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Philippe Starck reveals the real story behind Steve Jobs' yacht

A blunder by a phone operator might have prevented the miracle from taking place and no one would have ever known about it. Philippe Starck still laughs at the thought. It was seven years ago, at the headquarters of his Parisian offices near the Place de la République. The employee had informed the famous French decorator that a Mr. Jobs had called. The young woman did not see who that might be—despite the fact that she probably had a Mac running in front of her and had been downloading music on her iPod for some time. Perhaps she had even seen Toy Story , the film that revolutionized animated features. Still, she had not made the connection with the founder of Apple, former owner of Pixar , the man who transformed technology into an object of desire and commerce. She had written down his name but had refused to disturb her boss. The caller, who had spoken English, hung up without leaving a number. “Can you imagine the aura of Jobs in 2007” chuckles Starck today. “He was basically God! And she doesn't put him through because she didn't know who he is! We were off to a good start.”

It was a miracle that the Californian divinity was not discouraged. “For anyone who knew Steve,” Starck adds, “he almost certainly wouldn't call back after such a humiliation.” A few weeks after this, "God" was on line again. This time, the Parisian designer was just leaving for Milan, to the annual furniture trade show, a ritual meeting place for the experts of planet design. A half-dozen motorcycle taxis awaited him, as well as members of his team, with their engines running. He barely had enough time to make the flight to Italy where a multitude of press conferences had been scheduled—being late was not an option. “I already had my helmet on when the operator caught me, breathless,” he says. “Monsieur Starck! Monsieur Starck! You know that person, that Mr. Jobs? He wants to talk to you!” I took off my helmet and heard his voice: “Would you like to make me a boat?” “Well… sure,” I replied. The two men only exchanged but a few words: “Fifteen seconds” of conversation, confirms Philippe Starck. To the American billionaire's direct question: “Will you know how?” he says he proudly replied, before blazing on to the airport, “Of course! I have palms in between my fingers and scales on my back. I am amphibian.”

The son of an engineer who designed airplanes, Starck spent a great part of his childhood admiring ships. At 15, he taught survival in the case of shipwreck at a sailing school in the bay of Morlaix, he and his brother also raced boats on the Seine. “I always had boats, whatever the size,” he told the quaterly Mer & Bateaux in 2012 . I always have one in the concept stage or the building stage. My wife and I have lived in places where we could have a boat moored in front of our house. We live on the water and for the water.” Famous for his hotel and restaurant designs all over the world —the Café Costes, the Mama Shelter hotel, the Meurice and the Royal Monceau in Paris, the Royalton in New York, the Mondrian in Los Angeles and the Fasano in Rio—Starck did not necessarily want to design yachts for anyone beside himself. In Starck Explications , a manifesto published in 2003 for the exhibition dedicated to his work at the Pompidou Center, he tells the story of a prank pulled on a client who wanted to commission him a yacht : he had advised him to first go for a swim to see whether he truly needed a boat! Later, a “gorgeous woman,” whose name he does not mention, made him a new offer (it was Hala Fares, the spouse of the businessman and Lebanese vice-premier minister Issam Fares) that he declined because he found the very idea of a yacht “structurally vulgar.” The lady, cunningly, defied him to build one that avoided vulgarity, and for her he designed Wedge Too . Six years later, in 2008, Starck conceived the A for Andrey Menichenko, the Russian oligarch. 119 meters long and weighing 6000 tons, it’s one of the greatest motor yachts ever made, and its cost was an estimated $300 million. Its aggressive form was the object of very lively criticism: in an article on January 23, 2008, the Wall Street Journal even wondered whether it wasn’t “the world’s ugliest boat.”

Moreover, Starck prides himself on helping save the Bénéteau ship yard in Vendée from bankruptcy by designing a line of sailboats for it, then conceiving a revolutionary single-rudder racer, Virtuelle , designed in 1997, for a very wealthy Italian (even though the plans are officially signed by a transalpine naval architect). According to Starck, ten years later, it was this sailboat, with its minimal lines, that Steve Jobs cited as an example to persuade him to work for him—“ Virtuelle is the most beautiful boat I’ve seen in my life,” is what he told him ( Mer & Bateaux , December 2012). Starck, who is not averse to tributes, and is prompt to quote this Rousseau sentence : “I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices,” took the compliment as a challenge. Jobs too had his contradictions. In 1995, after Pixar ’s successful skylight public offering, he had said he “was not planning on buying a yacht.” But Venus was not going to be just any yacht.

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THE ASCETIC AND THE BON VIVANT

On April 28, 2007, Philippe Starck and his companion, Jasmine —he would marry her the following December—turned up in front of Steve Jobs residence in Palo Alto, California, in north Silicon Valley. The area seemed ordinary, the entrance gate did not look like much. A driver had taken them there after a twelve-hour flight between Paris and Los Angeles. Noting the modesty of the place, the French designer felt obliged to add : “We’re going to Steve Jobs’, you know, the head of Apple.” But the chauffeur did not turned around, it was the right address. “We got out. The gate in old ironwork was about a meter tall and there was a detail that struck me and pleased me, it closed with a plumbing jointure. I said to myself, “Wait, it might actually be here after all.” Starck opened it, crossed a “small yard,” knocked on the glass of what looked like a kitchen door. “It vibrated the way old tiles do. No one came but everything was open. Suddenly, a ghostly silhouette appeared, dressed in black. “Hi Philippe!” It was him, he kissed us. He was, straight away, extremely warm.”

