The 400-foot Lürssen superyacht Kismet, formerly known as Project Jag, has been delivered to billionaire Shahid Khan. The stunning $360 million superyacht Kismet was delivered following successful sea trials off the coast of Kiel, Germany, and is now en route to Troon, Scotland, according to AIS data. Designed by Reymond Langton Design for the interior and Nuvolari Lenard for the exteriors, this glorious Lürssen masterpiece is custom-made for Khan, a repeat Lürssen client who previously owned a slightly smaller 312-foot Kismet motoryacht. It was sold to ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt for $158 million after a $60 million discount and renamed it to Whisper. Talk about turning a ‘Whisper’ into a roaring, leaping jaguar of the high seas—Khan is just the man for it.
The latest Kismet yacht is his biggest boat to date and one of the biggest deliveries of 2024, topped only by Rinat Akhmetov’s $500 million Luminance yacht, which spans 475 feet.
The Whisper yacht was quite the floating asset indeed. With a massive subterranean spa featuring a hammam, massage room, steam shower, and salon, she was an impressive ship. The 400-foot Kismet yacht is mightier, more majestic, and a marvel of the high seas, as Kismet’s computer-rendered interiors by her central agency for charter, Cecil Wright, exhibited.
The boat’s interiors and amenities are so gorgeous that its astonishing $3.2 million-a-week charter cost seems completely justified. 12 guests in up to nine cabins enjoy a pleasure craft that is better than most 5-star hotels and maybe even palaces.
The Kismet comes complete with a beauty salon, spa, sauna, swimming pool, indoor and outdoor cinema, dance floor, gym, and a plethora of toys and tenders. The assemblage will include it all from a sailing dinghy, Sea Bobs, sea scooters, to even a submarine. And, least we forget a helipad for the Sikorsky to land.
It even boasts a basketball and pickleball court and is serviced by a crew of 40. The 400-footer also sports the leaping jaguar bowsprit, an ode to NFL’s Jacksonville Jaguars billionaire owner.
The bowsprit renders an unmistakable identity to the ship in a world of fantastic yachts, one that makes the pleasure craft and its billionaire owner known to impressed onlookers.
Shahid Khan, a rags-to-riches story like no other:
Shahid Khan’s story is one for the movies. An immigrant from Pakistan, worth $12.2 billion today, he went from working in auto parts supplier Flex-N-Gate to owning it. It was a stroke of luck that his design for a one-piece truck bumper catapulted his company to new heights of success. The company now has 76 plants worldwide and over 27,000 employees. Sports tycoon Khan purchased the Jacksonville Jaguars in 2012 and the UK’s Fulham football club in 2013, and launched All Elite Wrestling, a professional wrestling entertainment company in 2019.
