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Le Grand Bleu, One of World’s Largest Private Yachts, Arrives in Newport

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The 371-foot long Le Grand Bleu , one of the largest private yachts in the world, arrived in Newport on Tuesday, July 11th.

Le Grand Bleu was built for US telecommunications baron John McCaw and has been owned by Eugene Shvidler, a Russian-American oil businessman, since June 2006.  She was built at the Bremer Vulkan yard in Bremen, Germany, and was launched in 2000.

Shvilder owns the Château Thénac vineyard in France, a $37 million home in Belgravia in London, a $14.5 million home in Aspen and has a network of $1.3 billion.

The yacht has a crew of 65 and carries a veritable arsenal of tenders and water toys, both on her aft decks and in her extensive below-deck garage, where there is a large aquarium. Her watercraft includes a 73-foot Dubois-designed sailing yacht, Bellatrix; a 68-foot meter Sunseeker motor yacht; two 11 36-foot, 60-knot Buzzi sports boats; and a landing craft to carry a 4×4 Land Rover used for excursions ashore and a helicopter.

The boat is currently at anchor in Narragansett Bay, just off of Goat Island in front of Belle Mer.  It is unknown how long she will be spending in Newport.

Le Grand Bleu is the 24th largest private yacht in the world, according to Wikipedia .

The largest private yacht in the world? That would be Azzam at 591 feet, a yacht that is no stranger to Newport.

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Le Grand Bleu, owned by a Russian-American oil tycoon, arrived last week, according to the harbor master.

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One of the largest private yachts in the world – owned by a Russian-American oil tycoon – spent the weekend in Portland Harbor and attracted the attention of many boaters.

Kevin Battle, Portland’s harbor master, said Le Grand Bleu arrived last week, but it wasn’t until Sunday when the coastal weather cleared and the sun broke through that the ship really started getting noticed.

“It is one of the largest yachts in the world and it has been getting a lot of attention from boaters, who have been going out into the harbor to take a look at it,” Battle said Sunday afternoon as he motored past the ship, which was anchored near Fort Gorges. “I’ve been told that the ship is in for the weekend.”

A crew member told Battle that Le Grand Bleu may leave Portland Harbor on Monday, but the superyacht’s departure time could change.

Le Grand Bleu in a photo taken in 2010 in an unidentified location.

According to the business magazine Forbes, the 370-foot-long vessel is owned by oil tycoon Evgeny (Eugene) Shvidler. Shvidler was born in Russia but became an American citizen in 1994.

The ship was built by the Bremer Vulkan shipyard in Bremen, Germany, and launched in 2000. It was commissioned by John McCaw, an American telecom magnate, who sold the yacht to Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich. According to Yachts International, Abramovich gave Le Grand Bleu to his friend Shvidler in 2006. Advertisement

Earlier this year, Shvidler attracted negative media coverage when he anchored the ship close to Liberty Island for several days.

The New York Post reported that Le Grand Bleu caused a controversy by obstructing views of the Statue of Liberty. Critics said the yacht blocked views of people who had taken excursion boats to see the statue.

Yachts International, which bills itself as the leading print and digital publication in the superyacht sector, reported that Le Grand Bleu has a helicopter pad on board. It also features a sewage and wastewater treatment plant and a water purification system.

The ship is powered by two 9,730 hp engines, according to the website of Pastrovich, the ship’s designer.

The yacht has spent part of July moored in the Penobscot Bay, Maine, outside of Camden harbor. In early August, 2017, it was anchored in Casco Bay, near Portland, Maine.

The magazine lists Le Grand Bleu as the 31st largest yacht in the world.

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Go-Anywhere Luxury Yachts Bull Out to Sea

By Penelope Green

• July 22, 2001

IF you stand on the bridge of Dream, a 184-foot yacht capable of circumnavigating the globe on a single tank of fuel, the deck 20-odd-feet below looks like that of some gutsy supply boat, all chunky with steel and gritty gray nonskid paint. You might feel like a tanker captain on the bridge, with its Global Positioning System equipment and its four engine-room video monitors. Dream has smokestacks like a real ship and two cranes, similar to those on a small freighter. The original owner used the cranes to offload two tenders, a 36-foot fishing boat and a submarine.

