"You can take this boat anywhere in the world as an explorer," Winch said. "She is a castle. She's a floating mansion for life."
The superyacht was unlike anything I've ever seen. While my very first yacht tour aboard a Champagne-colored, Bugatti-designed yacht took about 15 minutes, Tis was so massive that the tour took over an hour, and that was moving quickly without lingering in any rooms.
It can safely be assumed that the mysterious owner of Tis is a billionaire — or at least a multimillionaire.
People outside the yachting industry may not know just how much it costs to own a yacht. Buying one can easily set you back tens or hundreds of millions — and that's not including annual fuel costs, docking fees, maintenance, and crew salaries.
As Business Insider's Hillary Hoffower put it, owning a superyacht is "the absolute pinnacle of indulgence for the 1%."
We don't know exactly how much Tis, a brand-new massive superyacht, would sell for if it were on the market right now. But to put it in perspective, a five-year-old yacht that's 65 feet smaller than Tis is currently on the market for $200 million.
But what's a few hundred million when you're a billionaire living in Monaco?