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TOP DOG yacht NOT for charter*39.62m / 130' | westport yachts | 2015. Special Features: - Impressive 2,500nm range
- ABS (American Bureau of Shipping) ✠A1, Commercial Yachting Service, ✠AMS classification
- Interior design from Westport Yachts
- Sleeps 10 overnight
The 39.62m/130' motor yacht 'Top Dog' was built by Westport Yachts in the United States at their Westport, WA shipyard. Her interior is styled by American designer design house Westport Yachts and she was delivered to her owner in October 2015. This luxury vessel's exterior design is the work of Gregory Marshall. Guest AccommodationTop Dog has been designed to comfortably accommodate up to 10 guests in 5 suites. She is also capable of carrying up to 7 crew onboard to ensure a relaxed luxury yacht experience. Range & PerformanceBuilt with a GRP hull and GRP superstructure, with teak decks, she benefits from a semi-displacement hull to provide exceptional seakeeping and impressive speeds. Powered by twin diesel MTU (12V 4000 M90) 12-cylinder 2,735hp engines running at 2050rpm, she comfortably cruises at 20 knots, reaches a maximum speed of 24 knots with a range of up to 2,500 nautical miles from her 9,530 gallon fuel tanks at 10 knots. Her water tanks store around 1,780 Gallons of fresh water. She was built to ABS (American Bureau of Shipping) ✠A1, Commercial Yachting Service, ✠AMS classification society rules, and is MCA Compliant. Length | 39.62m / 130' | Beam | 7.98m / 26'2 | Draft | 1.9m / 6'3 | Gross Tonnage | 334 GT | Cruising Speed | 20 Knots | Built | | Builder | Westport Yachts | Model | Westport W130 | Exterior Designer | Gregory Marshall | Interior Design | Westport Yachts | *Charter Top Dog Motor YachtMotor yacht Top Dog is currently not believed to be available for private Charter. To view similar yachts for charter , or contact your Yacht Charter Broker for information about renting a luxury charter yacht. Top Dog Yacht Owner, Captain or marketing company 'Yacht Charter Fleet' is a free information service, if your yacht is available for charter please contact us with details and photos and we will update our records. Top Dog Photos NOTE to U.S. Customs & Border Protection SIMILAR LUXURY YACHTS FOR CHARTERHere are a selection of superyachts which are similar to Top Dog yacht which are believed to be available for charter. To view all similar luxury charter yachts click on the button below. 42m | Urkmezler Yachts from $150,000 p/week ♦︎ 40m | Benetti from $165,000 p/week 37m | Sunseeker from $137,000 p/week ♦︎ 38m | Custom from $60,000 p/week Imperial Princess Beatrice40m | Princess from $188,000 p/week ♦︎ 39m | Bilgin Yachts from $105,000 p/week ♦︎ Marina Wonder38m | Gulf Craft from $118,000 p/week ♦︎ Mi Amore Julia37m | Benetti from $134,000 p/week ♦︎ 37m | Couach 40m | Westport Yachts from $110,000 p/week from $161,000 p/week ♦︎ 42m | Benetti from $193,000 p/week ♦︎ As Featured In The YachtCharterFleet Difference YachtCharterFleet makes it easy to find the yacht charter vacation that is right for you. We combine thousands of yacht listings with local destination information, sample itineraries and experiences to deliver the world's most comprehensive yacht charter website. San Francisco- Like us on Facebook
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Receive our latest offers, trends and stories direct to your inbox. Please enter a valid e-mail. Thanks for subscribing. Search for Yachts, Destinations, Events, News... everything related to Luxury Yachts for Charter. Yachts in your shortlist Hot on the trail of 56 superyachts owned by Russian oligarchs and subject to seizure- Published: Mar. 06, 2022, 2:04 p.m.
