The $120 Million Ghost Ship Antigua Is Desperate to Unload
Racking up over $100,000 a month in bills, the superyacht Alfa Nero has been docked in Antigua for more than a year. The government desperately wants to sell it.
The superyacht Alfa Nero docked in Antigua on April 19.
Photographer: Bing Guan/BloombergIt’s been more than a year since the Russian superyacht Alfa Nero — all 267 feet and 2,500 gross tons of it — was abandoned in Falmouth Harbour, Antigua.
Cross the gangway and this $120 million floating palace still looks shipshape, even with just a skeleton crew. Red, white and gray Alfa Nero polo shirts are folded just so atop the baby grand piano. On the wall hangs a Miro. The infinity pool — which converts, via hydraulics, into a helipad — sparkles under the Caribbean sun.