While attending the University of Illinois, he began working at Flex-N-Gate after graduating university with a B.S. Now that the cat is out of the bag, here’s the background: Born in Pakistan, “Shad” came to the United States for his college stint at age 16. With a four foot jaguar perched on the bowsprit, Kismet’s master either owns it, bags it, or the process of elimination by way of internet search leads one to Shahid Khan. While it is YachtForums’ policy to not disclose owners unless it has been publicly broadcast elsewhere, this one is easy. Two significant points that top my list of superlatives: (1) Lurssen accomplished a magnificent engineering feat and (2) What a great country America is to nurture this class of economic enterprise. Although Kismet certainly pushes the super yacht nomenclature into ‘gigayacht’ territory, Lurssen’s biggest launch goes to Azzam the world’s largest yacht at 180 meters and brags of leading the pack at 30 knots. During her return visit to South Florida, coinciding with the recent Miami Boat Show, Kismet’s quayside location dwarfed many of the downtown Miami buildings. While not the largest yacht built by Lurssen, Kismet ranks #40 in the world's largest yachts and holds the record for the largest yacht to dock at Bahia Mar. Lurssen’s latest launches are Orchid, Omar, and Dilbar III. It takes state-of-the-art facilities and a highly skilled workforce of 1800 to produce such awardwinning beauties as Limitless, Peloris, Rising Sun, Ice, and Dilbar. Lurssen Yachts recently celebrated 140 years of producing exceptional custom yachts at seven yards in northern Germany.

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