Missing out, or the story of the Maltese Falcon

If you like to keep abreast of on-going matters in the world of unparalleled luxury and technological feats, the famous Maltese Falcon megayacht has surely not gone you by unnoticed. The marvelous sailing hybrid measuring 289ft has been causing quite a lot of fuss in both the yachting world and the mainstream media.

Commissioned and owned by venture capitalist Tom Perkins, the behemoth was put up for sale back in 2006, not long after its maiden voyage, at the hefty sum of no less than 99 million euros. In his 2007 CBS 60 minutes interview, Mr. Perkins refused to be more specific about the actual production cost, but did divulge that it was upwards of over €150 million.

What seemed to be a relative bargain was not as easy to sell as hoped. Wouldn’t it be great to be able to consider the equivalent of the GDP of certain smaller countries to be cheap? Evidently, the pool of buyers weren’t eager to open their wallets. Turning up on JamesList in back in May, the Falcon is close to being sold after a massive €29 million price cut back in July, as reported by the Times. Mr. Perkins did not wish to disclose any further information about the buyer. Bruce Brakenhoff, General manager at Perini Navi just notified JamesList.com that she is no longer for sale.

Tags: Maltese Falcon, tom perkins

This entry was posted on Wednesday, August 12th, 2009 at 4:48 pm and is filed under Marine. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.