The Dancing Hare, a 189 ft superyacht, is currently moored in Auckland after traversing the South Pacific and Caribbean Sea.
As displays of conspicuous wealth go, she certainly takes some beating with glass panels encircling the deck, wraparound glass railings, and accommodation for 12 guests — and up to 15 staff — in a master suite, four doubles and a twin stateroom.
The price? £11.8 million; at least that was the asking price when this behemoth was purchased in 2017.
The Dancing Hare, a 189 ft superyacht, is currently moored in Auckland after traversing the South Pacific and Caribbean Sea
Since then, Dancing Hare, flying under the flag of the Marshall Islands in the central Pacific, where she is officially registered, has been spotted sailing around the Galapagos Islands, St Lucia, Fiji, Tonga, and Bora Bora in French Polynesia.
Those on board, according to online video diaries chronicling the cruiser’s progress, enjoyed everything ‘from diving adventures with sharks and turtles’ to watching ‘dolphins swimming off their bow’.
Yet few outside the boating world will be aware that the white and orange striped flag fluttering in the ocean breeze belonged, in a previous life 30 years ago, to one of the most famous — or rather infamous — yachts in the world.
Back then it had a very different name. It was called the Lady Ghislaine and the owner was disgraced newspaper tycoon Robert Maxwell.
On the evening of November 5, 1991, with his empire, including the Daily Mirror, on the brink of collapse, Maxwell’s naked 22 st body was found floating in the Atlantic off the Canaries, having fallen overboard from the stern of his yacht earlier in the day.
The Lady Ghislaine was owned by disgraced newspaper tycoon Robert Maxwell and named after his daughter
It soon became apparent that Maxwell, who was 68, was not only bankrupt (about £1 billion) but had also pilfered millions from the Mirror’s pension fund.
Many believe his bitter rivalry with fellow media tycoon…
Read the full article at www.dailymail.co.uk