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Who Owns Which Superyacht? (A Complete Guide)

Have you ever wondered who owns the most luxurious, extravagant, and expensive superyachts? Or how much these lavish vessels are worth? In this complete guide, we’ll explore who owns these magnificent vessels, what amenities they hold, and the cost of these incredible yachts.

Get ready to explore the world of superyachts and the people who own them!

Short Answer

For example, Larry Ellison, the co-founder of Oracle, owns the Rising Sun, which is the 11th largest superyacht in the world.

Overview of Superyachts

The term superyacht refers to a large, expensive recreational boat that is typically owned by the worlds wealthy elite.

Superyachts can range in price from $30 million to an astonishingly high $400 million.

The most expensive superyacht in the world is owned by the Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani.

In conclusion, owning a superyacht is an exclusive status symbol for the world’s wealthy elite.

Notable owners include the Emir of Qatar, Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich, Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.

Who are the Owners of Superyachts?

From Hollywood celebrities to tech billionaires, superyacht owners come from all walks of life.

Other notable owners include Hollywood stars such as Leonardo DiCaprio and Johnny Depp.

Many are everyday people who have worked hard and saved up to purchase their dream vessel.

These luxurious vessels come with hefty price tags that can range from $30 million to over $400 million.

Many of these yachts are designed to the owner’s exact specifications, ensuring that each one is totally unique and reflects the owner’s individual tastes and personality.

The Most Expensive Superyacht in the World

When it comes to superyachts, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, the Emir of Qatar, certainly knows how to make a statement.

In addition, the Al Mirqab features a helipad, swimming pool, and even an outdoor Jacuzzi.

Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich, Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos all own luxurious vessels.

Other notable owners of superyachts include Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, who owns the $200 million Kingdom 5KR, and Oracle founder Larry Ellison, who owns the $200 million Rising Sun.

With their impressive size, luxurious amenities, and hefty price tags, these vessels have become a symbol of wealth and prestige.

Notable Superyacht Owners

At the top of the list is the Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, who holds the distinction of owning the most expensive superyacht in the world.

The amenities that come with these vessels vary greatly from owner to owner, but they almost always include luxurious swimming pools, helicopter pads, on-board cinemas, and spas.

Whether you’re trying to impress your peers or just looking to enjoy a luxurious outing, owning a superyacht is the ultimate way to show off your wealth.

What Amenities are Included on Superyachts?

The cost of a superyacht can range from $30 million to over $400 million, but the price tag doesnt quite capture the sheer extravagance and amenities of these vessels.

The interior of a superyacht can be custom-designed to the owners specifications.

Some vessels even come with a full-service gym, complete with exercise equipment and trained professionals.

Other amenities may include a library, casino, media room, and private bar.

Many yachts come with outdoor entertainment areas, complete with full kitchens, dining rooms, and lounge areas.

No matter what amenities a superyacht has, it is sure to be an experience like no other.

How Much Do Superyachts Cost?

When it comes to superyachts, the sky is the limit when it comes to cost.

The cost of a superyacht is driven by a variety of factors, including size, amenities, and customization.

The bigger the yacht, the more luxurious features and amenities it will have.

From swimming pools and helicopter pads to on-board cinemas and spas, the sky is the limit when it comes to customizing a superyacht.

Many luxury vessels have custom-designed interiors that are tailored to the owners tastes.

While some may be able to get away with spending a few million dollars, others may end up spending hundreds of millions of dollars on their dream yacht.

Keeping Superyachts Out of the Public Eye

Understandably, these individuals are concerned with privacy and discretion, and therefore tend to take measures to ensure their yachts are not visible to outsiders.

In addition to physical security, some superyacht owners also use technology to keep their vessels out of the public eye.

Finally, some superyacht owners also choose to limit the number of people who have access to their vessels.

These individuals may be required to sign non-disclosure agreements to ensure they do not disclose any information about the yacht or its owner.

Final Thoughts

Superyachts are a symbol of luxury and status, and the list of yacht owners reads like a who’s who of billionaires.

Whether you’re looking to purchase one or just curious to learn more about the owners and their amenities, this guide will provide you with all the information you need to stay up to date with the superyacht scene.

