A SUPER-YACHT owned by the second richest man in Mexico berthed at Dartmouth in South Devon after her maiden voyage yesterday.

The 92-metre luxury craft, the Mayan Queen IV, visited Torbay before sailing to berth at the home town of the Royal Naval Britannia College, and is expected to stay for three days.

Mexican billionaire Alberto Bailleres, 75, owns the super-yacht built by Hamburg shipwrights Blohm and Voss and designed by Tim Heywood.

Mr Bailleres is worth $9.8 billion, according to Forbes, making him the 85th richest man in the world. He is chairman of metals and mining group Industrias Penoles, the leading Latin American producer of refined gold, lead and zinc, and reportedly the world's top producer of silver.

He also has interests in upmarket department store chain El Palacio de Hierro, with branches mainly in Mexico City, and insurance company Grupo Nacional Provincial SA.

The yacht is piloted by Babbacombe-based Richard Kirkby, who used to pilot Roman Abramovich's super-yacht Le Grand Bleu.

Dartmouth harbourmaster Captain David White explained that the yacht had travelled from Stavanger in Norway before stopping in Dartmouth for three days to stock-up on supplies. Then she would be heading to Tenerife to pick up her owner.

From the Canary Islands, the yacht will go to Barbados in the Caribbean.

Captain White said: "It is a magical yacht. It is out of this world, it is so well-finished and equipped."