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| Builder: |
Perini Navi/Yildiz Gemi |
| Interior Design: |
Ken Freivokh |
| Architecture: |
Gerard Dijkstra |
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Sails have powered boats and ships for thousands of years. With the dawn of the steam
engine, though, sails have receded to the near-exclusive domain of recreational
vessels. That has not meant, however, that sails and sailing yacht technology
have not continued to evolve. Tom Perkins and the Gerard Dijkstra-led design
team he assembled to create The Maltese Falcon adapted an unusual
existing rig design, the DynaRig, to power the yacht. The team, which included
Perini Navi’s engineers, had to overcome many obstacles to make the concept
suitable for the loads and performance needs The Falcon would generate.
The result is a rig that visually resembles those found on nineteenth century
clipper ships, but can propel the yacht to windward efficiently and can be
trimmed and managed by a single person. The rig is but one of numerous technical
achievements The Maltese Falcon embodies.
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