French authorities have seized the yacht Amore Vero linked to Igor Sechin, a Putin ally who runs Russian oil giant Rosneft, as part of EU sanctions over Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The boat arrived in La Ciotat on Jan. 3 for repairs and was slated to stay until April 1 and was seized to prevent an attempted departure. (AP Photo/Bishr Eltoni) AP The massive superyacht Dilbar stretches one-and-a-half football fields in length, about as long as a World War I dreadnought. It boasts two helipads, berths for more than 130 people and a 25-meter swimming pool long enough to accommodate another whole superyacht. Dilbar was launched in 2016 at a reported cost of more than $648 million. Five years on, its purported owner, the Kremlin-aligned Russian oligarch Alisher Usmanov, was already dissatisfied and sent the vessel to a German shipyard last fall for a retrofit reportedly costing another couple hundred million dollars. That’s where she lay in drydock on Thursday when the United States and European Union announced economic sanctions against Usmanov — a metals magnate and early investor in Facebook — over his ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin and in retaliation for the invasion of Ukraine. “We are joining with our European allies to find and seize your yachts, your luxury apartments, your private jets,” President Joe Biden said during his State of the Union speech Tuesday night, addressing the oligarchs. “We are coming for your ill-begotten gains.” But actually seizing the behemoth boats could prove challenging. Russian billionaires have had decades to shield their money and assets in the West from governments that might try to tax or seize them. Several media outlets reported Wednesday that German authorities had impounded Dilbar. But a spokeswoman for Hamburg state’s economy ministry told The Associated Press no such action had yet been taken because it had been unable to establish ownership of the yacht, which is named for Usmanov’s mother. Dilbar is flagged in the Cayman Islands and registered to a holding company in Malta, two secretive banking havens where the global ultra-rich often park their wealth. Still, in the industry that caters to the exclusive club of billionaires and centimillionaires that can afford to buy, crew and maintain superyachts, it is often an open secret who owns what. Working with the U.K.-based yacht valuation firm VesselsValue, the AP compiled a list of 56 superyachts — generally defined as luxury vessels exceeding 79 feet in length — believed to be owned by a few dozen Kremlin-aligned oligarchs, seaborne assets with a combined market value estimated at more than $5.4 billion. The AP then used two online services — VesselFinder and MarineTraffic — to plot the last known locations of the yachts as relayed by their onboard tracking beacons. While many are still anchored at or near sun-splashed playgrounds in the Mediterranean and Caribbean, more than a dozen were underway to or had already arrived in remote ports in small nations such as the Maldives and Montenegro, potentially beyond the reach of Western sanctions. Three are moored in Dubai, where many wealthy Russians have vacation homes. Another three had gone dark, their transponders last pinging just outside the Bosporus in Turkey — gateway to the Black Sea and the southern Russian ports of Sochi and Novorossiysk. Graceful, a German-built Russian-flagged superyacht believed to belong to Putin, left a repair yard in Hamburg on Feb. 7, two weeks before Russia invaded Ukraine. It is now moored in the Russian Baltic port of Kaliningrad, beyond the reach of Western sanctions imposed against him this past week. Some Russian oligarchs appear to have not gotten the memo to move their superyachts, despite weeks of public warnings of Putin’s planned invasion. French authorities seized the superyacht Amore Vero on Thursday in the Mediterranean resort town of La Ciotat. The boat is believed to belong to Igor Sechin, a Putin ally who runs Russian oil giant Rosneft, which has been on the U.S. sanctions list since Russia annexed Crimea in 2014. The French Finance Ministry said in a statement that customs authorities boarded the 289-foot Amore Vero and discovered its crew was preparing for an urgent departure, even though planned repair work wasn’t finished. The $120 million boat is registered to a company that lists Sechin as its primary shareholder. On Saturday, Italian financial police in the port of San Remo seized the 132-foot superyacht Lena, which is flagged in the British Virgin Islands. Authorities said the boat belongs to Gennady Timchenko, an oligarch close to Putin and among those sanctioned by the European Union. With an estimated net worth of $16.2 billion, Timchenko is the founder of the Volga Group, which specializes in investments in energy, transport and infrastructure