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Victor Muller's classic superyacht The Highlander

Victor Muller on the refit of his classic superyacht The Highlander

Refitting his classic 1967 Feadship superyacht The Highlander with a celebrated history was a testing experience for Victor Muller. The Dutch sports-car magnate tells Stewart Campbell and Sacha Bonsor what he learnt in the process.

Profound epiphanies don’t often happen in garages in southern Holland, but when superyacht owner Victor Muller visited an oily workshop in 1983, the occasion was formative. “Sonny,” said an 80-year-old mechanic with a funny accent, “let me tell you something about the human eye… it only notices imperfection.”

Muller was a 24-year-old lawyer and had taken his car in to get the bumpers chromed. “What do you see?” the man asked. Nothing, thought Muller. “Look closer, look properly,” the man pressed.

And then he saw it, a tiny imperfection in the metalwork. “He was right,” Muller says over tea in London’s Connaught Hotel. “That blemish became all I could see. If you walk into a room and everything is fine but there’s a socket hanging from the wall, the socket’s the only thing you remember. You have to have a design so flowing that your eye doesn’t stop. That’s what I learned from an 80-year-old chromer in Holland.”

That brief moment informed everything the 54-year-old Dutch millionaire went on to accomplish: running the biggest tugboat fleet in the world, starting supercar company Spyker and amassing an enviable collection of classic cars. All of the excruciating adherence to detail, design and quality has been done with a nod to that old man, says Muller, and nowhere is this more apparent than in his latest project: the refitting of classic 1967 Feadship The Highlander .

This 37 metre icon of Dutch boatbuilding has been impressively redesigned by Muller in the US, creating something sublimely seamless. “A good design is only pleasing to the eye when it’s consistent everywhere, with one design language throughout the yacht,” he says. “I have a hard time reconciling how, on some boats, you walk from a Louis XVI room into an art deco space and on to modern realism. With my yacht, I tried to make it as consistent as possible. It’s very smooth, very calm. Nothing is flashy. It takes three things to build a brand, or a boat: consistency, consistency, consistency.”

It’s clear within minutes of meeting Muller that he’s a fanatic; whether it’s cars, boats or helicopters (he has recently learnt to fly one), his interest and enthusiasm for everything he does is extreme. “I could say car before I could say mummy,” he says, proudly. “She’s still a little upset about that!”

At the height of his auto obsession, around 1997, he owned 50 classic cars, but that’s now down to a slightly more manageable 18. Following a series of Lancias in the 1970s, he bought his first true sports car, a Maserati, in 1983, after borrowing money from his grandmother.

This infatuation wasn’t inherited – his dad had “terrible taste” in cars, a point Muller could not let go even after his father’s death: “In my eulogy, I reproached him for driving a Ford Cortina. And a big, ugly Opal Kapitan. Oh, God, and then he started buying American cars. When I was 12, I forced him out of American cars because it was an embarrassment. So he bought a Volvo 244 GLE, still a tank but at least it was a decent car. Then he started buying BMW 7 Series. This is when our relationship improved.”

"It takes three things to build a brand, or a boat: consistency, consistency, consistency."

Victor Muller

For Muller, this gradual move up the car-quality league table reached its apotheosis in 1997 when, having left law to successfully revive a number of businesses, he bought classic Dutch car-maker Spyker. In the early 20th century, this manufacturer was a big deal, building state coaches, planes and rally cars that took part in Victorianesque adventures from “Peking to Paris”, but it ceased trading in 1925.

Seventy-five years later the brand was back, with Muller at the helm, displaying the C8 Spyker concept at the Birmingham Motor Show. “I was buying new Astons and Ferraris and they were so poorly built in the 1990s. And I thought, as a classic car collector, that there must be a way to bring back the craftsmanship of the golden age of car manufacturing, from, say, 1925 to 1955. Hand built, nothing but pure materials, no plastics, no cheap shit. I thought that must be possible, so that’s what I did,” he says.

Every single Spyker starts life in Muller’s head; he just draws what he loves. “I’m very visual, I know exactly what the car’s going to look like, and I have a young guy who translates it into 3D drawings. The design of our latest car, the Venator, we did in 22 days from a drawing I did on a napkin in China.”

Muller has no formal training in design, and attributes his love of aesthetics to his upbringing. He grew up in comparative wealth, largely thanks to his father’s successful accounting firm (eventually sold to Ernst & Young) and the money was spent educating him and his sister on beauty. They were regularly taken to Italy, for example, where Victor soaked up la dolce vita: “I’m so old I actually know what that means. This was the time of (legendary Italian film director Federico) Fellini, so yeah, I love that era. I love the cars and boats made then.”

But it was his grandmother who he really has to thank. “She was like a little queen,” he recalls. “She really taught us to appreciate quality.”

It’s more than money he’s got his father to thank for, however. As a child the two of them would go birdwatching on the Dutch coast near a town called IJmuiden; the birds were interesting, he recalls, but the tugboats plying the canal between the coast and Amsterdam were fascinating: “I would see the boats come in and out and I was intrigued.”

They were owned by a company called Wijsmuller, which Muller, at just 32, would later buy and turn into the biggest tugboat operator in the world. “I sold it off to Maersk in 2001. It was my single biggest deal,” he says.

Money from the deal was ploughed into Spyker, which in turn allowed Muller to think about boats: before The Highlander , which he keeps in the US, he bought a Riva Aquariva and a nine-metre sloop that he keeps at his home in Mallorca. He previously owned a wooden Aquarama too, but got sick of having to take her in and out of the water to keep her from falling apart.

It was only when Muller was leafing through a copy of Boat International in 2007 on the island of Capri that he seriously considered buying a superyacht. “I saw an ad for a Feadship and started looking into it. I thought, heritage is very important, I want to buy the one with the best heritage.”

The search stopped when Muller saw The Highlander , then called Avante , nestled behind a house on the Intracoastal Waterway in Boca Raton, Florida.

The 36 metre classic scored on all counts: it was from an era when design briefs might as well have read “Elegant”; it had an enviable past, having been owned by legendary publisher Malcolm Forbes and, perhaps most importantly, it was a Feadship. “Everyone makes beautiful yachts,” explains Muller, “but there’s only one Feadship. If you buy a Feadship, you’re saying ‘I like quality and I don’t care what it costs.’”

