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[I posted this video to showcase the boat, but as a bonus, you can see into this megalomaniac's life. I find him fascinatingly disgusting.]
The Maltese Falcon is a sailing luxury yacht owned by American venture capitalist Tom Perkins. It is the largest privately-owned sailing yachts in the world at 88 meters (289.1 feet). Perkins suggested the yacht cost more than $150 million but less than $300 million, but refused to be more specific.
The Maltese Falcon isn't a classic yacht, she's a new class of yacht. Her revolutionary sailing system - the Falcon Rig - sets a new milestone in yachting history: 3 self-standing and rotating masts hosting 15 sails for a total sail area of 2,400 square meters (25,791 ft square), handled by the ultimate in Perini Navi Sail Control for unrivalled performance with unmatched safety and manoeuvrability characteristics.
The incomparable interior finds its zenith in the atrium where the 3-decks are united by a circular stairway surrounding the main mast creating a spiralling effect, enhanced by natural light cascading from the top to the lower decks through transparent floors. The main deck is a wide open space featuring a main saloon, an enormous aft-cockpit, 2 separate studio areas and a majestic dining room. Uncompromising comfort for her 12 guests in 5 lower deck staterooms and 1 inimitable passage cabin on the upper deck with a private cockpit, a protected sun bathing area and direct access to the ultramodern wheelhouse: the heart of the whole vessel.
The Maltese Falcon is a sailing luxury yacht owned by American venture capitalist Tom Perkins. It is the largest privately-owned sailing yachts in the world at 88 meters (289.1 feet). Perkins suggested the yacht cost more than $150 million but less than $300 million, but refused to be more specific.
The Maltese Falcon isn't a classic yacht, she's a new class of yacht. Her revolutionary sailing system - the Falcon Rig - sets a new milestone in yachting history: 3 self-standing and rotating masts hosting 15 sails for a total sail area of 2,400 square meters (25,791 ft square), handled by the ultimate in Perini Navi Sail Control for unrivalled performance with unmatched safety and manoeuvrability characteristics.
The incomparable interior finds its zenith in the atrium where the 3-decks are united by a circular stairway surrounding the main mast creating a spiralling effect, enhanced by natural light cascading from the top to the lower decks through transparent floors. The main deck is a wide open space featuring a main saloon, an enormous aft-cockpit, 2 separate studio areas and a majestic dining room. Uncompromising comfort for her 12 guests in 5 lower deck staterooms and 1 inimitable passage cabin on the upper deck with a private cockpit, a protected sun bathing area and direct access to the ultramodern wheelhouse: the heart of the whole vessel.
ahhhh what one could do with a few-hunnert, cool mills...(.er....Euros, Platinum, and white slavery gig.....).
but you didn't did you?
So in summary - for better or for worse, this guy is no different than most of us. No different in his ethics I mean - he is obviously much smarter and more gifted than most of us
Some would see something grotesque, I see something truly beautiful, something that advanced the ancient human art of marine architecture. Could have spent it better, could have spent it worse.
I wonder if she's been down the 'roaring forties' in the great Southern Ocean. Those latitudes have a hunger for fancy new things and often don't return them.
This guy gets a yacht and 17.9 million people get to live better lives, not really a terrible deal.
Why should he give a dime to charity? He has spent the majority of his life improving the lives of other people.
"If I had been a Heathen,
I'd have praised the purple vine,
My slaves would dig the vineyards,
And I would drink the wine;
But Higgins is a Heathen,
And his slaves grow lean and grey,
That he may drink some tepid milk
Exactly twice a day."
"The point becomes clear only as one realizes, with compassion and sorrow, that many of our most powerful and wealthy men are miserable dupes and captives in a treadmill, who—with the rarest exceptions—have not the ghost of a notion how to spend and enjoy money."
-Alan Watts