The Maltese Falcon is an 88 meter long sailing yacht that was developed by a team of international specialists on behalf of the US entrepreneur and billionaire Tom Perkins (1932–2016) and built by Perini Navi in Turkey . The launch took place in June 2006.
For the first time, a large sailing ship was equipped with a Dyna rig . The rigging was developed by the originally Franconian engineer Wilhelm Prölss in Hamburg as early as 1960 in order to equip large cargo ships with it. It was not put into practice at the time.
It is a rig with sails firmly anchored to rotating masts . The rig of the Maltese Falcon consists of three freely rotating masts made of carbon fiber reinforced plastic , 58 meters high, each with five bent square sails . This creates an electronically / electrically / hydraulically controllable and reefable rig with variable reefing options that requires only a minimum of staff for a given sail area.
history
In April 2009 the Maltese Falcon was listed for sale on www.yachtworld.com for € 99,000,000. In July 2009 the yacht was sold to the Greek-English hedge fund manager Elena Ambrosiadou for £ 60 million . She is chartered out and sails in the Mediterranean in the summer and in the Caribbean in the winter.
The name of the ship is based on the novel The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett , which later became known as a film. The ship also bears the Maltese falcon as a sailing symbol.
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