve Jobs’ Baller Yacht

Jobs never got to actually sail it, proving that all the giant yachts in the world won’t save you from cancer. The guys who built it were hit off with iPod shuffles with the name of the boat, Venus, engraved on them. They couldn’t pony up some iPads? Here’s a description of the boat by Walter Isaacson in the Steve Jobs biography:

After our omelets at the café, we went back to his house and he showed me all of the models and architectural drawings. As expected, the planned yacht was sleek and minimalist. The teak decks were perfectly flat and unblemished by any accoutrements. As at an Apple store, the cabin windows were large panes, almost floor to ceiling, and the main living area was designed to have walls of glass that were forty feet long and ten feet high. He had gotten the chief engineer of the Apple stores to design a special glass that was able to provide structural support. By then the boat was under construction by the Dutch custom yacht builders Feadship, but Jobs was still fiddling with the design. “I know that it’s possible I will die and leave Laurene with a half-built boat,” he said. “But I have to keep going on it. If I don’t, it’s an admission that I’m about to die.”

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