The British-flagged 56 metre ship – previously called the Salute – was built in 2008 by Italian shipyard Perini Navi, and refitted in 2020.
Image: Pic: Danny Wheelz
Image: Pic: Danny Wheelz
Its 75-metre mast is the world’s tallest aluminium mast, and the second tallest overall. The yacht can reach a maximum speed of 15 knots and weighs 473 tonnes.
The French design house Remi Tessier fitted out the Japanese-style interior decor, with touches of light and dark beige and dark wood furnishings, as well as a teak deck.
Image: Pic: Danny Wheelz
Image: The path of the last 24 hours of the Bayesian. Pic: MarineTraffic
It won the best exterior styling at The World Superyacht Awards in 2009, and best interior at the International Superyacht Society Awards 2008.
It has six guest bedrooms – one master, three doubles, and two twins – holding 12 people, and can carry another 10 crew members.
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Shipspotting.com says it is owned by a firm called Revtom Limited. Mike Lynch’s wife, Angela Bacares, is named as the sole shareholder of the firm on company documents.
The yacht’s name would resonate with Mr Lynch because his PhD thesis and the software that made his fortune involved a statistical method known as Bayesian inference, based on an 18th-century theory, that helps forecasters predict outcomes more reliably.
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