In the 40-odd years of the yacht’s life to that point, it had hosted presidents, captains of industry and celebrities and now it was all Muller’s. “And it was still completely intact,” Muller adds. “Forty years of being in the harshest environment on the globe and externally there was nothing wrong with it.” The internals were a different matter, however. “It looked like a cheap whorehouse,” he remembers. “There was a fire on board in 1980 and the interior had been redone for a Californian owner. It was all white leather and brass. And Plexiglas. It was the worst of 1980 – nauseating – so I knew the first thing I had to do was rip the interior out.”

The Highlander spent three years at the superyacht refit yard in Fort Lauderdale, and Muller freely admits that he got it all wrong. “I was a novice and I made every classic mistake: I wasted money on the wrong things, I had to do lots of things twice. With hindsight I should have picked the yacht up and brought it back to Feadship. But I thought at the time that I couldn’t afford it: penny-wise, pound-foolish.”

Despite often contemplating canning the whole project, slowly the yacht came together and today it stands as a testament to Muller’s exacting eye and love of detail. He went big on teak and nickel (“because it’s so much more beautiful than chrome”) and chose white and orange for the main colours; white because it contrasts beautifully with the teak, and orange “for Holland”.

What he’s created is the ultimate family getaway. Sadly his father died before the yacht was finished but his mother, still going strong at 85, loves it. “The reason for buying the yacht was because my family is so important. The yacht offers a unique place to have everyone together in a confined but spacious area. Nobody is sitting too close together, and everyone can do their own thing. But you are together. And that’s invaluable,” Muller says.

Does his family appreciate the blood, sweat and tears he has poured into the detail? The seamlessness? The aesthetic? The design? Muller pauses. “You can learn quality,” he says, slowly. “It’s handed down from generation to generation. My children appreciate it, because I tell them, ‘This is crap, and that is good.’ If you see it enough times you will recognise it yourself, if you’re open to it.”

That 80-year-old chromer would approve.

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Joanne de Guardiola’s interior design is light and sometimes whimsical, as opposed to Highlander ‘s previous formal, corporate look. Courtesy IYC

During the five years Forbes owned the yacht, before his death in 1990, she travelled the globe; everywhere from then Communist China, to Bora-Bora, to Thailand, the Philippines and Alaska.

Launched in 1985, this was the last of five Forbes-owned yachts named The Highlander, after his family’s Scottish roots. But this one was unique. Designed by world-renowned designer Jon Bannenberg and built-in Holland by Feadship , her dark green hull—said to be the colour of dollar bills—stretched 162 feet bow to stern.

Malcolm Forbes used The Highlander , which travelled around the world, to entertain political leaders, celebrities and other billionaires. Courtesy John Barrett/Celebrity Archaeology/The Mega Agency

The yacht was built by Feadship and designed by Jon Bannenberg, the father of modern yacht design. The original dark-green exterior was said to be the colour of a dollar bill. Courtesy Jim Raycroft

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The top deck nearly doubled in size during Highlander ‘s two-year refit. Courtesy IYC

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One of Highlander ‘s lounges. Courtesy IYC

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A young Harrison Ford, taking the wheel of Highlander , was one of many celebrity guests in the 1980s. Courtesy The Highlander Archive

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Blluemade’s linen comes exclusively from the Flanders region of Belgium, where a rainy, cloudy and temperate climate results in linen strands measuring between two and four feet. Lampe compares this to linen grown in drier and hotter environments, whose strands measure as little as two to four inches.

Other climes blessed (or perhaps cursed) with similar weather tend to produce quality linen, notably Ireland and the Normandy region of France.

Maison Hellard founder Nathan Hellard, whose eponymous firm turns Norman flax into tailor-ready linens, deploys an appropriately Gallic metaphor. “Just like wine, if you have good soil and a good amount of rain and sun, then you have the longest possible fiber in the end . And that’s the biggest difference between a low-quality linen and a high quality one,” he tells Robb Report.

Should you not have the opportunity to measure the strands yourself, Hellard says that quality can be detected visually, too. While linen is a naturally slubby textile, inferior linen will appear far slubbier and fuzzier due to their short fibers, whereas superior linen is smoother.

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You can make linen from gold prize-winning flax and it will still wrinkle. That’s simply a product of how its strands meet together, and the fact that it is a vegetable fiber lacking the natural elasticity of wool.

“The wrinkles are part of the job,” says Keegan, laying out the facts. “And if you have been brainwashed into no wrinkles, period, then you’re going to have to grow into this.”

However, some linens will “bounce back” from wrinkles better than others. Lower quality or lighter weight linens are susceptible to long-lasting creases, whereas heavier linens and those made from longer fibers or with particular finishes will merely rumple rather than buckle. “It’s not that it won’t crease, it’s how it creases,” Hellard clarifies.

Linen’s wrinkle factor should be considered when forming an outfit. With a linen suit, Keegan prescribes a crisp oxford shirt to create contrast, and would avoid linen shirting and its resultant “wrinkle-on-wrinkle” effect. Jake Mueser, founder of the West Village tailor J. Mueser, nixes wool jackets with linen pants, but not its opposite. Mueser is an expert on wearing suiting in the summer without breaking a sweat.

“A crisp, light wool trouser with a linen jacket—that is a good combo,” he tells Robb Report.

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Mueser, whose Christopher Street atelier is thronged with linen suit-wearers in summer, highlights the choices available to those commissioning a linen suit.

“Like wool, there’s a lot of variety to linen. You can have a lighter weight, softer, more Italian linen that’s going to have more give and more wrinkle. You can have stiffer Irish linens, more washed and treated linens like Solbiati,” he says, referring to the linen-centric Italian mill purchased by Loro Piana in 2013. “There’s a big variation.”

Indeed, it’s the treated linens that increasingly make for interesting, paradigm-breaking commissions. To take just one example, the Hong Kong and Taipei-based tailor The Anthology has championed a “sueded” linen with a unique finish that leaves it soft to the touch on the exterior, yet crispy and springy on its reverse.

