It is 118 meters long, costs 300 million dollars and – according to rumors – is Mark Zuckerberg’s new yacht. Her name is Launchpad: she has 48 crew members and in the bow she also has a basketball court. The Facebook co-founder and Meta CEO’s superyacht was spotted in Port Everglades, Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
The yacht
The vessel was commissioned from the Dutch Feadship shipyard for the Russian oligarch Potanin, the second richest man in Russia.
International sanctions then forced Potanin to decline the order. So the yacht sat in the Dutch shipyard for some time before the Dutch authorities gave the green light for the sale to a new buyer.
Already in mid-December, some media had reported a visit by Zuckerberg to the Feadship shipyard in the Netherlands and recently the vessel was spotted in US waters. And this only fuels the hypothesis that the final buyer is the founder of Facebook himself, who would have come into possession of the boat on the eve of his birthday, which he will celebrate on May 14th.
The private suite
Launchpad can be considered to all intents and purposes a “floating palace”: it has 13 sumptuous cabins and can accommodate 26 people in total (as well as 49 crew members). The interiors were designed by Zuretti, a leading company in the world of luxury ship interior design, which transformed each room into a triumph of refinement. Naturally, an elegant suite was reserved for Mark Zuckerberg complete with study, dressing room and private bathroom. Inside the boat nothing seems to be missing: there is a cinema room, a beauty salon, an equipped gym, a hydromassage tub on the deck, a beach club and even a heliport. In short, the entrepreneur’s yacht is a true engineering marvel.
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