Tatoosh (yacht)

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This article is about the motor yacht Tatoosh. For other uses, see Tatoosh.

Tatoosh is a 301-foot (92 m) private yacht owned by Microsoft co-founder Paul G. Allen, who also owns the 416-foot (127 m) Octopus. She was listed at the end of 2005 as the world's 17th-largest superyacht.^[1]

1 History
- 1.1 Exotic playboys paradise
2 Features and principal dimensions
- 2.1 Principal dimensions
3 Notes
4 See also
5 External links

[edit] History

Originally built for mobile phone magnate Craig McCaw, Tatoosh was built at Rendsburg in Germany by Nobiskrug and completed in June 2000.^[2]. She was purchased by Paul Allen in 2001 at a reported cost of $100million.^[3]

[edit] Exotic playboys paradise

Teodorín Nguema Obiang, 35, the extravagant eldest son of Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, President of Equatorial Guinea, Africa's 3rd largest oil exporter paid £400,000 to hire Tatoosh for a Christmas cruise when he entertained rap singer Eve. She was apparently discomforted to discover that Teodorin's father was a cannibal ^[4].

[edit] Features and principal dimensions

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);

[edit] Principal dimensions

M.V. Tatoosh^[6]
	Metric	Imperial
Length	92.40 metres	303 feet
Beam	14.90 metres	49 feet
Draft	4.30 metres	14 feet
Displacement	2300 tonnes	2260 tons
Speed	35 km/h	19 knots
Crew	30 member
Engines	2 x 3300 kW	2 x 4400 Hp