Posted in Outdoor, Travel, Yacht on 26 May 2009
Without a doubt, owning luxury yachts are every rich person’s favorite past time. And this time around the market has a rather unique yacht for sale. Called the Maltese Falcon, this one is big at 289-ft, and is being sold at James List for a whopping $138 million.
The brainchild of Italian Perini Navi Yachts on the special demand of American millionaire Tom Perkins in 2006, the Maltese Falcon is perhaps the largest and fastest personal sailboat in the world. Its three gigantic 57-meter-tall-free-standing masts achieve the rather extraordinary target. Even the DynaRig under its hood helps in speeding up things. No wonder, the yacht has a history of crossing the Atlantic in 10 days flat.
Posted in Luxury, Products on 22 March 2009
Tom Perkins is a lucky man. Not only does he own the luxury yacht, Maltese Falcon, he now has a personal submarine do go along with it. The submarine, Deep Flight, is designed like an aircraft to ‘fly’ underwater.
The two seater submarine doesn’t have ballast tanks and is designed to dive by the push of the forward speed. Built by Hawkes Ocean Technologies owned by Graham Hawkes, the Deep Flight can travel to a depth of 400ft at a speed of 5 knots. It is also made to imitate aircrafts and can do ‘tricks’ underwater- the Deep flight can do rolls, loops and can ‘porpoise’ when it surfaces. The submarine is made from super-strong carbon fibre and has two cockpits, each offering 360degree view. It stands 1.6m high, 3m wide with wings deployed (1.4m with wings folded) and weighs 1,818kg.
