Billionaire shipping magnate Anton Marden is the proud owner of the plush 42.5-meter vessel, which took more than 5 years to design and build.
The Hong Kong-based mogul and wife Elaine will be able to remotely control their luxury yacht from up to 50 meters away, simply by sweeping their hand over an iPad.
The innovative design, along with high-tech features such as an iPad-controller, helped glossy "Adastra" win 3 prizes at last week's prestigious ShowBoats Design Awards in Monaco, including Best Naval Architecture.
The yachting world is clearly impressed. The honor follows a prize for the Most Innovative Design at the 2013 World Superyacht Awards earlier this year.
So could this alien shape -- resembling something between a spaceship and the Concorde supersonic plane -- be the future of superyacht design?
With just 20% of the enormous 52-ton boat submerged in water, Adastra is able to glide along the waves without the same drag as traditional superyachts, hitting up to 43 kilometers per hour.
It also means the vessel, made from a super-light glass and carbon material, consumes a lot less fuel -- around 14% of a conventional superyacht the same size.
"Adastra's longer, slender main hull has extremely low drag, which is why she is so fuel efficient," explained Orion.
"The smooth, seamless, unbroken surfaces also help to reduce weight," he said of the boat, which can travel up to 6,400 kilometers -- the same distance from London to New York -- without refueling.
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