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He was perhaps best known for owning the nine-time Sydney-Hobart-winning yacht Wild Oats XI. He bought Hamilton Island, Queensland in 2003 for $200 million, he also owned retirement homes and a villa in Sardinia, Italy. Oatley also established the Rosemount winery, in the Hunter Valley in 1969.
Wild Oats XI is a maxi yacht, most famous for being the former race record holder and a nine-times line honours winner of the Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race.Launched in 2005, she was owned by Bob Oatley (Oatley's estate since his death in 2016) and skippered by New South Wales Mark Richards, who founded Palm Beach Yachts Australia.
Maxwell was known to be litigious against those who would speak or write against him. The satirical magazine Private Eye lampooned him as "Cap'n Bob" and the "bouncing Czech", [52] the latter nickname having originally been devised by Prime Minister Harold Wilson [53] (under whom Maxwell was an MP).
The Westport mega-yacht was built in 2007 and is the largest of several yachts Bozzuto owns. More: Cannonsport Marina sells for $58.5 million in big deal for tiny Palm Beach Shores
Robert "Bob" Frederick Clifford AO is an Australian shipbuilder and businessman, best known for his success in building his Incat catamaran building company into an international brand that sells wave piercing catamaran ferries all over the world including to the US military and many European ferry operators.
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