Dream is an expedition yacht, a private boat with hulls and superstructures like those on a commercial ship but with the luxuries of a pleasure boat. (Dream carries a grand piano and a hot tub.)

Think of expedition yachts as S.U.V.'s of the sea. Their owners would rather dodge ice floes in the Arctic or anchor alongside freighters in Dakar than bob alongside the pristine white boats that are rich men's fixtures in resort harbors.

''The appeal is the nonstop self-sufficiency of these vessels,'' said Ben Snead, an owner of Expedition Yachts International, which is selling Dream for $18.9 million. ''The guys who want these boats aren't white-boat kind of guys. They want to take their family and their friends to places where there aren't any charts and there aren't any people. They want to get there quickly, and they don't want to have to worry about anything breaking or keeping up a perfect paint job.''

Dream was built by Halter Marine of Louisiana three years ago for a North Carolina real-estate developer who used to own a conventional yacht and wanted to take his family on a voyage to Indonesia, Australia and New Zealand. Dream's lines were modeled on those of the freighters he would see while anchored at Hurricane Hole in Nassau, the Bahamas. ''There were always those freighters that sit over there, rust buckets pretty much, but they have pretty lines to them,'' he said, asking that his name not be used. ''It may have been all the red wine we were drinking, but they started to look pretty good to my wife and I.''

They are looking good to lots of other members of the superrich these days.

On a list of 100 of the world's largest yachts published last year by Power and Motor Yacht magazine, 15 are expedition yachts. Some are new, modeled after commercial ships -- reinforced steel hulls, the superstructure set way back -- while others are conversions of tug boats, fishing trawlers and even icebreakers. The biggest, at 355 feet, is Le Grand Bleu, owned by John McCaw, the co-founder of McCaw Cellular. It looks like a research vessel or work boat and is said to have its own dry-cleaning plant. One of its tenders is a 73-foot sailboat with its own captain and crew.

Another expeditionary yacht, Turmoil, is owned by Gary C. Comer, the founder of Lands' End. James Robie Gilbert, the editor in chief of Showboats International magazine, said he first heard the term expedition yacht about Turmoil, which was built in 1996. ''Turmoil was a pivotal boat -- a poop-deck, expeditionary-style boat with the lines of a commercial ship,'' Mr. Gilbert said. This month Turmoil, and Mr. Comer, are cruising in the Arctic.

The number of huge private vessels, often called megayachts, boomed along with the 1990's bull market. In the mid-80's, there were several hundred yachts over 80 feet. Six years ago, there were more than 2,000. And by last year, there were more than 5,000, said Diane Byrne, executive editor of Power and Motor Yacht magazine. They are of all types -- gleaming white motor yachts, high-tech sailboats, classic wooden boats.

''Whereas in the past buyers would put off acquiring a big boat until they retired,'' Ms. Byrne said, ''in the 90's that all changed. Since boat buyers were like many Americans in that they placed a bigger emphasis on their leisure time, they decided they wanted to enjoy the luxury boating lifestyle now, not years down the road.''

Their sheer numbers mean that the marinas of the world are just that much more crowded and the views that much more ordinary. ''A lot of guys have worked too hard all their lives to spend time yoked in with 50 other gin palaces in a marina in St.-Tropez,'' said Charles Dana, commodore of the New York Yacht Club. ''They want to go where no one has ever gone, in a tough boat that can take it.''

Mr. Dana is the controlling owner of American Shipyard in Newport, a once-struggling commercial yard that has been brought back to life to service megayachts, including expeditionary ones.

''One of the reasons we bought this yard was the sheer number of megayachts,'' said David Ray, another principal at American Shipyard. ''What an opportunity!''

