If you have a few hundred million in the bank (or just like to fantasize about it,) you’ll want to peruse this selection of superyachts decked out with retractable swimming pools, underwater karaoke suites, personal submarines and even supercars included as a ‘free gift.’ Or perhaps a massive yacht that doubles as a private artificial island complete with a water desalination system is more your speed.
1. ORSOS Island Yacht
If you’ve got US$6.5 million to spare, you can have your very own floating artificial island that can be anchored anywhere in the world. The ORSOS is a superyacht with 1,000 square meters of living space, including room to sleep 12, an underwater karaoke suite, a jacuzzi, sun loungers, a dining room and an aquarium. While it has two small diesel engines for cruising short distances, it has to be towed for long journeys.
2. Superyacht that Comes with a Free Supercar
When you’re paying US$25 million for a state-of-the-art superyacht powered by twin Rolls Royce engines, maybe it’s not so crazy to expect a free handcrafted supercar as a bonus.
The Strand Craft 122 by Gray Design features an Art Deco interior, four double rooms, four large staterooms, a reception area and crew cabins and can go up to 50 knots, while the unnamed supercar achieves a top speed of 230 mph.
3. Submarine Yacht
The U-101 Undersea Yacht is a submarine for pleasure cruising, with two levels of sun decks and an enormous interior.
This is not to mention that it also has both a single-person jet ski and a smaller submarine for underwater exploration.
4. Infinitas by Schöpfer Yachts
With its carved-out stern, the Infinitas by luxury boat designer Schöpfer Yachts looks like a bird skull skimming along the surface of the sea.
The design inspiration actually comes from the symbol for infinity, which can be seen in the two large ‘eye’ openings from above. The 300-foot yacht has a pool deck, on-board elevator, helipad and glass-floored ‘sky bridge.’
5. Adastra Trimaran Yacht
Designed for an experienced ocean voyaging billionaire couple and their family, the Adastra Yacht uses extraordinarily small amounts of fuel for a range of 4,000 miles.
The three-hulled trimaran yacht reminiscent of a spaceship can be controlled remotely at the touch of an iPad and cost US$15 million.
6. Unique Circle Yachts by Zaha Hadid
Architect Zaha Hadid applied her organic sense of aesthetics to ‘Unique Circle Yachts,’ a series of five individual 90 meter yachts for Blohm + Voss with a design informed by “fluid dynamics and underwater ecosystems, with hydrodynamic research shaping the design of the hull.”
Says Hadid, “The exoskeleton structure of the upper section is an interwoven network of supports that vary in thickness and lend a natural aesthetic to the yacht’s external appearance; evoking the organic structural systems of natural marine formations and connecting the various levels and decks of the ship seamlessly via expressive diagonals.”
7. Oculus Yacht
There’s something comical about the Oculus yacht, a ship that looks like a giant white fish surfacing to catch some food in its open mouth.
Designed by Schöpfer, the 250-foot long-range cruising yacht can accommodate 14 people in five-star-hotel comfort, with a three-level interior and 12-foot ceilings.
8. Atreides Yacht by Vuk Dragovic
A fully extendable shallow pool extending from the rear of the Atreides Yacht by Vuk Dragovic provides a sheltered place to swim.
While many yachts offer pools that can be thrown into the water, no other designs have featured this sort of retractable pool. The solar panels on the roof are a nice touch, too.
9. Voronoi Lacework Yacht
An intricate lacework hull gives the Voronoi mega-yacht its highly unusual appearance, letting in fresh air and sunlight while sheltering inhabitants with a honeycomb pattern.
Designed by yacht enthusiast Hyun-Seok Kim, the yacht is made for entertainment purposes and features an indoor garden, golfing green, hot tubs and a pool.
10. Floating City Yacht
Four platforms equipped with thrusters keep this ‘yacht island’ stable even in extreme weather. While ‘Project Utopia‘ doesn’t look like a yacht in any conventional sense with round 13-floor design, it’s able to move ‘at slow speeds.’ Says the designer, “Utopia is not an object to travel in, it is a place to be, an island established for anyone who has the vision to create such a place.”
11. Sustainable Hybrid Yacht
Reportedly the world’s most sustainable yacht, the Columbus Sport 130-foot Hybrid was designed to have the smallest possible impact on the environment. The ship can turn off its main engines and run on generators alone, and while that results in a slower speed, it drastically cuts fuel use.
The aluminium body reduces the weight of the ship to cut fuel consumption even more, and it’s recyclable. The ship, which is currently being produced in Italy, has a range of 5,000 nautical miles.
12. Dreamboat Yacht
Another yacht challenging the conventions of contemporary yacht design, this ship by designer Hyun-Seok Kim won the 2011 ‘Dreamboat’ Millennium Yacht Design Award.
Large glass panels create transparent walls on three sides, and the rest of the boat is made from plastic and fiberglass for light weight.
13. Rolls Royce Inspired Yacht
Created after designer Stefan Munro interned at Rolls Royce, this yacht inspired by the Phantom blends the luxury automaker’s iconic aesthetics with seafaring function.
Inside and out, it’s every bit as stylish and luxurious as you’d expect a Rolls Royce to be.
14. Chronos Wavy Wooden Yacht
Organic curving wood certainly makes the Cronos yacht stand out from every other luxury watercraft in any given marina. Made of compressed waste bamboo, the wind- and solar-powered yacht concept is probably as low-impact as yachting could ever get.
The engine room is even clad in Halite, a fabric that absorbs 15% of the room’s heat to convert it into electricity for the battery.
15. Flying Yacht Concept
When you’ve plumbed every possible luxury that can be added to a luxury yacht, the ‘next level’ is flight - at least, according to this crazy concept by designer Phil Pauley. The 7-star ‘Cruiser’ series of boats can fly, submerge or extend upwards to add an extra deck.
The Fly Cruiser theoretically sprouts wings at the push of a button, lifts off from the surface and flies at a speed of over 100 knots, but it’s not clear what technology would actually allow this transformation to work.
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