Many have been watching with great curiosity a large yacht, complete with helicopter, anchored in Richardson Bay off the south end of Sausalito. It was reported at last that it belongs to Dennis Washington of Montana and owner of Washington Companies, a group including mining, transportation, environmental remediation, aviation (aka helicopter) and real estate development.

Mr. Washington was ranked 88th on the Forbes list of 400 richest Americans last year. As to his yacht, it is the 14th of the largest US yachts and 71st of the world’s yachts. It does not appear that he travels to land via his helicopter, but via a small boat docked aft of the yacht. Why Richardson Bay? Why not? San Francisco is beautiful, Marin is a special place to be and as long as his yacht the Attessa III is not in the shipping channels of the San Francisco Bay, he is welcome to drop anchor.


Posted by:Judy LeMarr