Last Monday at the shipyard, there were four shiny white boats in distress, all involved in weekend mishaps, Mr. Dana explained. They were lined up nose to delicate nose, waiting for a turn on the yard's 330-ton travel lift. The oddball in the yard was a swarthy, sturdy 110-foot tug, stripped of its wheelhouse. Its owner is Jeff Taylor, chief executive of Monster.com, the online career service, who brought it to American for conversion into a yacht. Mr. Taylor plans to use the boat for private cruising and as an educational vessel for the Junior Achievement organization in Boston.

''I have an interest in boats,'' Mr. Taylor said, ''but I didn't want a new yacht. I think that's a spoiled-brat thing. I like things that are interesting; I like things that make people smile. I've since found out that a lot of people like tugs.''

''Like Buffet,'' he added, meaning Warren Buffet. ''He's got a tug.''

Marilyn Mower, executive editor of Showboats International, said that some owners ''are interested in these boats for security reasons -- they want to travel to obscure third world areas and they don't want to attract the attention that a gleaming white yacht would.''

''And in a lot of the parts of the world that these people want to explore,'' she continued, ''there aren't such things as recreational marinas with all the attendant services. Increasingly they're tying up in commercial ports next to tankers, and so a boat like this makes a lot more sense.''

Stephen Seaton, a naval architect based in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., has been designing trawlers-as-yachts for 32 years. He built them first at just over 40 feet. By 1975, they had grown to about 65 feet, where they hovered until the mid-1990's. Now he is building boats of 120 to 220 feet.

''I'm building one right now for a family up in the Northeast, to take them around the world,'' he said. ''It will carry a 25-foot fishing boat. The kids are into scuba diving, so there's room for their gear and a lab they can play around in.''

Not all expedition yachts are put through the paces they are capable of. Like S.U.V.'s that never leave the paved roads, some expeditionary yachts are coveted more for their image.

''Expedition yacht is kind of a marketing term,'' said Bill Langan, a naval architect who assisted the late William E. Simon, the former Treasury secretary and Wall Street investor, in strengthening the hull of a North Sea salvage tug called Itasca that had been converted into a yacht.

''It used to refer to a mother ship built to carry other vessels,'' Mr. Langan continued. ''Now it's like the S.U.V. concept, more about style than function. People have seen boats like Itasca and they think those are pretty nice-looking boats, in a work boat sort of way.''

In 1994, Itasca completed the Northwest Passage, the 3,000-mile sea route above the Arctic Circle across the top of Canada. ''My head was spinning the whole time,'' recalled John Bockstoce, an Arctic historian and author whom Simon invited on the voyage. Mr. Bockstoce had made two previous trips through the Northwest Passage: first in an umiak or open Eskimo boat made of walrus skin, a voyage completed over eight summers; and later in a heavy steel motor sailer, Belvedere, a passage that took six summers, broken into segments.

When he made the voyage through the ice floes, one of the world's most dangerous sea routes, on Itasca, it took but three weeks.

''We flew to the Bering Strait in Bill's G-3,'' Mr. Bockstoce recalled. ''We met Itasca, and took her, from west to east, 21 days through the Northwest Passage, ending up in West Greenland. We pulled in, and the G-3 was waiting for us. Fours hours later we were in Eastern Long Island, and I took a taxi to La Guardia and a shuttle to Boston. An hour after that, I was swimming in York Harbor, up in Maine. Itasca was my kind of boat, all luxury inside. I just love that boat. If I ever made enough money. . . .''

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Top 10 largest explorer yachts in the world

Helipads. Dive centres. Ice-breaking hulls. Submersibles. What makes an explorer yacht? True to their name, explorer yachts are well equipped to take on adventurous journeys to the most far-flung places in the world. Equipped with a long-range and vast storage capacity for food, fuel and water to enable weeks at sea, expedition yachts are increasingly popular with owners wanting to leave behind the popular Mediterranean and Caribbean cruising grounds for more challenging adventures. We round up the top 10 largest explorer yachts in the world, starting with a new entry from German shipyard Lürssen...

