Skat, a 231.96ft motor yacht worth an estimated $75 million, arrived on Friday night and spent the weekend moored in St Aubin’s Bay.
It was built for Charles Simonyi, a Hungarian-born American computer programmer who recently returned to Microsoft as a technical fellow after the technology giant bought his latest start-up company.
Mr Simonyi, who is worth an estimated $2.1 billion, is famed as the only person to have visited space twice as a ‘tourist’, having paid $60 million to travel to the International Space Station on a Russian rocket in 2007 and 2009.
Skat has room for ten guests in five cabins and 20 crew and is military styled.
It has a military-like number on its hull, 9906, which refers to the project number of Espen Oeino who designed it – referring to his sixth project of 1999.
The boat and the McDonnell Douglas MD-520N helicopter it is often seen with are both painted in the same grey colour as the owner’s jet and home in Medina, Washington.
The yacht includes lifts servicing all decks, a leisure platform with jacuzzi, a gym, helipad and helicopter, observation platform with helm control halfway up the central mast, two tenders, two jet skis, motorcycles and accompanying lift.
According to tracking data, Skat most recently visited Guernsey, St Malo, and Lorient and La Pallice in France. It is not known whether its owner was on board.
