A luxury yacht belonging to techno tycoon Charles Simonyi docked in Alderney's Braye Harbour at the weekend.
Skat, which measures 71m and was built by German company Lurssen of Bremen, spent six hours in island waters on Saturday.
Three guests and numerous staff were on board the Cayman Islands-based vessel, which looks similar to a naval ship.
Skats Hungarian owner has an estimated net worth of $1billion. He applied directly to Bill Gates for a job at Microsoft in 1981 and oversaw the development of major computer programs Word and Excel.
Mr Simonyi expressed an interest in becoming a space tourist in 2006 and after passing a medical exam and undergoing extensive training he boarded Soyuz TMA-10 to share a ride with two Russian cosmonauts to the International Space Station. He was the fifth space tourist ever to travel to the final frontier.
He is married to Swede Lisa Persdotter, who is 32 years his junior. The couple wed in a private ceremony in 2008. They are thought to spend six months a year on Skat.
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