It was there, in that “very humble little home in a chic and classic American suburb,” and which Philippe Starck deems was no bigger than 200 sq. meters, “that looked like 150,” that the two men came to know each other. Over the next four years, in the course of regular work sessions, a discreet and stimulating friendship united the two ingenious creative spirits, both endowed with equally oversized egos.

“He was the god of fastidiousness and I, I was the emperor of fastidiousness,” proclaims Philippe Starck quite simply. I am meeting with the designer in Paris, at one of his offices with a view on Place du Trocadéro. I had obtained the interview by dint of persistence and persuasion—after all, Jobs himself had had to call more than once. Starck is always in between two planes and ten homes (he owns properties—among other places—in Paris, Venice, Cap-Ferret.). He wants to be everywhere and nowhere, omnipresent but elusive. After all, he has called his company Ubik, borrowed from Phillip K. Dick’s masterpiece in which characters evolve in parallel universes.

Today, his company's offices and his main home are on the third floor of a majestic 1930s building with a panoramic view of the Eiffel tower and white spaces. Philippe Starck is wearing his usual outfit: jeans, sneakers and a hoodie. Jasmine is near him. A tall brunette, she too is wearing an informal uniform—black jeans and sneakers. A former publicist for the LVMH Group, she never leaves the side of her 65-year-old genius (she is 23 years younger), she monitors and records his words, intervenes, if necessary, to insert a recollection, corroborate a date, clarify a circumstance. A group of assistants finishes sweeping the room we are meeting in. “Cleaning,” in the true sense of the word, as in the figurative sense, is one of his obsessions. One day, he tells me, as he still couldn’t get over having been received by Steve Jobs in a house so wanting in luxury (in 2008, Forbes estimated the latter’s fortune to be $5.7 billion, the equivalent of more than 4 billion euros), he was emboldened to ask, “Steve, do you really live here?” “ Yes, why?” he answered. “It’s just that… everything is so clean, orderly, so tidy…" The Apple boss replied , “Oh, you want to see a mess?” and led him to his office. “There were a few newspapers scattered on the floor and two pairs of sneakers. This, for him, was the height of disorder.

As he recalls it, Steve Jobs lived in the middle of emptiness. “Not chic minimalism,” he states. “Rustic, rather. There was just nothing. A couch, three armchairs, a coffee table in the living room… Nothing.” In the biography that he devoted to the Californian inventor ( Steve Jobs , JC Lattes, 2011), Walter Isaacson also describes a man who was “so demanding with furniture” that his homes were empty. Before the one that Philippe Starck visited, he did nonetheless own a fourteen-room hacienda . For the house in Palo Alto, bought after his marriage to Laurene Powell in 1997, Jobs had to force himself to set up a minimum level of comfort—beds for a start—basic requirements for a family with three children (Reed, Erin and Eve). His character, sustained by Oriental philosophy was marked by austerity and bareness. On this point, the two men were in sync. “I’ve tried to be inspired by the Asian idea that emptiness is more important than fullness.” he wrote in Starck explications . Hence, the famous transparent chair he designed in 1998, and named The Marie, that is introduced as an “almost perfect object.” Just as the work that culminated in the birth of Venus tried to reach the “elegance of the minimal” according to Philippe Starck

Between April 2007 and the fall of 2011 (Steve Jobs died on October 5th, 2011), the Starcks travelled to Palo Alto one Sunday a month, usually with Thierry Gaugain—“my right arm, an exceptional character,” states the designer. Each session lasted twelve almost uninterrupted hours. The work was done on a coffee table, their backs bent, their noses only three feet above the floor. That is how it was. A torment for the bon vivant Philippe Starck, the usual posture for the ascetic Steve Jobs, invariably dressed in the black turtlenecks designed for him by Issey Miyake. It never occurred to the billionaire to even offer them a drink. “A large window hung above the space where we used to work,” recalls Starck. “We were literally cooking. From time to time Laurene would look in, “Have you offered them something to drink?” He would then return with a glass of water. There was never any food in his kitchen. Other than once when we ate together.” Starck remembers their host barely touched the dishes. Apart from his strict and hardcore vegan nutritional fads and phobias, Jobs was already gravely ill, cancer had been eating away at him since 2003. The Starcks say that each time they hugged him, they had the feeling that they would soon be holding nothing but a sheet of paper in their arms. “It still makes me tear up,” the decorator says—and while he easily draws the picture of an “poser," or "a show off", his eyes do, in fact, fill with tears at the memory.

A POT OF HONEY EVERY YEAR

In his conversations with Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs told the story of his yacht’s creation stating that Philippe Starck simply “helped” him design its interior design. It would be an understatement to say the latter did not appreciate this delegation. He considers himself the true parent of this floating unidentified object made of aluminum and glass, with its perfectly flat teak bridges and a beveled prow. If he is speaking—“for the first and the last time,” he emphasizes,—about his work on this project, and his relationship with Jobs, it is not only to provide “ a more nuanced analysis” of the strange client who commissioned it, but also, in great part, to set the record straight.

