The sailing yacht Maltese Falcon
Friday, 11 July 2014 - 01:00 pm (CET/MEZ) Berlin | Author/Destination: Yachting and Spa General , Tall ships , Superyachts
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The
Maltese Falcon built by
Perini Navi in Tuzla, Turkey is a ship-rigged sailing luxury yacht, commissioned and formerly owned by American venture capitalist
Tom Perkins . It is one of the largest privately owned sailing yachts in the world at 88 m (289 ft), similar to Royal Huisman’s
Athena and Lürssen’s
Eos . The home port is
Valletta on Malta.
It was built after the dynaship concept, a 1960s invention of the German hydraulics engineer Wilhelm Prölss, which was intended to operate commercial freight sailing ships with as few crew as possible. The ship has fifteen square sails (five per mast), stored inside the mast; they can fully unfurl into tracks along the yards in six minutes. The three carbon fiber masts, which are free-standing and able to rotate.
Maltese Falcon masts © flickr.com - Gaetan Lee/cc-by-2.0
The yacht is easily controlled and has been seen to sail off her anchor and away from berths within harbors. The yacht’s sophisticated computer detects parameters such as wind speed automatically and displays key data. An operator must always activate the controls, yet it is possible for a single person to pilot the yacht. In a radio interview for the BBC World Service’s Global Business programme broadcast in December 2007, Perkins claimed that he personally wrote some of the yacht’s unique control software.
The yacht has a permanent crew of 18 to maintain the technical aspects, including the rig and to operate the onboard “hotel”, which can accommodate twelve guests plus four guest staff. The boat also includes an onboard gourmet chef and stewards and stewardesses.
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