assets. The 213-foot Lady M was also seized by the Italians while moored in the Riviera port town of Imperia. In a tweet announcing the seizure on Friday, a spokesman for Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi said the comparatively modest $27 million vessel was the property of sanctioned steel baron Alexei Mordashov, listed as Russia’s wealthiest man with a fortune of about $30 billion. But Mordashov’s upsized yacht, the 464-foot Nord, was safely at anchor on Friday in the Seychelles, a tropical island chain in the Indian Ocean not under the jurisdiction of U.S. or EU sanctions. Among the world’s biggest superyachts, Nord has a market value of $500 million. Since Friday, Italy has seized $156 million in luxury yachts and villas in some of its most picturesque destinations, including Sardinia, the Ligurian coast and Lake Como. Most of the Russians on the annual Forbes list of billionaires have not yet been sanctioned by the United States and its allies, and their superyachts are still cruising the world’s oceans. The evolution of oligarch yachts goes back to the tumultuous decade after the 1991 fall of the Soviet Union, as state oil and metals industries were sold off at rock-bottom prices, often to politically connected Russian businessmen and bankers who had provided loans to the new Russian state in exchange for the shares. Russia’s nouveau riche began buying luxury yachts similar in size and expense to those owned by Silicon Valley billionaires, heads of state and royalty. It’s a key marker of status in Moscow and St. Petersburg, and size matters. “No self-respecting Russian oligarch would be without a superyacht,” said William Browder, a U.S.-born and now London-based financier who worked in Moscow for years before becoming one of the Putin regime’s most vocal foreign critics. “It’s part of the rite of passage to being an oligarch. It’s just a prerequisite.” As their fortunes ballooned, there was something of an arms race among the oligarchs, with the richest among them accumulating personal fleets of ever more lavish boats. For example, Russian metals and petroleum magnate Roman Abramovich is believed to have bought or built at least seven of the world’s largest yachts, some of which he has since sold off to other oligarchs. In 2010, Abramovich launched the Bermuda-flagged Eclipse, which at 533 feet was at the time the world’s longest superyacht. Features include a wood-burning firepit and swimming pool that transforms into a dance floor. Eclipse also boasts its own helicopter hangar and an undersea bay that reportedly holds a mini-sub. Dennis Cauiser, a superyacht analyst with VesselsFinder, said oligarch boats often include secret security measures worthy of a Bond villain, including underwater escape hatches, bulletproof windows and armored panic rooms. “Eclipse is equipped with all sorts of special features, including missile launchers and self-defense systems on board,” Cauiser said. “It has a secret submarine evacuation area and things like that.” Eclipse was soon eclipsed by Azzam, purportedly owned by the emir of Abu Dhabi, which claimed the title of longest yacht when it was launched in 2013. Three years after that, Usmanov launched Dilbar, which replaced another slightly smaller yacht by the same name. The new Dilbar is the world’s largest yacht by volume. Abramovich, whose fortune is estimated at $12.4 billion, fired back last year by launching Solaris. While not as long as Eclipse or as big as Dilbar, the $600 million Bermuda-flagged boat is possibly even more luxurious. Eight stories tall, Solaris features a sleek palisade of broad teak-covered decks suitable for hosting a horde of well-heeled partygoers. But no boat is top dog for long. At least 20 superyachts are reported to be under construction in various Northern European shipyards, including a $500 million superyacht being built for the American billionaire Jeff Bezos. “It’s about ego,” Cauiser said. “They all want to have the best, the longest, the most valuable, the newest, the most luxurious.” But, he added, the escalating U.S. and EU sanctions on Putin-aligned oligarchs and Russian banks have sent a chill through the industry, with boatbuilders and staff worried they won’t be paid. It can cost upwards of $50 million a year to crew, fuel and maintain a superyacht. The crash of the ruble and the tanking of Moscow stock market have depleted the fortunes of Russia’s elite, with several people dropping off the list of Forbes billionaires last week. Cauiser said he expects some oligarch superyachts will soon quietly be listed by brokers at fire-sale prices. The 237-foot Stella Maris, which was seen by an AP journalist docked this past week in Nice, France, was believed to be owned by Rashid Sardarov, a Russian billionaire oil and gas magnate. After publication of an earlier version of this