For him, there are two important facts that must be remembered. The first is that he, Philippe Starck, was chosen out of everyone else by the great man to bring his nautical dream into material existence. He recalls an anecdote told by Steve Jobs : “Every year we go on vacation on my friend Larry Ellison’s boat [the other Silicon Valley genius, founder of Oracle, according to Forbes in 2013 the world’s fifth richest man, is a sailing fanatic]. And every year, I say to myself, I too should have a boat built. But I don’t do it. Two years ago, I decided I was going to go for it. I looked at everything, asked everyone, and came to the conclusion that only one person can do it: you.” Even with an ego inflated with helium, how can one not keel over at such praise? “It was more than an honor,” Starck says, “a sacrament.” No doubt he means a consecration. Liturgical words are omnipresent in the mouth of this claimed atheist. During our conversation, he later invoked the “philosophical communion” of two souls in love with perfection.

So, Super Starck left their first meeting entranced. Galvanized by the confidence the most demanding of clients has placed in him. “He was giving me carte blanche, in some way.” The following night, in Los Angeles, he says he was struck by inspiration. Here, the second important fact, “I designed it all—all, all, all, in one and a half hours. The whole thing was wrapped up. I work extremely quickly.” Under what circumstances? “I was in bed. My wife was sleeping next to me. Los Angeles reminded me of Steve, Steve sailing… I said to myself, “Hang on, I’m going to draw it.” Jobs had given him very simples rules to work with. The length of the hull : 82 meters exactly. The number of passengers: “Family and crew. A total of six rooms, all of them identical.” And above all, one requirement: silence. “Steve wanted to be sure that the teenagers could be set up in the front of the boat when he was at the back and vice-versa. He was obsessed with silence. In his home, children did not make noise, nor the dog, nor his wife… no one made any noise, ever.”

Even on July 11th, 2008, the day the world discovered the iPhone 3G, the little house remained preternaturally calm. Starck remembers being the bewitched witness of this moment . “The entire world was in an uproar, people were standing in line for hours, in front of stores. It was the greatest launch of all time [barely three days later, Apple announced it had sold over a million units], the greatest investment and he barely seemed to register it. Not a single phone call made or received. Wow! That's true aristocracy in organization and mastery of self.”

At the next meeting, initially planned as the second contact between them, Starck arrived “with all the drawings.” He was carrying a large suitcase—“1.2 meters, 1.3 meters,” he deems—that contained the mock up of the future yacht. After a moment of perplexity, Jobs was wonderstruck and supposedly exclaimed: “It’s more than I could never [sic] imagine.” Starck’s freeform translation: “The world’s most powerful man, known as being the most intransigent, incapable of saying thank you or bravo, was telling us, “This is beyond all my dreams.””

Incredible indeed. Jobs’ biography, that was published after his death, underscores the genius’ versatility, his disingenuousness, his propensity to humiliate, to be obnoxious with his most faithful friends and collaborators—in short, to burn everything he adored. Steve Wozniak, Apple’s co-founder, or John Sculley, the historical CEO of the Apple company, paid the price. “He could be charming with those he detested, just as he could be detestable with those he loved.” writes Isaacson. Had their collaboration lasted longer, perhaps Philippe Starck too would have had to suffer Steve Jobs’ moods. When I suggested this hypothesis, he frowned. “I’m not sure about that,” he answered me, “He liked us. Through this boat, we came to be among the three or four friends that really mattered to him.” As proof of this, he offers the fact that every year, the California billionaire would send a pot of honey from his own hives. And that he sometimes expressed a touching preoccupation for to the young couple he and Jasmine formed. On the fated day, when in religious silence, the plans drawn by the decorator were “scanned and rescanned,” examined from every angle by Jobs in the course of a few minutes, he says he only heard him utter four “very pleasing” sentences. The first was, “Are you going to get married?” Answer: “Maybe.” The second: “Are you planning to have children?” An even more elliptical answer, “Euh…” “I knew it, I was telling Laurene,” he had smilingly answered. And the last: “Very well, carry on like this. See you next month.” For Starck, this too is a point of pride: “I don’t believe he’d ever experienced it in his life. We’re used to it: in general, people don’t talk, they find whatever is being presented to them to be very fine. But coming from him—especially when we learned in the book, after his death, the way he treated others—it was stunning.”

Philippe Starck admits, nevertheless, to having first-hand experienced the down side of this 'detail freak'(dixit his autobiography).The four years that followed the initial approval consisted of a millimeter by millimeter examination of the plans. “In order to achieve the height of intelligence in everything,” explains the designer rather cryptically. According to him, nothing was modified of his initial drawings, but everything was revisited. “With Thierry Gaugain, we reinvented marine technology, no less,” he says. “Nothing like it had been undertaken, not since the dawn of time. Still, the client argued about every detail, and for Starck it sometimes went “beyond the annoying.” “I don't want to sound pretentious,” he says, “but we are professionals. We have designed rockets [for Virgin Galactic], motorcycles [for Aprilia], electric cars, boats… When we present a solution, we know it’s the right one. With Thierry Gaugain, we would float him flurries of ideas at each meeting, and for his part, he’d answer, “No, no, no.” Until the moment when, because he had in mind the shipyard's schedule, he would pick an idea and say, “I’ve got it, this is what we’ll do.” And, to our shattered stupefaction, we would realize it was the solution we had presented him with the previous month or two years prior. “But Steve…” It was to no avail, he had appropriated it.”