Solaris | 139.7m

One of the most memorable launches of 2021, the 139.7 metre super explorer yacht Solaris travelled to the top of this coveted list of expedition yachts when she hit the water last year. The highly secretive project is built by Lloyd Werft , which also delivered the 115m explorer Luna in 2010, the fourth largest explorer yacht in the world. Spread across an impressive eight decks, Solaris was designed by Australian designer Marc Newson and hit the water for the first time at the German yard in February 2021. While nothing has been made public about the project, images of the superyacht show a large helipad, sun deck and spacious beach club aft.

• Builder: Lloyd Werft
• Country of build: Germany
• Delivery year: 2021
• Length Overall: 139.7 m
• Gross Tonnage 11247 t

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More stories, octopus | 126.18m.

Originally built yacht for the late Paul Allen, one of the founders of Microsoft, Octopus  is one of the most famous explorer yachts in the world. The yacht has the capacity for two helicopters at the same time, with landing pads on the aft deck and foredeck. The helipad on the aft deck also has a hangar to store the helicopter away in big seas.

Octopus also has an internal dock, which is perfect for storing the toys that every explorer yacht should have. When the dock is filled with water a 20 metre submarine and a tender of similar size are able to float in and out of their chocks. Once they are secure the water is pumped out before the yacht gets underway.

Paul Allen and the crew of Octopus used the yacht as part of an eight year search for a sunken ship. In 2015, they discovered the long-lost wreck of Japanese ship Musashi , which sunk during the Second World War.

• Builder: Lurssen
• Delivery year: 2003
• Length Overall: 126.2 m
• Beam: 21.01 m
• Gross Tonnage 9932 t

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Ulysses | 116.15m.

After four years in construction, Ulysses first hit the water in summer 2018. The explorer yacht is almost 10 metres longer than her predecessor, the 107 metre Andromeda (formerly Ulysses ), which was commissioned by the same owner, New Zealand's richest man Graeme Hart. Kleven finished the yacht's technical build in Norway in December 2016, after which Ulysses was sent to Bremerhaven for interior and external completion under the project management of Dörries Maritime.

Ulysses is equipped with a heli-hangar on the top deck, a Bell 429 helicopter, and a fleet of high-speed and day-cruising tenders including a 21 metre Princess 68 stowed inside the well deck. Inside, her huge 18 metre beam is able to accommodate up to 66 guests.

• Builder: Kleven
• Country of build: Norway
• Delivery year: 2018
• Length Overall: 116.15 m
• Gross Tonnage 6862 t

Luna | 115m

Delivered in 2010, Luna  was built for Roman Abramovich as an upgraded replacement for his former exploration yacht Le Grand Bleu .

The yacht was later sold to Roman Abramovich's close friend, Farkhad Akhmedov in April 2014. The new owner sent her to the yard in Germany for an extensive 14-month refit costing €50 million and including around 130 jobs. Sporting exterior design by Frank Neubelt, Luna is famous for a low aft deck that sacrificed interior volume in favour of more space for sunbathing. The swimming pool takes centre stage and made headlines for being the largest ever seen on a superyacht at the time of delivery. Elsewhere, the yacht features two tender garages, a gym and an expansive beach club wrapping around a spa, with a steam bath, plunge pool and sauna. Two helipads sit on the upper deck while the entire lower deck is dedicated to the crew. Luna is ice-classed and built to the highest possible standards, allowing her to travel to the far reaches of the world's oceans.

• Delivery year: 2010
• Length Overall: 115 m
• Gross Tonnage 5655 t

Le Grand Bleu | 112.8m

Le Grand Bleu was built for US telecommunications tycoon John McCaw who subsequently sold the yacht to the Russian businessman Roman Abramovich who had Le Grand Bleu refitted to his own specifications. The main addition was the 4.8 metre swim platform. Le Grand Bleu is now reportedly owned by Ambramovich's friend and business associate Eugene Shvidler.

The yacht has many features that make her ideal for exploration, including a large tender garage with storage for two sports boats as well as a landing craft capable of carrying a 4x4 Land Rover for excursions ashore. Le Grand Bleu even has a 22 metre sailing yacht and a 21 metre Sunseeker motor yacht stored on the aft deck. The yacht is operated by a massive crew of 65 staff.

