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This will be the first vacation that the millionaire spends on his new superyacht. He has chosen Mallorca as his first stop
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The yacht is valued at $300 million and has capacity for 24 guests and 48 crew members.
The typical thing about the midlife crisis is wanting to buy a convertible sports car (although some of us have to settle for trying to get into one). However, Mark Zuckerberg, like the good millionaire that he is, has set the bar a little higher and for his fortieth birthday he bought two superyachts. One for him, and another for support so that he doesn’t lack anything.
As summer is already around the corner, Mark Zuckerberg is ready to debut his birthday present and, of course, he has come to the paradisiacal Mallorcan coast to do the filming, according to what he says. The Mallorca Diary.
A superyacht that wants to go unnoticed. He launchpadIt has been seen in Majorcan waters after a voyage from Florida waters where it anchored just a few weeks ago. The place that Mark Zuckerberg has chosen to dock has been the new outer dock of the Club de Mar in the Mallorcan capital, staying away from curious eyes.
However the launchpad It is not a boat that goes unnoticed due to the two-tone design of its hull, the finishes of the wooden floors and, above all, the 118 meters in length that are difficult to conceal.
A controversial yacht. Mark Zuckerberg bought the pair of yachts for $330 million, of which $300 million was used to pay the launchpadwhile the remaining 30 were allocated to wingmana 65-meter-long yacht that Zuckerberg uses as support for the launchpadbut which belonged to Gabe Newell, co-founder of Valve.
He launchpad It has its own history since its previous owner was a company linked to the Russian oligarch Vladimir Olegovich Potanin. A Russian millionaire banker who made his fortune in nickel mining under the power umbrella of the Russian political upper echelons. Following the blockade of the United States and Europe on Russian fortunes, goods of Russian origin were seized and the launchpad It was one of the assets that were confiscated in the Netherlands. So the state managing entity took charge of auctioning it and Mark Zuckerberg was the highest bidder.
Palma: superyacht catwalk in summer. The outer dock of the port of Palma was built to accommodate large vessels such as the launchpad or Jeff Bezos’ supersailboat. In addition, it is relatively close to the Mallorca airport terminal, making it a good starting point to start a vacation.
This means that, during his stay in the port of Palma, Mark Zuckerberg shares a mooring with titans like the Yasmine of the Seaowned by the royal family of Qatar with 80 meters in length, or the superyacht Tango of also Russian millionaire Viktor Vekselberg, which has been moored in this port for two years under embargo, waiting to suffer the same fate as the launchpad.
A summer of luxury on board. If there is no doubt about one thing, it is that Mark Zuckerberg will not miss a detail to enjoy the maximum level of comfort and luxury on board. He launchpad It was manufactured in the Feadship shipyards in the Netherlands based on the design of the prestigious design studio Espen Øino Internacional and with interiors by Zuretti Interior Design, a studio recognized for its excellent taste for luxury when equipping the interior of its boats.
The yacht can accommodate 24 guests and 48 crew and service personnel on board. At the moment, local sources have not reported the presence of Mark Zuckerberg on the island. But patience, if the launchpad is moored in this corner of the world, its owner will soon arrive. Although the weather is not on its side.
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