Buy Craig Venter's Ultra-Luxurious Lab Yacht Today!
Sorcerer II 95 feet, beam 23 feet
Current owner J. Craig Venter, wealthy maverick geneticist
Sail the world's oceans in style — and revolutionize genomics! Three well-appointed cabins sleep up to eight. Galley features Corian countertops and is stocked for gourmet cooking. Enough scientific equipment on board to sample every microbe in the sea. You might hit the doldrums, but you'll never be overbored: An A/V network lets any of five flatscreen monitors display output from radar, DirecTV, DVD, navigational computer, laptop, or microscope. You can't afford not to buy this boat.
Type Sailing sloop
Year 1998
Top speed 10.5 knots
Plush rating Bentley
Engine 300-hp diesel (What were you expecting, a transgenic whale heart?)
Hull materials Balsa and PVC foam with laminates of unidirectional E glass and Kevlar, bonded with epoxy resin at 113 to 122 degrees. (Kraken-proof.)
Accomodations
• King-size master stateroom; two cabins, each with two twin beds and private heads.
• Separate crew quarters, galley, aft dive cockpit, and salon/office.
Hardware
• DirecTV and two 200-gig servers of networked music. Bose speaker system.
• Hall Research Technologies matrix to control the video array.
Research gear
• Tube that sucks ocean water through three filters, each capturing smaller microbes.
• Freezer to preserve and store microorganisms.
• Nikon Eclipse 6600 fluorescence microscope that can see into a bacterium's soul. (Bonus: Name any newly discovered microbial species after that sauced model you're bound to pick up in Ibiza. Think Bacillus gisellensis.)
Price$5.25 million (some scientific equipment not included)
The Ocean's Unforeseen Genomic Bounty
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