• Builder: Bremer Vulkan
• Delivery year: 2000
• Length Overall: 112.8 m
• Beam: 17.68 m
• Gross Tonnage 5496 t

Andromeda | 107.40m

First commissioned by New Zealand businessman Graeme Hart as Ulysses , Andromeda is now reportedly owned by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg . A capable explorer yacht ready for any conditions, Andromeda was built at Kleven Verft, a Norwegian company known for building offshore commercial vessels.  Specially designed to have a long-range,  Andromeda  is capable of carrying 36 guests to the furthest corners of the world’s oceans and is equipped with an extensive inventory of toys and tenders, including six motorbikes, two ATVs, a helicopter, a twin-hulled 50-knot support boat, a Sealegs amphibious RIB and full-on landing craft. Guests each get very generous quarters, spread across three decks, with the choicest digs being the two VIPs on the boat deck, each with its own private superyacht balcony .

• Delivery year: 2016
• Length Overall: 107.4 m
• Gross Tonnage 5937 t

Tranquility | 91.5m

The 91.5m explorer yacht Tranquility was the first yacht built to PYC standard when it was first delivered in 2014 by Dutch yard Oceanco originally called Equanimity. Since then, the yacht has enjoyed a colourful reputation, after being seized by Indonesian authorities at the request of the US Department of Justice in 2018 . The yacht hit the headlines again in 2019 as the renamed Tranquility when it played host to Kylie Jenner, who celebrated her 22nd birthday on board . However, one thing has remained constant. Tranquility has remained among the top 10 largest explorer yachts in the world since being it was first delivered in 2014. Spanning five decks, Tranquility is packed with premium superyacht features, including a foredeck helipad, spa and wellness area and 20 metre swimming pool. The tender garage houses two 10.5 metre Hodgson tenders – one sport and one limousine that can carry up to 12 guests and two crew each. Tranquility is well equipped for adventure with a range of water toys including Jet Skis, Wave Runners, SeaBobs and an electric surfboard.

• Builder: Oceanco
• Country of build: Netherlands
• Delivery year: 2014
• Length Overall: 91.5 m
• Beam: 14.6 m
• Gross Tonnage 2999 t

Voyager | 91.4m

The 91.4 metre explorer yacht Voyager is not only one of the largest explorer yachts in the world, but one of the most adventurous . The yacht travelled more than 27,000 nautical miles in 2020, exploring a selection of far-flung locations such as South Africa, Madagascar and Antarctica. The explorer entered this list in 2019, when it completed a three-year conversion from a supply ship into an explorer yacht. The yacht was first built by Swiftships in 1997 as Candy Trader with an initial length of 63 metres. It was later renamed HOS Trader in 2003 and used as an offshore supply ship. Now, the yacht features five decks and a crew of 70. Other features include multiple galleys, pantries and media rooms and a standout deep dive centre – one of the primary purposes of the yacht.

• Builder: Swiftships
• Country of build: United States of America
• Delivery year: 1997
• Length Overall: 91.4 m
• Gross Tonnage 1194 t

Ice | 90.1m

One of the most iconic yachts in the world , Ice  was sold to Suleiman Kerimov following delivery and is more than just imposing and stylish. Ice is also environmentally friendly, extremely quiet and free from vibration thanks to two Azipod units powered by up to eight Deutz generating sets. This provides household power and doesn't sacrifice performance, with the yacht still capable of reaching 18.6 knots.

One of the world's largest explorer yachts, Ice has an arsenal of toys and sailing dinghies as well as a helipad for the Eurocopter EC135 helicopter. A range of 6,000 nautical miles means she can travel anywhere in the world.

• Delivery year: 2005
• Length Overall: 90.1 m
• Gross Tonnage 3268 t

Olivia O | 88.5m

Like many explorers on this list, the 88m Olivia O was built by a yard better known for its commercial vessels. The yacht was delivered by Ulstein Verft in 2020 and designed by legendary superyacht designer Espen Øino . Characterised by a striking reverse bow and explorer profile, Olivia O is believed to be the first time Ulstein’s trademarked X-Bow has appeared on a yacht. The feature pierces smaller waves and reduces pitching and roll in high seas. With a reported gross tonnage of just under 5000GT, Olivia O has plenty of room down below, including accommodation spread over five decks for a total of 20 guests in eight cabins, including Pullman beds. Olivia O also carries a full-time crew of 30. The interior, which was designed by Droulers , is “orientally themed”, specifically around Japan. Other features include a gym, cinema room, large swimming pool and helipad.