story, AP was contacted Sunday by yacht broker Joan Plana Palao, who said his company represents a U.S. citizen from California who purchased the Stella Maris last month. He declined to disclose the name of the buyer or the person from whom the boat had been purchased. On Thursday, the U.S. Treasury Department issued a new round of sanctions that included a press release touting Usmanov’s close ties to Putin and photos of Dilbar and the oligarch’s private jet, a custom-built 209-foot Airbus A340-300 passenger liner. Treasury said Usmanov’s aircraft is believed to have cost up to $500 million and is named Bourkhan, after his father. Usmanov, whose fortune has recently shrunk to about $17 billion, criticized the sanctions. “I believe that such a decision is unfair and the reasons employed to justify the sanctions are a set of false and defamatory allegations damaging my honor, dignity and business reputation,” he said in a statement issued through the website of the International Fencing Federation, of which he has served as president since 2008. Abramovich has not yet been sanctioned. Members of the British Parliament have criticized Prime Minister Boris Johnson for not going after Abramovich’s U.K.-based assets, which include the professional soccer club Chelsea. Under mounting pressure, the oligarch announced this past week he would sell the $2.5 billion team and give the net proceeds “for the benefit of all victims of the war in Ukraine.” Meanwhile, location transponders showed Solaris moored in Barcelona, Spain, on Saturday. 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Business | Dick Portillo reflects on sale of eponymous restaurant chainThere was a reason for his restraint. The founder of the eponymous chain had a big dinner celebration later that night and he didn’t want to be too full. That discipline and methodical planning shows up in other facets of Portillo’s life, including how he picked a private equity firm to take over his self-made empire. As his business hit 51 years in April 2014, he said he was proud of what he had accomplished. But to take Portillo’s to the next level, he knew he needed outside financing. “I was very leery of who I talked to,” said Portillo, 75. “I wanted to see who would baby this more, and keep the culture.” A self-proclaimed “systems junkie,” Portillo put the chain’s 38 locations up for sale last year. He quickly had two dozen suitors trying to get their hands on the popular chain. Berkshire Partners was the winning bidder even though, Portillo said, its offer was lower than some others. He said he dismissed a higher offer because it included plans to quickly take Portillo’s public; he worried the firm would make hasty changes to try and grow too quickly. One of the things he liked about Berkshire was that it wasn’t a restaurant operator looking to replace Portillo’s tried-and-true methods with its own restaurant operating systems. A Berkshire official echoed those ideals. “We don’t have any desire to change the formula at all,” said Mike Miles, who is now executive chairman of the Portillo’s chain. “The last thing you’d want to do is mess with that formula and mess with that business.” Miles said Portillo now is helping him interview prospective CEOs for the chain. Portillo said his restaurant’s large menu and various processes, which include preparing nearly everything but the french fries at massive commissaries, differs from chains such as Chipotle Mexican Grill, which has a more limited menu and list of ingredients. “It is complex, it’s very complex. It’s also extremely successful.” The history buff — he has retraced the sailing path of Christopher Columbus, among other adventures — compares the success of Portillo’s business model to building a moat outside a medieval castle to block enemies. “My moat is the complexity of the business and it helps keep the competition away,” Portillo said. Portillo’s revenue per store is unheard of in fast-food or fast-casual restaurants. An average McDonald’s in the United States, for example, brings in nearly $2.5 million in annual revenue. The average newer Portillo’s brings in $7 to $8 million. A higher-volume location in Downers Grove sells around $2 million of salads a year, one of many statistics Portillo rattles off. Portillo sees his restaurants as more of a special destination than other fast casual chains. The wide variety means families linger, even with no kids’ menus or toys. The company has shipped its food to every state for in-home celebrations. Neither Portillo nor Miles would discuss the financial terms of last summer’s acquisition nor the chain’s profitability. But Miles, an advisory director at Berkshire Partners with years of restaurant and retail expertise, was quick to say that Portillo’s “single unit economics are better than anything I’ve ever seen.” Selling the chain has