I’m on a boat: Bill Gates vacations on $330M yacht

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top: -60px;"></a><span class="icon-slideshow icon-white-slideshow" style="background-image: url(data:image/svg+xml; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; background-size: cover; border-bottom-left-radius: 7px; border-bottom-right-radius: 7px; border-top-left-radius: 7px; border-top-right-radius: 7px; cursor: pointer; height: 54px; left: 50%; margin-left: -38px; margin-top: -27px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; top: 50%; width: 76px; z-index: 1;">.</span><div style="text-align: left;"> <img alt="An image of The Serene while docked at Valletta, Malta (Wikicommons)" class="editorial inview" data-preembed="image" src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/N.G8v5w581hTyW1ZuuWLUw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7cT04NTt3PTYzMA--/http://l.yimg.com/os/publish-images/news/2014-08-09/293096a0-1ffb-11e4-a930-97469737fcbc_1280px-Serene.jpg" style="-webkit-transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px); -webkit-transition: opacity 0.3333s ease 0ms; border: 0px; display: inline; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; min-height: 1px; opacity: 1 !important; transition: opacity 0.3333s ease 0ms; vertical-align: bottom; visibility: visible !important; width: 630px;" title="An image of The Serene while docked at Valletta, Malta (Wikicommons)" width="630" /></div> </figure><div class="legend" style="background-image: none; font-style: italic; max-width: 100%; padding: 5px; text-align: left;"> An image of The Serene while docked at Valletta, Malta (Wikicommons)</div> </div> </span></div> </span><div style="margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">These days, Microsoft founder Bill Gates is more concerned with helping to <a data-rapid_p="9" href="http://www.gatesfoundation.org/" style="text-decoration: none;">save the world</a> than creating the next big gadget. But when <a data-rapid_p="10" href="http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/treasure-map--see-the-wealthiest-person-in-each-u-s--state-225603755.html" style="text-decoration: none;">the world’s richest man</a> goes on vacation, he does it like no one else.</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The <a data-rapid_p="11" href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/bill-gates-vacations-better-yacht-italy-article-1.1896556" style="text-decoration: none;">New York Daily News</a> captured some photos of Gates aboard “The Serene,” a $330 million dollar yacht that Gates and his family are renting for $5 million per week.</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In addition to its 12 staterooms, the 450-foot, seven deck vessel also comes equipped with its own saltwater pool, climbing wall, library, health spa, outdoor theater and even a nightclub spread out over the boat’s combined 48,000 square feet.</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Though for all his wealth and influence, Gates doesn’t actually own “The Serene.” He’s renting it from Stolichnaya vodka distributor Yuri Scheffler. The Russia-born Scheffler is an interesting figure himself,<a data-rapid_p="12" href="http://www.cnbc.com/id/101487233#." style="text-decoration: none;">famous for battling with Russian President Vladimir Putin</a>, who tried to nationalize and “redistribute” Stolichnaya’s wealth.</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">According to <a data-rapid_p="13" href="http://www.businessinsider.com/most-expensive-yachts-2013-12" style="text-decoration: none;">Business Insider</a>, Serene is the third most expensive yacht in the world. You can check out a <a data-rapid_p="14" href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/news/video-1110870/Up-close-300m-super-yacht-Bill-Gates-holidaying.html" style="text-decoration: none;">video of the yacht</a> during a recent visit to California in 2012 that was taken by a fellow, overwhelmed boater.</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> <span class="yui-editorial-embed" id="yui_3_0_0-2-1407618009589"><span id="schemaorg" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"></span></span></div> <div class="yom-figure yom-fig-right" style="clear: right; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 15px 15px; max-width: 100%; overflow: hidden; width: 310px;"> <figure class="cover get-lbdata-from-dom go-to-slideshow-lightbox" data-orig-index="1" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><a class="cover-anchor" data-rapid_p="15" href="" id="cover-cb676d1af54627d994d2d4c55fea5c0b" name="cover-cb676d1af54627d994d2d4c55fea5c0b" style="position: absolute; top: -60px;"></a><span class="icon-slideshow icon-white-slideshow" style="background-image: url(data:image/svg+xml; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; background-size: cover; border-bottom-left-radius: 7px; border-bottom-right-radius: 7px; border-top-left-radius: 7px; border-top-right-radius: 7px; cursor: pointer; height: 54px; left: 50%; margin-left: -38px; margin-top: -27px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; text-indent: 0px; top: 50%; width: 76px; z-index: 1;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">.</span></span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img alt="Bill Gates, co-cfounder of the Microsoft company and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, leaves the Hotel Matignon after a meeting with the French Prime Minister in Paris, on June 27, 2014 (AFP Photo/Thomas Samson)" class="editorial inview" data-preembed="image" src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/cRFe8PRi0gSst4_be9AzNg--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7cT04NTt3PTMxMA--/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/Part-PAR-Par7917915-1-1-0.jpg" style="-webkit-transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px); -webkit-transition: opacity 0.3333s ease 0ms; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border: 0px; display: inline; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; min-height: 1px; opacity: 1 !important; transition: opacity 0.3333s ease 0ms; vertical-align: bottom; visibility: visible !important; width: 310px;" title="Bill Gates, co-cfounder of the Microsoft company and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, leaves the Hotel Matignon after a meeting with the French Prime Minister in Paris, on June 27, 2014 (AFP Photo/Thomas Samson)" width="310" /></span></figure><div class="legend" style="background-image: none; font-style: italic; max-width: 100%; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 3.75px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Bill Gates, co-cfounder of the Microsoft company and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, leaves the Hotel Matignon …</span></div> </div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Though he does not own a yacht himself, Gates seems to be a fan of them. In 1994, he was married about a yacht belonging to his fellow Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. Allen famously bought his own mega yacht a few years ago for $200 million, <a data-rapid_p="16" href="http://www.superyachtfan.com/superyacht_octopus.html" style="text-decoration: none;">the Octopus</a>.</span><div style="margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> </div> <div style="margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Still, even if Gates doesn’t own his own yacht, his choice of vacation rentals certainly trumps that of Bill and Hillary Clinton, who were in the spotlight on Friday after it was revealed they were <a data-rapid_p="17" href="http://news.yahoo.com/hard-choices--clintons-moving-to--modest---18m-hamptons-home-for-the-summer-154337464.html" style="text-decoration: none;">renting an $18 million Hamptons estate </a>for about $30,000 per week.</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">According to the Daily News, Gates and his family regularly make use of the Serene’s on board helicopter to travel for tennis matches at the “billionaire’s playground” of nearby <a data-rapid_p="18" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/17/travel/17Next.html?scp=1&sq=porto%20cervo&st=cse" style="text-decoration: none;">Porto Cervo</a>, while the boat is stationed off the coast of Sardinia. And like Allen’s yacht, the Serene also comes with its own submarine.</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">All in all, not a bad way to spend a few weeks before getting back to <a data-rapid_p="19" href="http://www.gatesfoundation.org/What-We-Do/Global-Development/Reinvent-the-Toilet-Challenge" style="text-decoration: none;">reinventing the toilet</a>.</span></div> <div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px;"> <br /></div> </div> </div>

I’m on a boat: Bill Gates vacations on $330M yacht

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