Ha!
Seriously. Thought a guy with an eye for design wouldn’t make something so laughably hideous, but here we are. Maybe he should have put some of his Apple people on the job. I thought for sure his yacht would be sleek as all hell, but yeech!
Just wait till they patent the white rectilinear seagoing vessel.
It reminds me of the Maritime Museum in San Francisco during its better days. http://www.bing.com/local/details.aspx?lid=YN114x2029832&qt=yp&what=maritime+museum&where=San+Francisco%2C+California&s_cid=ansPhBkYp02&mkt=en-us&q=maritime+museum+san+francisco&FORM=LARE
And it was an ugly building.
Wow, it really does resemble the Maritime Museum. I love the look of Jobs’ yacht and think it’s cool as hell. I don’t really like minimalist decor for myself but I think it’s a great design for someone like Jobs who does. I hope we’ll get more details as to its features in the future and perhaps some photos of the interior. Jobs’ family seems to be pretty private though, and I hope this isn’t the last we’ll see of it.
I like it.
But I have to admit I wondered why there was a pic of the laundry room:confused::o
Frank Lloyd Wrong
It might look better once the full size black turtleneck case covers it completely.
The bigger problem is that they sacrificed functionality for aesthetics. If someone stands in the wrong place on one of the decks, the ship’s radio stops working.
Apple insists this isn’t a design flaw, and is reportedly creating an instructional video showing the crew and passengers how and where to stand properly.
Eh…a little too Bauhaus for my tastes.
What exactly are those curved chrome-looking things behind the control console?
It looks like a floating dentist’s office.
I assume they’re meant to be leaned up against by the crew, in lieu of chairs. Which is strange, because I’ve never been on a boat where the captains chair isn’t the most comfortable piece of furniture on board.
The captain’s chair may traditionally be the most comfortable chair on the ship, but the captain’s chair is not situated immediately behind the bridge controls. The officers and crew man the controls.
I noticed it was designed by Phillipe Starck, and I’m not a fan of his design: this just confirms my opinion.
It looks like a glass sided beach house on top of a faux 30’s warship hull.
It’s so ugly Jobs wouldn’t be caught dead aboard it.
Whut?
It looks like a stapler from the Sharper Image. Sleek, stylish, and destined to end up on E-Bay in about three months.
Looks like they bought an old ferryboat and tarted it up. Seriously, what was this thing built for? Ocean cruising or staying anchored in SF Bay? Frankly, I like JP Morgan’s yacht better.
Certainly couldn’t have been designed by Johnathan Ives, which is kind of a relief. Apple should still be in good hands. Despite no consumer level yachts.
Maybe in the military, but in my experience on private boats of this size (mostly research vessels and vessels serving the oil industry in the Gulf of Mexico) the captain (or whomever is on watch) does indeed sit in a comfy chair at the controls.
My experience is with commercial vessels.
Here’s a photo of a research vessel’s bridge controls. No comfy chair. Nor in this one(note master in comfy chair in background away from controls).
However I did find some photos showing comfy chairs at the bridge controls. It seems to vary. However, certainly it seems that Jobs’ yacht isn’t unusual in not having a comfy chair at the controls.