“I think this specific linen is quite unique, because it sits right between the most traditional of Irish linens and the Italian ones,” says Anthology founder Buzz Tang. “It lends the Italian softness to the cloth, but at the same time, it still has a certain integrity in terms of drape and hang.”

An undeniable part of the fabric’s appeal at the present, dressed-down moment is its inherently casual appeal, a factor Mueser takes advantage of by often sporting his linen suits with a crewneck tee or Western shirt underneath. However, he doesn’t believe that it must be confined to the most casual side of tailoring and recalls seeing linen used in more structured suits and even dinner jackets to great success.

“Just because linen feels more casual, it doesn’t have to be patch pockets and deconstructed,” he says. “I think there’s a charm to taking linen and building it up more.”

Caring for Linen

For linen garments that can be machine washed, Lampe sounds a warning: no detergents with enzymes.

“If you spill ketchup or food on your clothes, it’ll eat away at that,” Lampe says of the additive’s advantages. “But linen is also natural, and so enzymes will eat away at that. And once you eat away at the outer lining of a hollow core material, you have a hole.”

In the interests of keeping linen hole-free, she instead recommends an enzyme-free detergent, such as the one produced by Le Blanc. For those taking the dry-cleaning route, Mueser suggests a similarly careful touch—perhaps skipping the actual dry cleaning altogether.

“I tell people all the time, take your suit to the dry cleaner, tell them to just steam it and press it. It comes back looking and feeling fresh and new, and it doesn’t need to have a chemical bath,” he says.

And finally: does a guaranteed-to-wrinkle garment ever need an ironing in the first place? Keegan says no. “I actually think it would be more of a steam than an iron… steaming is, for something like linen, a really good way to get it to its natural state.” That means crisp, cool, comfortable—and just the perfect amount of wrinkled.

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The Candela C-8 Polestar Edition Sculpted Seats

The C-8’s bespoke carbon-fiber seats—the lightest marine seats in the industry weighing just three kilogram—have upholstery and supporting underlying foam pads that give a sculpted, race car–like experience. They’re designed by Maria Uggla and Polestar’s design department, the same team that designs Polestar’s car seats, including the new electric Polestar Concept BST that launched in July.

Center Stage

The Candela C-8 Polestar Edition Center Seating

The symmetrical layout seats passengers in the boat’s center of gravity, on top of the Polestar battery. That makes it easier for the boat to get up on plane and the balanced weight distribution allows it to lift on its foils.

Automotive Crossover

The boat’s blingy gold foils and sculpted seats are just part of the Polestar connection. The C-8 special edition shares the same batteries as the luxury automotive brand, while Polestar technology is also integrated into the C-8’s charging system.

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The Candela C-8 Polestar Edition Fast Charging

The C-8’s 69 kWh battery can charge in 35 minutes from 10 to 80 percent via DC charging on dockside stations in the U.S. and Europe. The boat, in fact, uses the same fast-charging hardware as the Polestar 2 automobile to deliver a range of up to 57 nautical miles, at a cruising speed of 22 knots. That’s around three times the range of other electric speedboats. Last fall, a Polestar-powered Candela C-8 prototype set a new record by covering 420 nautical miles in 24 hours, using Northvolt’s mobile battery storage system to charge the boat along the way.

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The Candela C-8 Polestar Edition Marine upholstery

The hull’s solid gray exterior is complemented by a lighter gray interior upholstery that matches the look of Polestar cars. The same material is used on the boat’s seats, cushions, and sunbeds as well as being applied to the walls and roof panels of the cabin.

Can I Send This Wine Back? Yes, Here’s How

Sommeliers offer their advice around the etiquette of ordering a bottle.

By Mike Desimone And Jeff Jenssen 24/08/2024

Once upon a time, in the land of snobby sommeliers, a diner was expected to make a split-second decision about a wine’s acceptability the moment a taste of a wine was poured. The wine professional, bottle in hand and a look of superiority on his face (they were all men in this dark history), stood at the ready to challenge any assertion the diner may have attempted to make about the quality of the wine. He had already taken a sniff and a sip from the polished tastevin worn around his neck and had pronounced it fit to drink; the ceremony was all for show and said diner’s opinion was entirely beside the point. Fortunately, we’ve moved into a new era and world of sommeliers.

The rules of sending a bottle back at restaurants have changed. While it’s probably still best to only do so when there’s something genuinely wrong with the wine—such as it has suffered from cork taint (TCA), been overpowered by Brettanomyces, undergone oxidation, or refermented in the bottle—we spoke with several sommeliers and beverage directors and were repeatedly told that they will take a bottle back simply if the customer doesn’t like it. “Even if a bottle is not flawed, I take it back as I want the guests to leave happy and want to come back because they will remember that they were treated well,” says Aviram Turgeman, beverage director at New York City’s Chef Driven Hospitality.

Unlike the sommeliers of old, today’s crop is interested in helping their guests have the best experience possible, which means exchanging a bottle even if it is perfect. “After resolving the issue and providing a new bottle, I will taste the returned wine behind the scenes,” says Genaro Gallo Escudero, wine director at Eight Tables restaurant in San Francisco.

“Whether the guest’s complaint is valid or not, they should not have to drink something they believe is not up to standard.” In the best-case scenario, the problem will be pointed out as soon as the bottle is presented, but sometimes flaws are not immediately obvious. Even so, it’s never too late to call your wine professional back to the table and ask them to re-evaluate the bottle with you.

“In an ideal world, the guest should let the service professional know right away, when they first taste the wine, that it is flawed,” says master sommelier Des Echavarrie. “In practice, it is almost always 10 to 20 minutes later and after the wine has been poured.” He points out that once a significant portion of the wine has been poured it makes it difficult for the establishment to return a problematic bottle to the distributor for credit but adds that “regardless of whether it is economically prudent, a restaurant should make every reasonable effort to accommodate the guest.”

It helps if the sommelier takes a sip before pouring, but we don’t always see that put into practice. One exception is Alex Ring, Michelin Guide 2023 Chicago Sommelier Award winner and wine director at Chicago restaurants Sepia and Proxi. “I taste every bottle I open, so I’ll usually intercept a flawed bottle of wine before it gets into the guest’s glass,” he says. “I’m also familiar with the offerings on my list, so if I know a wine tends toward being funky, I make sure to have a quick conversation with the guest before I pull the cork.”

That’s a crucial point: It’s important to know what you’re ordering and what to expect. Wine professionals are in line on this point as well, all stating that it is their job to let the customer in on what to anticipate when the bottle is opened. Scott Stroemer, beverage director at Chicago’s Michelin-starred Galit, tries to do it with honesty and humour on his wine list.

“We often use blurbs, for lack of a better term, on the menu that serve that purpose,” he says. “‘Chuggable Pet Nat of ancient Cypriot red varietal’ works as a gatekeeper of sorts, to invite the natural wine fans in while telling people this isn’t what you’re looking for if you want Champagne or Prosecco.”

While Turgeman doesn’t add coded language on his wine list at Chef Driven’s recently opened restaurant Acadia, he always makes sure to point out the style of wine being ordered if it may fall on the funkier side of the spectrum. “It is our job to explain in a language or verbiage [people] would understand, such as a friendly heads up about farmyard aromas or a ‘good stink,’ or to explain that oxidation can be pleasant,” he says.

What happens if you return a bottle that’s not actually flawed? While it’s not something you should do on a regular basis, you can rest assured that the bottles go to good use. Echavarrie tells of a returned wine he describes as “an expensive bottle of Burgundy abbreviated by three initials,” which the customer thought was off, but he and the wine director found to be in perfect condition. “We poured the wine for other guests in a different part of the restaurant that would have never gotten to taste it otherwise,” he says. Grace Newport, beverage director at San Francisco’s Epic Steak, says sometimes she’ll set those opened bottles aside until the end of service where she can use them for some staff education.

Receiving a different style of wine than expected can even have a silver lining for the customer who ordered it. Turgeman tells of a guest who ordered Châteauneuf-du-Pape Blanc and was surprised by the white wine, not red, that was opened at the table. “They were apologetic about it, but I insisted that they keep the glasses I poured just so they could see how great it was. I brought them the bottle of rouge, which they enjoyed, but now they are big fans of Châteauneuf Blanc.”

By Bryan Hood 22/08/2024

Internal-combustion-engine apologists love to throw shade at EVs. Dogma and infighting aside, the flow of unbridled electrons offers unrivalled acceleration when compared to gas-burning alternatives. The EV speed advantage is due to the technology’s broad powerband, instant torque, and absence of gear shifts thanks mostly to single-speed transmissions.

While even gas-powered hypercars such as the Bugatti Chiron suffer moments of lag as turbos spool and gears transition, EVs can dispatch power to all four wheels with near instantaneous torque transfer. It’s also worth noting the difference between “quick” and “fast;” the former referring to acceleration while the latter typically relates to top speed, a metric where many gas-powered cars still hold an edge. Semantics aside, here are 15 of the quickest-accelerating EVs in ascending order.

Mercedes-AMG EQE 53 4Matic+

Mercedes-Benz’s top-of-the-line EQS launched the legacy automaker’s entrance into the mainstream EV market, but the smaller EQE outsprints the big-bodied sedan with a claimed zero-to-100 km/h time of 3.2 seconds. The AMG package also bisects the bubble-shaped four-door’s ovoid figure with flares, spoilers, and other visual signifiers that give the 677 hp sedan a more aggressive look than its EQS sibling.

GMC Hummer EV Pickup Truck

The General Motors Hummer EV was conceived with a more-is-more approach to engineering. While many manufacturers seek to optimise efficiency through lightweight construction and slippery aerodynamics, the Hummer EV Pickup Truck tips the scales at over 4,000 kg, a relatively astounding heft that is defied by a touted zero-to-100 km/h time of around 3 seconds. All that mass is overcome by 1,000 hp routed through three motors, offering a maximalist answer to the pickup-truck question nobody asked.

Lotus Evija

While the Evija hypercar from Lotus has yet to reach customer garages, the sold-out flagship is designed with a focus on weight reduction. The $2.3 million two-seater weighs around 1,600 kg, embracing Lotus founder Colin Chapman’s famous maxim to “add lightness.” Lotus also added more than a bit of muscle, with 2,000 hp launching the vehicle from zero to 100 km/h in less than 3.0 seconds. More impressive, the Evija is expected to reach 300 km/h in 9 seconds and have a top speed beyond 200 km/h.

Xiaomi SU7 Ultra

It’s been clear since Xiaomi SU7 was first unveiled earlier this spring that the Chinese electronics giant had its eye on the Porsche Taycan. The company’s debut EV is a sporty sedan with a body that, to put it charitably, looks quite similar to that of the German’s first battery-powered model. But the SU7 isn’t content to just look like the Taycan—specifically the Turbo GT model that circled the Nürburgring Nordschleife in 7:07.55—it wants to move like it too. Enter its high-performance variant, the Ultra, which features a tri-motor powertrain that can produce 1,517 hp. Thanks to all that, the EV will be able to sprint from zero to 100 km/h in 2.8 seconds and hit a top speed of 350 km/h when it eventually goes on sale.

Maserati GranCabrio Folgore

We may still be waiting on the first battery-powered model from Ferrari and Lamborghini, but Maserati has already gone all-electric and the results are impressive to say the least. The marque has a whole line of EVs called Folgore, which includes a coupe (the GranTurismo), a convertible (the GranCabrio), and an SUV (the Grecale). The first two, the GranCabrio is based on the GranTurismo, have a tri-motor powertrain that generates 818 hp, significantly more powerful than the most portent version of their gas-powered counterparts. With all that power under the metaphorical hood, it’s little surprise that the electric GranTurismo can hit 100 km/h in 2.7 second and reach a top speed of 325 km/h.

The Chinese brand Nio launched its product lineup with the EP9 hypercar in 2016, entering the market with a halo vehicle whose appeal was intended to trickle down to more workaday sedans, SUVs, and wagons. While the EP9’s 1,341 hp, $5.2 million price tag, and rate of acceleration from zero to 100 km/h in 2.6-seconds are all eye-catching figures, the brand’s struggles are perhaps more intriguing.

