Currently looking at Paul Allen's (Microsoft) $200million+ yacht...

[Flare]

...and HOLY ****

Paul Allen's (Co-founder of Microsoft) yacht moored up just off the coast last night, here are some facts:

It cost over $200 million to build, general up keep is $384,000 per week and to fill the tank with diesel costs $767,528 (850,000 liters)

Octopus has a full-time crew of 60, including former Navy Seals.

Octopus' features include two helipads on the top deck (one in front and one on the back, each with a helicopter), a sixty-three foot tender docked in the transom, seven boats, a pool on one of the upper decks, a basketball court, and two submarines: one a ground crawler operated by remote control for studying the bottom of the ocean and the other a 10-man vessel with the capacity to sleep eight for up to two weeks underwater. Side hatches at the water line form a dock for jet skis.

It's just unbelievable...

Oh and Paul Allens' net value is over $13 billion USD!

Flare.

P.s. I know this would be better suited in the On The Water section but I thought i'd post it in GD so more people could see it as On The Water is a bit of a ghost town

 

[Garee]

Wow. I knew he was rich but I didn't realise he was that rich.

 

[Raymond Lin]

I wonder if he actually has been on every room on that boat.

 

[peterattheboro]

**** me.

 

[Azza]

a 10-man vessel with the capacity to sleep eight for up to two weeks underwater.

lol that's simply awesome. Just got for a little break for 2 weeks under the sea away from everyone else.

 

[Cosimo]

I wonder if he actually has been on every room on that boat.

He may have met all the crew.

 

[territt]

That seems pretty cheap.......

steven spielberg yacht was $220m and looks a hell of a lot smallier?

 

[Rameses]

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18265393

watch both videos, a look into his life. ultimate foreveralone.jpg guy who has everything.

 

[agnes]

lol that's simply awesome. Just got for a little break for 2 weeks under the sea away from everyone else.

This came to mind as well!!!

I am jealous, oh so jealous

ags

 

[Abyss]

a 10-man vessel with the capacity to sleep eight for up to two weeks underwater.

I feel for the two men who don't get beds!

Insane that a boat can cost $20m a year for just general upkeep! Winning the Euromillions jackpot wouldn't even let you afford the boat!

 

[DJMK4]

Thats not a Yacht,

Thats a ship

I bet he has a speed boat under there, a couple of Jet Ski's, some diving gear, some seriously tasty interior and some sexy staff

 

[Xinn]

That seems pretty cheap.......

steven spielberg yacht was $220 and looks a hell of a lot smallier?

I expect it was a lot smaller for only $220

 

[DiCe!]

he also owns this

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatoosh_(yacht)

*******

 

[Cosimo]

All these billionaires like to have something to brag about.

 

[DJMK4]

he also owns this

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatoosh_(yacht)

*****

Id edit that out

 

[Camarilla]

I can't help but wonder why. He's one guy, why does he need 2 helicopters, 7 boats and all that?

 

[DJMK4]

I can't help but wonder why. He's one guy, why does he need 2 helicopters, 7 boats and all that?

Because he can?

Thats like saying to Jay Leno why he needs to have to own a huge garage, and own a 4+ page list of cars

Rich people like to live rich, they would make the money back off interest and further income in no time

 

[Tefal]

I can't help but wonder why. He's one guy, why does he need 2 helicopters, 7 boats and all that?

parties?

 

[randal]

lol that's simply awesome. Just got for a little break for 2 weeks under the sea away from everyone else.

There'll be no accusations, just friendly crustaceans under the seaaaaaa.

 

[sanaxe1]

I can't help but wonder why. He's one guy, why does he need 2 helicopters, 7 boats and all that?

Thats like me asking a normal person why they have more then 1 TV in the house. What may seem outlandishly expensive to us is seems cheap to them.