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5 Bravo Eugenia Facts: Who Is Her Owner? What Does She Cost?

Ever since  Oceanco’s impressive superyacht Bravo Eugenia debuted, yacht lovers have been wondering who her owner is. And what did she cost? Today we bring you 5 interesting facts about Eugenia.

She’s A Giant!

At a length of 109m and with a gross tonnage of 3,418, Bravo Eugenia is undoubtedly a mammoth of a yacht. At her length, she is amongst some of the most notable yachts over 100m, such as Lurssen’s 2021 delivered  Ahpo  (previously named Enzo) and Lloyd Werft’s infamous  Luna , which recently  made headlines .

She’s Got A Famous Owner

Jerry Jones is the proud owner of the massive Bravo Eugenia. If you thought owning one of the biggest superyachts in the world is enough, it isn’t for Jones, who also owns the Dallas Cowboys. He enjoys the vessel alongside his wife Eugenia, from whom the superyacht gets her name.

She’s Very Expensive!

Jones, the owner of Eugenia, has accumulated an eye-watering net worth of $8.5bn. Due to his immense wealth, the superyacht, which cost him $250m, only made up a fraction of his overall fortune. The prioritisation of incorporating eco-friendly features over reducing costs is one reason for the yacht’s high price tag.

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She’s kind to the planet.

Bravo Eugenia is kitted out with a whole host of sustainability features that make her more eco-conscious. She boasts an enhanced hybrid propulsion system, minimal allocation of technical space and 30 per cent fewer fuel needs. She also has 100sqm of guest space at the waterline level. This reduces the need for extra length, and therefore extra power.

She’s An Award Winner

With four nominations and two wins in 2019, Bravo Eugenia has proven to be a major star in the superyacht world. The vessel picked up awards for her sustainability at ‘La Belle Classe Explorer Awards’ and was the recipient of the ‘Yacht of the Year’ title at World Yachts Trophies.

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The human side of yacht ownership

How would you characterise the typical yacht owner? Whatever you may have been led to believe, the truth is simple: for most, it’s about using their yachts for precious family time, and for many it’s also about using their yachts for good.

There’s a theme that is repeated on countless yachts large and small the world over – superyachting, for most, is not about being seen but rather the opposite. It’s about yacht families and their friends enjoying precious, private moments away from the pressures of demanding business lives and the long hours running those businesses can entail.

“I have an extended family, and when our schedules allow we all like to gather on the yacht and spend some quality time as a family,” Douglas Barrowman , owner of the yacht Turquoise , told Superyacht Life back in 2017. “There is no place like a yacht for family togetherness.”

Douglas Barrowman with family

A love of the sea, adventure and technology

Superyachts and yacht ownership are also a way to explore the world around us, and to interact with and grow to understand extraordinarily diverse communities from remote Pacific islands to the Scandinavian Arctic. It’s something that inspired tech entrepreneur Jasper Smith to combine his love of adventure and his love of the sea with an opportunity for owners to give back while indulging their passion.

“I have always had a deep passion for the ocean,” Smith says. “I grew up watching Jacques Cousteau movies and being enthralled at the idea of being challenged by an endeavour.” When he set out to find his own perfect explorer yacht, however, he realised it didn’t yet exist. His answer was to create Arksen. “My aim with Arksen was to create the perfect machines to enable adventure,” he enthuses. “I also wanted to build sustainable boats which considered full life cycles, from material sourcing to recycling.”

That’s not all – Arksen also asks owners of its yachts to sign up to a pledge it calls 10% for the Ocean, where they will donate 10% of their vessel’s time to philanthropic activities. “A lot of people who have the money feel a responsibility to try and make sure that the oceans are well looked after,” Smith explains. “The people that are attracted to Arksen are passionate about the ocean and want to go off on slightly more advanced expeditions and trips. With that audience, there is a tremendous buy-in to the boat being for more than just their own purposes.”

Superyachts as a force for good

It speaks to the heart of the matter, which is that the superyacht industry and yacht owners in particular have a heart – they care about preserving the environment they enjoy, and they care about the communities they interact with who make them feel so welcome when they visit. It’s reflected in the smallest of gestures, such as donating materials and books to local schools, to the largest – helping with last-mile delivery of critical disaster relief. It’s about superyachts giving back.