The company has been pedaling hard to stay afloat, with a $1.4 billion government bailout, ongoing losses, and a still-faltering stock price. Nio’s intention to become the next Tesla was certainly ambitious, but the current challenge is to build affordable cars that produce ludicrous sales figures, not performance numbers.

Audi RS e-tron GT Performance

Like the Porsche Taycan with which it shares a platform, Audi’s RS e-tron GT incorporates a two-speed transmission that helps boost acceleration and improve efficiency at highway speeds. The just-introduced range-topper, the RS e-tron GT Performance, has a dual-motor powertrain that delivers a startling 912 hp, making it the marque’s most powerful production car ever. Thanks to the added power it can leap to 100 km/h in an easy-to-miss 2.5 seconds on its way to an electronically limited top speed of 250 km/h. Though not as uncorked as its sister car from Porsche, this new variant raises the bar for the brand’s sports sedans.

Rivian R1T and R1S Quad-Motor

The most richly funded automotive startup in history might have had a few sales stumbles and hurdles to profitability, but Rivian has had no problem building surprisingly sprightly trucks and SUVs. The upgraded quad-motor powertrain found in the 2025 R1T and R1S delivers 850 hp and 1,500 Nm of torque, the battery-powered pickup can reach 100 km/h from a standstill in 2.5 seconds flat. Also noteworthy is its torque-vectoring capability, which aids its handling and off-road acumen. And the automaker’s recently unveiled R2 and R3 midsize may be even quicker, but we’ll have to wait for verification.

Porsche Taycan Turbo GT

In order to compete with Tesla’s hot-rodded Model S Plaid and the contending Lucid Air Sapphire, Porsche upped the output of its flagship electric sedan’s four motors. Notably, it also took the drastic measure of removing the rear seats, thereby making this Taycan variant a 1,092 hp two-seat four-door.

The track-focused model’s zeo-to-100 km/h time of 2.2 seconds may not be the quickest, but its record-breaking lap times at the Nürburgring Nordschleife and WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca racetracks prove the Taycan’s mettle where it matters most to the German brand.

BYD Yangwang U9

BYD has been creating buzz for approaching numbers that threaten Tesla’s global sales crown. The Chinese multinational conglomerate was edged out by Elon’s brand for the first quarter of 2024, but the challenger gained an edge with its curiously named Yangwang U9. Unlike most EV hypercars with four-digit horsepower figures and seven-digit price tags, BYD’s 1,287 hp flagship comes in at $345,000. And that’s for a car that can still scoot to 100 km/h in 2.0 seconds flat. There’s a slight chance it could be even quicker too, since the sports car’s top speed of 375 km/h—high enough to make it the world’s third fastest EV—is actually faster than originally promised.

Tesla Model S Plaid

The Tesla Model S is the car that cleared the way for every other car on this list. More than a decade later, the sedan is still going, even if its dated design has seen better days. Despite its age, the Model S, and especially the high-performance Plaid variant, can more than hold its own. The range-topping four-door has a tri-motor powertrain that produces 1,020 hp and 1,400 Nm of torque, making it even more powerful than the Cybertruck Beast variant. Thanks to all that grunt, the car can shoot from zero to 100 km/h in 1.99 seconds and hit a top speed of 321 km/h (with the right tires).

Lucid Air Sapphire

Lucid’s Air Dream Edition debuted in 2021 with 1,111 hp, disrupting the miniscule EV sedan space with a disarmingly potent offering. The marque’s recently released Sapphire ups the ante when it comes to acceleration, with a claimed zero-to-100 km/h time of 1.89 seconds.

The urgency comes from three motors producing 1,234 hp. That output is routed through all four wheels via a torque-vectoring system that helps the hefty sedan rotate through corners. The EPA estimated range of the five-passenger Sapphire is 687 km.

Pininfarina Battista

If the buttoned-down styling of the Rimac Nevera doesn’t do it for you, you might consider the similarly powerful but more fancifully styled Pininfarina Battista. The Italianate take on the Croatian hypercar claims similarly outrageous numbers—1,900 hp hailing from four electric motors. The zero-emissions power train enables the car to rocket from zero to 100 km/h in 1.86 seconds.

However, key differentiators between the Rimac Nevera and the Pininfarina Battista are the latter’s Luca Borgogno–designed carbon-fibre body—defined by complex curves—and the imaginatively trimmed cabin. The Battista tops out at 350 km/h, though, so it’s not as fast as the Nevera.

Rimac Nevera Time Attack

The Rimac Nevera Time Attack’s 1,813 hp motors can whisk the Croatian-built two-seater to 100 km/h from a standstill in 1.81 seconds. Perhaps more impressive is that it can reach its top speed of 416 km/h and then slow to a stop in a faster total time than it takes a McLaren F1 to reach 350 km/h.

Rimac isn’t betting entirely on electric, however. The brand’s acquisition of the Bugatti nameplate will lead to a hybridised V-16 power plant producing the best of both worlds: the charisma of an old school internal-combustion engine and the efficient speed of battery-assisted torque.

The long-delayed Aspark Owl is a Japanese hypercar aiming for a host of all-electric superlatives: the most powerful electric motors (1,980 hp), the quickest EV (zero to 100 km/h in 1.72 seconds), and the fastest as well (418 km/h). Aspark also promises a version bodied in carbon fibre that starts at $5.6 million.

The Owl has been responsible for two Guinness World Records (for eight-mile and quarter-mile average speeds) but shifting production from Italy back to Japan has produced even more delays, requiring patience from would-be owners.

Porsche Design Unveils Two Limited-Edition Chronographs to Celebrate 50 Years of the 911 Turbo

The two chronographs incorporate design elements from the iconic 1970s sports car and its modern successor.

By Rachel Cormack 21/08/2024

Porsche is going all out for the 911 Turbo’s 50th birthday.

The German marque has unveiled an exclusive anniversary model of the legendary sports car and Porsche Design has dropped two limited-edition timepieces to mark the monumental, half-century milestone.

