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The Wall Street Journal recently profiled Motor Yacht A, the sleekly designed uber-boat built for Russian billionaire industrialist Andrey Melnichenko. While it’s making waves in the yachting world because of its design, according to the Journal, it also conjures up some mind-boggling numbers. For example …
$300 MILLION
The modest low-end estimate of how much “A” cost.
100
“A” reportedly has more than 100 audio speakers.
691 GALLONS
The amount of diesel the boat burns at cruising speed — per hour.
416 FEET
Though it stretches longer than a football field from bow to stern, “A” barely ranks among the 10 largest private yachts in the world. It trails just behind Octopus, the 416-footer owned by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen.