Steve Jobs' superyacht unveiled at last
Vessel commissioned by Steve Jobs emerges from Dutch shipyard a year after his death
Steve Jobs' superyacht Venus has emerged from a shipbuilder's yard in the Netherlands just over a year after the death of the Apple founder, who had a big hand in designing the unusual vessel.
The 70-metre yacht is being built by Royal De Vries shipbuilders in Aalsmeer, just south of Amsterdam. With its plethora of right angles, rectangular windows and straight edges, the boxy vessel turns traditional superyacht design on its head.
According to a posting on Sunday on the Dutch tech blog onemorething.nl, the ship will be presented to Jobs' family, including his widow Laurene Powell Jobs and their three children Reed, Erin and Eve.
It will then be packed up and shipped by cargo to the United States. Those who worked on the ship each received an engraved iPod nano from the family, the blog said.
The bridge features a control panel made up of an array of seven iMac computers. Another Mac can be seen through a porthole above the anchor.
Sources told the blog that the ship took six years to design and build. Apple's top designer, Jonathan Ive, was involved.