According to biographer Walter Isaacson, former Apple CEO Steve Jobs spent the last several years of his life designing a custom yacht with an ultralight aluminum hull so his family could sail around the world together. Just over a year after Jobs' death, the boat, dubbed "Venus," was christened on Sunday in the Dutch shipyard where it was built.
Jobs' widow, Laurene Powell Jobs, and their three children attended a ceremony yesterday in Aalsmeer, Netherlands, according to Dutch site One More Thing. Venus was built in the Netherlands by Feadship, with design assistance from noted designer Phillipe Starck. Starck revealed in April that the results of his longtime collaboration with Jobs would be revealed in eight months, suggesting the yacht was finished a little earlier than planned.
A tribute to the minimalist design that Jobs championed at Apple (along with SVP of Industrial Design Jony Ive), the all-aluminum hull looks like it could have been carved from a single piece of aluminum, like many of Apple's computers and mobile products. Other notable features of the finished vessel include smooth, all-teak decks, a rear hatch to launch a separate speed boat when a suitable dock isn't available to go ashore, and a wheelhouse powered by seven 27" iMacs.
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