The first watch, the Chronograph 911 Turbo 50 Years, pays homage to the original Turbo that debuted at the Paris Motor Show in 1974 and the modern successor revealed on Friday. Taking design cues from the respective four-wheelers, the chronograph is equipped with a 42 mm titanium case that is at once sleek, lightweight, and robust. The black sunburst dial features accents in the car’s exclusive Turbonite hue, a “Turbo 50” motif at nine o’clock, and a seconds dial shaped like a turbocharger wheel.

Porsche Design Chronograph 911 Turbo 50 Years

The Turbo references don’t stop there, either. The winding rotor is based on the special edition’s wheel and adorned with the Porsche badge, while the strap is made of Porsche vehicle leather and finished with Turbonite yarn. Powered by the in-house Werk 01.200 calibre, the watch should be just as reliable as its wheeled counterpart, too.

Fittingly limited to 1,974 units, the Chronograph 911 Turbo 50 Years timepiece is available exclusively to the owners of the new anniversary car and priced at $18,533. The caseback will be engraved with your vehicle’s limited-edition number, naturally.

The second timepiece, the Chronograph 1—50 Years 911 Turbo Edition, again incorporates elements from the Turbo. Based on the entirely black chronograph that Professor Ferdinand Alexander Porsche created in 1972, the monochromatic design showcases a 41 mm titanium case with a black coating, a matte black dial, and two matching black straps. (You can opt for a leather strap or titanium bracelet.)

Porsche Design Chronograph 1—50 Years 911 Turbo Edition

The dial evokes the dashboard of Turbo, with three subdials and striking red and white accents. The “Flyback” inscription above six o’clock is in the font from the historic 911 dash, while the Porsche Design logo is from the 1970s. Flip it over, the open caseback is adorned with the limited-edition number, “Turbo” lettering, and the years “1974” and “2024.) Inside lies the in-house Werk 01.240 calibre, with a flyback function that combines starting, stopping, and zeroing in one operation.

The Chronograph 1—50 Years 911 Turbo Edition is limited to 500 pieces and costs $18,000. All examples of the two chronographs will be handcrafted in Porsche’s watch factory in Solothurn, Switzerland.

Porsche Design became a 100 percent subsidiary of Porsche in 2017, after which the German studio began creating more car-inspired timepieces and model-exclusive watches for rides such as the 911 GT3 and 911 Targa.

Just imagine what’s in store for the Turbo’s centenary.

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Highlander is no ordinary superyacht. Here’s why…

From housing its own pop art collection to hosting a wealth of hollywood’s finest stars, this is what sets highlander apart from the rest.

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There are yachts on the water that turn heads with their beautiful and meticulously-designed looks. And then there are others, still sumptuous to behold, which also prick ears – with tales of past guests, iconic voyages and histories unrivalled. Highlander is the latter, a boat with such secrets and individuality that it has become a character in of itself.

With star-studded stories and style in abundance, Highlander was first built by Feadship De Vries for publishing magnate Malcolm Forbes – yes, that Forbes – in order for him to court and entertain a wealth of Hollywood’s finest stars – from Elizabeth Taylor and Harrison Ford to Robert De Niro – on board. It’s a enviable list of guests, one even to challenge Christina O ‘s roster of Marilyn Monroe, Winston Churchill and Jackie Kennedy. And, fittingly as Highlander’s deck has been walked by some of the biggest media stars and icons of the past century, inside Highlander boasts a varied and expansive pop art collection.

And it wasn’t just film stars who walked up the gang plank. Politicians from Ronald Reagan to Margaret Thatcher, and even royalty – in the form of HRH Prince Charles – took to Highlander for jaunts across the water along the coast of the South US. Needless to say, if her decks could talk, they’d likely be served a super-injunction.

"With star-studded stories and style in abundance, Highlander was first built for publishing great Malcolm Forbes..."

Recently, Highlander was purchased by new owners after a comprehensive refit at Derecktor in Florida in 2014. Today, the interior of the motor yacht has been completely restyled, with the Jon Bannenberg-designed exterior staying much the same save for a hull lengthening. The iconic exterior still turns heads in any port, with the elegant dark hull striking against the water. And, along with major mechanical updates, a plush new paint job has completed the new look.

Inside, the yacht has accommodation available for 12 charter guests in seven staterooms – all attended by 11 crew members. But the bedrooms are unlikely to see much of your time. And why would they, when the vessel is also luxuriously equipped with a multi-coloured Jacuzzi, disco lounge, media room, and large swimming platform. And, of course, a massage room for when everything gets a little much.

In the water, she can reach a cruising speed of 12 knots. But, when you’re taking things more leisurely, and want to play with the toys and tenders, there’s a wealth of fun to be had. Seabobs, waverunners and water skis are just the tip of the iceberg, with kayaks, paddle boards, snorkelling gear and an inflatable gym ready to be used as well.

A particular favourite to be chartered for the Cannes film festival, this is among the most stylish of superyachts. A big bold interior is perfect for partying, and – as history can attest to – Highlander’s very high standards have been enough to keep some of the biggest stars in show business entertained. And really, if it’s good enough for De Niro, it’s good enough for you…

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Family updates Highlander, a former Malcolm Forbes yacht

Joanne de Guardiola redesigned the Highlander yacht after buying it from Malcolm Forbes.

As an interior designer who loves yachting, Joanne de Guardiola bought Malcolm Forbes’ last yacht, Highlander, took it down to the studs, and remade his corporate-entertaining yacht into something she and her husband, Roberto, could enjoy with family and friends.

“I am a big fan of Jon Bannenberg, its designer, and it’s a Feadship, which are the best of the best. Bannenberg only designed three or four Feadships,” Joanne de Guardiola says.

She and husband were acquainted with the Forbes family, and they knew the yacht was available.

“It was one of those things,” de Guardiola says. “We took a look at it, and ended up buying it. She’s a great boat, and I loved her.”

Roberto grew up on the water in Havana, and boating has always been part of his life. Not so Joanne; she grew up in Michigan.

“Roberto and I chartered a few times, and I fell in love with boats. About a dozen years ago, we bought our first Feadship, Audacia,” she says.

