Valve founder Gabe Newell just purchased a superyacht company

Valve laminitis Gabe Newell is mounting retired connected a caller escapade — and it doesn’t impact Half-Life 3. Instead, Newell is acquiring Oceanco, the yacht-building institution that’s creating his $400 cardinal ace ship, arsenic reported earlier by Boat International.

In a station astir the change, Oceanco says Newell’s involvement successful the marque comes from a “lifelong fascination with the sea” and “a heavy respect for the radical who unrecorded and enactment connected it.” Oceanco is based successful the Netherlands, and it has changed enactment a fewer times since its founding successful 1987, with backstage capitalist Mohammed Al Barwani helming the company for the past 15 years earlier Newell came along.

Along with Newell’s 364-foot-long superyacht, Oceanco developed Amazon laminitis Jeff Bezos’ $500 cardinal sailing yacht, Koru, which stretches 417 feet long. It’s besides down the Kaos sailing superyacht owned by Walmart heir Nancy Walton Laurie, arsenic good arsenic the Bravo Eugenia, owned by Dallas Cowboys proprietor Jerry Jones.

Newell has a increasing fleet of yachts arsenic well, including the Oceanco-built Draak (formerly called the Tranquility) and the Rocinante superyacht, built by German yacht-maker Lürssen.

As for what Newell plans to bash present that he’s the caput of a large superyacht builder, Oceanco puts it beauteous simply: “His archetypal decision? Leave the squad alone. Seriously. Oceanco has imaginativeness and integrity, and a civilization that really works. Gabe doesn’t privation to hole it, helium wants to substance it.”