at times been difficult for Portillo, though he said he still believes it was the right decision at the right time. “I have some regrets occasionally, it’s not all of the time. It was a big emotional thing for me,” Portillo said of selling his business. His journey started 52 years ago, when he scraped together $1,100 to set up a hot dog stand in a 6- by 12-foot trailer with no running water. Through his new company R&S Growth Management, Portillo oversees real estate investments. Those investments include the land under most of Portillo’s restaurants — he leases the space back to Berkshire Partners — along with other ventures such as shopping centers and apartments. Portillo said he aims to buy the land for future Portillo’s locations where the space is for sale and would then lease the space to Berkshire Partners. He does not own the land for the upcoming Rockford and Homewood locations, the first new Portillo’s set to open in nearly two years. Portillo continues to have connections to his former staff and customers. On a recent weekday, he posed for photos with patrons at the Downers Grove location. His fans include Scott Winch, a landscaper who said he visits the restaurant daily and is partial to the jumbo char dog. “We miss ya boss, we miss ya,” Winch, 47, told Portillo as they embraced. “You’re the man.” One worker brought Portillo a handful of flowers, while another quickly delivered his meal — that single egg — to his table. After coffee, a “good breakfast” such as oatmeal with sliced banana, and a berry, almond milk and protein smoothie, Portillo’s typical lunch is fruit and fat-free cottage cheese. He tends to wake up between 4:30 and 5:30 a.m., work out each morning and eat healthy meals, albeit with some indulgence. After all, one of his investments is an 18 percent stake in the Oak Brook location of Gibsons Bar & Steakhouse, where he planned to dine later that same night. More often, however, dinner is lighter. He said he eats at Chipotle a lot, and is a fan of its black beans and brown rice. Portillo, a former Marine Corps member and marathon runner, said he was also ready to slow down and “enjoy life” a little bit. “There was no balance in my life. It was pretty much all work until about 10 years ago. And I’ve started going to more funerals than weddings,” Portillo said as his sat in his former Oak Brook office. “I would like to spend more time with my grandchildren and children, more time on my boat, and at the same time see the name all over the country, if possible. That could not happen if I would have remained in the position I was in.” Portillo has a new office in Oakbrook Terrace with a view of the Chicago skyline, roughly 2-1/2 miles from Portillo’s headquarters. The new office serves as meeting place for Portillo, his chief administrative officer and the managing director of R&S. It’s also a place to showcase everything from Han Dynasty swords to guns and machetes used by U.S. Marines. Photos of Portillo’s family, his restaurants and his adventures adorn tables and walls throughout the space. There are also a few quotations that highlight Portillo’s thinking and business strategy. Two sayings get prominent placement on both his new desk and in Oak Brook, where his former office has been transformed into a meeting area. The top silver plaque reads D.W.Y.S.Y.G.T.D. – short for “Do what you say you’re going to do.” Below it, another plaque reads, “When You Have Somebody By The Balls Don’t Let Go To Get A Better Grip.” In a hallway outside his Oakbrook Terrace office sits a sculpture titled Self Made Man. The piece, by Bobbie Carlyle, depicts a man carving himself out of stone. It was a Christmas gift from Portillo’s wife, Sharon, whom he married in 1959. Portillo showcases his commitment to her outside each restaurant, with “Dick Loves Sharon” carved into the sidewalk cement, and hides the same message in the decor of new restaurants. He still spends time working on the Portillo’s business as a consultant to Berkshire Partners, work that includes helping the firm interview potential CEOs for Portillo’s. One of Portillo’s sons, Michael, still works for the restaurant, training managers. Portillo plans to attend the grand opening events for the chain’s Rockford location, which is set to open on June 9. Portillo said the two toughest and most important things Berkshire needs to focus on are site selection — “so far I’ve been using my gut instincts” — and training. He recalls having to pull aside managers who were not treating workers properly, whether that was overhearing swearing in the kitchen or stopping by a drive-thru lane where an order taker outside on a sub-zero night was not relieved of the frigid duty quickly enough. Portillo said he made the manager gear up and stand outside for the same long 45 minutes. Berkshire Partners is getting ready to open three