SEEN OFF WEST SEATTLE: ‘Delta 45’ yacht returns

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(Photo by James Bratsanos)

Lots of questions this morning about that big yacht in view off western West Seattle right now. It’s the same one that spent hours off Alki back on Tuesday, as we noted here that day. It’s identified only as Delta 45 on MarineTraffic.com, referring to the yacht-building firm Delta Marine, based on the Duwamish River just south of South Park – that’s where it returned to after its time off Alki earlier this week. They didn’t respond to our inquiry about it, and we still haven’t found anything else about it online, aside from this mostly paywalled reference.

12:50 PM: If you were hoping to go do some gawking – it’s headed back into the Duwamish as of a few minutes ago.

Michael G March 11, 2018 (12:33 pm)

Well its sure not mine.

Boater March 11, 2018 (3:22 pm)

This yacht cost’s the owner @15 million to build and equip. Operating costs will be 10% of that per year. The good news of that is that building, equipping & maintaining these yacht’s provides a lot of good family wage jobs at Delta and other builders.

sweet March 11, 2018 (4:01 pm)

As a 25 year employee of Delta Marine, “boaters” numbers are off. No where in the world can you build a 207 foot custom yacht for 15 million.

WSB March 11, 2018 (4:18 pm)

We appreciate accuracy in comments so thanks for the correction – maybe more like what this Forbes.com story claims, more like a nine-digit price tag?
Swede. March 12, 2018 (9:26 am)

Yeah that’s way to few ‘yacht bucks’! More double to three times I would say.