Sam's place

Sam's place,  "... famous for its parties..."

Last night Jing and I attended a party at Sam Chan's place at Bowen Road, high in Mid Levels. It was an affair to raise funds for the Flying Fifteen society (a dinghy class). Sam's been a FF15 champ for many years, and also races big boats -- his TP52, Ffreefire, is likely the fastest TP52 in Asia.  We raced with him last November in the race to Hainan Island, which he won Line Honours in record time and also on handicap...
It's a fabulous house, extremely practical for hosting hundreds at a party, also a great family home.  The 25 m. pool suspended in space -- the site's extremely steep.  A waterfall over the poole at the house end is heated in winter.... The views over Victoria harbour and the fabulous I.M. Pei Bank of China building are stunning, as if on the doorstep...
It's impossible to put a price on a house like this in central Hong Kong, as such places rarely change hands; but it would be in the hundreds of millions.
Photo above is from the architects, DCI Design [here].  They say:

Featured in Discovery Channels “Super Homes” series our involvement in this project included two designs: The first was a castle covering both sites and included a dramatic 50m lap pool at the back of the site which became a waterfall in a 3 storey entrance atrium. The Client then sold half of the site and we re-planned the project into its current format and the entrance ramp and car park were linked through to provide access to the second site.

The house is famous for its parties and the layout was designed specifically with this in mind. DCi is very proud of the organization functionality and space planning of this project.

The sailors at Sam's party.  Jing and I at table far left.  Bucket on my right 

Update (11 Mar): picture above, sent by "Bucket", Xena crew member.

BTW: no piccies yet from Mutti, Anne and Bub, currently frolicking in South Island NZ.   Mutti's phone has no connection, but they're having a great time and Anne tells me they've taken heaps of photos on M's iPhone, so hopefully some to post when they're back....