It’s a positive-impact attitude toward humanity that is quietly typified by hundreds of superyacht owners, who often prefer to do their thing under the radar rather than take false glory for their philanthropic or humanitarian endeavours. For some it’s as straightforward as getting involved in projects with organisations like YachtAid Global . For others, their endeavours become a key reason for yachting.

American superyacht owner Carl Allen is a prime example of these philanthropic yacht owners. After selling his company, and having enjoyed chartering and owning yachts as a family for years, Allen set up Allen Explorations to deliver a full programme of projects, ranging from historical shipwreck searches and environmental research to disaster relief. Indeed, Allen’s support yacht Axis played a vital role in the aftermath of Hurricane Dorian – one of the most powerful storms ever to hit the Bahamas.

“We had to drop everything and help after the hurricane,” says Allen. “ Axis delivered over £700,000 of supplies and made multiple trips to Little Grand island in the Bahamas. We’ve turned it into the epitome of how to organise hurricane relief.” The team helped get the local school back up and running, and organised for a group from Florida Power and Light to help restore power. “The island also lost their water tower,” he adds, “so we delivered four tanks on  Axis .”

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Celebrating the good in the superyachting good life

From family time to time spent embracing the global family, superyacht owners have a far greater positive impact than many assume from preconceived ideas about what a superyacht is and the sort of person who owns or charters one. It’s one of the reasons The Superyacht Life Foundation, in association with the Monaco Yacht Show , has unveiled The Honours, which is a way to celebrate the people of our industry rather than the yachts which so often get sole focus. It’s about recognising the extraordinary contributions that people make, the change they inspire, the opportunities they create, and the lives they change.

On 26 September, the eve of the 2023 Monaco Yacht Show, three honourees – nominated by people from across the superyacht industry, and selected from a shortlist by an expert panel of industry judges – will be feted for their work and contribution to superyachting. These are industry professionals and yacht owners who epitomise what superyachting can do. These are people who highlight the good in the superyachting good life.

Yacht owners, impactful journeys

All around the globe, yacht owners are enjoying precious time on their yachts with family and friends, and many are also realising that their yachts can be a force for good and for change, tying in with their philanthropic works and humanitarian endeavours.

“Our yacht is a platform for much of our life,” offers Joe Anderson , co-owner of the Benovia Winery in California with his wife, Mary Dewane. “For instance, we used it at a fundraiser for cystic fibrosis in Baltimore at the 200th anniversary of the Star-Spangled Banner event. The Blue Angels were flying overhead and used Bella Una [the couple’s yacht] as a GPS coordinate and performed flybys, tipping their wings at us. It was quite a thrill. Having a yacht is a way to keep the family intact, enjoy time with friends and have fun.”

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Mike Lynch’s yacht was ‘unsinkable’, says boss of company who built boat

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Boats like Mike Lynch’s superyacht are “unsinkable”, according to the chief executive of the company that builds and sells the vessels.

Giovanni Costantino, the chief executive of the Italian Sea Group, said there are no flaws with the design and construction of the Bayesian and it is “one of the safest boats in the world”.

The Bayesian, a 184-ft superyacht carrying 22 passengers and crew, was anchored off the port of Porticello, near Palermo, when it disappeared beneath the waves in a matter of minutes after a freak tornado struck.

The Italian Sea Group owns Italian high-end yacht manufacturer Perini that built the vessel owned by British tech magnate Mike Lynch, who was confirmed dead on Thursday after his body had been recovered from the wreck of the boat.

Mr Lynch’s 18-year-old daughter Hannah is still unaccounted for. The bodies of the other four people who vanished when the boat went down were recovered from the yacht on Wednesday.

“The ship sank because it took on water, from where investigators will have to say,” Mr Costantino told television news programme TG1 late on Wednesday.

Citing data from the yacht’s automatic tracking system and based on available footage, Mr Costantino said it took 16 minutes from when the wind began buffeting the yacht, and it began taking on water, for it to sink.

Mr Costantino said the Milan-listed group had suffered “enormous damage” to its reputation, with shares falling 2.5 per cent since the disaster.

The disaster has baffled naval marine experts who said such a high end vessel should have top-class fittings and safety features and should have been able to withstand such weather.