It seems this was Steve Jobs' way. Those close to him had resigned themselves to referring to his “distortion of reality” syndrome. The most enormous distortion in Starck’s eyes was the one forming the basis of the “lie” perpetrated about him in Jobs' talks with Isaacson that served primarily as material for his hagiography (before devoting himself to the founder of Apple, this ex-head of CNN and Time had written biographies of two monumental figures in science: Albert Einstein and Benjamin Franklin). On page 595 of the book, he writes, “To outfit the interior, he hired Philippe Starck, the French designer, who would come regularly to Palo Alto to work on the plans.” Starck is still indignant. “He must have said that two months before he died,” he snaps, ”How could he still want to lie to serve his own glory? So powerful was his ego, such was the distortion of reality within him that he was incapable of recognizing the work of another person.” In the version of the story according to Starck, that he presents as the only acceptable one, beginning with the second meeting, “not a single wall, not the smallest detail of the hull” underwent any changes from what he had imagined in his bed in Los Angeles. “We looked at everything during the course of four years, but nothing shifted by even a tenth of a millimeter.” Seated next to him, Jasmine too sighs at the ingratitude of “Steve.” “And yet he displayed such great confidence in us.”

A PHILOSOPHICAL OBJECT

On a Sunday in 2009, the year of his liver transplant, Jobs told them, “I’m going to disappear for three months, I will call you on such and such a day at 10 o’clock.” On the said day and hour, he asked them to come back to Palo Alto. A reunion. “We were very moved,” recalls Starck. “He hated personal questions, but at the time, after such a resurrection, I was compelled to ask him, “Have you thought about your life? Are there things you would like to change?” He answered, “Nothing. I would not want a different one. I have had a great deal of time to reflect, I have thought about the boat. There are, today, three things that matter to me: my family, my company and you guys.” He was talking about Jasmine and I! He added, “My only problem is that you don’t live on my street.” Moved, the Starcks set to work, bending over the coffee table. Five years later, in his immaculate office, Starck proclaims this with a bit of exaltation, “There will never again be a boat of that quality again. Because never again will two madmen come together to accomplish such a task. There'll never again be so much creativity, rigor, and above all philosophy, applied to a material creation. It was not a yacht that Steve and I were constructing, we were embarked on a philosophical action, implemented according to a quasi-religious process. We formed a single brain with four lobes.”

One might wonder what exactly an 82-meter philosophical object, capable of crossing all the world’s seas, looks like. “When we talked, it was not to decide whether it was better to use aluminum or steel. The questions that arose were of an ethical order. As for the details, try to imagine the height of minimalism.” Where specifics are concerned, that is not a lot to go with. At most, the designer proffers that the cockpit was “a piece of curved glass, 23 meters long, 6 centimeters thick,”—a prowess whose materialization was entrusted to the chief engineer of the Apple Stores. He even refuses to confirm the description of the control panel equipped with seven 27” iMac screens, released in 2012 at the time of the ship’s launch, upon its completion by the Royal de Vries ship yard in the south-west of Amsterdam (this is also true of a few other particularities, like the presence of a large terrace with an integrated Jacuzzi, and avant-gardist processes for aeration, and completely silent electronically controlled blinds.) “There are just commands, but there is no complex home automation. Each person would have their own portable controls with them.” he explained in Mers & Bateaux . Photographs of this floating building were taken at its launch from the Dutch shipyard, but no views of the interior have ever been communicated. “The philosophy was the same as for the exterior: the least of everything,” confides Starck. With a reproachful pout, he adds, “In Steve’s lifetime, I had formulated recommendations for the furnishings, but Laurene put in the furniture she wanted. I’m not there to interfere in these people’s taste.”

Starck also refused to confirm the cost of this prodigious vessel of the seas. The press has mentioned 100 million euros. He neither says yes nor no and dodges the question with this circumlocution: “Its price is totally normal relative to the work undertaken and to its religious quality.” We’ll have to wait for Laurene Jobs or her children to sell the yacht to hope to learn its worth—and even then, there’s nothing to say the transaction figures would be divulged. As for the rest, it seems unlikely that the inheritors should choose one day to get rid of what was the last dream of the founder of Apple. “I know it’s possible that I may die and leave Laurene with a half-finished boat,” he confided to Isaacson a few months before his passing, “but I must continue. Otherwise, it would be admitting that I am going to die.”

The Venus sailed, granted. Yet its launch was not without turmoil. When he heard the men at the Royal de Vries shipyard usurp the boat’s paternity in front of Jobs’ family, collaborators and friends, Philippe Starck flew into a rage. “It was a good shipyard, but with people whose moral fiber was particularly elastic and who had the staggering nerve to say that they had designed this extraordinary boat, the most inventive in the world,” he says indignantly. “I haver never experienced in my entire life such violence through a lie.” Jasmine interrupts him to elaborate on the scene, “You said, “You've got to be kidding!” and we took off.” No doubt, his heart was still raging when on the following December 21st, the French decorator ordered the yacht seized in the port of Aaalsmeer.” He invoked a lawsuit brought for two unpaid invoices. Indeed, Steve Jobs’ inheritors refused to pay the 3 million euros that are owed to Starck on a total fee of 9 million euros—they consider the $6 million already paid match the percentage agreed upon in advance.

