9 staterooms, 3 jacuzzis & glass-bottomed pool
*There are also water cannons aboard Koru to repel pirates, paparazzi or Amazon delivery drivers looking for well-deserved revenge. *
And the super-sized yacht also has a $75 million support ship named the Abeona, which hosts the helicopter pad that wouldn’t fit on Koru
If I had Musk-level wealth, I’d get one of these:
Larry Ellison did the same decades ago. His yacht was so big it could not dock at marinas but had to anchor offshore which made hobnobbing with fellow millionaires a bit difficult.
Google AI:
Yes, Larry Ellison famously faced this exact predicament with his 454-foot yacht, Rising Sun, which was, at the time, one of the largest privately owned yachts in the world.
- Docking Issues: Built in 2004 to be longer than Paul Allen’s yacht, Rising Sun was simply too big to dock in many of the premier Mediterranean marinas like Cannes and Monaco.
- Offshore Anchoring: Ellison was frequently forced to anchor a mile or more offshore, sometimes mooring near industrial container ships instead of the prestigious docks he preferred
- The “Hobnobbing” Difficulty: This logistical nightmare meant having to commute to shore via smaller tender boats, reducing the casual, docked “socializing” with fellow billionaires that is often part of the superyacht experience.
- Downsizing: Ultimately, citing the impracticality and the immense size, Ellison sold his stake in Rising Sun to David Geffen and replaced it with a smaller, more versatile, 288-foot superyacht named Musashi.[
Rising Sun was also described as having a lack of intimate space, described by one friend as feeling like “an empty mall”
The Captain
Think about how rich you would have to be that you could drop half a billion dollars on a boat and with so little thought that you did not consider that the size of it may limit your ability to use the existing infrastructure.
It vexed him terribly that he had to dock next to oil tankers and container ships instead of the sublimely wealthy he was trying to impress.
Pete