This summer, Dennis Washington completed a nearly four year, estimated $200 million renovation on his latest yacht, the breathtaking 332-foot Attessa IV. He bought the then 300-foot boat from a Taiwan billionaire in 2007 for an estimated $50 million and shipped it to his Vancouver shipyard. For three and a half years a crew of 224, including ten engineers, toiled full-time—an estimated 1 million man-hours. In addition to adding a fifth floor, Washington extended the bow by 12 feet and stern by 20 feet, built a 12- seat theater and replaced four staterooms with a gym, spa and massage room. “It was a dirty, filthy project,” says Washington. “We took out almost every bolt.”
It may have been a filthy project but it is an exquisite yacht now. Washington invited me on a tour of Attessa IV, one of the first by an outsider – with stops at Washington Family Ranch, the Christian camp in which he’s invested $60 million, and at his breathtaking fishing lodge in Northern British Columbia. Watch the video to listen to this entirely self-made man talk about his passion for machines and get a glimpse of what a yacht now valued at $300 million looks like.