locations in 2015, with plans for five in 2016. It’s paying close attention to places with Chicago transplants, much as Portillo himself did by opening units in Arizona, for example. So fans on the west coast of Florida, along with those in parts of Wisconsin and Texas, will “probably see” Portillo’s restaurants in the next five years, Miles said. “We’re very conscious about not trying to go too quickly,” said Miles, who said that for now there are no plans to franchise any locations or to take the company public. Meanwhile, Portillo spends more of his days taking adventurous vacations, such as a one-month tour of Alaska and a trip through the Panama Canal, both on the 112-foot Westport yacht he got in May. “I’m looking for a bigger one,” he says, laughing. Like his prior boats, the latest white yacht carries the name Top Dog. The license plate of his black SUV, meanwhile, reads DPTD, for Dick Portillo Top Dog. Portillo credited his passion for much of his success. “Sometimes it just gave me more energy to go further, to push.” He has photos of the Francis Cabrini housing project on Mohawk Street where he spent part of his childhood on the wall of the new office, just a few feet from photos of one of his homes, a mansion in Oak Brook. “We want to keep Dick as involved as possible,” said Miles, who said he meets with Portillo weekly when the septuagenarian is in town. “I don’t think his passion for the business has waned at all.” [email protected] Twitter @jessicawohl More in BusinessBusiness | Union employees will return to the job after back-to-work order issued for two major Canadian railroads, but plan a lawsuitDaily Southtown | Landmarks: Marshall Field’s Christmas automatons heading to auction blockDaily Southtown | From heavy storms to stuck trucks, blocked viaducts cause traffic snarls for Southland driversReal Estate | Lakefront mansion in Winnetka listed for $18MTrending nationally. - Will California Muslim voters support Kamala Harris? 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Don't Skip the Trip Go Anywhere and Everywhere your Heart Desires! THE MEGA MANSIONS OF NAPLESFirst, I want to warn you that these “winter getaway” homes are super luxurious and it is easy to imagine yourself sitting by the pool with an attentive butler at your disposal. I couldn’t pick just one that I would buy if I had the money to do so. It certainly makes you wonder what kind of massive architectural structures these billionaires and millionaires live in full time. We picked a day to explore Naples and decided on a sightseeing cruise through the beautiful Naples Bay and Gordon Pass waterways, followed by a city trolley tour. These activities are not affiliated with each other, but we were able to jump off the boat and walk a couple of blocks to hop on the two hour trolley tour. We started at Tin City, which you can see on the map below. Once we pushed off from the dock, we navigated Gordon Pass, wound our way through some canals, and briefly drove out in the Gulf of Mexico. Surprisingly, we had a brief encounter with two dolphins on our way back to Tin City. Tin City’s tin roofed buildings were the hub of economic development and transportation in the 1920’s, which was made possible by the construction of the Seaboard Airline Railroad. Now it is home to over thirty unique boutiques, two waterfront restaurants and a variety of water and boating adventures. Several exclusive yacht clubs are conveniently located on Naples Bay. There is a $40,000 application fee and 2-4 year waiting list for one of them. I can safely say that we will never become a member. With a high concentration of millionaires and billionaires living nearby, I am sure that there will always be a waiting list. The mega boats caught our attention, but wait until you see the massive estates that lined both sides of Naples Bay. We initially drove by Aqualane Shores, a 350 homesite luxury community on deep canals that was started in 1950. The homes have been torn down and replaced with sprawling mansions priced from $2.3 million to $10 million. The next development, Port Royal, was developed by John Glen Sample who died in 1973. His vision was to build the finest place in the World to live. Between 1938 and 1950, Sample acquired two square miles of mangroves and swamp land for $13,700. In the early 1950’s, heavy equipment was brought in to help begin dredging and filling the marshlands to develop numerous man-made peninsulas into residential lots overlooking the waterways, coves and Naples Bay. The first lots were sold for amounts ranging from $7500 to $12,000 each. Today, the properties sell at the low end for $5 million on canals and up to $60 million for beachfront estates. Since most of these are winter vacation homes, they are only used a few weeks out of the year. I was bummed that we didn’t see a single person lounging