![]() ![]() The yacht is now available for charter with SuperYachtsMonaco from €460,000 a week. In 2009, Perkins sold Maltese Falcon to hedge-fund manager Elena Ambrosiadou. Bayesian is a luxury sail yacht built in 2008 by Perini Navi. It is the largest privately-owned sailing yacht in the world at 88 metres (289.1 feet). The sails, made by Robbie Doyle, are stored on individual in-mast mandrels and set and furled using a complex but brilliant system that makes use of a large number of electric motors within the masts and on the yards. La Spezia, Italy (IT) The Maltese Falcon is a clipper sailing luxury yacht owned by American centimillionaire Tom Perkins. Her long and relatively narrow hull was designed be very fast through the water, and her very long waterline 78 metres assures stability against heeling. The layout includes a master suite and five further guest cabins, and the crew of 16 is accommodated in eight cabins. The superyacht’s ‘luxury machine’ interior – a marriage of industrial chic and high tech – was designed by Ken Freivokh around Tom Perkins’ striking modern art collection, and features leather, glass, wood and steel. “To the best of my knowledge, this is not the case with any other big boat with reel winches.” In a social media post yesterday afternoon, the yacht brokerage house Burgess announced that it had been chosen as the central agent for the charter of the 88-metre Perini Navi sailing yacht Maltese Falcon. ![]() “I can teach any sailor how to handle the yacht in five minutes,” he said. ![]() Taking more than six months to complete, with over 80 people involved across a number of teams, the refit has successfully been completed in line with the new owner’s. The luxury sailing yacht MALTESE FALCON was built by Perini Navi and delivered to her owner in 2006, she later underwent a refit in 2023. One of the world’s most iconic sailing yachts, the 88m (289ft) Perini Navi MALTESE FALCON has finally completed her extensive refit at the Lubsen facilities in Livorno, Italy. He went on to describe the mast and sail control system as ‘almost trivial’ in its simplicity. MALTESE FALCON currently registered in Malta is actively available for charter in several cruising destinations. “We sail as close to the wind as any yacht, of any design, that has more than one mast,” Perkins previously said. One of the most exciting aspects of Maltese Falcon is the yacht’s upwind performance. On Maltese Falcon there are a total of 25 sails, giving her 10 spare. The great idea of the clipper rig is that a huge sail area, 2,415 metres square, in this case, can be spread over 15 sails, thus greatly reducing the loadings. With radical unstayed masts made of ‘weapons-grade’ carbon fibre, computerised sail and mast control system, Ma ltese Falcon, and in particular its FalconRig, was hailed as a triumph of design, development and engineering. Launched in 2006, the project took nearly six years to complete. Tom Perkins created one of the most sensational three-masted sailing yachts of the past 100 years when he built the 88 metre Maltese Falcon with Perini Navi. Article republished from BOAT INTERNATIONAL : 22 JUNE 2021 BY ROGER LEAN-VERCOE ![]()
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