Terraces in the middle of the sea of the Costa Smeralda. In Porto Cervo, Porto Rotondo, Cannigione and Portisco the mega yachts arrived as had not happened in recent years: dream June - say the port managers - excellent July and normal August, that is, sold out. The Russian oligarchs, absent after the freezing of their assets, were replaced by American financiers, the Sheikh of Abu Dhabi and Ibrahimovic, the football player with a cult of himself. Within the Costa Smeralda Consortium, 3,114 hectares of paradise, 55 kilometers of coastline and 95% of greenery, the Scroogers arrived with a total personal fortune of 261 billion dollars aboard boats that are worth four billion.
A jewel on the water
The first of the largest yachts in the world to dock on the island was that of the Sheikh of Abu Dhabi, Mansour Al Nahyan. It's called Blue, 160 meters long, it hosts 48 people with eighty crew members. Just over 15 thousand tons of tonnage, the sheikh, who according to Superyachtfan estimates has a fortune of 38 billion dollars, this jewel of shipbuilding and technology has cost six hundred million dollars. We can say that Mansour has "replaced" the Russian oligarch Alisher Usmanov who owns the Dilbar yacht, the largest in the world.
Ibra's summer
No concession to the baroque for the super yacht “Uknown” of the Oasis series by the Italian shipyard Benetti, purchased by Zlatan Ibrahimovic, the 41-year-old AC Milan footballer. The ship, launched this year in Livorno, is 34 meters long and has a sibylline name, Uknown, that is, unknown; spread over five decks with five suites. In this hot summer, Ibra sailed along the Costa Smeralda and stopped for a long time in Cala di Volpe. A super boat of this type would cost 128,000 euros a week to rent but the Swedish footballer preferred to buy it for twenty million dollars. Also moored in Cala di Volpe is the Moneikos, worth 40 million, belonging to the family of Leonardo Del Vecchio, founder of Luxottica, an example of a self-made entrepreneur, who passed away in June of this year. On board one of the daughters who will have to manage 12 per cent of the company's shares; the rest is divided between the other five children and the widow.
