美国商界大亨中出现超级游艇转卖潮

    关于海洋，有句古老的谚语是这么说的：海员一生中最快乐的两天，分别是他买船和卖船的日子。对三位商界巨头来说，这些日子似乎比普通海员更加快乐。

    2009年，硅谷首屈一指的风险投资家汤姆•珀金斯卖出了马耳他猎鹰号（Maltese Falcon），这艘289英尺长的横帆船充满未来风格，仿若达斯•维达的指挥舰。据报售价为9,000万美元，买家是欧洲对冲基金经理、亿万富豪艾琳娜•安布罗西亚多。

    去年6月，乔•维特多利亚——上世纪80年代他担任汽车租赁公司Avis掌门人，并领导了对该公司的杠杆收购，籍此积攒了不菲身家——卖掉了米拉美人4号（Mirabella V），这艘单桅帆船长247英尺，桅杆高达292英尺，如此高度使其甚至无法从金门大桥下驶过，也无法通过巴拿马运河。业内消息人士透露卖价为2,500万美元，买家是德克萨斯油气大亨、亿万富豪罗德•路易斯。

    最新一位甩卖游艇的大亨是68岁的亿万富豪吉姆•克拉克，他是网景、Shutterfly和WebMD的联合创始人，近日将自己的两艘帆船——雅典娜号（Athena）和哈奴曼号（Hanuman）同时挂牌出售。

    雅典娜号是一艘非常漂亮的295英尺长斜桁纵帆船，帆面积达到2.8万平方英尺，上面还配备了大量炫酷数码产品，足以让任何喜爱这类玩具的科技迷心动，比如可用于监测与控制音乐、空调及特等舱房内采光情况的手持无线触屏设备；通过导航屏还可以清楚看到自己正驶向哪一个充满异域风情的私家旅游岛。

    克拉克的诸多怪癖促使专业船员们将这艘海上巨兽称为“吉姆世界”，他喜欢将游艇用作潜水平台，为满足患有减压病的潜水爱好者的需求，船上甚至还配备了减压室。克拉克开出的卖价为9,500万美元，想必这还不包括他喜欢在船上穿着的South Beach牌白色西装。

    有报道称，当年克马耳他猎鹰号和雅典娜号都在建造之时，珀金斯与克拉克曾就谁的游艇更长而展开竞争。珀金斯声称，他误导了克拉克，猎鹰号的实际长度比克拉克了解的情况多出10英尺——猎鹰号籍此胜出。克拉克则坚称，他的船更大，倒不是说吃水线更深，而是其装饰着人像的33英尺船首斜桅伸出了前甲板。男孩们，玩够了吧！ 

    哈奴曼号长138英尺，目前停在罗得岛州纽波特，它是汤米•索普维斯上世纪30年代建造的J级赛艇奋进2号（Endeavour II）复制品。开价“仅为”1800万美元。

    The oldest adage on the sea is that the two happiest days in a sailor's life are the days he buys his boat and the day he sells it. For three business titans, the days seem to be getting happier.

    In 2009, Tom Perkins, the nonpareil venture capitalist of Silicon Valley, sold the Maltese Falcon, a 289-foot futuristic Darth Vader-esque square-rigger. Reported price: $90 million. The buyer: Elena Ambrosiadou, a European hedge-fund billionaire. Then, last June, Joe Vittoria -- who made a fortune as head of Avis Rent a Car when he led an LBO of the company in the 1980s -- unloaded Mirabella V, the 247-foot sloop with a 292-foot mast that's so tall the yacht can't fit under the Golden Gate Bridge or through the Panama Canal. Price, according to industry sources: $25 million. The buyer: Rod Lewis, a billionaire Texas oil-and-gas tycoon. Now comes the 68-year-old billionaire Jim Clark, the co-founder of Netscape, Shutterfly and WebMD. He just put his splendid sailboats, Athena and Hanuman, on the market on the same day.

    Athena is a glorious 295-foot gaff-rigged schooner, with 28,000 square feet of sail area. It has enough cool gadgetry to tickle any techy who likes toys: handheld wireless touch-screens that monitor and control such ship accoutrements as music, air conditioning, and the shades in the staterooms. You can also keep track on a navigation screen of what exclusive exotic island you're heading to. Clark, whose eccentricities led his professional crew to call their nautical universe "Jim World," used the boat a lot as a diving platform. Athena even has a decompression chamber for divers with the bends. Asking price: $95 million, which presumably doesn't include the South Beach white suits that Clark liked to wear aboard.

    As the story goes, Clark and Perkins were in a bit of a competition about whose boat under construction would be longer. Perkins said he misled Clark by 10 feet about how long the Falcon would be -- and that's why Perkins' is bigger. Clark maintains his is bigger, not at the waterline but because of a 33-foot figurehead-adorned bowsprit extending out from the foredeck. Boys, settle down!

    The sleek 138-foot Hanuman, currently in Newport, R.I., is a replica of the great J-class racer Endeavour II from the 1930s built by Tommy Sopwith. Asking price: a mere $18 million.