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Updated: 29/10/2012 17:15 | By Ginny Weeks, Lifestyle Editor, MSN
The Steve Jobs Philippe Starck yacht
Steve Jobs’s mega yacht ‘Venus’ has been unveiled at a Dutch shipyard
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Back in 2009, the late Steve Jobs commissioned minimalist designer and architect Philippe Starck to collaborate with him on a mega yacht project.
The results of that collaboration, one year after Jobs’s death, were revealed at the official launch ceremony in the Netherlands. The ceremony was attended by Jobs’s widow Laurene and three of his children, who christened the boat ‘Venus’, after the Roman goddess of love.
The enormous vessel - which measures up to 80 metres long - is made out of super-lightweight aluminium. According to the Dutch website OneMoreThing, it was launched by shipbuilder Koninklijke De Vries in Aalsmeer, in the Netherlands.
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30/10/2012 13:35
it looks as ugly as their boring products. I bet it crashes just as often too.
30/10/2012 13:31
i bet his wifes thinking ****, what did i do to you to deserve being left with this!the ship builders will be laughing all the way to the bank though.
30/10/2012 13:26
It looks like a floating IKEA store.
30/10/2012 12:25
Wow what an incredibly dull looking boat! I wonder how long it is before his wife puts it on ebay! Also I was dissapointed to not see a giant apple logo on the back!
30/10/2012 13:15
what an awfull monstrosity. It looks like a kid of three made it from Lego or used match boxes
There are no gracefull lines at all . That must be the ugliest thing afloat,
30/10/2012 12:35
ugly or what
30/10/2012 13:01
Designed via Etch-a Sketch.
This is what you get when you use Lego to illustrate your ideas to a boat builder.
The ugliest waste of money I have ever seen.
Peace.
30/10/2012 13:12
Not the best of looking yacht's.
30/10/2012 12:27
Looks like a barge a very expensive barge!
30/10/2012 12:22
I'll bet Steve Jobs had Phillipe Starck designs in his home. That's not a good enough reason to ask him to build a boat! Its hideous.
30/10/2012 13:37
Oh Dear! I hope the glass is tougher than that used on a certain phone.....
30/10/2012 13:21
A bit of luck it will sink and that will be the end of the biggest load of crap on the high seas, mind you the fish will probably push it back to the surface to get rid of it
30/10/2012 13:18
It look hideous
30/10/2012 13:17
Just as well he was depending on making a living from IT and not ship design!!
30/10/2012 12:11
It looks vile! But what would you expect from a man who is famous for 'designing' an orange juice extractor that looks like a rocketship from the Dan Dare comic strip?
30/10/2012 13:57
I wouldn,t say it,s the ugliest boat I have ever seen but it,s well in there,Are you sure it wasn,t designed by Stevie Wonder.
30/10/2012 13:35
It will be replace in 6 months with a new one, with a better (wind) screen
30/10/2012 12:45
Is it me or does the front bow look completely flat, a bit like someone took a big knife and just cut the front end off.
30/10/2012 14:14
It appears that today's ugly designs for Ships and Yachts are presently fashionable. With reference to the QM2, I have sailed a number of times in the Solent passing the QM2, which one can only be described as (and quite often I believe) an apartment block with no sleek designs from the exterior of the Ship
30/10/2012 13:12
There is SOME good in EVERYTHING !.
Also I wrote my post before knowing what the other contributors had said, and they appear to be in total agreement.
Whoever allowed themselves to design this carbuncle has to ask themselves why a tortoise (one of the world's slowest animals), is also one of the world's most aerodynamic animals, then you will see what happens even in a slight breeze.
A square block on a non-fixed hydraulic base !.
If anything good came out of that great man's death, it is that he is not here to see it.
Peace.
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