“Some lawyer probably wanted to look clever,” the decorator murmurs today. At the time, he was forced to admit no written document formalized the financial aspect of his agreement with Jobs. His representative in Holland explained that the two men were “very close during the period of the creation of the design,” and during the construction, adding that it was “in part why no formal work agreement had been drawn up.” Three days later, a compromise was reached between the two parties’ lawyers and the seizure order was lifted. The Venus embarked a cargo ship not long thereafter, headed for the United States. No image of Steve Jobs aboard it or overseeing its construction has ever been shown—no one even knows if he was able to see the boat with his own eyes. Philippe Starck, for his part, has never seen it sail.

Par Blanche Marcel

Par Anna Moeslein

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Star onboard: Steve Wozniak, Apple's co-founder

Author: Vicky Mayer

Published on: 15 June 2023

Updated on: 15 June 2023

Apple’s co-founder on how he met his wife on a cruise and why he’d like to take their dogs with them on their next trip

Cruising helps me to relax. On a ship you can be as quiet or as sociable as you like. I love meeting people from all over the world including the crew so it’s the perfect holiday for me.

I met my wife on a cruise . It was a bit of a geeky cruise so it was nice to find Janet, who’s not so geeky! It was a lucky cruise for both of us and we got married a few years later on 8/8/8 at 8:08pm Yes, we both like the magical computer number 8!

Janet is my ideal travelling companion . She loves cruises as much as I do and a cruise gives us plenty of time together. Taking a cruise holiday is like taking a long road trip at sea. We would like to take our dogs on a cruise too. I would pay extra for that!

We’re big dog lovers. We would probably cruise more every year but we hate leaving our dogs behind. Before any trip I lower my head to the dogs’ level and tell them, ‘we’re going away’ with a waving gesture. I wave my hand in circular gestures for each night we’ll be away, hoping it has meaning for the dogs. Once I had to count out 20 nights, so they got 20 waves.

The South Pacific is my ideal cruise destination. I’d like to visit as many islands as possible – on the way from Hawaii on one end and New Zealand or Australia on the other end. I hear the Antarctic is pretty special too.

I like to travel with a local SIM card. So when Apple released their new 14 IPhones that didn’t have a SIM card slot, I stuck to my old phone.

I’m not a Hollywood celebrity but I do get recognised when I travel. Sometimes I’d like to just be one of the crowd but I’m always happy to stop and chat.

I don’t have exotic tastes in food. So I’m happy with regular dishes like hamburgers or hot dogs but I like dining with others on the ship where the lively atmosphere adds to the taste.

I’m going in search of the Northern Lights. I was fortunate to see them on my first ever cruise but Janet has never seen them so we are planning a cruise around Norway in 2024. I want her to see something that you can’t describe in mere words.

I like to talk about the future . In my Seabourn lectures I like to discuss my views on the digital age and what it has brought to our lives – good and bad. I will also talk about AI and how I see it as a major force to help humans but how, specifically, it should be regulated and why.

Steve will be appearing on Seabourn Ovation from 11-25 June 2023. See more at seabourn.com

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 As artificial intelligence progresses at breakneck speed, in what ways is it being used to disrupt the field of yacht design, and do we need to proceed with caution?   Risa Merl looks at how AI is already making its presence felt. 

As I gaze at the computer screen, a yacht emerges before me. It’s like nothing I’ve ever seen on the water – a fairly typical hull, painted turquoise, married to a superstructure resembling a towering Egyptian pyramid adorned in gilded patterns and curved glass. It appears within seconds of typing in a few keywords as if conjured from a coded mist. And, indeed, it was.

I am being guided through the world of artificial intelligence (AI) by Rob Armstrong, creative director of ThirtyC Yacht Design, who is showing me a few of the AI applications that his studio is currently using. Armstrong is one of the many yacht designers and naval architects who have been exploring AI as a tool to aid in the superyacht design process. Other designers have been less keen on embracing AI, warning it could ring the death knell for creativity.

The yachting industry’s varied opinions on AI are emblematic of the debate in wider society. There are those who are keen to dive in and see how it might be useful – and profitable – to humans. And there are those who fear its very existence, that its future iterations will spell an end to humankind as we know it.

Designers like Armstrong are experimenting with generative AI, which refers to algorithms that can create content such as images or text from amalgamations of information already available online. The much-discussed ChatGPT is one example. Artificial general intelligence (AGI), on the other hand, is the stuff of sci-fi: an advanced AI that, in the future, will be able to learn and think like a human and carry out a range of tasks, without human intervention. Some suggest generative AI is a stepping stone to AGI.

It is especially eerie when warnings on the dangers of advanced AI come from tech giants such as Elon Musk, who has said it has the potential for “civilisation destruction” and has called for governmental regulation (notably, China has announced its first regulations on generative AI). Musk, along with other tech leaders, including Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and cognitive scientist Gary Marcus, signed an open letter in April 2023 calling for a pause in the “out of control” race for AI development, a warning that has yet to be heeded.

But AI is already in the mainstream and must be reckoned with, even by the yachting world. “People are afraid of AI because they see this robot who does his own thing,” says Marnix Hoekstra, co-creative director of Vripack . “But it’s a tool – like virtual reality or 3D printing – and it doesn’t do anything by itself.” The Dutch design house is currently exploring generative AI, such as ChatGPT, Midjourney and Firefly, a new version of Adobe Photoshop that has an AI plugin.

