Perini Navi successfully completed the first trial sail of the 88m Clipper Yacht the Maltese Falcon last Wednesday in an 8-16knt offshore breeze on the Bosphorus sea.
Tom Perkins the owner, who acted as project manager during both project conception and construction of his vessel, commenting on the first sail said: “The Maltese Falcon has written a new page in the history of yachting, the DynaRig is no longer an experimental concept.