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With as much money as Australia's Rich List members have, and the vast stretches of beautiful coastline to explore, is it any wonder they love to spend it on boats?

Oct 09, 2012

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Solomon Lew is an Australian billionaire. In 1964 he inherited a small retail business. This small business was turned in to a large group, importing textile, toys and other goods from China into Australia. Currently Salomon Lew is chairman and the largest shareholder of Premier Investments Limited, a stock listed investment company. The company is owner of the Just Group, one of Australia’s largest clothing retailers. Mr Lew is the owner of two superyachts: the 54 meter Maridome built by Brook Marine and the 45 meter Texas built by Turquoise. Mr Lew’s net worth is estimated at USD 1.1 billion.

Businessman Lew appeals yacht bill

Melbourne businessman Solomon Lew has lodged a counter claim in a dispute over payments for work done on his luxury yacht Texas.

The yacht was impounded in Melbourne late last year after the New Zealand company Sensational Yachts told the Federal Court Mr Lew owed it a $1 million final payment for renovations.

Mr Lew denies the claim and a directions hearing has been told he had issued a counter claim for alleged deficient workmanship.

The matter is expected to return to court in October.

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54m  /  177'2 | brooke marine | 1989 / 2007.

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• Impressive 5,758nm range
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The 54m/177'2" motor yacht 'Maridome' (ex. Stefaren) was built by Brooke Marine in the United Kingdom at their Lowesoft shipyard. Her interior is styled by English designer design house Bannenberg & Rowell and she was completed in 1989. This luxury vessel's exterior design is the work of Bannenberg & Rowell and she was last refitted in 2007.

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She is also capable of carrying up to 14 crew onboard to ensure a relaxed luxury yacht experience.

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Maridome is built with a steel hull and aluminium superstructure, with teak decks. Powered by twin diesel Caterpillar (3516 DITA) 1,549hp engines, she comfortably cruises at 14 knots, reaches a maximum speed of 16 knots with a range of up to 5,758 nautical miles from her 95,000 litre fuel tanks at 12 knots. Her water tanks store around 22,000 Litres of fresh water. She was built to Lloyds Register classification society rules.

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Superyachts cruising into Mallorca

One of australia's richest men thought to be on board.

The My Maridome off Puerto Portals this morning. | L. Stadler

Mallorca is proving to be a Mecca for superyachts this summer and this morning the My Maridome is moored off Puerto Portals.

The yacht belongs to Australian businessman Solomon Lew who, in 2016 he became the first Australian to be inducted into the World Retail Hall of Fame, which recognises the lifetime achievements of retail "legends".

In 2021, the Financial Review assessed Lew's net worth as A$4.37 billion; Forbes assessed his net worth as US$1.46 billion in 2019; and Lew was ranked 33rd on The Australian's Richest 250 List .

As a teenager, Lew supplied dresses to the Myer Emporium in Melbourne using his company Voyager Solo.

In 2014 Lew built a ten per cent stake in David Jones Limited after South African retailer Woolworths launched a takeover bid for the department store.

Lew was formerly a director then chairman of Coles Myer (now known as the Coles Group) until voted out by shareholders. He was also involved in an attempt to resurrect Ansett airlines with Lindsay Fox following its collapse in September 2001. In 2008 he returned to the board of his public company, Premier Investments, and became its chairman.

The 54m/177'2" Maridome (ex. Stefaren) was built by Brooke Marine in the United Kingdom at their Lowesoft shipyard.

Her interior is styled by English designer design house Bannenberg & Rowell and she was completed in 1989.

This luxury vessel's exterior design is the work of Bannenberg & Rowell and she was last refitted in 2007.

She is also capable of carrying up to 14 crew onboard to ensure a relaxed luxury yacht experience for her ten guests.

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James Packer's Seahorse adds nautical glamour to Melbourne's Docklands

It's Melbourne meets Monaco – well, almost.

Seahorse, the super yacht of James Packer, cruised into Melbourne Docklands around 4am this morning.

Its cruised down to Melbourne for the upcoming Chinese New Year celebrations. No one knows how long it's there for, or when it heads back to Sydney Harbour, but some hope it comes back to  Melbourne for the March grand prix too. Around 110 Australians possess yachts over 30 metres, according to nautical journals.

The $50 million 52 metre yacht dwarfs Texas, the neighbouring 45-metre Solomon Lew superyacht at Docklands . The giant cruiser Seahorse can accommodate 12 guests and up to 18 crew members. 

The Packer boat was formerly known as Tigre d'Or, custom-built in 1999 by Dutch ship builder Amels with its steel hull and aluminium superstructure equipped with an ultra-modern stabilisation system to reduce roll motion effect. It has a maximum speed of 16 knots.

Just 20 years ago Melbourne 's  Docklands was an industrial wasteland. The Docklands  concept stems back to around 1988 when the then mayor Leckie Ord proposed building an Olympic village, but with the games bid lost, and then the property market collapse, it didn't go far until Jeff Kennett's swath of major projects, including the Bolte Bridge, Federation Square, and the Docklands precinct.

Melbourne 's Superyacht Marina is located at Central Pier in Melbourne Docklands , the harbourside retail, entertainment, commercial and residential precinct. When the marina opened in 2006 the then minister for major projects John Lenders said it would not only expose Melbourne to a new and lucrative economic market, but make this city a more attractive destination for the world’s rich and famous.

“There are about 6,000 superyachts worldwide, and now Melbourne can share in the $150 million generated in Australia each year from superyacht visits," he said.

Construction cranes are still building residential high rises at Docklands amid commercial office blocks of quite some architectural flare.

But despite the harbour having come a long way, and possibly with its priciest mooring yet, the city's broadsheet newspaper headlines were of despair.

"Victoria is coming to a standstill" with more than 12,000 construction jobs lost and thousands more at risk as big infrastructure jobs such as the desalination plant finish and the pipeline of major building projects dries up, The Age front page story and special report said.

The jobs losses add to a record slump in the new housing sector that has contributed to the largest decline in construction jobs since the early 1990s.

The decline in building puts thousands more Victorians in related fields under pressure, including hundreds of engineers, surveyors, workers and contractors, The Age said.

The Master Builders Australia said there were about 254,100 Victorians employed in the industry in November 2012, but that was 12,200 fewer jobs than the year before, a drop that was more than double the national trend for the industry.

Executive director Brian Welch said the building and construction sector employed about 10% of Victoria's full-time workers, making it the second-largest employment provider in the state.

The executive director of the Victorian division of the Property Council of Australia, Jennifer Cunich, told The Ag e the industry was increasingly worried about where the next building projects would come from and this uncertainty was resulting in a downsizing of the Victorian workforce.

''If Victoria continues to bleed skilled workers to its competitor states, our ability to manage a future economic resurgence will be severely constrained,'' she said.

Of course, James Packer, the gambling tycoon has recently been overseeing the costly $2.3 billion upgrade of his Australian casino interests, Crown in Melbourne  and Burswood in Western Australia.

Driving much of his outlay is the hope that Crown can keep luring China's high rollers to Australia, as Packer notes "China's wealthy are spending increasing amounts of time and money on their quality of life, with luxury travel their leisure activity of choice."

VIP players turned over $30 billion plus at Crown Melbourne annually.

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