Posted on 2/2/2016
A 222 metre superyacht called Triple Deuce is going to overtake Azzam as the world’s largest yacht, according to reports in the mainstream and specialist superyacht press. Triple Deuce is set to be 40 metres longer than Azzam, priced at $1 billion and built at a “northern European yard”, we’re told, with delivery set for 2018. The details are consistent across all stories, and can be traced to a single press release published in October 2014 on Florida broker 4Yacht’s website.
Craig Timm of 4Yacht claims to have sold Project Triple Deuce to a client, “a visionary, ultra high-net worth individual”. The owner, Timm says, was concerned about building a yacht only slightly bigger than Azzam and then being quickly outpaced by another owner. “By building the yacht to 222 meters, he wants to make it difficult, if not impossible, to be ‘eclipsed’ hims...