Planning a party? Kerry Packer’s famous $100million ice-breaking luxury yacht Arctic P is now available for hire by the public
- Yacht owned by late tycoon is available to hire
- The $100million boat is moored in France
- Now owned by his daughter, Gretel
Australian media tycoon Kerry Packer's modified $100million icebreaker yacht, the Arctic P, will be hired out to the ultra-rich for this European summer.
Packer, who was Australia's richest man at the time of his death in late 2005, commissioned the specialised German-built yacht in 1969 and passed it down to his son, James.
However, Packer's daughter Gretel bought it from James in 2017 after the billionaire decided he wanted to upgrade to a $200million superyacht, the Daily Telegraph reports.
Kerry Packer's beloved $100million yacht, the Arctic P (above), will be available to hire in Europe this summer
It was said the Arctic P held a lot of sentimental value to Gretel but it seems the boat's $10million annual maintenance, crew and mooring bill has seen her decide to rent it out.
The boat has been put up for hire on luxury rental website CharterWorld and is currently moored in Antibes, France.
Arctic P is a whopping 88m long and can carry 12 passengers as well as a 25-strong crew.
The 1,444-tonne yacht's hefty build was specially designed to help Kerry Packer's sea-sickness, which did not affect his boating-mad father Sir Frank or his son James.
The Arctic P is actually designed to carry heavy cargo through the icy seas of Antarctica, resulting in less roll on the deck.
Packer's (above) specialised ice-breaker yacht was designed to help his seasickness with the hefty build resulting in less roll on deck
In the 1990s Packer told a shipyard crew in Malta to rig the unique yacht for maximum satellite TV coverage.
It was refitted again in 2008 in the years after Packer's death.
The Arctic P can reach a maximum speed of 22 knots thanks to two Deutz-MWM diesel engines and features a swimming pool.
Sources told the Telegraph last week that Gretel renting out the boat could be a sign she's looking to sell and downsize in the future.
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