Maltese Falcon sails under San Francisco Golden Gate Bridge

[HAVENIBNOU]

Very very super

[phantompanic]

I also use the DIGINAV system as a backup chartplotter...

[wcat121]

dont worry self, you will get there someday.

[Olentzaro]

This is great. Never seen how it looks to go under the bridge in a speed boat.

[danielsosin]

dream



[cgbaltar]

New rich boat

[crkemppainen]

the dude threatened to blow up the moon with a laser from his hollowed-out-volcano base... thats how he was able to afford this boat

[MrThanasis55]

built in Turkey, owned by a Greek woman....

[123iain321]

i bet it takes about 3 miles for it to make a full tack

[MrMarkingston]

what the hell is that

[IonianPride]

Is this really built in Turkey?

[kangtheturk]

@IonianPride yeap.

[Freddy7997]

Nice boat

[Jantles]

what a disgusting waste of money. You would have an amazing time on a boat that cost 1 million dollars let alone 100 million. simply pathetic.

[dale3858]

Wow, that looked crazy, a lot of traffic....

[mzperiksz77]

20 30 even 40 feet long boats looked like toys compare to this monster anywhere she goes.

[USMC12694]

This guy ALWAYS has the right of way.

[Zippy1357]

ultimately...being on starboard or leeward isn't everything...

[LTL220]

That's SO F'n bad ass...must have been a great time. Congrats!!

[ComandanteJ]

if i had those 94 mill, i would buy it and live there xD so fucking beautiful

[serothehero222]

@Olt3emare

The "hull" was built in Turkey at Yildiz Shipyar, which is a joint venture of Turkish Italian firms. The yard is located at Tuzla. Yes the design belongs to Italian but believe me engineers at Yildiz had to change many design parameters to built it! That ship has a rotating keel as far as I know and it never works if you obey your design. So do not be a snob!

[Olt3emare]

@ sedatgu

only the keel and the deck was made in turkey. All the rest was made in italy by Perini Navi...and the all the design is made in italy!

[sedatgu]

She is proudly Turkish...she was designed by perini Navi İtaly but builded in Tuzla-İstanbul-Turkey Yildiz Shipyard... we wait all yacht lovers to Turkey... Come and see our sophisticated yacht building technology and shipyards...

[Kordax21]

she is for sale, "just" 94.000.000 € ...

[tock101]

Question. What if someone put a wind turbine on a ship. Would it produce enough power to turn a propeler? No sails needed. No sails to tear or raise or lower and you can turn them into the wind so you would not have to tack. I just wonder???????????

[kevinclinthorne]

@tock101 there is a ship like that that i have seen, i dont remember what it is called, but it is real and does seem to work

[plasticmanbob]

@tock101 Wind turbine respect a sail has less efficiency on equal surface. Moreover you concentrate lot of weight very high respect the ship center of floating.

[hairyicedude]

Tbh the sails are probs just there for aesthetic purposed.

[sworder24]

Seems top-heavy :P

[peguinppls9899]

i wonder what the people on the other boats were thinking!

[AerosOnfire22]

how big is the keel on that

[tadek195409]

hello

[fallingwatersnz]

Saw this about a week ago here in New Zealand

[baronsbacon]

Be sure to let the designers know It has flaws maybe a chance for you to make your mark, were all looking forward to your first design.

[sodinel]

@baronsbacon

Yep, would love to, I think in this case they probably knew about those issues, with the mechanically static plane of the rig they could have added more complexity and thus weight to put in the twist, I reckon the answer lies in a combination of structural and mechanical engineering in this case.

[sodinel]

That is an amazing boat, that rig is very radical but it does seem to have a couple of flaws. One is that the camber doesn't seem to be adjustable, which is what you want for good performance both into the wind and oof it, the other is that there doesn't seem to be any twist in the effective leech of the sail, which is very important on such big sails due to the big differenc in apparent wind angle at the bottom and top of the sail.

[DoctorBimbles]

He's got some hardcore right of way!

[reefminder]

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?

[Shellocker]

What a beauty!!!

[Olt3emare]

Italian style!!....nothing to add!!

[wilatemodel]

except their about to go bust,....welcome to the club, LMAO!!!

[shibbershabber]

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.

[Cambone13]

you've never sailed out of a crowded harbor on Cape Cod!

[juncode]

That's a really weird ship. Can it beat at all?

[vdub2002]

what you mean beat at all?

if you mean speed no, its not a race ship

[juncode]

I mean sailing up the wind. It seems a difficult thing to do with square sails perpendicular to the hull.

[latenights34534]

Clearly vdub knows nothing about sailing...

[red77montecarlo]

i think thats excatly what a fore and aft sail is

[SciFiGeek2999]

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.

[juncode]

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)?

[SciFiGeek2999]

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.

[element9977]

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.

[dumon13]

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

[ReadThisBelow]

thanks for the vid buddy. one day i'll be on board of that beast

[jay64stang]

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...

[11cottrell11]

I NEED SOMEONE TO TALK TO

i cant watch this video aJ

[mourningmyloss4u]

it just astounds me how all the other ships (dinghies compared to the falcon) are struggling to keep up.

[beaches3]

We were in "Sweet" a Grady White 228, with a Yamaha 225 cruisind about 17-18 knots.

[gmaLinda9]

Beautiful vid - we were on the bridge but I'd rather have been down on the water.

[beaches3]

@gmaLinda9 17-18 knots

[JoeModesto]

What was your speed coming in under the bridge?

[JoeModesto]

Wish I could have been down on the water with you, or better yet. on the Falcon. What a ship! Great view of the conditions on the Bay and all the boat traffic.

[trikert]

Awesome video! Wish I was there to see live.