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Apparently, Paul Allen's yacht, the Tatoosh, is anchored in Vancouver's English Bay. The World's 9th largest privately owned boat (you can see it at katkam.com - check the archive). Anyone in Vancouver want to take a boat out (I can get hold of a Zodiac), and paint a penquin on her hull - maybe a penquin breaking through a window =)

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Who's Paul Allen?
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I was wonering exactly the same thing Crazy

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http://www.time.com/...l/cyberelite/12.html

I know who is is now, but the name didn't ring a bell at first.

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Paul: Aug 13, 2003, 8:01 AM
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He also owns the world's only flight worthy B-17E.


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I guess I was being presumptious in assuming he was more well known (as co-founder of Microsoft). In this part of the World, you can drop his name, and it is quickly picked up. He is also part owner of the NFL Seahawks in Seattle, Washington. What I'm curious about is how he got special permission to moor his boat in English Bay. Ahh, to have money - and lots of it.

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Isn't his worth only determined by his stake in Microsoft or did he sell it when he left?
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I cannot say for sure, but I believe he sold a portion of his stock, and kept some. But if it is all in MS stock, I'm sure he has a few bucks kicking around to pay the bills =) We probably could buy me out with what he's got in his wallet Wink

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He's been slowly selling stock for a few years now gathering up about 4 billion in US dollars.

Oh, that's not to mention that he also owns another 94 companies ...

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- wil
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Nice nautical digs =) As an aside to others, that is not a photo of the yacht in English Bay or Vancouver - looks like Lake Washington.

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>>>- looks like Lake Washington. <<<

Your geography is truely staggering Laugh

I failed in Georgraphy..LOL

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Only a stab in the dark. I know it's not English Bay, and Paul Allen hails from Washington (or at least did) - so if the case, I figured it might be Lake Washington. But it could just as easy be elsewhere. Might be parked on this own private ocean, hidden somewhere and unmapped =)

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It's certainly a bit roomier than my boat... (pic attached)
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Interestingly enough, there has never been a picture published of inside his yacht. No previous owner or current owner has allowed it, but it's rumoured to hold it's own lobster tank and a 6" deep retractable swimming pool, whatever that means.

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Say no more. No kidding, stop it =) Maybe he can invite Billy Gates over to use the pool, and retract him into oblivion ;)

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darn. I thought you meant HE was found floating (as in dead) in the English Bay. That aside, I was under the impression he was still with Microsoft, I know Balmer still is.

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darn. I thought you meant HE was found floating (as in dead) in the English Bay.

That was no doubt the intention of the ambiguous subject line.

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Paul: Aug 14, 2003, 8:09 AM
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I was using some (dark) humour in the [Subject] heading =) I believe Allen pulled out MS back in the early or mid 80's (from executive and over time, sold some but not all of his MS stock), due to health considerations. But fret none, he bounced back and is richer than ever. I hear he was tossing coins in the water for the locals to dive for when his boat entered English Bay - mind you, they were Krugerrands =)

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