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Luxury yacht (also superyacht, large yacht and mega yacht) is a very expensive, privately owned, professionally crewed sailing or motor yacht.
A luxury yacht over 24 metres (79 ft) is considered as a "superyacht".[citation needed]
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Aristotle Onassis
This term began to appear at the beginning of the
20th century, when wealthy individuals constructed large private yachts for personal pleasure, such as
Charles Henry Fletcher's Jemima
F. III, at
111 feet, the largest motor- powered yacht in the world in
1908.[1] More examples of early luxury motor yachts include the
Cox & King yachts,
Charles L. Seabury and
Company's yachts,
M/Y (motor yacht) Christina O, and M/Y
Savarona.
Early luxury sailing yachts include
America's Cup classic J class racers such as
Endeavour and
Sir Thomas Lipton's
Shamrock.[citation needed].
A yacht /ˈjɒt/ is a recreational boat or ship. The term originates from the
Dutch word jacht "hunt". It was originally defined as a light fast sailing vessel used by the
Dutch navy to pursue pirates and other transgressors around and into the shallow waters of the
Low Countries. After its selection by
Charles II of England as the vessel to carry him to
England from the
Netherlands for his restoration in 1660, it came to be used to mean a vessel used to convey important persons.
Modern use of the term designates two different classes of watercraft, sailing and power boats.
Yachts differ from working ships mainly by their leisure purpose, and it was not until the rise of the steamboat and other types of powerboat that sailing vessels in general came to be perceived as luxury, or recreational vessels.
Later the term came to encompass motor boats for primarily private pleasure purposes as well.[citation needed]
Yacht lengths generally range from
10 metres (33 ft) up to dozens of meters (hundreds of feet). A luxury craft smaller than 12 metres (39 ft) is more commonly called a cabin cruiser or simply a cruiser. A super yacht generally refers to any yacht (sail or power) above 24 m (79 ft) and a mega yacht generally refers to any yacht over 50 metres (164 ft). This size is small in relation to typical cruise liners and oil tankers.
Between
1997 and 2008 there was a massive growth in the number, size, and popularity of large private or super luxury yachts in the 24-to-70-metre (79 to 230 ft) size range.
Luxury yachts, megayachts, or superyachts typically have no real home port as such, although a yacht must be registered in a port of the country where its flag state is registered.
Popular flag state registrars for large yachts are
Cayman Islands,
Marshall Islands,
Isle of Man, and the
British Virgin Islands, among others. (Many times the yacht will have never been to these ports.) They are particularly bountiful in the
Mediterranean Sea in summer and the
Caribbean Sea in winter. Many can be chartered (rented) for sums of up to 1 million
Euro for a week. Up to 1,
500 large yachts may be available to charter in a season in the
Mediterranean.[citation needed] The arrival of large commercial ships specially outfitted to take multiple large yachts across the
Atlantic ocean has created a much larger charter market in the
Caribbean than ever before.[citation needed] Yachts will dock in a port of choosing while the crew does maintenance work and waits for owners or guests to arrive. The vessels then will do short cruises with the owners and/or guests aboard.
Typical destinations in
Spain and the
French and
Italian Rivieras include
Cannes,
Antibes,
St. Tropez,
Monte Carlo,
Portofino,
Porto Cervo,
Puerto Banús, Puerto
Portals, and
Palma, Majorca, although increasingly luxury yachts are cruising in more remote areas of the world. Antigua is one of the main ports in the
Windward Islands of the Caribbean and hosts a
Charter Show at the beginning of the winter season.
While the demand for new luxury yachts has slowed somewhat since 2009,
2011 has seen a small rebound with launches from many of the top yards. The 163.5 metres (536 ft) M/Y
Eclipse, was built by
Blohm + Voss for
Russian businessman
Roman Abramovich[2] and the
180 metres (590 ft) Azzam launched in
2013 are the largest private yachts in the world.
Luxury boatbuilding and yacht charter companies are predominantly based in
Western Europe and the
United States but are also increasingly found in
Australia, New Zealand,
Asia, and
Eastern Europe.
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