<![CDATA[Gawker: valleywag, yachts]]> http://tags.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gawker.com.png <![CDATA[Gawker: valleywag, yachts]]> http://gawker.com/tag/valleywag/yachts http://gawker.com/tag/valleywag/yachts <![CDATA[Charles Simonyi policing Hudson river, close enough for girlfriend Martha Stewart to wave a handkerchief]]> The 233-foot yacht owned by Charles Simonyi, the Microsoft billionaire and Martha Stewart love-muffin, has been spotted in the Hudson River. For a sense of scale, the helicopter, painted to match, can be clearly seen perched on the helipad. (True story: the only time I've flown in a helicopter, Simonyi was the pilot). I'm sure that with Stewart's help, the whole thing is quite tastefully decorated — if only to remove the stank of the Danish girlfriend whose pet name for Simonyi was "skat." That's also the name of the yacht, according to Wikipedia. (Photo by Eric Etheridge)

]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=385346&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[ArcSight's Robert Shaw gets a free yacht-club membership and you don't]]> Robert_Shaw.jpgOf all the companies gone public in the past year, only one pays for its CEO's yacht-club membership. That's security-software maker ArcSight, which went public on Valentine's Day. The CEO is Robert Shaw. According to Footnoted, Shaw's other benefits include an apartment near ArcSight's Cupertino headquarters, a car for when he's in San Francisco and airfare for travel between Shaw's homes in Montana and Cabo San Lucas. All of which isn't as unusual as the yacht-club membership.

Of course, in Silicon Valley, an obsession with yachts isn't unusual, either. Though for Shaw to catch sharks like Oracle's Larry Ellison, his boss of six years in the '90s, he's going to need a bigger boat

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