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Steve Job's Yacht - Venus

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Re: Steve Job's Yacht - Venus

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Post by jerrya »

I would like someone to confirm that is Steve Job's Yacht and that he was involved in the design process.

That yacht seems the antithesis of a Jobsian yacht.

Ostentatious. Gaudy. A landlubber's office complex on water. Features and design that would make it difficult to handle on water.

Dysfunction follows form.

Re: Steve Job's Yacht - Venus

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Post by gorans »

jerrya wrote: post #2

I would like someone to confirm that is Steve Job's Yacht and that he was involved in the design process. That yacht seems the antithesis of a Jobsian yacht. Ostentatious. Gaudy. A landlubber's office complex on water. Features and design that would make it difficult to handle on water. Dysfunction follows form.

It does look like more like a building than a yacht

Re: Steve Job's Yacht - Venus

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Post by freejack »

jerrya wrote: post #2

I would like someone to confirm that is Steve Job's Yacht and that he was involved in the design process. That yacht seems the antithesis of a Jobsian yacht. Ostentatious. Gaudy. A landlubber's office complex on water. Features and design that would make it difficult to handle on water. Dysfunction follows form.

I had a similar emotional reaction to the boat. I don't know the first thing about yacht design so I'm really out on a limb here, and I don't think I would go so far as to say "ostentatious" or "gaudy" although there were a few things that seemed a bit out of place to me. The shiny bow, the boxiness of the rear decks, the symmetry of the roof lines - none seemed really consistent with what I would have expected. Of course I don't know what I was expecting, just that this didn't feel right. Even the name feels a bit off. I imagine that this is someone's boat, and I'm not totally convinced that this one belongs to the Jobs'.

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Post by dagw »

jerrya wrote: post #2

I would like someone to confirm that is Steve Job's Yacht and that he was involved in the design process. That yacht seems the antithesis of a Jobsian yacht. Ostentatious. Gaudy. A landlubber's office complex on water. Features and design that would make it difficult to handle on water. Dysfunction follows form.

Dysfunction follows form.

You're assuming the primary function of a yacht is to travel quickly and gracefully through a wide variety of waters. While some hold that view, other believe the primary function of yacht is to be an awesome office, apartment and party space that can be moved between the St. Tropez and Monaco harbors. This boat seems to fulfill latter function perfectly.

Re: Steve Job's Yacht - Venus

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Post by snogglethorpe »

The funny thing is that the sum seems less than the parts here—nothing looks really all that bad in isolation[+], but as a whole it's awkward and unbalanced, looking like unrelated pieces sort of crammed together as an afterthought. Utterly without grace.

I wonder what Apple's industrial designers think about it...

[+] Aesthetically, mind you; judging from comments on other sites, the hull shape is not so good for an ocean-going vessel...

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