![]() Skat docked at North Mole, Gibraltar Harbour in 2013.
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Builder | Lürssen Werft |
Launched | 10 March 2002 |
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Displacement | 1636 tonnes |
Length | 71 m (233 ft) |
Beam | 13.5 m (44 ft) |
Draft | 3.7 m (12 ft) |
Installed power | 2 × 2,000 kW (2,700 hp) MTU |
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Capacity | 10 guests |
Crew | 16 |
Skat is a luxury yacht built by Lürssen of Bremen, Germany as project 9906, a number prominently displayed on the hull in a typeface matching that of military vessels. The project started in November 1999 and the yacht launched in 2002. The owner was Charles Simonyi, a former Software Engineer from Microsoft and the fifth space tourist. She was sold to a company called LoGenio owned by Swiss entrepreneur Eugenio Losa in October 2021.[citation needed] The yacht is 71 metres (233 ft) long.
Simonyi once had a Danish girlfriend who called him skat, literally "treasure", a common term of endearment similar to "honey" in English.[citation needed]
The yacht can achieve a speed of 13 knots (24 km/h; 15 mph) on just one engine. A cooling pump integrated into the gearboxes assures safe operation on one engine by pumping oil through the idle gearbox. The shaft of the idle engine can be disengaged, leaving the idle propeller and shaft to freewheel.