When your yacht is too big for Monaco, Italy, and reality
Jeff Bezos may be looking to unload his record-setting sailing yacht Koru after discovering that a 417-foot floating monument to excess is, inconveniently, too large to dock in many of the places billionaires like to show them off.
Koru is one of the largest sailing yachts in the world, and the largest that moves under sail only. After Bezos riled up the Dutch, he face a new round of headaches that only people with more money than should be humanly possible to accrue would face with their big-ass boats. The poor billionaire couldn’t even dock his 417-foot yacht in the Florida Everglades, having been turned away from establishing its dominance via deck envy to be banished to park with the lowly class workers of oil tankers and real ships. How dare they.
In 2025, Koru again, couldn’t join the other yachts in the marina to show off Bezos engorged riches at the motoring event of the year, the Monaco Grand Prix, because you guessed it, size. Same for his wedding to Lauren Sanchez in Italy. They just couldn’t get it into the lagoon.
The ship that screams “I don’t pay taxes” has been host to an apparent foam party post-Bezos Italian wedding, and a litany of celebrities who haven’t been too shy to show they are comfortable with their alliance to the mega wealthy. The Koru can comfortably accommodate 18 passenger in its nine private rooms, plus 36 crew member crammed into quarters. And if it’s not the company that has enraptured the visiting audience, the three jacuzzis and glass-bottomed pool might.
It’s a rare problem: spending $500 million on a boat so massive it can’t attend the party. Wonder how the figurehead of his new wife will sell.