Besides Mr Lynch and his daughter, the other people who failed to escape from the boat were Judy and Jonathan Bloomer, a non-executive chair of Morgan Stanley International; and Clifford Chance lawyer Chris Morvillo and his wife, Neda Morvillo.

Fifteen people, including Mr Lynch’s wife, managed to get to safety, while the body of the onboard chef, Canadian-Antiguan national Recaldo Thomas, was found near the wreck hours after the disaster.

Specialist rescuers have been searching inside the hull of the sunken yacht for the past three days, but operations have been challenging due to the depth and the narrowness of the places that the divers are scouring, the fire brigade said.

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Breaking news, captain of doomed yacht that capsized off italian coast speaks out as desperate search for survivors is carried out.

The captain of the doomed Bayesian superyacht that capsized off the coast of Italy on Monday said the crew and passengers had no idea a tornado was about to rage through the region until their ship sank.

Captain James Catfield, who piloted the 184-foot, British-flagged luxury yacht, was among the 15 crew members and passengers to survive after the tornado struck Monday before sunrise.

“We didn’t see it coming,” Catfield told Italian newspaper La Repubblica from the hospital, where he was limping due to an injury.

One person, believed to be the on-ship chef, died in the wreck and six people remain missing, including British tech tycoon Mike Lynch and top New York City lawyer Christopher Morvillo .

Morvillo’s wife, Neda, a jewelry designer, is also one of the six passengers still missing, officials said. 

In addition to the Morvillos and Lynch, the missing include Lynch’s 18-year-old daughter, Hannah, as well as Jonathan Bloomer, a chairman at Morgan Stanley Internationa l, and Bloomer’s wife, Judy.

What to know after a tornado sank the yacht Bayesian off the coast of Sicily:

• A superyacht capsized off the coast of Sicily after a tornado hit the area early Monday, killing seven passengers.
• British tech tycoon Mike Lynch was identified as one of the bodies pulled from the wreckage. His teenage daughter, Hannah, was the final one to be recovered.
• Lynch — known as “Britain’s Bill Gates” — had invited guests from Clifford Chance, a legal firm that represented him, and Invoke Capital, his own company, on the voyage,  according to the Telegraph . 
• Security camera footage shot from 650 feet from where the  Bayesian sank Monday  shows it disappearing.
• A rare and unexpected “black swan” weather event may have led to the  Bayesian’s speedy demise , maritime experts say.

Morvillo, 59, helped Lynch, the owner of the capsized luxury boat, win his fraud trial earlier this year.

Lynch had invited guests from the legal firm that represented him, Clifford Chance, and Invoke Capital, his own company, on the voyage, according to the Telegraph . 

The boat left the Sicilian port of Milazzo on Aug. 14 and was last tracked east of Palermo on Sunday evening, according to vessel tracking app Vesselfinder.

Police divers continued their search for the missing passengers Tuesday, focusing on an area some 164 feet underwater, where officials believe people may be trapped.

The search thus far has been slow because the Bayesian sits 50 meters below the surface, where divers can only stay for 12 minutes at a time, fire rescue officials said Tuesday.

Fire officials have said the six people unaccounted for will be referred to as “missing” until they are located in the wreckage. 

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Why Giò Ponti will always be one of the great interior designers

In his long and busy life, Giò Ponti (1891–1979) was the ultimate Italian designer. But what exactly does that mean?

I never got to meet Ponti, but I did know Piero Fornasetti. Their collaboration seems essentially Italian: a coming together of elegant structure with witty effects. Ponti designed the furniture, Fornasetti decorated it in his idiosyncratic fashion – a serious architect working with a whimsical artist. The result was both touching and profound.

Some of Ponti’s greatest designs – industrial metal office chairs made in 1935 for the Palazzo Montecatini and a range of domestic furniture for his own apartment at 49 Via Dezza in Milan – have recently been reissued by yacht interior design brand to know Molteni & C. Ponti saw no distinction between his life and his art and wanted his clients and customers to think the same way: the idea was “vivere alla Ponti”. His apartment was designed to prove the point.

