Two famous super yachts, the 78 meter m/y Venus and 120 meter m/y Lady Moura collided while at anchor near Naples on the morning of 22 July, for a video footage filmed from the larger yacht, and was published online on the seventh August. The accident happened as a gust of wind reportedly of over fifty knots interested the area the super yachts were anchored. According to reports both of the yachts did not drag anchor, though one of them was reported to have had double the needed chain, which probably is what might have led to this collision.
M/y Venus is a 78 meter Feadship hull number 684 completed in 2012 to a design of Philippe Starck. Motor yacht Venus is famous because it was commissioned by Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, although he actually never got to see it personally as he died one year before completion, with his widow wife Laurene Powell Jobs taking commission of the yacht and using it privately ever since.
Lady Moura is a 105 meter Blohm and Voss launched in 1990 to a design of Italian Paolo Scanu with interiors by Luigi Sturchio and commissioned by Saudi Arabian Nasser Ibrahim Al-Rashid. When launched Lady Moura was the ninth largest super yacht, today she sits at number 48, although she still remains the third largest Blohm and Voss yacht, behind the 2008 119 meter m/y A and the 1931 build 136 meters m/y Savarona. Founded in 1877 Blohm and Voss was purchased by Lurrsen in 2016.
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