Winch Design is also experimenting with generative AI in its workflow and has had some interesting outcomes using software such as Midjourney, Stable Diffusion and Dall-E to generate reference images to kick-start ideas or conversations. “You can argue that inputting a written text prompt into Midjourney to generate an image isn’t that far removed from tasking a design team in the studio to create an image from a verbal briefing,” says Greig Jolly, partner, yachts and aviation, with Winch Design.

Back to that pyramid yacht. Armstrong is using Midjourney to create images by inputting text descriptions, such as “seashell-inspired-superyacht” and “Japanese-style-superyacht-interior”, and within moments images approximating these appear before us. Some are interesting, some are comical, but Armstrong says that, even with the latter, inspiration can be gleaned. “Designers see these images from a different perspective,” he says, referring to the pyramid yacht. “I’m looking at the colours – I love the turquoise and gold together – and how the superstructure has a soft blend on the top edge. I’m never going to use the whole thing, but I can use it for inspiration. AI is just a tool – software changes and you need to keep up with it.”

The seashell-inspired yacht prompt seems to blend a cowrie shell with a design from the late Zaha Hadid’s playbook. The “yacht” depicted here is not seaworthy, but Armstrong instantly points to the coral pattern on the aft deck ceiling as design fodder. He could use aspects of these images for ThirtyC client mood boards, which Armstrong says isn’t much different from clipping magazine pages or pinning on Pinterest.

In another application, Vizcom.ai, Armstrong inputs a line sketch he’s hand-drawn and it’s transformed into a fully formed yacht profile. He also mentions an open-source software called Blender that can take an AI-created image and translate it into 3D, which can be sculpted or drawn over. “But it’s a data-point 3D model, quite rough, not one with clean, symmetrical lines that you can actually bring to a shipyard,” he says.

Dasha Moranova Designs has employed AI in its Senses spa concept to play with general arrangements. “Senses’ sensory holistic design has been developed on Lateral Naval Architects ' Innovative Free From Bulkheads (FFB) platform, which challenges traditional superyacht architecture,” says Moranova. The FFB platform enables watertight bulkheads to terminate at the lower deck, freeing up space and giving Moranova the opportunity to create an unusual open spa with almost 360-degree ocean views.

The interior is then built in a 3D model using Unreal Engine 5, MetaHumans and an AI conversational system. “This would be presented to owners wearing virtual reality [VR] goggles,” says Moranova. “The AI is so smart and sensitive that when you look at an element and focus on it for a few seconds, the AI will give any answer you might be thinking about.”

Vripack has regularly used virtual and augmented reality since 2014, and Hoekstra is excited by how AI will enhance these tools. “It will unlock a whole new level of customer experience – we can rapidly customise avatars and environments in VR, which will become massively lifelike and personalised and therefore more compelling,” he says.

In terms of visuals, both Armstrong and Jolly note that AI has been useful in quickly creating background images. “We can dream up an imaginary landscape or location and render it in AI almost instantly, then drop in the CGI model of our design,” says Jolly. “On a more granular level, the integration of AI functionality into Photoshop has relieved us of some minor, time-consuming image editing tasks.”

It’s easy to see how AI can be used in graphic design and animation. But a few of the top animators I spoke to didn’t want to comment, saying only that it’s too sensitive a topic for artists at the moment, raising concerns over copyright protection and job retention.

No copyright boundaries exist for the apparent plagiarism of original content on which generative AI subsists. These murky waters are full of ethical and moral questions, none of which will be solved swiftly. Sustainability is a concern as well, as generative AI, much like mining for cryptocurrency, relies on substantial computing power. “All the user sees is that an image pops up within seconds, but somewhere a huge computing farm probably swallowed up enough energy to power a small country,” says Christian Leyk, creative director at coquine![design].

Generative AI is, of course, derivative by nature, a fact that leads some designers, such as Leyk, to question its use in yacht design. “AI is not innovative, it’s not even design,” says Leyk. “It cannot create new concepts or ideas.”

Even Moranova, who has embraced AI in many ways, is wary of its use in creating images sourced from internet databases. “I don’t think reusing someone else’s property is the way forward for designers,” she says. “This is why true artists and designers have nothing to worry about. Emotional responses are a human trait and to provoke such a response you need to be human not only to interpret it but to evoke it.”

It’s the designers’ job, based on their real-world experience, to discern the viability of what AI spits out. “AI can create wonderful photorealistic images or professionally written text, but the user needs to have the knowledge to judge whether the information is correct and useful,” says Jim Robert Sluijter, lead exterior designer at Lürssen Yachts . “It’s similar with 3D modelling and photorealistic renderings, which can be a powerful tool to show a client what the yacht will look like. However, renderings can also show a very convincing and realistic image of something that will never work.”

The ideal scenario is that AI will shorten time spent on technical calculations so designers can spend more time on creativity. And this is the goal of Olesinski Ltd . The UK-based design and naval architecture firm is using AI in the most advanced way I encountered, having spent years and a huge investment to develop bespoke AI tools to optimise general arrangements and hull forms, by working with research teams at the University of Southampton. The studio has designs in build that have used AI which will be launched as early as 2024.