“With kids 8, 10, or 12, they are not on their phones or computers all the time, and doing water sports with them is fun. We have this inflatable gym that you can get flipped off of, banana floats, kayaks, paddleboards, Seabobs. Everyone has a blast. Being on the water is phenomenal for families.”

They keep their yacht in the Mediterranean and the Caribbean, depending on the season, and they spend about 10 weeks a year on it. Some of their favorite trips have been to Ponza Island, Istanbul, Greece, Croatia and Venice. The Palm Beachers now are planning a trip to Capri, and they are hoping to go to the Galapagos Islands soon.

Highlander, launched in 1986, was legendary, de Guardiola says.

“People often come up and talk to our crew because they have fond memories of being on board with Malcolm.”

When preparing to renovate and redecorate, de Guardiola studied Bannenberg’s original designs; she looked at the yacht’s bones, and let them lead her.

“I cleaned up exterior lines, and I took off the teak handrails. It broke my heart, but that change makes the boat look younger.” She repainted the yacht a slightly lighter shade of green, removed striping and extended sidewalls where necessary.

She also extended the top deck forward, doubling its size, and added “brows” for a finished look and to provide shade.

She moved the satellites to the stacks, which made room for a custom Jacuzzi with fountains that change color for a fun water feature.

Secured aft are Forbes’ Cigarette boat and Donzi, which de Guardiola also renovated. The space between them, where Forbes used to keep his motorcycles, now has a big sun pad.

Water accessible

De Guardiola extended the lower deck, making it more accessible to the water.

“Malcolm didn’t swim, and that’s why I designed a swim platform like floating stairs at the back. We can sit on it, or raise it up and use it for diving, or we can lower it down in rough waters for swimming. We can also use it as a passerelle.”

Throughout, she rearranged the interiors to make them work for her family’s lifestyle.

“This (162-foot) boat (with seven cabins as well as room for 11 crew) has a lot of interior space, and I actually cut a room out,” she says.

On the main deck, the salon and media room now flow together. De Guardiola removed padding from the ceilings and walls, replacing it with bleached-white anigre paneling, European walnut trim and bronze ceiling squares. She put in a wide-plank dark-oak floor, and she changed window boxes to match the shape of the windows. Also, she designed a stunning floating stairway in Brazilian granite, creating a very dramatic focal point.

Contemporary furniture, covered in practical indoor-outdoor Perennials textiles from David Sutherland, is functional as well as beautiful. For example, in the media room, furniture includes bronze and parchment tables by Holly Hunt, a Le Corbusier chaise, and a custom bronze bench.

Exotic anigre wood covers the walls in the master stateroom, which is located on the main deck forward, where de Guardiola designed a floating bed in custom woods. “We raised it up off the floor, so that when sitting on the bed, we can look out the surround windows. This room used to be the observatory and we decided to moved the master to this location.” The stateroom also includes closets, his and her marble bathrooms, and, on this deck are Roberto’s office and the galley.

On the bridge deck, a custom dining table can seat two or it can be extended to seat 18 people. Placed around it are Philippe Starck aluminum and teak chairs designed for David Sutherland. The sky lounge, with a disco vibe, is completely glass, with a blue onyx floor and a custom bar.

“It’s a greenhouse room, with the windows coming up around, so you can sit in there when anchored off of Monaco, for example, and you see the twinkling skyline. It’s fantastic.”

On a boat, you get to be inventive on how to use space on different ways, she says.

“Bannenberg played with angles and circles, and was very innovative. I am really proud that I was able to update the boat, and you can’t tell where the boat has been altered. It was a complicated process.”

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Publishing Mogul Malcolm Forbes's Fabulous Life Aboard The Highlander

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Then called The Highlander, publisher Malcolm S. Forbes’s fifth yacht by that name sails through New York Harbor in the 1980s. Jon Bannenberg, a world-renowned London-based boat designer, was responsible for the sleek vessel, which was topped with a helipad for Forbes’s gold-painted Bell Jet Ranger helicopter. New owners Joanne and Roberto de Guardiola have extensively renovated the boat, dropping the “the” from its name as well as lengthening Highlander to turn what was a largely business-related craft designed to host as many as 140 guests into a family-friendly vessel.

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Malcolm S. Forbes posed aboard The Highlander with one of the two Harley-Davidson motorcycles he kept on board.

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The bell on *The Highlander’*s foredeck; the windowed observation salon behind it is now the De Guardiolas’ master cabin.

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A view of Forbes’s observation salon. Boat designer Jon Bannenberg, who also decorated the interiors, turned octagonal lacquered chests into cocktail tables by adding glass tops. Padded-leather ceilings were used throughout as soundproofing.

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Scale models of Forbes’s Highlander yachts (arranged in chronological order from top) are displayed in a mirrored cabinet in the fantail salon; to the right is a painting by Charles Raskob Robinson.

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Another view of the main salon, showing the bird’s-eye maple paneling that then lined The Highlander. On the side table stands Moby Dick , a Steuben glass sculpture by Sidney Waugh and Donald Pollard; hidden peach-color lights illuminated each step of the staircase, and the potted palm and ficus trees recall the lush flora displays on Edwardian ocean liners.

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Maritime dioramas by Arthur Clark are shown in individual cases in the fantail salon; the banquettes were made by Donghia.

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Guests were welcomed aboard The Highlander by a steward dressed in traditional Scottish regalia and playing a bagpipe, shown here in the sundeck lounge; the plaid fabric is the Forbes family tartan.

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Forbes displayed an 18th-century Thomas Gainsborough portrait in the main salon; its subject is the third earl of Bristol. The furnishings include leather-clad banquettes and Georgian side chairs (at left).

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In the dining salon hung a 1937 Raoul Dufy watercolor depicting a mast and rigging on the Queen Mary ocean liner. Champagne buckets with Normandie provenance are displayed on the sideboard with other silver hollowware.

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The entrance to the dining salon is flanked by antique pilasters that designer Jon Bannenberg worked into the modern paneling; the 19th-century woodwork once graced Queen Victoria’s stateroom aboard the royal paddle steamer Osborne. Chippendale chairs flank the dining table, which is set with silver candelabra in the shape of stags’ heads (part of the Forbes family crest) and silver plates and flatware from the SS United States.