• Builder: Ulstein Verft
• Delivery year: 2020
• Length Overall: 88.5 m
• Beam: 16.3 m
• Gross Tonnage 4989 t

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The Luxury Features of This Massive Yacht Anchored in Portland Harbor Will Blow Your Mind

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The monstrous ship anchored in Portland Harbor isn't a new ferry service to Canada. It's not a cruise ship loaded with hundreds of tourist passengers. It's not even a Coast Guard vessel, despite the military appearance of the navy blue hull. T he massive gigayacht currently anchored in front of Fort Gorges in Portland Harbor is actually one of the world's largest private yachts.

Le Grand Bleu's current owner is Eugene Shvidler , a Russian-American businessman who built his wealth in oil. He received Le Grand Bleu as a gift from his business partner Roman Abramovich in 2006. The original owner, who designed the massive ship for himself in 2000, was American businessman and telecommunications tycoon John McCaw Jr.

Le Grand Bleu is among the top 25 largest yachts in the world, measuring in at 371-feet long. Here's a comparison for you -- The CAT, the Maine to Nova Scotia ferry that has a capacity of 700 passengers and 200 cars, is only about 350-feet long . According to SuperYachts.com , Le Grand Bleu carries a crew of 35 and can accommodate 20 guests for a "relaxed luxury yacht experience".

On closer inspection of the impressive vessel, you'll see several decks and lounge areas at water level, including this sitting area on the aft-most deck of the ship. B ehind the comfy couches and you'll see an enormous fish tank. Staircases connect the multiple levels of decks and windows with many of their shades drawn wrap around the cabins. All that can be seen of the interior is some elaborate wood paneling near a dock on the starboard side.

The yacht boasts two more yachts stored on it's aft deck, including a 73-foot sail boat and a 68-foot powerboat. You know, for when you want to leave your gigayacht to hang out on a smaller but still generously sized yacht.  The yacht has also been photographed in other ports with a helicopter on top. The helicopter was missing on Sunday, August 7, 2017, when these photos were snapped in Casco Bay. The owner was probably just flying to Hannaford real quick for some essentials.

The gigayacht claimed the attention of many local boaters on Sunday after the thick Atlantic fog rolled out of town overnight. It's hard to miss the thing as it's anchored between the East End and immediately in front of Fort Gorges. At some angles the ship totally obscures the view of the historic fort. This isn't the first time Le Grand Bleu has blocked a historic landmark. In fact, the ship garnered media attention and local criticism when it was anchored in New York Harbor obstructing views of The Statue of Liberty.

You can track the position and travels of Le Grand Bleu online . For now, waves continue to break on the hull of this enormous private yacht in Casco Bay.

View full size images of Le Grand Bleu in the gallery below.

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Mccaw Clan: Personal Lives

The brothers of Craig McCaw would rather you didn't read this story.

They want Craig to get the attention. They don't think their personal lives are anybody's business. But when you've each got more than $300 million, things do get interesting.

Meet the McCaws.

Bruce McCaw.

The eldest of the four McCaw brothers, Bruce, 46, is the only McCaw who went into business by himself. The other brothers worked for Craig. Bruce co-founded Westar Insurance Co. in Bellevue, which specialized in aviation and other insurance areas and, after a merger, became Forbes Westar Inc. (He also helped found Horizon Airlines. )

All of the brothers are major stockholders in McCaw Cellular Communications and, except for Keith McCaw, serve as directors of the company. Craig, however, is without question the person in charge. Bruce says he has no problem deferring to his younger brother as leader of the company. Craig, however, does get advice from the brothers. "He's never run the business as if he's the only guy in the saddle," Bruce says.

