SeapixOnlineDisplaying 40 of 11172 A (2008/5959grt, known as PROJECT SIGMA or SF99 during construction) approaches the Babcock NZ drydock for a period of routine maintenance on her underwater surfaces and engineering. Passing her inbound to Auckland's Viaduct is the 21m high-speed catamaran U-21 built for Australasia's richest man, New Zealand businessman Graeme Hart. The 119m megayacht A, owned by Russian billionaire Andrey Melnichenko and his wife Aleksandra, a former Serbian model & pop singer , cost around US$300m to build and arrived in Auckland in September. It is rumored that she will cruise NZ waters for a while after her maintenance program.
Melnichenko, sold the yacht and as of 2022 owns the sail-assisted motor yacht, again named simply, 'A'. News of Melnichenko's new 'A' and many other Russian-owned superyachts being seized came to light in early March 2022 during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Keywords: luxury yachts, private yachts, motorboats, motor launches, mega yachts, megayachts, auckland, new zealand, nz, city of sails, ports of auckland, port of auckland, passenger craft, passenger vessel, guests, superyachts, seized, superyachts, ukraine, invasion | 
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