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''Koru'' is a luxury custom
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superyacht
A superyacht or megayacht is a large and luxurious pleasure vessel. There are no official or agreed upon definitions for such yachts, but these terms are regularly used to describe professionally crewed motor or sailing yachts, ranging from to ...
owned by Jeff Bezos
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, the founder of Amazon
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. The vessel was built in the Netherlands by Oceanco
Oceanco is a privately owned custom yacht builder, based in the Netherlands, that has been building full displacement yachts in the range since 1987. It is owned by Mohammed Al Barwani, an Omani billionaire.
History
Oceanco came into existenc ...
starting in 2021, and delivered in April 2023. It is a three-masted sailing yacht long with a navy blue hull. The superyacht is reported to have cost at least US$
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500 million, and to require annual maintenance costs of at least $30 million. When commissioned, the yacht was the second-largest sailing yacht in the world, after Andrey Melnichenko's Sailing Yacht ''A''.
''Koru'' and De Hef
In 2022,Rotterdam
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announced that the city's historic De Hef
De Hef (), officially Koningshaven Bridge, is a vertical-lift bridge over the Koningshaven (Kings Harbor) channel (geography), channel at the port of Rotterdam, Netherlands. Built in 1927, the bridge was part of the Breda–Rotterdam railway li ...
bridge would be temporarily partially dismantled to allow the yacht to pass through. This move was controversial because the bridge is a Dutch national monument owing to its history. Eventually the dismantling plan of the 'De Hef' bridge proved to be unnecessary; the masts were stepped when the vessel was moored downstream of the bridge in the Rotterdam Harbour.
Support vessel
A 1,900 Gross ton
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yacht support vessel
Yacht support vessels, also known as a shadow yacht or shadow vessel, are specialized ships which provide support and auxiliary functions for large sailing and motor yachts.
Design features
In general yacht support vessel are outfitted to sup ...
, the ''Abeona'', will "shadow" ''Koru'', providing additional crew accommodation, a helipad
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While helicopters and powered lift aircraft are able to operate on a variety of relatively flat surfaces, a fa ...
with enclosed helicopter accommodation, and capacity for relief supplies.
See also
*List of large sailing yachts
This article lists active sailing yachts of and upwards in length. This list features vessels with sails which were classed as yachts when they were launched as well as any vessels which were subsequently converted to operate with sails and re-cl ...
References
External links
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