[PilotMan]

Originally Posted by PilotMan

We got out and had a nice dinner too. Not far from the hotel was this 315ft yacht:



It just happens to be Tatoosh, Microsoft co-founder, Paul Allen's small boat. He was trying to sell it for 160M, 5 years ago. It's longer than a football field with 2 heli pads, and a big sail boat strapped onto the side of it and is currently the worlds 43rd largest yacht.

Well this is awkward.

techcrunch.com/2016/01/28/paul-allens-yacht-blamed-for-destroying-coral-reef/

So you can imagine it more than a little embarrassing when Allen’s 300-foot yacht, Tatoosh, was accused yesterday of destroying a coral reef in the Cayman Islands that has been in an officially designated protected zone for the past 30 years.


Allen wasn’t on the boat at the time, but according to the Cayman News Service, its anchor and chain recently wrecked roughly 14,000 square feet of reef and damaged more than 80 percent of the coral in the area.