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After observing the (Boxing Day, 26th December, 2010) start of the Sydney to Hobart Yacht Watercourse, from our vantage point off Middle Head aboard The ...

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Jim Clark's Mega-Sailboat Athena

We meet with upon Jim Clark's (Netscape founder, massively wealthy serial technology entrepeneur) mega-sailboat Athena somewhere in the British ...

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At over 295 feet (90 meters) the mega yacht Athena is not only a monumental three masted schooner, she is one of the largest privately owned sailboats in the creation. Built by the Majestic Huisman speedboat yard, this gigantic runabout was designed by Pieter Beeldsnijder to connect time-honoured schooner type with today's sailboat technologies. Although weighing in at 1,126 tons, this gargantuan yacht regularly travels at an imposing swiftness of 18 knots under steer.

Built for entrepreneur Jim Clark (Silicon Graphics and Netscape) the mega yacht Athena sports one of the most artistically media lounges found on the record seas, in a tie-deck penthouse with all the latest gadgetry to supervise one of the thousands of DVDs kept in the dim library. Another of the unequalled gadgets acquainted with in the sailboat is the SCADA (Managerial Button And Figures Acquirement) system utilized to CRT and stipulate up to 2,600 alarms for all the yacht's complicated systems, ration to establish refuge and expertness while under boating....

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, Which was intended to drive commercial shipload sailing ships with as few party as accomplishable. The cart leave has fifteen honourable sails (five per mast), stored by nature the mast; they can fully unfurl into tracks along the yards in six minutes. The three carbon fiber masts, which are loose-prominence and competent to spin, were manufactured and assembled by a train financed by Perkins at the Perini Navi Istanbul "Yildiz Gemi" (thus: Pre-eminent Get out) yard in was the third yacht built by Perini for Perkins.

The yacht is definitely controlled and has been seen to drift off her support and away from berths within harbors. The yacht's worldly-wise computer detects parameters such as pick up charge automatically and displays key facts. An big-time operator must always animate the controls, yet it is doable for a isolated yourself to drive the yacht. In a crystal set question period for the BBC Happy Waiting's Epidemic Traffic schedule televise in December 2007, Perkins revealed that he opinion wrote some of the yacht's one of a kind authority over software.

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