Bruce is private like the rest of the McCaws, but the most talkative. He particularly enjoys talking about his late father, industrialist Elroy McCaw. Bearded, balding and a little overweight, he looks a bit like the GOP strategist Ed Rollins.

Bruce could afford practically any car ever made. But he prefers to drive the 1986 Mercedes 300E he drove in the One Lap of America race across the continent several years ago. He also has a collection of vintage race cars.

A skilled pilot, Bruce flies his own 6-passenger jet. . Or he might fly a smaller plane to a dirt runway near his rustic riverfront cabin, once owned by supermarket tycoon Joe Albertson, in Idaho's Frank Church Wilderness Area. The cabin has no running water and is reachable only by water or air.

A big-game hunter and a thrill-seeker, Bruce and his friends have hunted by moonlight for boar in South Africa, armed only with pistols.

In Seattle, Bruce keeps a home and a 58-foot yacht. He is the only brother who has never married, but he has been seen escorting women at various charitable events in Seattle. He is very sensitive about his name appearing in newspapers and regards it as irresponsible that a newspaper would suggest a romantic link with a guest just because they appeared together.

He says the family as a whole feels abused by the news media's attention.

"One of the reasons why all of us spend less time in the city is because we got run out," he says. "When you want some privacy in your life, the easy way is to go someplace else, where people aren't focused on you."

John McCaw.

Apart from Craig, John, 42, is the only brother who has held a senior full-time position in the company. He started with the company in 1975, working at the family's small cable-TV system in Centralia. He eventually held the title of executive vice president of acquisitions. His contributions were largely in the cable division, which was sold in 1987.

His mother, Marion, says he is probably the warmest of the four boys. In appearance, he looks more like Craig than the other two. He's thin and delicate-looking. When asked a question, he will stare for a long time before answering. When nervous, his eyes dart rapidly back and forth, a mannerism shared by Craig.

John ended full-time work for the company in 1991 but remains a director. He quit "to get away for a while and get a perspective on things," he says.

"John came to a point in his life where there were other things of importance to him," says Craig, "and we simply agreed that if he wasn't going to put his heart and soul in the company, then that wasn't the deal, the philosophy of management, and so nobody had to be thrown out per se."

Since leaving the company, John has had more time to pursue other interests: yachting, skiing - and baseball. The former Little League pitcher is part of the Nintendo-led group that owns the Seattle Mariners.

As a youth, John drove a Porsche. He's kept an interest in exotic forms of transportation. He owns a helicopter and is said to be an excellent pilot.

He also owns a 10-passenger, long-distance jet. Last year he sold his 48-foot powerboat. He owns a radio station, KSKI, in Sun Valley, Idaho.

Keith McCaw.

Of the very private McCaws, Keith is the most private. At the Lakeside School, to which Keith drove a Mustang, some called him The Invisible Man.

"He's probably the hardest of the four of us to pry anything out of," says Bruce.

Still, he makes a vivid impression. He has dark straight hair and a pudgy face. He wears a gold watch, and carries a pager and a cellular phone.

Keith, 40, offers little about himself during an interview. A question gets a fragmentary answer, with nothing volunteered.

Keith McCaw made headlines when it was revealed last year he had spent $8.15 million to buy three Lake Washington lots for a new home. Plans are to remove three large homes that occupied those lots and build one home of 12,000 to 15,000 square feet, a few doors from brother John's home.

Apart from his Seattle residence, Keith, married with two children, keeps a large home in Sun Valley, formerly owned by Bill Harrah, the casino owner.

To get between Seattle and Sun Valley, Keith, the only brother who doesn't fly himself, keeps a 10-passenger jet.

Keith says he had a number of management jobs in the McCaw company, particularly in the paging business, where he negotiated acquisitions. Most executives at the company say he has never been a major player. Keith formally ended his role as an employee in 1986 but continued as a director until 1991. He remains a major stockholder.

Why did he leave the company?

"I think overall the brothers have innate independence," says Keith. "My feeling in the company was I had gone as far as I could. Craig has always been CEO for all intent and purposes, and rightly so. He deserves his position. But you can only work for your brother so long."