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Forbes’s own cabin features a built-in banquette, Italian green-marble accents, and a quilted-leather ceiling. On the leather-clad cabinet at left stands a diorama of HMS Bluebell, a Royal Navy corvette that served in World War II, and a Charles Parks bronze figure of a youth with seagulls; joining them is a Philip R. Morris watercolor. The window offers a view of *The Highlander’*s wake. As the boat’s owner proudly told Architectural Digest, “I don’t think too many boats since the Spanish galleons have had great rear windows.”

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Another view of Forbes’s cabin, showing the built-in daybed. A battle scene hangs above the bed, whose spread is made of a Donghia fabric.

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Signal flags are stored in a niche in the paneling; the clocks show the time at Forbes’s properties around the world: the 3,500-acre Laucala Island in Fiji; the 17th-century Château de Balleroy in Normandy, France; the 170,000-acre Trinchera Ranch in Colorado; and The Highlander.

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Malcolm S. Forbes and close friend Elizabeth Taylor on board The Highlander in 1988. The pair met in the mid ‘80s, and as their friendship grew, the publisher, an avid biker, taught her how to ride a motorcycle. Eventually Forbes would give her a purple-painted Harley-Davidson Sportster (purple was one of her favorite colors and referenced her famous “violet” eyes) as well as several pieces of jewelry and an antique Fabergé picture frame. The two also traveled the world aboard The Highlander, sometimes heading up the Hudson River to see football games at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point; on one trip to Thailand, the actress brought 37 pieces of Louis Vuitton luggage.

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Malcolm Forbes` Iconic Yacht The Highlander Now Available for Charter

By Brody Patterson

Updated on August 31, 2017

One of the most iconic ships in the world of business, the superyacht Highlander is, for the first time, available for charter.

The ship was built in 1986 for millionaire publisher and businessman Malcolm Forbes, a man known for his extravagant lifestyle and lavish parties. Among the many illustrious guests Forbes entertained on this stunning vessel were Elizabeth Taylor (who was a close friend of his), Prince Charles, Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan, Robert de Niro, Harrison Ford, Paul McCartney, and Mick Jagger.

The yacht is now owned by American financier Roberto de Guardiola, who purchased it in 2012 and had it undergo a comprehensive overhaul, a process which included interior changes, lengthening of the hull, major mechanical revamp, and a full paint job. The ship is now 162-feet long and has a cruising speed of 13 knots. Up to twelve guests can be accommodated in its six staterooms, with adequate spaces for the eleven crew members left as well.

The Highlander, which is currently based in the Mediterranean but is set to move to the Caribbean later this year, is available for charter through superyacht broker Edmiston.

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Brody has worked as a full time staff writer for Luxatic for over five years, covering luxury news, product releases and in-depth reviews, and specializing in verticals on the website alongside the tech & leisure section, as well as men's fashion, watches and travel. Learn more about Luxatic's Editorial Process .

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Who is Mike Lynch? Tech entrepreneur and daughter Hannah Lynch missing after yacht sinks near Sicily

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Mike Lynch , a British tech entrepreneur who once ranked on the Forbes billionaire list and founded software company Autonomy that over the past decade has been mired in legal problems, is reportedly missing alongside five others after a yacht sank off the coast of Sicily Monday morning.

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Lynch is reportedly missing after a yacht sank near the coast of Sicily. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

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Key Takeaways

Lynch founded Autonomy, a company that developed software that could analyze large batches of data, in 1996 with David Tabizel and Richard Gaunt, a company that grew to serve clients including the U.K. and U.S. governments, Shell and BMW.
Autonomy sold to HP in 2011 for $11 billion—but HP announced an $8.8 billion writedown the following year after discovering “serious accounting improprieties” that artificially inflated the value of Autonomy, leading to civil and criminal charges filed against Lynch, who has consistently denied wrongdoing.
The U.K.’s Serious Fraud Office launched an investigation into HP’s allegations in 2013, but closed the investigation in 2015 after finding insufficient evidence.
Lynch was cleared on 15 charges by a San Francisco jury in June 2024, including one count of conspiracy and 14 counts of wire fraud, concluding a three-month trial in which Lynch, who had been extradited to the United States, argued he did not inflate Autonomy’s value.
HP won a fraud case against Lynch in the U.K. in 2022 after a judge found that HP had “substantially” argued Autonomy had artificially inflated its value, with the company set to receive damages, though the payment is expected to be less than the $5 billion claimed by HP.
At the height of his tech career, British media referred to Lynch as “Britain’s Bill Gates.”

A luxury yacht carrying 22 people sank off the coast of Sicily on Monday morning. Fifteen people were rescued from the ship, while one was found dead and six more remain missing—including both Lynch and his 18-year-old daughter Hannah, multiple news outlets reported .

Two Americans are among those missing, according to multiple reports . Eight of those rescued from the vessel are receiving treatment at a nearby hospital. The yacht sank after being hit by a tornado , according to the Italian coast guard.

Key Background

Lynch, an Irish-born entrepreneur raised in England, founded Autonomy using technology he had developed while a student at Cambridge University. Autonomy grew out of Cambridge Neurodynamics , a fingerprint recognition business Lynch had founded in 1991.

Before Lynch became the CEO of Autonomy, he completed a Ph.D. in signal processing and connectionist models at Cambridge. Lynch’s doctoral thesis is reportedly one of the most widely read research works in Cambridge’s library.

Lynch garnered a reputation as an uncompromising boss—which prosecutors used as an argument against him in his U.S. trial, with witnesses describing a piranha tank in the Autonomy office and office rooms named after James Bond villains, a film franchise Lynch was known to be a fan of. Lynch was given an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE), a civilian honor for making significant contributions in a field of work, in 2006. In 2011, he was elected to former U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron’s council for science and technology.

Outside of Autonomy, Lynch is the founder of venture capital firm Invoke Capital, which he launched after the sale of Autonomy. With Invoke, Lynch invested the cybersecurity company Darktrace and the legal software startup Luminance.

Surprising Fact

Lynch made the Forbes billionaires list in 2014 and 2015 with an estimated net worth of $1 billion, but he fell off the list in 2016.

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