| Feadship | 78.20M |"VENUS" | 2012 |

I expected custom designed aluminium tenders, but it seems that the one on the photos is a standard tender? Perhaps electric?

Will be a media circus when Venus arrives in Florida..there's quite some press coverage in Spain/Canary Islands, in the USA it will be 100 times more I think...
(Tenerife is not a major superyacht location or port as far as I know)

All sizes | Yacht Steve Jobs (Venus) | Flickr - Photo Sharing!

Someone posted this link awhile back... but it sure looks like a small floating office building...

And, the bamboo blinds look ratty already...

I heard through the grapevine... it was intended as a floating office for Jobs.

Some departures from normal... ???

Perhaps a new take on flat bottom deep draft technology.

Perhaps new station keeping / anti roll retracting technology with hydraulic jack pilings retracting into the bottom when not in use.

Perhaps some new recyclable / amphibian technology allowing to be placed on a slab on land and have a second life as a small office building or sculpture at Apple's Headquarters. And, able to be raised on lowered on the jacks to simulate being in a sea of grass.

Perhaps very deep draft for two stories of accommodations in the hull with a second band of under sea view underwater / lower story viewing windows.

Perhaps one big hybrid... of some kind.

Yes, I realize where P. Stark got some of his visual cues
I lived in the SF Bay Area for a quarter century, working for one of the big hi-tech companies there , and I drove by Apple's HQ on a daily basis...
Looks familiar?
Panoramio - Photo of cupertino

Also, I agee, I think (but clearly speculate!!) she probably carries an hybrid/electric propulsion solution.

Here's why:
Each of these RR diesels weights over 64 tons (that a whopping 128 tons total) , and considering the length of the vessel, I could only see these located somewhere amidship...hence requiring ultra long props shafts...
And if she's an hybrid, then the batteries also constitute a heavy mass that has to be placed properly.
Having flexibility in the placement of heavy components calls logically for an electrical solution.
Thus, I speculate for an electrical transmission, giving a better flexibilty to the designers to position components and balance the whole thing, while avoiding undue stress to the structure.
At least that's how the engineer-in-me wouldd have approached it

But frankly, I am really looking forward for the first "official" reports describing what's in there!

Cheers

Jack

I´m assuming there is an aft bathing platform, behind that huge door?

Wohouuu!!!! That´s a beach club like onland, not onboard! Reminds me of the one on A, similar huge door. I am not a fan of Venus, but I declare myself a fan of that beach club!

Does one really need such large engines to be solar?

Where are all the solar panels?

She may be diesel-electric (think train - nothing new at all), afterall, she averaged 16 knots thusly on her maiden voyage.


A little reading exercise:

Diesel locomotive - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Thank you...appreciated!
I'll go to bed tonight a little less stupid than this morning

Fortunately I knew already quite a few things about diesel electric traction! (in my pseudo "Eisenbahn" means "railroad" in German...which is a hint for which part of the industrial world I came from... )

I was not thinking "solar" either, but just like you, "Hybrid" as in "Toyota Prius", just much bigger

Cheers!
Jack

Forget about hybrid, solar energy or what ever for her propulsion system. Steve Jobs was called a late hippie, so my guess would be:
Flower power! hehe

Should holes in her hull for such underwater light be visible on the casco?
I don't see a bow thruster?
(Also for Jack Eisenbahn: a reasonable view of what she looks like underwater:


Late Steve Jobs luxury yacht hull transport Aalsmeer time-lapse - YouTube

In addition to the blinds she also has blackout shades on some of the windows. Venus, el yate del fallecido Steve Jobs | Flickr - Photo Sharing!