Bill Edwards, head of research and development at Olensinski , says the AI tool they’ve created is ideal for avoiding unnecessary trips around the design spiral. There are so many possibilities for creating a yacht layout or optimising a hull that designers can get quite far into the process before hitting a dead end and having to start over.

“The algorithm itself [of the Olesinski AI tool] is generic, there’s no explicit references to boat design, but it’s powerful at solving sorts of problems that require this type of computation,” says Edwards. “It can solve for several different objectives at the same time, whether furniture is placed correctly, cabins can be properly accessed, ceiling heights need adjusting… The software explores all the possible solutions, identifying dead ends, but does it rapidly, so flawed candidate designs need not be seen by human eyes. It gives us options.”

Previously, the Olesinski team would do a 2D CAD drawing, then fit it into a 3D model. “What we get out of AI now isn’t just 2D, it’s what we would’ve done with the 3D, which we can then manipulate, for example, if we want to move a bulkhead,” says managing director Justin Olesinski, who is quick to point out that what they produce with AI is only used during conceptual stages. “It’s not given to the yards to produce these lines. But at the level we need it to be, it’s as accurate as you’d ever want it to be.”

By feeding AI the results from simulations performed by potential hull forms, they can quickly create surrogate models and cast a wider net of ideas. “We can put in extreme features to investigate and are often surprised where we find performance improvements,” says Edwards. The AI might suggest a certain wave-piercing bow shape or suggest a chine width that the team didn’t necessarily expect.

“We will increasingly see AI doing several of the heavy lifting tasks in engineering design,” says Adam Sobey, associate professor in the maritime engineering group at the University of Southampton. “Creating a yacht layout takes a lot of time just to get to an initial concept. By using AI to develop initial concepts, humans can spend their time on the fine-tuning.” AI can help designers come up with half a dozen concepts early in the design process, allowing them to synthesise the best elements. AI can also be helpful in creating solutions to new regulations imposed by Maritime and Coastal Agency and other certification bodies.

AI is already transforming the study of design, but design fundamentals remain. “The AI approaches we have so far can’t pull together all the complexity of a real yacht,” says Professor Sobey. “It’s important that a student knows how to design a yacht first – the tools they use are less important. If they aren’t experts in traditional methods, how can they evaluate the designs that are being produced by the AI?”

Sluijter says that AI is no match for the years of experience that shipyards such as Lürssen possess. “The technical know-how on how to build, install and service the millions of components that go into a yacht, how they work together, and all the knowledge accumulated by building thousands of yachts by all the shipyards around the world over the past 150 years has never been shared on the internet,” he says. “No one will be able to build a yacht in the same way as a shipyard can by just using AI or the internet.”

Today, machine-learning modules are being included in maritime design studies, something that would traditionally be the realm for computer scientists. One of Professor Sobey’s students has gone on to work for Olesinski Ltd as a R&D engineer, bringing his knowledge of AI to a newly created role at the design house, showing that AI could lead to job creation.

“AI is a long way from stealing people’s jobs – we still require human designers for the detailed elements and to evaluate things such as aesthetics,” says Professor Sobey. “What we are doing is augmenting designers [and allowing them] to explore more of the design space than they were previously able to. This is both more and less exciting than is in the news. It certainly isn’t AI taking over the workplace, but it is providing new tools that allow us to interpret what we have been doing for many decades in totally new ways.”

But Leyk is less optimistic. “It’s very likely some designers will lose their jobs,” he believes. And Hoekstra notes that the World Economic Forum Future of Jobs Report 2023 predicted that nearly 25 per cent of jobs will be disrupted.

“Imagine that around a quarter of all the people you know will have their job disrupted over the next five years – that’s massive,” says Hoekstra. “So, obviously, there are ethical considerations for us.”

Hoekstra thinks that AI will inevitably disrupt yacht design as we know it. “And I honestly mean ‘disrupt’ because I have a strong belief that there will be two kinds of design studios at the end of this decade: those that are fully utilising AI and those that are out of business,” he says. “We either have to adopt it or die.”

Olesinski believes that the only downside to AI is the amount of time and capital a company needs to invest. “We’ve invested a lot over 10 to 13 years in hull forms and four to five years on the general arrangement side of things,” he says. “If a design house wants to do that, they need to have an R&D department specifically for AI.” Olesinski Ltd will be offering its AI tool as a paid service to other designers who haven’t made such an investment. A potential problem arises in clients thinking they should be charged less if the design process is seemingly quicker. But this overlooks the expertise and R&D that has gone into the back end; time that will be freed up to spend on creativity and perfecting a design.

Jolly posits that even owners themselves might have a play at AI. “The day will come when a client presents us with an image of their dream that they’ve made in AI and asks us to create it for them,” he says. “But AI won’t replicate the unique individual character and artistry that a craftsman brings to their work. I think that human touch and sense of tradition is something that is very much valued in our industry.”

Perhaps the answer to the AI question in yacht design is not a matter of all or nothing, or kill or be killed, but a strange hybrid, putting us one step closer to the singularity between man and machine that futurist Ray Kurzweil predicted nearly 20 years ago. Yet for now, yachting remains very much a human pleasure and a product of human creativity.