by their pool. Initially, Sample personally interviewed and accepted every potential buyer for each piece of land in the community until his death in 1971. If the buyer was not up to the standards of dress, conversation, or other factor, he would reject their bid to purchase the land. It was rumored that Sample did not welcome celebrity owners into his community, but after his death, Tom Selleck was allowed to build a home at the end of a peninsula. His original home remains as one of the smaller and older properties that we saw, but it recently sold and will be torn down I’m sure. Unfortunately, Tom never moved in because he assumed the entrance would be gated, but it never was. I have to admit that his house has very little curb appeal. They should have called HGTV! I can’t remember every owner of the specific estates that the captain pointed out, but I kept track of names and/or companies. Some big names were executives from the likes of S C Johnson, Best Buy, the founder of Play Dough, the founder of a mutual fund company once owned by Aetna, Goldman Sachs, Lehman Brothers, Revlon, and Portillo (of Chicago Hot Dog fame). I wonder if these owners get irritated at the tour boats and private boats cruising up and down the canals. There certainly is not much privacy by the swimming pools that are right on the water. I took so many pictures and here are a few more….. Some of the founders of Naples and the surrounding Collier county had built homes in the area. Not too many original homes exist today. One family owns the two homes above and property on the adjacent island. It was recently put on the market and will go for $100 – $150 million. However, the sales record will not be disclosed to the public. The trolley tour took us all over town. A highlight during the tour was one of the nation’s most exclusive addresses, 5th Avenue South, which is near Old Naples and is home to upscale fashion and jewelry, spas, one-of-a-kind gifts, artwork, home décor, fine dining, and entertainment. What a great way to spend a day! I highly recommend both activities if you like admiring fancy expensive things that you can’t afford. Or maybe you can….either way it’s fun to look. |
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Like his prior boats, the latest white yacht carries the name Top Dog. The license plate of his black SUV, meanwhile, reads DPTD, for Dick Portillo Top Dog. Portillo credited his passion for much of his success. "Sometimes it just gave me more energy to go further, to push." He has photos of the Francis Cabrini housing project on Mohawk Street ...
The 39.62m/130' motor yacht 'Top Dog' was built by Westport Yachts in the United States at their Westport, WA shipyard. Her interior is styled by American designer design house Westport Yachts and she was delivered to her owner in October 2015. This luxury vessel's exterior design is the work of Gregory Marshall.
Short Answer. The ownership of superyachts is generally private, so the exact answer to who owns which superyacht is not always publicly available. However, there are some notable superyacht owners that are known. For example, Larry Ellison, the co-founder of Oracle, owns the Rising Sun, which is the 11th largest superyacht in the world.
2015. BEAM. 7.9 m. GUESTS. 10. TOP DOG is a 39.62 m Motor Yacht, built in the United States of America by Westport and delivered in 2015. She is one of 42 130 models. Her top speed is 24.0 kn, her cruising speed is 20.0 kn, and she boasts a maximum cruising range of 3000.0 nm at 12.0 kn, with power coming from two MTU diesel engines.
In the world rankings for largest yachts, the superyacht, Top Dog, is listed at number 2418. She is the 28th-largest yacht built by Westport Yachts. Top Dog's owner is shown in SYT iQ and is exclusively available to subscribers. On SuperYacht Times, we have 2 photos of the yacht, Top Dog, and she is featured in 2 yacht news articles.
Owner's Search Historic Search Charter Yachts Brokerage Yachts ... Fleet Search Length 34.1m Year 2014. Top Dog. 2014 | Motor Yacht. Top Dog is a semi-custom motor yacht launched in 2014 by Westport. Since 1964 Westport has taken a long-term view of the future, and invested heavily in people, design, naval architecture, infrastructure ...
The body believed to be that of Hannah Lynch, the 18-year-old daughter of British tech tycoon Mike Lynch, has been recovered from the wreck of the Bayesian superyacht that sank off Sicily this ...
Superyacht Top Dog by Westport | 39.62 m, 10 guests, 7 crew
About Top Dog. Top Dog is a 39.62 m / 130′0″ luxury motor yacht. She was built by Westport in 2015. With a beam of 7.92 m and a draft of 1.9 m, she has a GRP hull and GRP superstructure. This adds up to a gross tonnage of 334 tons. She is powered by MTU engines of 2000 hp each giving her a maximum speed of 24 knots and a cruising speed of ...
