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All You Need to Know About James H. (Jim) Clark and his Yacht Athena

Yacht Name: Athena - Yacht Length: 90 m (295 ft) - Guests: 12 in 6 cabins - Crew: 22 in 10 cabins - IMO: 1007237 - Displacement: 1,103t - Royal Huisman - 2004 - Yacht Value: US$ 70 million -

Owners Name: Jim Clark - Jim Clark Net Worth: US$ 2.1 billion - Owners Company: Netscape - Owners Country: USA - Athena is the largest sailing yacht built by Royal Huisman

Sailing Yacht Athena

Luxury sailing yacht Athena is a three masted schooner built by Royal Huisman and delivered to Jim Clark in 2004.

One of the Largest Sailing Yachts

Athena is one of the largest sailing yachts in the world. It was - and still is - the largest yacht ever built by Huisman.

Athena was the winner of the Show Boats International Award for Best Sailing Yacht over 40 Meters for 2004.

Put for Sale, asking US$ 70 million

In 2012 Athena was put for sale with an asking price of US$ 95 million, but her price has been reduced to US$ 70 million.

J Class Hanuman and the Racing Yacht Comanche

Clark also owns the Huisman built Super J Class Hanuman, which is actually also for sale. And he owns the racing yacht Comanche, 30 meter sloop, built by Hodgdon Yachts in 2014.

James Clark uses Comanche actively: he raced her in the Rolex Sidney Hobart Yacht Race and the 2015 Les Voiles de Saint Barth Race.

Charter Yacht Athena

The yacht Athena is available for charter.

James (Jim) Clark

Jim or James H. Clark is the founder of Silicon Graphics and Netscape.

Who is Jim Clark?

In 1982 Clark co-founded Silicon Graphics, a manufacturer of high-performance computing solutions, including computer hardware and software. Clark left Silicon Graphics in 1994.

In 1993 Clark had met Marc Andreessen developer of Mosaic, the first widely distributed software for browsing the World Wide Web.

Netscape

The next year Clark and Andreessen founded Netscape. Netscape Navigator once was the most widely used web browser. In the 1995 Netscape IPO Clark earned USD 2 billion.

In 1999, Jim Clark launched myCFO, a company formed to help wealthy Silicon Valley individuals manage their fortunes.

In late 2002, while Clark served on the board of directors, most of myCFO's operations were sold to Harris Bank and now operate as Harris myCFO.

Jim Clark Net Worth and Philanthropy

Clark is an active philanthropist with a US$ 150 million donation to the James H. Clark Center for Biomedical Engineering and a US$ 30-million donation to Tulane University in New Orleans.

Forbes estimates James Clark’s net worth at US$ 2.1 billion.

Jim Clark House

Jim Clark owns a large house in Palm Beach, known as Il Palmetto, at 1500 South Ocean Boulevard. He purchased the house in 1999 for US$ 11 million, and put her for sale at US$ 137 million in 2016.