Sail away from everyone: during the pandemic, the super-yacht market has grown by leaps and bounds

The market for superyacht orders in the first quarter of 2021 has reached an unprecedented scale in history. While the covid crisis impoverished 80% of the world's people, the top 0.1% continued to grow rich at an unprecedented rate. For 2020, the richest people in the world added $ 1.8 trillion. to its cumulative state, - reports the channel Proeconomics.

For example, the new three-masted 127-meter ship of the American billionaire, owner of Amazon Jeff Bezos, will cost $ 500 million. And the superyacht Nord of the Russian metallurgical billionaire Alexei Mordashov, 142 meters long and worth $ 300 million, became the largest one launched in 2020. and one of the largest in the world. The billionaire's new yacht will rank tenth behind the Abu Dhabi royal family's A + yacht.

If we talk about the largest boats of Russians, then in this list Mordashov's vessel will take fourth place - after Eclipse by Roman Abramovich, Dilbar Alisher Usmanov and Sailing Yacht A by Andrey Melnichenko.

So far, according to itBoat, the $ 800 million boat of Russian oligarch Alisher Usmanov is in the lead in the list of the most expensive yachts in the world.

The 156-meter yacht was launched in 2016 and has two helipads on board, as well as a 180 cubic meter indoor pool - one of the largest in the history of yachting. In addition, Dilbar is equipped with the most powerful diesel-electric unit ever used on a private boat, and can accelerate to 22.5 knots. So, in May 2019 - a week after the yacht was sighted off the coast of Sardinia - she moored in the Imereti port of Sochi, having covered more than 2,000 nautical miles.