When I was reading about “living Ponti-style” in the architectural magazine Domus that I stole from the school library, I was learning about Italy itself. Liverpool’s El Kabala coffee bar, with its magnificent chrome Pavoni La Cornuta espresso machine, which Ponti had designed in 1948, was my introduction to the designer, and his 1957 Superleggera chair, inspired by a fisherman’s original from Liguria, was in my imagination long before I could pronounce it.

As a schoolboy, I didn’t know that, back in 1928, Giò Ponti had founded Domus . Nor that he was the moving spirit behind the Milan Triennale and the Compasso d’Oro awards, which made Italian design a world phenomenon. Of the Palazzo Montecatini and Via Dezza I was also ignorant – though I did know the Torre Pirelli from photographs, as it featured in my prized and battered edition of Nikolaus Pevsner’s Pioneers of Modern Design. It seemed almost painfully beautiful.

This began for me a period of Italy envy not yet concluded. The Italians enjoy figurative expressions, and their beautiful language is well adapted to them. Italy’s is the culture of la bella figura – a belief that appearances, comportment and graciousness are overwhelmingly significant in the well-managed life. We in what WH Auden called the gothic North live in certain knowledge that the Italians have better food, better clothes and more sunshine. And we suspect they have more and better sex, too. Merely thinking of Italy is a pleasure – to us, all the associations are positive. Alfa Romeo does not sound like a car’s name, it sounds like an erotic proposal.

And Ponti was the great shaman at the centre of it all. Italy’s industrial revolution did not occur until after 1945 and was not about coal and railways but furniture and consumer products. Actually, Italy circa 1900 was rather grim, but the years of la dolce vita that followed the end of the war made mass-produced beauty an everyday reality – or an everyday possibility, at least. One of Ponti’s inspirations was to escape the dark-brown Novecento Italiano artistic movement, founded in Milan in 1922 on the philosophy of Fascism. And the new industries were the escape route: “Industry makes style,” he used to say. You did not find Brits in Birmingham saying the same.

The newly emerging corporations built confident monuments: thus, the razor-edged Torre Pirelli – as lovely an example of industrial  bella figura as you can find and, like the Fornasetti cabinet, a Ponti collaboration, but this time with an engineer: Pier Luigi Nervi. These were years of supreme Italian economic confidence.

When the founding members of what became the EU agreed a treaty in 1957, they signed it, symbolically, in Rome. It was then that Fiat made its unforgettable series of small cars: Dante Giacosa’s Seicento and Cinquecento were created to get workers on the move, but became symbols of accessible style and democratised luxury.

At the same time, Olivetti glamorised office life with typewriters designed by Marcello Nizzoli to be as suavely elegant as statues. You could learn about all of this in Ponti’s Domus . He championed them all, as well as eccentrics such as Carlo Mollino – a furniture designer, a racing driver and photographer of eroticism.

The Via Dezza apartment building in Milan, designed by Ponti, was his last home and, here, he developed ideas that he had first explored in older dwellings on the Vias Randaccio and Benedetto Brin. Outside, individual owners could specify their own windows to give animation and variety to the street façade. Inside, in his eighth-floor apartment, he wanted “spazio continuo”, or deconstructed living spaces, populated by his elegant and comfortable furniture. There were movable walls. Even the bedroom was open-plan. To live Ponti-style, you needed to be open-minded as well as open-plan.

But perhaps his greatest residential masterpiece was the Hotel Parco dei Principi of 1960 in Sorrento – a perfect memorial to his sensibility. He was responsible for the building, the decoration, the furniture and the tableware. This was “total design”, the world alla Ponti, showcasing an architect, designer, teacher, polemicist – a man who crossed boundaries and lived comfortably in different territories.

Ponti’s hand was everywhere in mid-century Italy and it can still be seen today. The ceiling lights he designed for Augustus , the 1927 motor yacht by naval architect Nino Zoncada, were bought last year by fashion designer and  superyacht owner Domenico Dolce and installed in his Dolce & Gabbana Corso Venezia menswear atelier in Milan.

Dolce reveres Ponti and so, too, does anyone who loves modern Italy. Imaginative, sometimes unorthodox, but always, always elegant. Cosmopolitan, but indubitably and essentially Italian, Ponti combines the twinned senses of pleasure and purpose. La dolce vita indeed.

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