Walking towards a pre-wedding reception on the southern edge of Hydra port, on the Greek island of the same name, we saw the monstrous yacht.

It was not just any monstrous yacht.

It was one of the biggest private yachts in the world.

“Biggest” is a hazy designation, and seems to be sure to be eclipsed in a few months or weeks, but Chopi Chopi is quite large.

How large?

According to the website linked, above, Chopi Chopi is 80 meters (262 feet) from stem to stern, which certainly is out there — though not of record dimensions, according to this list, which suggests the biggest private yacht in the world, at the moment, is the 590-foot Azzam commissioned by Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed, president of the UAE, and delivered in 2013 at a cost of $600 million. The wiki page also suggests Sheikh Khalifa is behind Azzam.

(This Azzam is not to be confused with the Volvo Ocean Race boat Azzam, which is backed by Abu Dhabi’s Tourism & Culture Authority and won the 2014-15 edition of the round-the-world race.)

Chopi Chopi, though, is nothing to sniff it. It dominated Hydra’s port, certainly, dwarfing all the other pleasure craft anchored here.

Many of those at the social event here in Hydra are professional journalists, so Chopi Chopi generated lots of buzz, and this is what we came up with:

–The boat is owned by Najib and/or Taha Mikati, brothers from Lebanon. Najib is the more prominent of the two, having twice been prime minister of Lebanon.

–He and Taha made most of their money in the telecom business, selling their company for $5.5 billion.

–Chopi Chopi‘s ticket price, when delivered in 2013? An eye-watering $110 million.

That dwarfs this superyacht we wrote about recently, launched in the UAE and purchased for $24.5 million.

Some of the specifics of Chopi Chopi seem a bit modest. It is nearly the length of an American football field, but it can sleep only 12 guests in six staterooms? Those must be huge staterooms and the owners must be very particular about whom they invite on board.

But it has several of the other luxuries we expect in our enormous yachts, according to superyachtfan.com: “a crew of 33. Her features include a beach club, a gym, a massage room, an elevator connecting all decks, a bar, two Jacuzzis and a helicopter platform.”

In our short time in Hydra, we have seen some enormous yachts, including a sleek, silver thing named My Toy that made Chopi Chopi look a little dowdy — even if My Toy is barely half the size.

What you do with your superyacht, of course, is putter around the Mediterranean (or perhaps the Gulf), which has lots of ports that can accommodate huge yachts as well as usually mild sailing conditions and predictable sunny weather.

More than a few villains in fiction and movies hang out on enormous yachts. They float in, party or make deals, float out and move on to some other welcoming port — all the while seeming somehow beyond the reach of the authorities.

Chopi Chopi was gone the morning after we saw it.

Little Hydra has some other big boats in the harbor, but nothing yet that compares to Chopi Chopi.