Top Mega Yachts

In response to our recent Top 10: Big Ships, an AM reader rightly chastised us for centering on cruise ships. The world of mega-yachts offers a much more tantalizing field of absurd entries. After all, there is wealth, and then there is mega-yacht ownership.

The ultimate ostentatious show of wide range, mega-yachts (yachts over 200 feet long) enable the world's elite to simply take their wealth on tour in a way nothing else can, and now mega-yacht ownership is within the midst of a hands competition. Computer software billionaires, Russian oligarchs and center Eastern sultans tend to be scrambling to create the biggest boat, the longest yacht, the essential interesting yacht, the absolute most outrageous boat. The race is curiously secretive; even the many prosaic of details is hard to pin straight down, reproduction a paparazzi devoted to protection for this supremely rich - and in many circumstances, utterly crazy - world of mega-yacht ownership.

As a result, we've done our far better offer a precise account of each and every mega-yacht's outrageous extravagances, given their particular secretive nature. Even though outrageousness is subjective, for criteria we are going to simply seek aspects - price, dimensions, amenities - any reasonable working-class individual would probably start thinking about outrageous, and go after that.