TOP DOG Yacht, IMO 9685360. Last Updated: 4 May 2024. This ship info includes data on what are the dimensions and general vessel particulars, last and next special class survey, who is the owner of the ship TOP DOG, its Commercial Manager, ISM Manager, Classification Society, ...
The body of the final missing passenger -- believed to be the 18-year-old daughter of the yacht's owner, British tech tycoon Mike Lynch -- is reportedly unaccounted for.
Divers searching the wreck of a superyacht belonging to Irish-born, British tech tycoon Mike Lynch that sank off Sicily found the bodies of five of six passengers on Wednesday.
Short video showing the beautiful 2015 Westport Yacht "Top Dog" at dock in Naples Bay- Naples Florida. Amazing vessel- the video can't really show how the b...
42. Gianluigi Aponte. Gianluigi Aponte. Amo. 47m. All yacht owners are 'rich', but some are richer than others. For example, when a wealthy person is able to purchase a US$ 10 million yacht. His net worth is probably between US$ 50 million and US$ 100 million.
From selling hot dogs at his first hot dog stand, to owning this multi-million-dollar yacht. This millionaire in Naples Florida started his first hot dog sta...
The current position of TOP DOG is at North West Atlantic Ocean reported 7 mins ago by AIS. The vessel arrived at the port of Fort Lauderdale, United States (USA) on Jul 18, 17:00 UTC. The vessel TOP DOG (IMO 9685360, MMSI 319089200) is a Yacht built in 2015 (9 years old) and currently sailing under the flag of Cayman Islands . Plans & Prices.
The 39.62m/130' motor yacht 'Top Dog' was built by Westport Yachts in the United States at their Westport, WA shipyard. Her interior is styled by American designer design house Westport Yachts and she was delivered to her owner in October 2015. This luxury vessel's exterior design is the work of Gregory Marshall.
But no boat is top dog for long. At least 20 superyachts are reported to be under construction in various Northern European shipyards, including a $500 million superyacht being built for the ...
By his mid-20s he had his own business, a body shop. And the rest, well, is business history. A father of three grown-up children, he says he'd love to pass the baton to the next generation and his son, Adam, and his daughter, Angela, already work in the car and restaurant businesses. John Rosatti on board his Superyacht Double Down.
To mark International Dog Day on August 26, BOAT has curated a superyacht owner's guide for bringing dogs on board yachts, complete with advice from experienced superyacht owners on how to keep your furry friends happy at sea. There is a famous adage warning against working with animals and children but, when it comes to yachting, most would agree the opposite is true.
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Like his prior boats, the latest white yacht carries the name Top Dog. The license plate of his black SUV, meanwhile, reads DPTD, for Dick Portillo Top Dog. Portillo credited his passion for much ...
The yacht is designed by Espen Øino. It has a steel hull and aluminum superstructure. She is powered by 2 MTU engines. AIS data show a top speed of 15 knots and a cruising speed of 10 knots. But we think she is capable of higher speeds. The Flying Fox yacht, built by Lurssen Yachts, is one of the world's largest and most luxurious superyachts.
This owner is a retired investment banker from Goldman Sachs. Today, the properties sell at the low end for $5 million on canals and up to $60 million for beachfront estates. ... Portillo's remodeled estate and his newest yacht "Top Dog". I can't remember every owner of the specific estates that the captain pointed out, but I kept track ...
Footage from the home of Don Hesseltine on August 21, 2024, shows what happened when a Davenport police officer shot and killed his dog, Myst.
23 likes, 0 comments - ljmaheriii on December 27, 2017: "Dick Portillo's yacht 'Top Dog' #portroyal #naplesflorida #yachting #yachtlife #luxurylifestyle #florida #toomuchmoney".
The Value of the SuperYacht Amaryllis. Reflecting the intricate design, luxury amenities, and superior performance, the Amaryllis yacht is valued at approximately $120 million. The annual running costs are estimated around $12 million. However, the price of a yacht can significantly vary based on numerous factors, including size, age, luxury ...