BajaNomad - "A" mega yacht at Puerto Los Cabos

"A" mega yacht at Puerto Los Cabos

bajajudy - 9-14-2010 at 10:13 AM

http://www.yacht-sea.net/mega-yacht-profiles/a.html

Well, almost. This unbelievable looking boat has been sitting outside the marina for about 2 hours. When we saw it this morning in front of the estuary we were struck by its weird profile.

Just found some more info with better pix
http://yachtpals.com/mega-yacht-a-9129

[Edited on 9-14-2010 by bajajudy]

gnukid - 9-14-2010 at 10:34 AM

russian multi-billionaire Andrei Melnichenko ...

Osprey - 9-14-2010 at 10:43 AM

I don't fish with Andrei anymore. The big boat is really no good for tuna over 80 pounds. Had a nice one on at Gordo and he couldn't get the big lumbering boat around quick enough and it broke off. Didn't matter cause I spilled a drink on his wife's outfit and she claimed it "was ruined".

55steve - 9-14-2010 at 11:19 AM

It was in San Diego last month.

sanquintinsince73 - 9-14-2010 at 11:23 AM

Kinda weird but I'd take it...and sell it. My favorite is the Attessa.

A

bajajudy - 9-14-2010 at 11:44 AM

A.jpg - 42kB

El Camote - 9-14-2010 at 11:54 AM

It was spotted off Santa Barbara a few weeks ago as well.

Stickers - 9-14-2010 at 12:08 PM

I flew over that boat in Malibu a couple of weeks ago.

It was so erie looking that as I did a low pass I was afraid they might have antiaircraft gizmos onboard, so I buzzed off. :wow:

k-rico - 9-14-2010 at 01:25 PM

I've seen hulls built upside down but they've turned them over before putting the deck on.

Size

Stickers - 9-14-2010 at 02:12 PM

Just for scale - this ship is slightly longer than the Russian's yacht.

top_paulgauguincruiselinecom.jpg - 18kB

castaway$ - 9-14-2010 at 02:59 PM

I think it's major ugly! I'd sell it off also and buy Tigers yacht.

This is A speaking.

toneart - 9-14-2010 at 03:51 PM

I give ride to bikini babes. Ve drink best Russian wodka eat caviar. Take off top more wodka.

First ve test for seasick. Ve go for practice in small fish boat in Mulege. Meet me at Jungal Jim at sex... er six, I mean (must train mind to stop tinking this). Free bed ofernight. Trust me. I am billionaire! :saint:

DanO - 9-14-2010 at 04:04 PM

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Originally posted by Stickers
I flew over that boat in Malibu a couple of weeks ago.

It was so erie looking that as I did a low pass I was afraid they might have antiaircraft gizmos onboard, so I buzzed off. :wow:

Yeah, on my way up to Carpinteria a few weeks ago I saw it (or something very similar) out off the Malibu pier. A real attention grabber.

Ken Bondy - 9-14-2010 at 04:18 PM

On August 24 he spent the day just outside Morro Bay while he and his wife had a private tour of Hearst Castle.

DanO - 9-14-2010 at 04:43 PM

Uh, speaking of private tours, here's the (supermodel) wife's website.

http://www.aleksandramelnichenko.com/

Woooosh - 9-14-2010 at 04:49 PM

There must be a helicopter in there somewhere...

BooJumMan - 9-14-2010 at 05:19 PM

I wanna go on a ride!

sanquintinsince73 - 9-14-2010 at 05:30 PM

Truth be told, it appears as though heavy seas could actually topple it.

grace59 - 9-14-2010 at 05:35 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by toneart
I give ride to bikini babes. Ve drink best Russian wodka eat caviar. Take off top more wodka.

First ve test for seasick. Ve go for practice in small fish boat in Mulege. Meet me at Jungal Jim at sex... er six, I mean (must train mind to stop tinking this). Free bed ofernight. Trust me. I am billionaire! :saint:

From Bikini Babes: Ve may be blondes, but ve are smarter dan dat....ve tink you are not tellink da trut! :lol:

bajajudy - 9-14-2010 at 05:56 PM

She is still parked outside the marina. My guess is they cant come in. almost 400 feet is a lot to turn around no matter what kind of thrusters you have :dudette:

That's 4 football fields.

DENNIS - 9-14-2010 at 05:58 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by bajajudy
She is still parked outside the marina. My guess is they cant come in. almost 400 feet is a lot to turn around no matter what kind of thrusters you have :dudette:

That's 4 football fields.

Almost, Judy...but not quite. A football field is 300 feet. I think you're thinking of yards.
It's still a huge ship.

bajajudy - 9-14-2010 at 06:13 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by DENNIS

Quote:

Originally posted by bajajudy
She is still parked outside the marina. My guess is they cant come in. almost 400 feet is a lot to turn around no matter what kind of thrusters you have :dudette:

That's 4 football fields.

Almost, Judy...but not quite. A football field is 300 feet. I think you're thinking of yards.
It's still a huge ship.

