Jim Clark’s Royal Huisman Athena Visits Ft. Lauderdale
Billionaire Jim Clark owns the Athena, one of the largest yachts of its kind, and you could see it first hand in Ft.Lauderdale recently. Docked just south of the 17th St. Causeway in the south end of Ft. Lauderdale. This is where the big white boats love to dock, and when we say big, we mean it. Superyachts, Megayachts, Gigayachts – we’ll let Wikipedia define all that here. Recently, while visiting family I had the occasion to drive over the 17th St. Causeway and I couldn’t help but notice this giant “throw-back” of a sailing vessel.
Athena
What a magnificent craft! Check out these stats – (from yachtforums.com)
Commisioned by Jim Clark - remember Jim – he’s the one who invested in launched the first real web browser Mosaic with Marc Andreessen, which later became Netscape and is now Firefox. Guess that was a pretty smart investment Jim!
Read the full backgrounder on Yachforums.com, and on Superyacht Times and the birth and launch at Yachtforums.com.
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