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Dallas Cowboys Owner Jerry Jones’s Mediterranean Runabout

Reader Carl King, who owns the Beneteau 36 King Tide in Sausalito, sent us a note when he noticed a little Mediterranean ‘runabout’ had slipped into San Francisco Bay. At first, we thought it might be a new committee boat for the Sausalito Yacht Club, but it turns out the yacht is owned by Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, who, according to Forbes magazine, is worth around $6.8 billion.

The yacht and the city
Carl King sent in this shot of the yacht and the City.
© 2020 Carl King

Jones spent about $250 million to purchase the massive 357-ft yacht in 2019. It comes complete with two helipads, a gym and the must-have spa including a sauna, steam room, massage room, plunge pool and rain shower. Oceanco built the boat in 2018 in the Netherlands.

Mega yacht Bravo Eugenia
It’s hard to get away from it all on a 357-ft yacht. Carl King sent in the yacht’s track on the Bay.
© 2020 Carl King / Google

“To what do we owe the honor?” asked the San Francisco Chronicle. “Could be Jones is scouting Oakland on behalf of the NFL. He reportedly told an Oakland official not long ago that Jones and several other team owners see Oakland as a leading candidate for the next NFL expansion or relocation team.” (We heard an unsubstantiated, and in all likelihood entirely fabricated, rumor that Jones was considering signing Colin Kaepernick. We’ll just let that one hang out there.)

Jones’s path to megayacht ownership started with success as a Texas oil wildcatter in the ’70s. His biggest success came when he bought the Dallas Cowboys in 1989 for $150 million. They’re now worth around $5.5 billion. He continues to do well with the oil business, Texas real estate and the Cowboys.

Circling the Bravo Eugenia
The Bravo Eugenia found this quiet anchorage in the corner of San Francisco Bay.
© 2020 Latitude 38 Media LLC / John

Boats like this are far more common in the Atlantic Basin, shuttling between the Med, the Caribbean and the Northeast. They don’t often get through the canal and to the West Coast, but, when they do, they’re often passing through the Bay Area this time of year on their way to the famous photo op in front of Glacier Bay in Alaska.

Bravo Eugenia
When there’s a new island to circumnavigate on the Bay you’ve got to check it out.
© 2020 Latitude 38 Media LLC / John

She did a little Bay cruising this weekend before returning to anchor off Sausalito. Is she still there? Anyone?

10 Comments

  1. David James 4 years ago

    Still there right now at Monday lunchtime.

  2. Tammy Blanchard 4 years ago

    she was still there this morning

  3. Chuck Cunningham 4 years ago

    Wretched excess!! SIP floating palace! American Oligarch!
    But then we have been a pit stop for others like Paul Allen, Steve Balmer, Tom Perkins(he had a truly cool high tech sailboat. What a turn around by the NFL.

  4. PETER NELSON 4 years ago

    Oh no! Not another Richardson Bay anchor out!

  5. Murphy Sackett 4 years ago

    It stopped in San Diego. Another city that needs a NFL team

  6. Mark Simons 4 years ago

    Saw her yesterday afternoon from about 60 yards away, wow! Got a good photo.

  7. Ray Duran 4 years ago

    Parked all afternoon today in Anchorage 9/South Bay… Ferrying people to and from Oyster Point in a sexy electric powered launch skiff

  8. Jim Leonard 4 years ago

    She just passed Point Reyes, heading North at 13 kt.

  9. Susan 4 years ago

    Check the MarineTraffic app – you can see where she is now (off Eureka, headed to Juneau Alaska – currently doing 15.1 knots!)

  10. Dennis Bailey 4 years ago

    How many gallons per minute. Obscene.

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