Steve Jobs’s unfinished megayacht

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Did you know that Steve Jobs was designing his own megayacht around the time of his death? Mentioned in Walter Isaacson’s new biography of Steve Jobs and picked up by the Luxuo and JamesList blogs, Jobs began developing his own megyacht back in 2009 and it would have been built at the Feadship shipyard in the Netherlands.

Apparently, Jobs did not like normal yacht designs plus he wanted something that would rival any yacht owned by his friend and fellow yachtsman Larry Ellison. Hence and like the Apple iPad or iPhone, Steve Jobs’ planned yacht design was said to be both sleek and minimalist with 40-foot long glass walls.

However and when asked about their Steve Jobs’ yacht project, Feedship was quoted as saying:

“Sometimes, word gets out about one of our yachts. We often build for captains of industry, royalty and other leading individuals. Understandably, our clients value their privacy greatly and consequently we never discuss our owners’ identity. We choose not to comment.”

So would a Steve Jobs megayacht look like an iPad or iPhone on water? We will probably never know for sure. However, Feadship’s Breathe concept, which it unveiled at last year’s Monaco Boat Show, would probably be a good indication. The Breathe concept yacht is intended to imitate forms in nature and is considered to be one of the most radical yacht designs by Feadship to date.

2 comments
  1. very interesting, thank you for posting! I had no idea that Steve Jobs did anything but iPads and stuff :P

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