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I prefer the "little" cutter in the foreground? What a beauty. Pity about the big thing in the background obscuring the view.
January 19
Which one would you rather be on?
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I am so with you on this. The Kaplan book on how it was built is a good read for what it reveals about the mindset of the guys who must have such things.
http://tinyurl.com/yawg4uy
I would rather be on the Maltese Falcon…..for one day, so I could poke around. However, I would rather sail the cutter.
I read that it cost $100,000,000 to build the Maltese Falcon. I wonder if it will be more affordable in a few more years, down to maybe 20 grand or so, yea right. Oh well, one more sailboat I can scratch of my list of potentials.
I heard that too but it cost 2-3 times that make. I hope Tom Perkins had a fun couple of years with her. That’s quite a loss
ODock, I loved Mine’s Bigger. The stats on MF (hmmh interesting abbreviation), versus Mirabella IV and the other boat were staggering. If I recall Mirabella IV can’t go under any bridge
I think he does a good job of explaining how little these boats are about actual sailing. They’re all about the numbers themselves – that’s why they exist:
– Apparently, Mirabella’s main was so heavy, the fabric at the head wouldn’t support the stress of sailing in anything over a moderate breeze. From an engineering point of view, the ‘world’s tallest mast’ made no sense at all.
– Falcon’s hull was built on spec by the yard just to be bigger than anything else before it. They knew someone would be desperate to own it for that reason alone. They were right.
I think they’d be about as much fun to drive as a container ship.
I don’t think I have see anything so ugly, ever constructed by man, as the Falcon
Holy cow. Emphasis on cow. Does SeaBart know about this?
Hey, where’d my link go?
http://www.uglyships.com
As a sailboat, Maltese Falcon is certainly a monstrosity. However, which would you rather have in your vicinity — the Falcon under sail, or a cruise ship of similar size belching out diesel fumes?
Yeah, I know the Falcon is dinky compared to most cruise ships nowadays, but she does have the virtue of being able to go places without burning fossil fuel and creating greenhouse gases. I’m guessing she doesn’t do that all the time, and that her engines get called into action when the wind is light, but still, she’s greener than anything else that big, better than anything else the stratospherically rich are traveling in.
me too prefer the smaler sailboat
Hands down,,,the small boat.
But Carol makes a good point as well.
Put it this way–my big boat is 17 feet, and she’s getting pretty jealous of the Sunfish.
I would rather be on one of the three larger ships.