The Maltese Falcon Yacht
June 20, 2007
Tom Perkins a incredibly successful businessman and recently he wanted to create the biggest, fastest, highest-tech, most self-indulgent sailboat ever built. He has succeeded by building the Maltese Falcon, a $130 million dollar high-tech sailing yacht. The yacht itself is nearly as long as a football field (289 feet) and is 42ft wide with three masts supporting the multiple sails. Each of the three masts are nearly twenty stories high, made out of carbon-fiber, and are entirely freestanding and rotate by computer. The Falcon is also one of the most luxurious yachts ever constructed with beautiful staterooms, plasma TV’s, and Jetskis. Also the computer system in the Falcon is one of the most advanced on the planet allowing for the fifteen huge sails to unfold with only the the touch of a button. The yacht has been such a huge success that Newsweek‘s David A. Kaplan has even written a book on the entire project entitled Mine’s Bigger: Tom Perkins and the Making of the Greatest Sailing Machine Ever Built Photos –
June 20th, 2007 | Tim Zastrow | 
2 Responses to “The Maltese Falcon Yacht”
^For those of you who have some money left over after you pay the rent on your studio apartment!
Conspicuous consumption?????
What a waste for the privledged few. Sell that mother****er and feed some people!!!!