Paul Allen's Tatoosh PHOTOS: Microsoft Co-Founder's Mega Yacht Goes On Sale (PICTURES)

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen is putting his 300-foot luxury yacht, the Tatoosh, up for sale.

The yacht--yours for 125,000,000 GBP or around $162,113,000--is on sale at Fraser Yachts in Florida.

It is the 26th-largest superyacht in the world, and was reportedly purchased by Allen in 2001 for $100 million.

According to the description on the Fraser Yachts website, the Tatoosh includes a total of ten bedrooms--an "owner's stateroom" and nine guest staterooms--in addition to two staff cabins, a swimming pool, and two helicopter decks.

The sale of the Tatoosh will leave Allen with just one yacht: the 416-foot Octopus, which he has owned since 2003.

See photos of the Tatoosh below and read about Allen's yachting trip to Israel here

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Tatoosh in the harbor of Valletta, Malta

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Paul Allen: Cruising, Partying On Tatoosh

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[Faxus]

07:08 AM on 05/13/2010

I've seen both of these floating palaces, they are obscene expressions of personal consumption gone amok.

[mariusvinchi]

07:29 AM on 05/12/2010

The two happiest days of boat ownership.. The day you buy it and the day you sell it...

[tosc]

05:50 AM on 05/12/2010

who cares?

[eaglewing]

05:27 AM on 05/12/2010

Microsoft is eviI. Use Linux.

[mariusvinchi]

07:30 AM on 05/12/2010

Microsoft isn't evil, it's OS for dummies....

[AngusC]

04:39 AM on 05/12/2010

A little small for my tastes.
I personally can't lay out and get comfortable in another smaller than 400ft. :)

Don't get me wrong, I have a pretty large home by most people's standards but this is ridiculous.
It is like a 30,000 sq.ft home. Unless you have 10 kids, both sets of in laws and a staff of 5 or more living with you, it is just an exercise of ego.
I spend most of my time in the kitchen, office, living room and bedroom, that is it and I suspect he and most other people do also.

[Shineypenguins]

04:13 AM on 05/12/2010

He does have some pretty high doctors bills right now... You know how many chickens he can buy for $161,113,000?

[Shineypenguins]

04:16 AM on 05/12/2010

162 million, not 161

[eaglewing]

04:05 AM on 05/12/2010

Does it include the bIonde sIuts?

[David Rozgonyi]

02:53 AM on 05/12/2010

Sorry, I meant net worth, and even if you figure a slightly higher one than 60k, the concept still holds. And let's not work it out for those many in the US who have a negative net worth...

[jarheadgreen]

02:53 AM on 05/12/2010

I can come up with some cold hard cash 100 thats a 100 bucks do i have the winning bid?

[ykk9]

05:03 AM on 05/13/2010

I bid 100.50 and Ill pick it up!

[David Rozgonyi]

02:38 AM on 05/12/2010

People here are saying vul.gar and conspicuous consumption, etc. I'm with you on frugal living, believe me, but to put it into perspective vis a vis Ballmer's net worth of 14 Billion:

Dividing, Tatoosh, at 100 million is a 140th of his net worth.
Dividing the average US salary of say 60,000 by 140 = 428 dollars.
When we buy a car for 20,000 (pretty cheap these days), our net worth should be 2.8 million to make it as inconsequential as Ballmer buying another 100 mill yacht.

So, he's actually living far below his means, while we are actually living far above ours. (Unless your last car cost 428 dollars! :) LOL!

[David Rozgonyi]

03:00 AM on 05/12/2010

So with my revised calculation, using a US median net worth of 93k, that 100 mill yacht to Ballmer equals around 664 dollars to the average US citizen. Taking the MEAN net worth (factoring in people like ballmer too, which skews it very much upward) of 450k net worth, the figure is still a lowly 3200.00 USD.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_in_the_United_States

[traveling1]

06:39 AM on 05/12/2010

Oh please. I hope you make the same ridiculous calculations when one of these rich spoiled people give away $1million dollars. Compare that to my giving $5000-$6000 away a year - I'm giving away 10% while that million is a half percent...

[David Rozgonyi]

07:01 AM on 05/12/2010

Sure, why not? It's just as much of an honest assessment as mine.

[sizogee]

01:42 AM on 05/12/2010

I was hoping it was Balmer so I could make chair-tossing jokes :(

[imacmadman]

12:20 AM on 05/12/2010

"Dang Honey, don't buy anymore Cristal, lets get one of those screw top brands now…"

What do you need more than one yacht for anyway?

[Rynox]

11:09 PM on 05/11/2010

Wow, that looks real nice. I'll give you $80,000 for it.

[crowdog]

10:53 PM on 05/11/2010

Its ok, he's owned this one for awhile and still has two more. The bigger one is named "Octopus", which strikes me as a fitting name somehow for an owner of Microsoft...

[David Rozgonyi]

02:34 AM on 05/12/2010

I'm not a big yachttie, but I've always loved the name Octopus for a boat. Tatoosh, not so much...

[AudiGuy]

10:36 PM on 05/11/2010

And people went ape sh it over the $30,000,000 Bugatti. Such a bargain.