He had the boat built custom in Florida(I think by a company called Allied). It has 4 big diesels and surface drives. The boat's name is Purely Pleasure and if you do a google search there are other pics of it. The last Purely Pleasure was a little larger, had five engines, and was slower. From a distance it looked like a huge 80's performance boat, rear leaning arch and everything. The cool thing with that boat was a 19 foot runabout that hung in a garage under the master stateroom bed, very cool. At that time Jerry owned 5 marinas and several car dealers, he has pared back to 1 marina but still has the car dealers. Great guy, has always been a huge supporter of our club and races.

A 42 footer won't even get you in the classification for big boats on Cumberland any more. The big boy cruisers are up to 60 ft now.

Then I guess you never heard of a 118 Wallypower boat at 70mph.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeSzsNatGZ0

I saw the wally 118 at Lauderdale Marine Center last year. That thing is a beast. Biggest I have seen the yacht A in Antigua, biggest I have been on is Elandess at 197

Nope I've never heard of the 118 Wallypower. That's got to take skill to drive.

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How do you drive and dock that boat.

We were on Peanut Island one day when she sailed by. Picked-up the submarine.Crew has got a great gig.

http://www.superyachtfan.com/superyacht_octopus.html

Kinda hard to see it on the left. Looks like a destroyer

You are a professional and get paid to do it. It really sounds from this post and the other about the difficulty in driving the 118 Wally that you feel the larger the vessel, that is some massive feat of inhuman proportions to dock it/drive it. There have been big boats for a LONG LONG time. People can drive them. People with the kind of money it costs to build/own these vessels can afford to pay someone to drive them. I really doubt Paul Allen has spent much time at the helm of Octopus.

Just so you know...its easier to dock my 37 Active Thunder than it is to dock your 25 Baja.