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Yacht Victoria Del Mar (ex Happy Days)

Victoria del Mar is the largest composite yacht built in the America's.

Happy Days

She was built as Happy Days by Delta Marine in 2006. She has a beam of nearly 34-feet and 7500 square feet of living area. The Delta Design Group, responsible for the entire engineering package, worked closely with the Owner's interior decorator to create a decor that is a mixture of light woods and cool color tones.

Yacht Victoria Del Mar Interior

The arrangement features a private master suite on the upper deck with lounge and intimate dining area aft. On the main deck is a pair of large VIP cabins and there are four guest cabins below. Happy Days was sold in 2013 and is now named Victoria Del Mar II.

Charter Yacht Victoria Del Mar

The yacht Victoria del Mar is available for charter.

John R Miller

According to an article on the San Diego Reader, Victoria del Mar is owned by John R Miller. He named the yacht after his wife Victoria Miller.

Who is John R Miller?

John Miller is the former CEO of the National Beef Packaging Company, where he had an extremely profitable employment agreement. The National Beef Packaging Company is the US 4th largest beef processor. Mr. Miller led the company from US$ 500 million in sales to over US$ 6 billion in sales. John Miller held financial interests in National Beef, which were acquired by US Premium Beef for approximate US$ 400 million in 2008 and US$ 91.3 million in 2009.

Property Development

Miller is founding partner of Wasatch Premier Properties, a real estate outfit based in Salt Lake City. John is also a founding partner together with Mitt Romney of Solamere Capital, a private equity fund headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts

Dakota Pacific

Dakota Pacific is the asset management firm that Miller owns, it started as the JR Miller family office.

Private Jet

John Miller owns a 2016 Embraer 545 private jet with registration N545MB, through his company John R. Miller Enterprises IV L.L.C. John Miller was a major contributor to Mitt Romney's campaign.

John Miller Net Worth

John Miller has an estimated net worth of more than US$ 500 million.

John R Miller House

Miller lives with his wife Victoria in a large ocean front property in California. He lives close to his friend Mitt Romney.

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John Miller Resources

https://dakotapacific.com/about/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Beef_Packing_Company

https://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/news-ticker/2012/aug/10/wealthy-romney-financial-backer-and-la-jolla-beach/

http://www.yachtvictoriadelmar.com/

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Superyacht Victoria Del Mar (Ex Happy Days)

David C. Copley

Victoria del Mar was built for David Copley.

David C. Copley was born 31 January 1952 in San Diego as David Hunt. In 1965, Hunt's mother married James Copley, the owner of Copley Press, and later became owner herself. David then became the adopted son of Copley.

Copley Press

James Copley was publisher of the family-owned Copley Press chain of some 20 newspapers and a wire service, the Copley News Service of Washington, DC. In May 2009 the company sold its remaining newspaper, the San Diego Union-Tribune to the Beverly Hills investment firm Platinum Equity.

Net Worth

A resident of the San Diego neighborhood of La Jolla, California, Copley has been named in Forbes Magazine's 2005 list of the 400 richest Americans with an estimated fortune of USD 1.2 billion.

Heart Problems

He underwent heart transplant surgery in June 2005 at Sharp Memorial Hospital in San Diego, California, later donating a reported $5 million to Sharp Healthcare, operator of the hospital. David Copley died in November 2012.