Fishing Boats: Custom Aluminum Boats

Thursday, 1 November 2012

Custom Aluminum Boats

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.