Maltese Falcon WOW ! !

Hi Cal List friends, You all have to see this - it is the largest privately owned sail boat. Sea trialed last week. It is 289 ft long with three masts standing 191 ft tall. Click on the photos from the web site given. Enjoy, Later, Nick "Jade" Cal 9.2 www.doylesails.com/maltesefalcon.htm

I think it is GREAT that some wealthy people are building sailboats instead of powerboats, the Maltese Falcon is just such a great example. Imagine all of the design work and engineering that will maybe someday trickle down to regular sailors. (or even a return of modern day clipper ships) I would not trade my Cal20 for it, but it is still a very impressive boat! Matthew Wallace 1965 Cal20 "Northern Light" Launching based on slip availability <3months P.S. June is a very poor time to find a boat slip :-)

Hi, Matt - You're just being picky about locations. There are lots of slips available in Vallejo (smile). \Rog Cal 29+ #1 Swiss Navy Cal 2-30 #77 St. Lori's Comet

ng… [at] comcast.net wrote: > Hi Cal List friends, > > You all have to see this - it is the largest privately owned sail boat. > Sea trialed last week. > It is 289 ft long with three masts standing 191 ft tall. Click on the > photos from the web site given. Enjoy, Later, Nick "Jade" Cal 9.2 <http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/> I'm not generally attracted to megayachts. The fun of sailing (or even power boating) is doing it yourself. The idea of calling up the crew to tell them that you'll be wanting to go sailing ("on a sailboat ride") this afternoon is not exciting because sailing is supposed to be an active experience, not a passive one. What is exciting about this is the engineering--the rig, sails, and so on. Boat design is one of those areas in which the trickle-down theory does work. The new ideas developed for a boat like this one may affect how the boats we sail are designed and built in a few years. Chris Campbell <mailto:Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com?subject=Unsubscribe> >

Matthew Wallace wrote: > I think it is GREAT that some wealthy people are building sailboats > instead of powerboats, the Maltese Falcon is just such a great example. > I would not trade my Cal20 for it, but it is still a very impressive boat! > Matthew: I was thinking the same thing! I was out banging around in my Cal 20 last night in the same wind conditions they described in the Maltese Falcon article, and I'll bet I had more fun, just a bit slower. The wind was pretty good at my mooring, so I didn't reef the main but did choose a storm jib. At first I wished I'd gone with my regular working jib, but eventually I was happy with less sail--beating to windward to avoid the Wed. evening racers, doing 5 knots close-hauled into the seas. While I was sailing, the local tourist schooner took out a load of tourists. I sailed past, glad that I was sailing instead of going for a boat ride. Maltese Falcon will probanbly provide the same experience as the schooner (except that I doubt that MF has a wood range for cooking). And, as always, I smiled with pleasure as I rowed away from the mooring, grateful for my cool, sturdy little boat. Chris Campbell Cal 20 #1220, "Martha C" > . > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > >