Leander G (yacht)

The yacht Leander G at the port of Portsmouth

Lloyd 's Register of Shipping

IMO no. 1002445

The Leander is a built in 1992 by the Peene-Werft luxury yacht owned by the multi-millionaire Sir Donald Gosling. In the list of the longest motor yacht she is currently ranked 70th

History and organization

In the late 1980s the German boat builder Kusch Yachts has been commissioned by a British officer with the development of a yacht. The fall of the Berlin Wall gave this prescient of the East German Peene-Werft the order. The yacht was built with a steel hull with bulbous bow, the deck structure with a total of six decks made ​​of aluminum. The interior was originally determined in Hamburg by the interior designer Heinz Vollers and the English designer Katalin Landon and Pauline Nunns - the yacht was overhauled in 1998 and 2001. When the British officer fell ill during construction, he decided against the yacht and sold it just before the end of the finishing work on Sir Donald Gosling, who has come to the possession of car parks in the UK money. Gosling, a former officer in the Royal Navy, named the yacht after the first ship on which he served, Leander. The official port of registration of the yacht is Hamilton, home is equipped with a helipad yacht in the bay of billionaires in Antibes on the French Riviera.

Charter

The Leander is certified for up to 12 guests and is operated with a crew between 23 to 29 people. The weekly rental fee is 490,000 U.S. dollars, where it is one of the most expensive Yacht Rentals worldwide ( by registering on the Bermuda is no VAT ). Major tenants include Gianni Agnelli and Taki. Even Camilla and Charles, members of the British Royal Family have rented the yacht after decommissioning of the royal yacht Britannia.