For About $1 Million a Week, You Can Rent Paul Allen’s Obscene Superyacht

The late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s 414-foot superyacht has lastly been offered to an unnamed thriller purchaser for the low, low value of 235 million euros (about $276 million USD). The vessel, nicknamed “Octopus” earlier than Allen’s death in 2018, is barely longer than the typical soccer subject, and regarded one of many largest superyachts in existence.

While the identification of the customer is unknown, the Guardian reports that the yacht is deliberate to be made out there for leases by way of the key yachting dealer, Camper & Nicholsons. The agency hasn’t but introduced a rental value for the vessel, however relaxation assured: it’s most likely going to be some huge cash. As The Guardian’s report factors out, different superyachts have been chartered out for about 1 million euros per week—or $1.2 million.

Yes, it’s some huge cash. But it’s lots of yacht: the eight-deck ship options 13 cabins that may match two visitors apiece, with sufficient house for 63 further crew members. There’s additionally two elevators, two helipads, and a full storage !) for parking automobiles, helicopters, and a separate 8-person submarine.

If that’s not sufficient for you, right here’s a couple of extra perks from the preliminary superyacht listing earlier than it was purchased: one of many eight decks is totally geared in the direction of leisure, and holds a cinema, fitness center, spa, and full basketball courtroom. There’s a glass-bottomed underwater lounge the place you’ll be able to see fish flit by. There’s a full pool and jacuzzi. There’s additionally a dive heart—full with hyperbaric chamber—for visitors that may need to go scuba diving. Needless to say, it’s a fairly fancy boat.

And it seems the marketplace for these sorts of boats is booming, particularly because the obscenely rich search for newer, fancier types of socially distanced leisure. As Bloomberg points out, there have been more than 200 superyachts offered within the first quarter of this yr, in comparison with simply 131 being offered throughout the identical stretch in 2020. Needless to say, Octopus’s excessive price ticket most likely isn’t going to make these individuals flinch.