While we’re still reeling at the news that the USS Theodore Roosevelt is docking in Table Bay, we receive an additional assault to the senses with the recent intelligence that Paul Allen’s other yacht, Tatoosh , is parked outside The Cape Grace !

Come now!

AND Mark Fish is with GoldFish on Luv Sport tonight! My God, it’s like we’ve fallen into some kind of wild random aquatic dimension or something.

Tatoosh – Paul Allen’s other yacht

You’ll remember we published an article some time ago when his main yacht, Octopus, was docked in Cape Town. It doesn’t get much better than that. But this little guy certainly deserves a mention.

Wikipedia informs us:

Originally built for mobile phone magnate Craig McCaw, Tatoosh was built at Rendsburg in Germany by Nobiskrug and completed in June 2000. Design and Construction by Kusch YachtsShe was purchased by Paul Allen in 2001 at a reported cost of $100 million.

Tatoosh’s features include:

Five decks;
a master suite, a saloon and other rooms on the top deck;
a saloon with a French limestone fireplace, a dining area, staterooms and a ladies’ powder room on the main deck;
a lobster tank;
a shaded six-foot (1.8 m) deep swimming pool, located aft on the main deck beneath a full overhang;[5]
a movie theater;
facilities to transport two helicopters on the top two decks;
a custom Hinckley powerboat (about a 40 footer (12 m));
a Hinckley sailboat of about 40 feet (12 m);

Nice. Real nice.

To buy your own luxury yacht, why not have a peep at Boating World. I can almost guarantee that people will like you more when you’ve got one of those puppies lying around.

[thanks craig]