What yacht?

[rhinorhino]

Driving me nuts looking for the name of a yacht.

Very large 100m ish, three masts, junk style multi-yard rig.

See in Sicliy in early June 2005

Help!

 

[Cornishman]

Scilly, or Sicily? Not that I can answer your question whichever it is.

 

[Twister_Ken]

Vendredi Treize? nm

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[jfm]

Sounds like you saw Maltese Falcon, undergoing trials. She is a Perini, 86m I think, with new Dynarig, built on a non-new hull for Tom Perkins

She's the yacht on the right, in this comparison pic with M5 and Athene

 

[jfm]

Re: Vendredi Treize? nm

v13 had schooner rig with big furling genoas didn't she Ken, not junk rig or similar? I might be misremebering though...

 

[Twister_Ken]

Re: Vendredi Treize? nm

You're right about the multiple genoa set up, but I seem to recall one or more fully battened 'main'sails somewhere as well.

 

[snowleopard]

Re: Vendredi Treize? nm

Treize had 3 masts with furling genoas and no 'main' type sails. Club Med (OSTAR 1976, Alain Colas) had 4 masts, each with a full sloop rig.

The rig in the picture isn't a junk, it's a modernised square rig where the sails are attached to the yards above and below and furl towards the mast like curtains.... but I don't know the name of the boat either. It was a rig proposed for a new generation of cargo ships around the time of the oil crisis in the 70s.

 

[jfm]

Maltese Falcon\'s rig

Quote: "modernised square rig where the sails are attached to the yards above and below and furl towards the mast like curtains.... but I don't know the name of the boat either. It was a rig proposed for a new generation of cargo ships around the time of the oil crisis in the 70s"

I agree the boat in the pic, Maltese Falcon, isn't a junk rig. I only offered it as a suggestion that seemed like it might fit the description given by original poster. At first glance it might resemble a junk-ish rig, and i doubt there are any other 3 masted 90m junk-ish rigged boats in that location!

You are correct that the sails on Maltese Falcon furl into the mast, more like roller blinds than curtains, and the idea is based on cargo ship rigs that were mooted in the 70s.