Paul Allen's 400+ft Yacht "Octopus"

[Matt308]

I can't add much to the pictures. I literally spent 20min staring at all the details in these pics. Look at all the chrome railing on her. She is a beauty!

 

[diddyriddick]

Mommy, can I have one of those for christmas?

 

[Colin1]

His penis must be miniscule...

 

[comiso90]

Not many people on the boat... he needs some friends...

Gimmie a call Paul!

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[Colin1]

Not a sea-faring man myself
but when does a yacht start being a ship? If that came chugging past me I wouldn't have called it a yacht

 

[Bucksnort101]

Holy Cow, must be compensating for some shortcoming? Seriously, why would someone want something like that other than to stoke ones ego?

 

[ToughOmbre]

Not a sea-faring man myself
but when does a yacht start being a ship? If that came chugging past me I wouldn't have called it a yacht

Right Colin. Especially with a helicopter on the deck!

TO

 

[ccheese]

Just think of all the "good" he could have done with the $400 million dollars. Wonder how many people $400M
will feed ????? What's that they say about a man and his toys ???

Charles

 

[Matt308]

"He who dies with the best toys, wins."

 

[diddyriddick]

Holy Cow, must be compensating for some shortcoming? Seriously, why would someone want something like that other than to stoke ones ego?

For the same reason that a dogs licks it's....Well, you know. Because he CAN!

 

[wheelsup_cavu]

"He who dies with the best toys, wins."

But he's still dead, where's the winning to that ?

Paul Allen has private charities set up so I don't think his personal indulgences are overboard.
Paul Allen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
How much philanthropy is enough ?
Personally I think all of us wish we had that type of disposable income.


That is one cool ship Matt.


Wheels

 

[Violator]

And remember, Allen spends a boatload (sorry for the pun!) of cash restoring and flying lots of warbirds, so that's a really good thing for those of us on this site.

 

[timshatz]

To put it in perspective, that thing is roughly the same gross tonage as a US Heavy Cruiser(New Orleans Class) at the begining of WW2.

That is one honkin' big boat!

 

[Glider]

Around 25 years ago I used to do marine insurance and the chap next to me did some huge yachts. I will always remember a claim for just under $1m to replace the carpets as there was some water damage after a storm. The damage was very limited but he had the same carpet in most of the yacht and it all had to be replaced.

 

[diddyriddick]

To put it in perspective, that thing is roughly the same gross tonage as a US Heavy Cruiser(New Orleans Class) at the begining of WW2.

That is one honkin' big boat!

Perhaps this reflects my bias then, but why not just buy the cruiser?

 

[trackend]

Personally I prefer yachts with sails so Id sell it and by a J class, that would leave me plentyof money left to run it and by a house and retire and do anything I liked mmmmmmmmmm lovely