Mega Yacht at Marina is a Movie Star

By on November 16, 2021 9:54 pm in 11201, brooklyn bridge park, Brooklyn Heights Promenade, Maritime, Wretched Excess

If you’ve been to the Brooklyn Heights Promenade or Brooklyn Bridge Park lately you’ve almost certainly noticed a very large – 240 feet long, in fact – yacht docked at the ONE°15 Brooklyn Marina, near the foot of Joralemon Street. The photo, taken by your correspondent from the Promenade, shows its mast towering to the Promenade’s height. The Eagle’s Mary Frost has the story.

If this vessel looks familiar, it’s because it is the Planet Nine, featured in Christopher Nolan’s action film Tenet. In the film, Planet Nine served as the floating lair of supervillain Andrei Sator (played by Kenneth Branagh).

A friend has advised us that Planet Nine is available for charters starting at $600K for a week. So far, it seems, no one has bit.

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  • CassieVonMontague

    It’s owned by Nat Rothschild. He is good friends with Oleg Deripinska, “Putin’s favorite industrialist,” and has attended events with Ghislaine Maxwell. He is also close with Saif Gaddafi, son of former Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi.

  • Rick

    Actually, the charter price appears to be significantly more than $600K for a week.

    https://www.burgessyachts.com/en/charter-a-yacht/yachts-for-charter/planet-nine-00008706

    This blog is doing a terrible disservice to all the average working families who might believe they can afford $600K per week to charter the vessel, only to have their hopes and dreams dashed by the actual price. Way to go, Brooklyn Heights Blog, now you are making tiny tots weep.

  • http://selfabsorbedboomer.blogspot.com/ Claude Scales

    Darn! I’m putting my checkbook back.

  • Jorale-man

    The boats in that spot this year have been obscene. There ought to be limits on these massive things parked there. It’s a small marina, not a parking lot for the .01%.

  • http://www.yotamzohar.com StudioBrooklyn

    Chiming in here from a marina in the Pacific Northwest where many boats are actually owned and worked on by working- and middle-class people. I’m not sure who the boat owners are in Brooklyn Bridge Park but I’d be curious to know the extent to which they could be distinguished financially from oligarchical mega yacht owners, and whether this distinction supports your point. I agree that pretty much any privately held vessel over, say, 75’ is obscene, but I’m sure the other BBP marina tenants are not people who worry about money either. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/c6bf095230465c233dc26e4893131fab3d51ce51484a3f1ac23040d45959441c.jpg

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7nPOzGeyaw Arch Stanton

    I had the pleasure of staying the night at Oneº15 Marina this past summer. Alas only on a 42′ sailboat…

  • Jorale-man

    I’m speculating but the small boats like the ones in your photo must be at least in reach of someone who’s well-off but not an oligarch or a prince. Perhaps the distinction is between earning a few hundred thousand a year vs. billions.

    At any rate, I’m sure BBP is happy to accept the parking fees of the mega-yacht owners. Btw, that looks idyllic – I can see why you moved to that part of the country!

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7nPOzGeyaw Arch Stanton

    That is a false assumption. I know and have known many boat owners over the years, none were “Well off”, all middle-class, blue and white collar. Look further out in Brooklyn, plenty of marinas out there, populated by less than opulant vessels.

  • aeshtron

    A boat is a hole in the water that you throw money into and it’s better to have a friend with a boat than to own a boat.

  • William Gilbert

    Don’t the fees help pay for the upkeep of the park?

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7nPOzGeyaw Arch Stanton

    I totally agree. That’s why I have several friends with boats.

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7nPOzGeyaw Arch Stanton

    I would think yes, the marina probably pays rent to the park.

  • http://www.yotamzohar.com StudioBrooklyn

    Yes but we weren’t talking about marinas way out in Canarsie. Different crowd for sure. Even out here on our island the different marinas attract different boaters (in a broad sense). (The one we’re in seems to attract gritty DIYers and sailors. We have our resident millionaires for sure, but they’re the exception to the rule and millionaire is about as far as it goes.)

  • http://www.yotamzohar.com StudioBrooklyn

    Not disagreeing. And you can say the same thing about anything you derive pleasure from. So who cares? It’s just money. Or hours spent crawling around in lazarettes with epoxy resins and volt meters and a dog-eared copy of a Don Casey book.

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7nPOzGeyaw Arch Stanton

    No, Jorale-man appeared to be trying to make make a point that even smaller boats were only for the “well-off” I didn’t see any geographic qualifiers in his statement.

  • http://www.yotamzohar.com StudioBrooklyn

    I might have read differently, but I don’t want to be presumptuous. My suspicion, anyway, is that the bottom floor income bracket among 1BBP boaters is in the millions or high six figures. Here we’ve got boats that handy contractors earning maybe $50-70k snatched up for a few grand, and they’re not a tiny minority either. Quite a few salty liveaboards who earn significantly less, just enough to be on the water.

  • aeshtron

    Dockage fees at the One15 marina are $28 per foot per week for boats under 40 feet. For boats between 100′-149′ the cost is $57 per foot per week.

    Thus it costs $3,360 a month to dock a 30′ boat there and $22,800 a month to dock a 100′ boat there. As a point of comparison, dockage fees in suburban Lung Guyland are generally under $10 per foot per week.

  • http://www.yotamzohar.com StudioBrooklyn

    Yep! We’re at about $10/ft/mo out here. Don’t forget shore power, water, and amenities charges, if they exist. :)