May
02
Maltese Falcon sails under San Francisco Golden Gate Bridge
Bywww.TibTV.com http The largest privately owned sailboat in the world, the Maltese Falcon arrives under the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. Owner Tom Perkins has brought her here to get outfitted for a submarine, his latest interest. While her, the Maltese Falcon will participate in the SFYC Leukemia Cup Regatta ( www.leukemia-lymphoma.org )on Oct 4&5th before she heads south for the winter in the Caribbean. Captain Wesley Lowell Renzas of Movers.com piloted the TibTV crew aboard “Sweet”, a Grady-White Seafarer 228. www.movers.com
25 Comments
September 28th, 2008 at 6:13 pm
Beautiful vid – we were on the bridge but I’d rather have been down on the water.
September 29th, 2008 at 4:36 am
We were in “Sweet” a Grady White 228, with a Yamaha 225 cruisind about 17-18 knots.
October 14th, 2008 at 6:53 am
it just astounds me how all the other ships (dinghies compared to the falcon) are struggling to keep up.
November 9th, 2008 at 1:02 am
shoot this boat down- it don’t take much
few bullets for a guy who SOLD OUT AMERICANS..
FUCK HIM – I WILL KILL THIS guy on site
STAY OUT OF THE CAPE DINK
December 19th, 2008 at 8:39 pm
I NEED SOMEONE TO TALK TO
i cant watch this video aJ
January 3rd, 2009 at 9:59 pm
I met a kid who was onboard this thing in a kayak during fleet week in San Francisco. He was an Aussie, I think he might have been the captains son.. We were both in Kayaks and I was fishing from mine and we were like right next to it. I remember getting so sea sick from all the boats charging in after the show. It was pretty scary, it was just a surge of water and yachts, I also drank a bit too…
April 2nd, 2009 at 9:25 pm
thanks for the vid buddy. one day i’ll be on board of that beast
April 13th, 2009 at 1:27 pm
thats why he enjoys having this ship, all those people around just dreaming with what he has, what a big ego, i wish i could have the same ego(money) that he has
May 2nd, 2009 at 6:37 am
That’s a really weird ship. Can it beat at all?
May 20th, 2009 at 7:16 pm
what you mean beat at all?
if you mean speed no, its not a race ship
May 20th, 2009 at 8:18 pm
I mean sailing up the wind. It seems a difficult thing to do with square sails perpendicular to the hull.
May 25th, 2009 at 4:26 am
There are way too many sailboats in there! And there were even a few anchored too, powerboats zipping around…
These people are crazy… I’d never take my boat in there.
June 22nd, 2009 at 2:49 am
Clearly vdub knows nothing about sailing…
June 29th, 2009 at 2:20 am
Well, that was the reason that square rigs were abandoned for fore-and-aft rigs. Fore-and-aft rigs allow for a more stable sail shape upwind, but at expense of sail area.
However, a while ago some Germans came up with the “DynaRig” concept, which eliminated the problems associated with square rigs. They couldn’t implement it back then, but with today’s carbon fiber rigs, the system works and works beautifully.
June 29th, 2009 at 4:33 am
Cool. Thanks for the info.
I wonder though, how much power goes into controlling the sails? Can it be sustained by solar panels if such sail system is to be deployed on a small yacht (some 37 feet long)?
June 29th, 2009 at 1:53 pm
Hard to say. Awhile ago there was a great Wired article which gave some details about the motors used to rotate the masts. My gut feeling is even on a smaller boat, the power requirements would exceed what a solar panel could provide.
I’m not a boatbuilder but I’m fairly sure there are some rough-and-ready formulas that provide good estimates of sailpower and such. One could find an answer by those means.
August 4th, 2009 at 2:10 pm
Italian style!!….nothing to add!!
August 16th, 2009 at 6:12 am
i think thats excatly what a fore and aft sail is
August 29th, 2009 at 8:13 pm
What a beauty!!!
December 12th, 2009 at 2:52 am
you’ve never sailed out of a crowded harbor on Cape Cod!
February 4th, 2010 at 1:43 am
torque-sensitive fiber-optic cable woven into the carbon fiber spars, tied into auto-trim system with thresholds set by the owner. how freakin’ ’bout it?
February 13th, 2010 at 12:40 am
He’s got some hardcore right of way!
February 26th, 2010 at 12:36 pm
except their about to go bust,….welcome to the club, LMAO!!!
March 14th, 2010 at 7:31 am
The yacht’s 25,791 square feet (2,400 square meters) of sails are set between the yards in such a way that when deployed there are no gaps to the sail plan, enabling each spar’s sails to work as a single airfoil. Unlike a conventional square rigger, the yards have a built in camber of 12%, and the sails are trimmed to the wind direction by rotating the entire mast, which is operated by a sail control system on the bridge. When not deployed, the mega yacht’s sails furl right into the mast itself.
March 14th, 2010 at 7:32 am
As far as the boat goes, this sailing yacht’s rig is impressive and complicated to say the least. It is also efficient, reaching nearly 20 knots under sail alone. The Maltese Falcon sports what is called a DynaRig, which means it is effectively a square rigger, and each of the three freestanding masts support six yardarms, which are connected rigidly to the mast.