Steve Jobs ’ racing yacht has made what is believe to be its first public coming into court in Aalsmeer , Holland .
The racing yacht , which was trace in Walter Isaacson ’s biography of Apple ’s belated co - founder , is baptize ‘ Venus , ’ after the Roman goddess of love and beauty , and is reportedly made with lightweight aluminium and is up to 80 metres long .
Isaacson write that Jobs was working on the conception of his racing yacht in the week before his death in October 2011 . “ As expected , the planned racing yacht was sleek and minimalist , ” Isaacson said . “ The teak deck were utterly flat and unblemished by any accoutrement . As at an Apple Store , the cabin windows were large panes , almost floor to ceiling , and the independent aliveness arena was designed to have bulwark of glass that were forty feet long and ten groundwork high . ” This description for certain fits the photographs of the telling yacht that emerged this weekend .
“ By then the boat was under construction by the Dutch custom racing yacht builders Feadship , but Jobs was still fiddle with the design . “ I know it ’s potential I will die and forget Laurene with a half - build gravy holder , ” he said . “ But I have to keep going on it . If I do n’t it ’s an price of admission that I ’m about to die , ” Isaacson wrote .
According toThe Verge , the ship builders were give an iPod shuffle each with ‘ Venus ’ inscribed on it , and a banknote that thanked them for their “ concentrated study and craftsmanship . ”
Photographs , taken by One More affair , of the inside of the yacht show seven 27 in iMacs that make up the helm , and the inside is cogitate to have been plan by Phillippe Starck .
Jobs ’ widow , Laurene Powell Jobs , and their three child are conceive to have been present at the racing yacht ’s unveiling .
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