Late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs' yacht was unveiled in a Dutch shipyard in October and christened "Venus."
The Venus, a 100-million-euro ($137.5 million), 260-foot-long yacht, made its unofficial debut in late October.
It's currently stuck in the Port of Amsterdam after Starck hired a
debt-collection agency to attempt to remit the final payment for his
design.
According to lawyers at Ubik -- Starck's design company -- speaking with Reuters,
the designer has only received 6 million of the 9-million-euro
commission and is seeking the rest of the payment before the Venus will
be released.
"These guys [Jobs and
Starck] trusted each other, so there wasn't a very detailed contract,"
Roelant Klaassen, a lawyer for Ubik, told Reuters.
The Venus is a floating
ode to both Jobs and Starck's minimalist aesthetic. Made entirely out of
aluminum, with 40-foot-long floor-to-ceiling windows lining the
passenger compartment and seven 27-inch iMacs making up the command
center.
In Walter Isaacson's
biography of Jobs, the late Apple CEO is quoted as saying that, "I know
that it's possible I will die and leave Laurene with a half-built boat,
but I have to keep going on. If I don't, it's an admission that I'm
about to die."
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