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Check this baby out! 

Yahoo Story.  (I had a different picture posted here but you couldn't tell the length of it)

Here's a quick post for you. A yacht that Steve Jobs commissioned is finally finished (October 27, 2012). Sadly it's after he passed (A year and a few days later). Why is this on this blog? Because it was built in Aalsmeer Holland by a Dutch shipbuilder. Figures the Dutch are good at building quality sea going vessels. Just slightly southwest of Amsterdam with a 'harbor'. Here's a brief synopsis of the article. There are more pictures of the boat there too. 

Just over a year after Steve Jobs's death, shipbuilders in Aalsmeer, Holland have finally finished the yacht that the Apple visionary spent years designing. Her name is Venus. (Or should that be iVenus? Sorry to easy).  Built entirely out of aluminum, the yacht was designed by Jobs personally along with some help from French designer Phillipe Stack. The ship is between 70 to 80 meters (Close to 230-262 feet) but because of the aluminum construction, it's lighter than your typical yacht, giving it a bit of an edge when it comes to speed. It doesn't lack amenities, either. The front of the ship is equipped with a uniquely large sun deck with a jacuzzi built in. Behind that comes an all glass cabin that's topped with a bridge equipped with seven 27-inch iMacs that handle the ship's navigation and controls. 
Walter Isaacson wrote about the yacht in his biography of Steve Jobs, who had evidently been working on the project alone for six years:
After our omelets at the café, we went back to his house and he showed me all of the models and architectural drawings. As expected, the planned yacht was sleek and minimalist. The teak decks were perfectly flat and unblemished by any accoutrements. As at an Apple store, the cabin windows were large panes, almost floor to ceiling, and the main living area was designed to have walls of glass that were forty feet long and ten feet high. He had gotten the chief engineer of the Apple stores to design a special glass that was able to provide structural support. By then the boat was under construction by the Dutch custom yacht builders Feadship, but Jobs was still fiddling with the design. "I know that it’s possible I will die and leave Laurene with a half-built boat," he said. "But I have to keep going on it. If I don’t, it’s an admission that I’m about to die."
Sadly, Jobs did die before the yacht was finished, but the folks at Feadship (check out this link, they make pretty boats) finished the job. Evidently, the Jobs family recently had a little christening party with the shipbuilders, who all got an iPod Shuffle with "Venus" engraved on the back as a token of thanks. 
--Cool. Never been on a yacht. Or anything bigger than a pontoon for that matter. I don't count the cruise I went on when I was 10 because I can hardly remember what it was like. But regardless, Venus looks fun. 

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