Steve Jobs’ Venus hits another yacht [Instagram/Ricardo Salinas Pliego]
In what is possibly the slowest speed nautical crash ever, Steve Jobs struck another billionaire’s vessel.
A pair of luxury yachts came into contact with each other off the coast of Naples, Italy on Wednesday. The at-sea incident saw Venus, a luxury yacht build for the late Steve Jobs impact that of Mexican retail and broadcasting giant Ricardo Salinas Pliego.
Salinas posted to Instagram a video of Venus drifting toward and into the side of the Lady Moura, his own super-sized yacht. Traveling at a luxuriously slow pace, the front bow of Venusmade contact side-on with the other craft, reports Forbes.
“I would like to know what the captain and crew were doing that they didn’t see a yacht the size of mine,” Salinas commented with the video. “You see that there are no shortage of idiots in the world.”
While the glacial-speed impact didn’t cause any serious damage to either boat, Salinas claims there is a “big scratch” on the side of his vessel. Since it’s a big boat made for someone worth about $10 billion, the scratch will apparently cost a lot to repair.
Seemingly jokingly, Salinas asked his followers to buy Apple products via the Group Elektra retail chain that he owns, so Powell Jobs could pay for the damage.
It’s likely that Powell Jobs, worth $14.4 billion, could probably afford the repair bill without needing some retail assistance if the insurance doesn’t cover it.