The largest privately owned yacht in the world, pulled into the lagoon today.
Now THAT is a one beautiful and expensive toy.
The Maltese Falcon is currently moored alongside the jetty at Port Louis (where else?). Seems they are waiting for their guests to arrive tomorrow.
Stopped off after work to take a shot of it...WOW!
O.k, i know what i want for my next Christmas....;-) I guess the daily upkeep on that baby is more than i make in a year.
Moni found a link with more info (just click on it).
The Maltese Falcon is a clipper sailing luxury yacht owned by American centimillionaire Tom Perkins. It is the largest privately-owned sailing yacht in the world at 88 metres (289.1 feet). Ken Freivokh Design were the appointed designers for Maltese Falcon, the world's largest privately owned sailing yacht.
The luxury yacht is currently registered in George Town, USA; though it will shortly be registered in Valletta, Malta as Grand Harbour will be its homeport for the next 25 years. It completed its trial sail in the Marmara to the Bosphorus strait on 12 June 2006 and made its maiden voyage from Turkey to Italy via Malta in July 2006. S/Y ‘Maltese Falcon’ was be available for select yacht charters beginning in the summer of 2006 and charters out for between EUR€ 325000.00-335000.00 per week[1] plus expenses.
She sports fifteen square sails (five per mast) which only take 6 minutes to open. The three carbonfibre masts, manufactured and assembled at the Yildiz Gemi yard in Tuzla, 50 miles south of Istanbul, Turkey, under the supervision of the English company Insensys are free-standing and rotating, an absolute world-first for an application of this size and complexity. Without sails, these masts can be used on their own to leave port. The yacht's sophisticated computer detects parameters such as wind speed automatically and controls all sailing controls, making it possible for a single person to pilot the yacht.
text taken from http://thelifeofaprivatechef.blogspot.com/2007/02/sy-maltese-falcon-88m.html
For more photos of the boat check out Joshua's amazing photos at http://flickr.com/photos/joshy55013/sets/72157603573557756/detail/
WOOOOOOOOOOOOW!!!!!!! Neil i want one too!! and if you get one i will be your bestest friend...... but for real that is one Beautiful sail boat!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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