From a distance, Maltese Falcon looks like a tea clipper from the days of Cutty Sark and Thermopylae. It’s only when you get closer that you notice that there’s no gap between the sails on each mast, that the yards are curved, and that her masts are unstayed.
She was built as a proof-of-concept for DynaRig, [...]
The past decade has seen a big increase in the number of very large yachts, with firms such as Perini Navi specialising in designing and building them.
One of the reasons for this is the advent of technological advances that make them easily handled by a very small number of people (Perini claim that one person [...]
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Does it surprise you that many of the Vendée Globe skippers come from this part of the world?...