"Keith did a lot of things for the company and did them well," says Bruce, "but being the youngest of the four of us is a difficult role at best. Keith survived that experience well."

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the new owner of Tatoosh has two other big boats.Of course the 126m explorer Octopus and the 60,60 M long Feadship Meduse. Tatoosh was built for Craig McCaw, a business man in the USA.McCaw´s brother John McCaw was the owner of the Explorer Le Grand Bleu (108,30 M).I think everybody knows who bought Le Grand Bleu.

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Tatoosh For Sale Ahoy! I hear Tatoosh is for sale through Frasier Yachts for $125 million u.s..

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Anybody know where Tatoosh is?

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John Moscow, who helped expose fraud at the now-defunct Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) in the 1990s when he worked in the Manhattan district attorney’s office, is leaving his corporate law firm to join Lewis Baach Kaufmann Middlemiss PLLC, where he will be reunited with former colleagues from his days as a city prosecutor.

Moscow specialized in complex fraud cases during his 30 years at the district attorney’s office and led the prosecution of former Tyco Chief Executive Officer Dennis Kozlowski, who was convicted in 2005 of looting the company. Moscow joined Baker Hostetler LLP in 2007.

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Baker & hostetler's john moscow reunites with ex-prosecutors in move to lewis baach.

Photo: Gareth Lowndes/Shutterstock.com Veteran white-collar fraud attorney John Moscow, who led the bureau prosecuting international financial crimes during three-plus decades in the Manhattan district attorney's office under Robert Morgenthau, has moved from Baker Hostetler to international litigation boutique Lewis Baach Kaufmann Middlemiss. Moscow mentored two of the name partners at the firm during his time as a prosecutor, and he worked with another when prosecuting the massive Bank of Credit and Commerce International fraud case thirty years ago.

John Moscow Since joining Baker Hostetler in 2007, he's been in the news for his work for Cypriot company Prevezon, which employed Natalia Veselnitskaya, the Russian lawyer who met Donald Trump Jr. in June 2016— reportedly with the intent to provide information damaging to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. Moscow pointed to his relationships with key figures at Lewis Baach—which has approximately three dozen attorneys at offices in New York, Washington, London and Buenos Aires—as his reason for the move. "I’m joining a firm where I know the people, where we think much the same, we’re dealing with much the same kinds of problems, and I’m just looking forward to that," Moscow said. "I think it’s going to be more fun." "I enjoy things not everyone necessarily enjoys," he explained. "We we're talking through a statute and a sanctions order and a fact pattern to see what could and could not be done. If you think of that as fun, as I do, that's fun." When serving as lead prosecutor in the case against BCCI, an international bank that was shuttered in 1991 following reports of massive money laundering, Moscow first met LBKM senior partner Eric Lewis, who represented the liquidators of the bank in long-running civil litigation against its auditors. "He’s a very serious guy, he's got a good sense of humor—don't get me wrong—but a very serious lawyer, and he just does things well," Moscow said. Moscow supervised both Adam Kaufmann and Art Middlemiss in the Manhattan DA's office. When he left for private practice in 2009, Middlemiss took over the international white-collar crimes bureau, and after Middlemiss departed, Kaufman took the helm. "Robert Morgenthau thought we should not permit our wire transfer facilities to be used by crooks," Moscow said of the work. "Obviously we can't stop it, but we can step in and try." The 99-year-old Morgenthau, who has practiced at Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz since stepping down as Manhattan district attorney at the end of 2009, also weighed in on Moscow's move. “I am proud of all DANY alumni,” he said in a statement. “But John, Adam and Art are special lawyers and dear friends. I am so pleased that they are back together. They have a formidable white collar team at LBKM.” While in the district attorney's office, Moscow also served as deputy chief of the investigations unit. He joins LBKM's New York office, which was founded in 2013 when Kauffman and Middlemiss both came aboard. In 2017, LBKM added former litigation funding executive Erika Levin as a partner in New York. Read More: What Does Baker Hostetler Have to Do With the Fusion GPS Controversy?