Super-luxury yacht visits Saint John
A super-luxury yacht said to be worth around $80 million U.S. docked in Saint John harbour this week.
The boat, nicknamed the Yersin, arrived last Saturday and is said to be taking on supplies before it sails to Bermuda and then back home to France.
Equipped with a scientific laboratory and an aircraft landing pad, the boat looks like a research vessel from the outside. The hull is strong enough to push through ice floes up to 15-inches thick.
Yachting magazines have proved decorators went overboard on the inside, with all guest rooms furnished with full-size bathrooms and large screen TVs.
The boat's owner, Francois Fiat, is the wealthy head of a giant chain of European grocery stores called Franprix. Fiat named the boat after a French scientist who travelled the world in the 1800s searching for cures to diseases such as the bubonic plague.
At least ten Irving tanker trucks were used to refuel the boat this week, which had previously been sailing near Greenland and Newfoundland.
The yacht is set to sail out of the Port City on Sunday.