OOPS
boy you got me on that one...dennis :lol:

And I thought that I was going to catch grief about the thrusters.....ya just never know :dudette:

[Edited on 9-15-2010 by bajajudy]

The "A" Was Parked Off Marina del Rey Last Week

Gypsy Jan - 9-14-2010 at 06:17 PM

The local media idiots went into a tizzy. One of them rented a boat and approached the yacht, yelling at the crew with a bullhorn, "Can we come aboard and swim in the pool?" while news helicopters hovered over the yacht 24-7.

I call restraint on the fact that the crew didn't deepsix all of them with the array of anti-pirate and anti-spy repellents they have at their disposal.

Howard - 9-14-2010 at 06:51 PM

I told that damn Rooskie not to pick me up on the way to Cabo . So he says, “Howard, I would love you to come aboard but naturally I turned him down and told him maybe next time as I am a very busy man.”

I have my pride and I not going for any boat ride with him and I will stick to a Panga as it has a 360-degree view and I can get the deck bloody with fish.

The nerve of that caviar-eating foreigner!

slimshady - 9-14-2010 at 07:20 PM

Maybe the Ruskie can use that battelship to hunt down all those tuna trawlers stealing all those outboards in the East Cape.

capt. mike - 9-15-2010 at 05:48 AM

wasn't that boat owned by James Bond once?

Bond...James Bond. :lol:

elizabeth - 9-15-2010 at 06:25 AM

It was in Sausalito earlier last month...here's the article from the Marin Independent Journal. Guy sure is skipping around a lot...I love the bomb proof master suite which is bigger than my whole house! And three swimming pools???? Sting ray hides for wall paper????

Russian billionaire's boat anchors off Sausalito
Mark Prado
Posted: 08/18/2010 01:58:23 PM PDT
... (IJ photo/Frankie Frost)«12»A $300 million yacht owned by Russian billionaire Andrey Melnichenko was parked off Sausalito in Richardson Bay on Wednesday, drawing dozens of gawkers.
The 390-foot yacht, called the "A," apparently arrived Tuesday night or Wednesday morning after a trip up the coast from San Diego. It sports a 2,500-square-foot master suite, three swimming pools and doors accessible by a fingerprint security system.

The boat attracted onlookers onshore as well as boaters in the bay.

"It looks like something from a James Bond movie," said Sausalito resident Bart Dzivi as he marveled at the craft from shore Wednesday. "I went jogging last night and didn't see it, so it must have come in this morning or late last night."

Melnichenko, 38, who resides

in Moscow and is married to model Aleksandra Nikolic Melnichenko, made his money in the fertilizer, energy and banking businesses. With a net worth of $4.4 billion, Melnichenko is No. 189 on the Forbes list of wealthiest people in the world.
The U.S. Coast Guard wasn't sure how long Melnichenko's boat would be in the bay.

"We just know it's a private yacht," said Levi Reed, a Coast Guard spokesman.

And what a yacht.

The vessel is named after the initials of the couple's first names. It's 62 feet wide at its beam; has an owner's suite and six cabins; has a crew of 37 and a staff of five; has twin 6,000-horsepower engines; carries 12 tons of water for its hot tubs, pools and spas; and can hit speeds of 24 knots, although its cruising speed is around 19.5 knots, which can take it more than 6,500 nautical miles nonstop.
An all-white, 2,583-square-foot master suite is wrapped in bomb-proof, 44-millimeter glass, according to the Wall Street Journal. There, a king-sized bed sits on a giant platter that rotates with the press of a silver button. Another set of buttons rotates the bed itself. The combination of the rotating bed and the rotating platter allows limitless angles for watching the sunset, sunrise or the 60-inch plasma television, which retracts from the ceiling.

The walls of one room are covered in white sting-ray hides, while another is covered in hand-stitched calf's leather. The main deck features chairs made from alligator hides and Kudo horns. One suite onboard has been dubbed the "nookie room" by the crew, with its white circular bed with padded walls and a ceiling-mounted television, according to the Journal.

The ship's two main landing boats are mini-yachts themselves, stretching to 36 feet, boasting plush interiors and costing more than $1 million each, the Journal reported.

This is not the first time a bodacious boat has turned up in Richardson Bay.

In July last year, the Attessa III, a massive 225-foot yacht, complete with helipad, anchored off Sausalito. That vessel features an art deco design and is equipped with a movie theater, gym, massage room and two outdoor Jacuzzis and belongs to Dennis Washington, a Montana industrialist worth about $4.2 billion.

In September 2008, The Maltese Falcon, a 289-foot luxury yacht owned by Belvedere venture capitalist billionaire Tom Perkins, anchored off Marin for a cancer benefit regatta. Perkins reportedly sold the boat last year for $100 million.

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oxxo - 9-15-2010 at 09:51 AM

He's parked off Bahia Chileno this morning. Probably doing a little diving on the reefs.

bajamigo - 9-15-2010 at 07:02 PM

Looks like something out of Jules Vernes' wildest imagination.

bajajudy - 9-16-2010 at 09:22 AM

Se fue
She left this morning while we were swimming. My guess is they are looking for fuel.

bajajudy - 9-17-2010 at 08:21 AM

Wrong again
A"s back

55steve - 9-18-2010 at 08:34 PM

Our news in San Diego did a short story on it when it was here. I still am having trouble imagining a vessel that burns 700 gallons of diesel an hour.

bacquito - 9-19-2010 at 10:33 AM

Good Grief! What money can buy