Yacht Eos, reported to be similar but smaller than Bezos’ new yacht.
Bloomberg is reporting that Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos is spending upwards of $500 million to have a 417 feet (127-meter) long three-masted superyacht built at Oceano in the Netherlands.
Few details are available on the newbuilding, but reports are that it will have a second yacht as a tender and that the tender will be large enough to have its own helipad. (It has been suggested that the rigging on the superyacht would interfere with landing a helicopter.)
In terms of size, the new yacht will be roughly twice as long as the clipper ship Cutty Sark, and, in financial terms, will cost twice what Bezos paid when he purchased the Washington Post newspaper in 2013.
Bezos has an estimated net worth of over $200 billion. Spending half a billion dollars on a superyacht represents one-fourth of one percent of that.
What will Bezos’ superyacht look like? Bloomberg reports that in 2019, Bezos got a taste for the yachting life, vacationing on Eos, the sailing yacht of friend Barry Diller and his wife, fashion designer Diane Von Furstenberg. … Bezos’s sailing yacht will be similar to Diller’s.
The Eos is a 305 feet (92.92m) long three-masted Bermuda rigged schooner.
Bill Green* once said: “There is no way faster
to move money from the rich to the poor than to
build boats”.
* Green Marine Lymington England
Ever larger expressions of incurable anxieties.
We could wish this pathology did not come with such large external costs.
Jeff is going to find out quickly that the best way to go sailing is on other people’s boats. Let them have all the worry and expense. If consulted, I could have given him this advice padded out a bit for a lot less than half a billion.
Must be nice to have money. Then again its nice to be poor.
I dont have to look over my back to see whom is ripping me off while claiming to be a friend.
At least the yacht will have a higher resell price than The WaPo.
LOL with Stretch
Presuming it sells.
What is this need to have ever larger and larger yachts? And with a tender?
This is the fruit of putting countless small businesses out of work, even more countless people on state aid ( i.e. kept afloat by the taxpayer) and running a business model that pays hardly any tax to anyone in return.
The ultimate achievement of capitalism. Don`t we just love it.
How long before the word Bezillionaire finds it way into the dictionary?
Apparently, the current term of art is centibillionaire. A centibillionaire is basically someone whose net worth exceeds 100 billion US dollars. Bezos is a centibillionaire twice over.
I do like the way Bezillionaire rolls off the tongue.I will use it whenever the opportunity occurs and see if it catches on.