How Big Is Bill Gates’ Yacht?
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According to Reuters, Bill has a big yacht… a really big yacht. How big, you ask? Try 177 feet and see how it fits. Common folk might dream about chartering a yacht to cruise Mediterranean and Caribbean waters. But Bill and Melinda have succumbed to the charms of Phuket, Thailand, where the locals are planning to build the most elite of retreats… a man-made island to play host to just a few dozen ultra-plush tropical homes, a hotel, and a marina to dock the grandest of the grand charter yachts.
If you want to dock your mega charter yacht at the existing Royal Phuket Marina, you’re out of luck (even if you remember to bring both your Visa and American Express cards). At low tide, you’ll beach that luxury cruiser like a whale out of water. That’s why they’re planning to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to build the new island… to cater to the ultra-rich and their ultra-large yachts.
You and I don’t have that problem, of course. The charter yachts of our dreams sail in less exotic locales and might not even run Vista. I’d gladly settle for a 41 foot ocean yacht, tied up at the Trump Marina in Atlantic City. But if the Donald is reading, please send someone to captain the ship for me, lest I run it aground…
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Matt Williams
May 22nd, 2007
at 3:26am
My friend works at Microsoft in the UK and said that one of his colleagues tried to strike up a conversation with Bill Gates. He asked what time his flight back to the States would be. The answer - “when I tell them”.
Jeff Barr
May 22nd, 2007
at 5:52am
Actually, 177 feet isn’t considered a big yacht at all (I know, my heart bleeds too). To even be considered for biggest it looks like you need to get up to around 420 or 450 feet.
There’s a somewhat dated list at http://powerandmotoryacht.com/megayachts/0804top100/, and another picture-heavy page at http://www.agent4stars.com/yachts1.htm .
Based on way too much searching this morning, it looks like the newest contender for biggest is under construction, with more information at http://www.atabeyki.com/ .
Lou
June 14th, 2007
at 1:13am
C’est une HONTE
comment peut-on laisser faire une chose pareille ?
Il y a dans ce monde de nombreuses personnes souffrant de la faim, il vaudrait mieux se préoccuper d’eux plutôt que de polluer comme un fou
HONTE à BILL !
SHAME ON YOU BILL
SHAME !!!
SHAME !!!
Diane M. Byrne
June 19th, 2007
at 6:14am
Don’t believe everything you read, folks: Bill Gates doesn’t own that yacht (or any other yacht in that stratosphere). He was a guest aboard.
Second, too bad Jeff Barr didn’t take more time to look at our Web site–that “dated” list is published annually, so “The World’s 100 Largest Yachts” was also published in 2005 and 2006 and of course included on our Web site. The 2007 edition is coming out in a few weeks.