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The superyacht is 300ft (90m) high and has eight decks and an underwater observation room.
Its keel incorporates one of the largest single pieces of curved glass ever made, and the whole 1.8-tonne vessel is controlled from a touch-screen black glass panel in the bridge.
The superyacht is 300ft (90m) high and has eight decks and an underwater observation room.
Its keel incorporates one of the largest single pieces of curved glass ever made, and the whole 1.8-tonne vessel is controlled from a touch-screen black glass panel in the bridge.
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But that’s what you get if you spend £260million on a boat.
Andrey Igorevich Melnichenko’s imaginatively-named ‘Sailing Yacht A’ (he wanted the boat to be listed first in the shipping registers) is set to take its first sea trial in Kiel, Germany.
But that’s what you get if you spend £260million on a boat.
Andrey Igorevich Melnichenko’s imaginatively-named ‘Sailing Yacht A’ (he wanted the boat to be listed first in the shipping registers) is set to take its first sea trial in Kiel, Germany.
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Mr Melnichenko’s colossal pleasure boat is the largest sailing superyacht in the world at 468ft (143m). It has room to accommodate comfortably 20 guests and a 54-strong crew, and its hybrid diesel-electric package with pitch propellers can take it to a top speed of 24mph.
‘Sailing Yacht A’, which was designed by Philippe Starck and built by German Naval Yards, is an upgrade on Mr Melnichenko’s other boat, which is named, with equal originality, ‘Motor Yacht A’ and cost the Russian billionaire a modest £190million.
Mr Melnichenko’s colossal pleasure boat is the largest sailing superyacht in the world at 468ft (143m). It has room to accommodate comfortably 20 guests and a 54-strong crew, and its hybrid diesel-electric package with pitch propellers can take it to a top speed of 24mph.
‘Sailing Yacht A’, which was designed by Philippe Starck and built by German Naval Yards, is an upgrade on Mr Melnichenko’s other boat, which is named, with equal originality, ‘Motor Yacht A’ and cost the Russian billionaire a modest £190million.
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A spokesman for the 43-year-old, who has amassed a net worth of around £6billion from fertiliser company EuroChem, coal producer Suek, power generator SGK and pipe exporter TMK, called ‘Sailing Yacht A’ ‘a monument to invention.’
Benjamin Maltby of MatrixLloyd told MailOnline that ‘not since the days of mighty clipper sailing ships such as the Cutty Sark has such a large sailing vessel been built.’
A spokesman for the 43-year-old, who has amassed a net worth of around £6billion from fertiliser company EuroChem, coal producer Suek, power generator SGK and pipe exporter TMK, called ‘Sailing Yacht A’ ‘a monument to invention.’
Benjamin Maltby of MatrixLloyd told MailOnline that ‘not since the days of mighty clipper sailing ships such as the Cutty Sark has such a large sailing vessel been built.’
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