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• Curb rising costs of college and the debt cycle it creates.
• Strengthen anti-corruption laws

I will fight for the most innocent and vulnerable among us-- children. Whether that's daycare with more expanded hours, more freedoms for parents to decide, harsher penalties for pedophiles and more education incentives, I will make sure the next generation has the same chances we had to succeed.

Theodore Roosevelt may have been the greatest reformer in U.S. history. I would like to bring the same fight to a town overrun by corruption. Why? Because the mark of a great society is its fairness.

As a music geek, I would offer the following playlist: "I'm Free" by the Soup Dragons "Disparate Youth" by Santigold "Fight the Power" by Public Enemy "People Have the Power" by Patti Smith "Guerilla Radio" by Rage Against the Machine

Honesty, transparency, compassion and courage.

As a father of six, I know how to deal with childish behavior. Seems perfect for DC

Make life a little easier and better each day for my constituents.

He cared enough to fight. That should be my epithet.

The release of the hostages from Iran when I was seven-- Jimmy Carter's final act in office

I held a paper route for the now-defunct Pittsburgh Press from ages 8-12.

"Ishmael" by Daniel Quinn was the first book to make me re-examine everything in the world from a new perspective. I could only read a chapter at a time before having to take a week and absorb it all.

Gandalf from "Lord of the Rings"

"I Want Candy" by Bow Wow Wow

Finding purpose

The sheer numbers are majestic. For anything to pass, you need a minimum of 218 people to agree. That can be a Herculean task.

No. A crash course in parliamentary procedure coupled with fresh ideas is more valuable than years of playing a rigged game.

The ever-rising debt is a ticking time bomb that could be catastrophic for future generations. To curb spending, we need to prioritize the economic and intellectual growth of our citizens over the growth of a fantastical U.S. empire.

If you are not a current representative, are there certain committees that you would want to be a part of?

Intelligence, Ethics, Oversight and Reform, Foreign Relations

If you are a current representative, why did you join your current committees?

Yes. And four terms should be the max allowed.

I fully support them. Legislators would be more ambitious and more determined to get things done if there was a ticking clock to motivate them. Six to eight years would be ideal; it provides the opportunity to work with two administrations to accomplish as much of their agenda as possible.

No. I aim to chart my own path.

I find every concern and story equally impactful, but the ones that have resonated with the most passion concern struggles caused by the government's poorly considered response to the COVID epidemic. I aim to ensure that cornucopia of errors is never repeated.

A ham sandwich walks into a bar and orders a whiskey. Bartender says, "I'm sorry. We don't serve food here."

Absolutely essential. I lean on two old phrases to aid policymaking-- "Everything in moderation" and "Truth lies somewhere in the middle." I believe most voters agree, but the moderate middle has been marginalized because it doesn't shout as loud as those on the ends of the political spectrum.

I would never raise taxes, but believe more revenues could be generated from tougher tariffs, liquidation of redundant federal assets, and harsher penalties for companies that violate federal statutes.

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A Superyacht Life - All Hands

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All Hands is a Superyacht Life mission in Grand Theft Auto Online as part of the Los Santos Summer Special update, released on August 11, 2020 . It is given to players by Brendan Darcy , the captain of the player's Galaxy Super Yacht , and is available for 1 to 4 players.

• 1 Description
• 2 Brendan Darcy's Dialogue
• 3.1 Walkthrough
• 3.2 Video Walkthrough
• 4 Navigation

Description [ ]

Time is frozen at 12:00 midday for the duration of the mission.

Brendan Darcy informs the player that a business deal involving members of the Pacific Country Club has turned sour, and the cars owned by its members are being set on fire. The players must head to LSIA to steal aerial firefighting planes from the coast guard in order to extinguish the flames before the fire department does. Upon arrival at the airport, there are 10 coast guard personnel patrolling the hangar with stealth visibility cones shown on the players' minimaps. Raising the alarm will attract a 2 star wanted level which is inescapable until the Tula is collected.

After taking off, the player must refill the plane's water tank by landing in the water and filling their "Water Remaining" meter. The plane has capacity for eight water "bombs".

After refilling, the player will receive a text message from an unknown number reading:

On arrival at the country club, there are two Maibatsu Mules , two Lampadati Felons , a Bravado Gauntlet Hellfire and a Pegassi Tempesta in the parking lot on fire that the player must extinguish, all while the Kkangpae (presumably the arsonists) attack the player from the ground. The player only has 5 minutes to put out the fires. After extinguishing all of the fires, Brendan will inform the player that there is another set of fires being set at the Pipeline Inn down the freeway. There, another Mule, Gauntlet Hellfire, two Felons, and two Tempestas will be on fire that the player must extinguish while enemies attack from below within another 5 minute time limit.

After extinguishing all of the fires, Brendan will request that the Tula be brought back at the yacht so he can sell it. Once the Tula is landed on the water near the yacht, the mission is complete.

Failing and restarting the mission restarts at a checkpoint next to the Tula in the hangar at LSIA with no enemies present and the player can just collect the Tula and proceed.

Brendan Darcy's Dialogue [ ]

Gallery [ ], walkthrough [ ].

Video Walkthrough [ ]

GTA Online - A Superyacht Life Mission Strand -All Missions-

"All Hands" walkthrough between 18:44 and 28:44.

Navigation [ ]

• 1 Vehicles in GTA V
• 2 Hao's Special Works
• 3 100% Completion in GTA V