> <<So one day I was fishing with a buddy about 6 or 7 miles offshore out of
> Salem MA, on Stellwagen bank. It was a calm day, very flat seas, a bit
> hazy, viz maybe a mile or so. We hear this gawdawful sound, like fighter
> locomotives taking off, and start thinking some heavy is coming
> into Boston maybe a tad low, but it was coming from the east. And holy
> sh*t!!! a few seconds later the turbo-yacht Octopussy, which is maybe
> 150ft? screams by, maybe 1/4 mile off, at full bore doing what we guessed
> about 70mph and throwing a roostertail about 300ft. >>
>
Octopus, currently the world's sixth largest super yacht and the second
largest not owned by a head of state. Octopus is measured at 414 feet and was
delivered in 2003 to its owner,Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft. Octopus
sports
two helicopters on the top deck (one in front and one on the back), and a
sixty-three foot tender docked in the transom (one of seven aboard). Octopus
also
has a pool on board located aft on one of her upper decks. She has a
submarine on board. She also has a remote control submarine for studying the
bottom of
the ocean. Side hatches at the water line form a dock for jet skis.
The exterior was designed by Espen Øino Naval Architects and built by the
German shipbuilder Lurssen in Bremen and HDW in Kiel. Her hull is made of
steel.
The interior was designed by American designer Jonathan Quinn Barnett of
Seattle. Paul Allen also owns two other yachts,Tatoosh and Meduse. Guests have
included EU Commissioner for Trade, Peter Mandelson who enjoyed New Years
2004/05
on the yacht.
Allen is pretty well known around Seattle. He keeps his various aircraft at
Boeing Field including a 757. Last time I passed by. He and Bill Gates
imported a pair of Porsche 959s back in the eighties which were later seized by
Customs as non-certified vehicles after a local newspaper printed a photo of
Gates
driving his across the I520 bridge.
And then, there are the rest of us...........
RLE
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