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Inside: pure luxury, including a model Maserati car (Perkins likes cars), 50-inch movie and television screens in the main salon, two large VIP suites, private gyms and the latest electronics. He found the steel hull of what became the Falcon at a shipyard in Turkey and had it finished to his specifications. "I wanted to recapture the grandeur of the clipper ships and bring them into this century," Perkins said. In any case, the Maltese Falcon is unique. The other boats count their bowsprits, which is not fair in the yacht big leagues. The yachts Athena, owned by James Clark, founder of Netscape, and Eos, owned by Barry Diller, a media entrepreneur, claim to be longer, but Perkins says the Maltese Falcon is longer at the waterline. The Maltese Falcon will not be open to ordinary persons, but the huge yacht will be visible clearly when it arrives, swings at anchor and participates in a sailing event sponsored by the San Francisco Yacht Club next weekend.Īt 289 feet long, the Maltese Falcon might or might not be the largest privately owned yacht in the world, but it is close. The Falcon probably will do a spin around San Francisco Bay and anchor in Richardson Bay between Sausalito and Belvedere, where Perkins can see the boat from his house. He expects to transfer to the Maltese Falcon about 12 miles west of the Golden Gate Bridge and sail in with the larger boat. He plans to motor out on his 1930 classic yacht Atlantide, which is a mere 122 feet long.
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Perkins, who lives in Belvedere, is traveling in Europe but will be in the Bay Area in time for the Falcon's arrival.
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His mentors in Silicon Valley were David Packard and William Hewlett he started his venture capital business in 1972, when nobody had cell phones and only doctors carried pagers. Perkins, who made millions on Silicon Valley projects, is also an author ("Sex and the Single Zillionaire," a novel and "Valley Boy," a memoir), an admirer of fast cars and boats and the former husband of mega-novelist Danielle Steel. "You won't believe your eyes when you see her," the magazine says on its Web site.
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Latitude 38 describes the Falcon as one of the most-talked-about yachts in the world. Spindler was invited aboard the Maltese Falcon by Perkins for a cruise on the Mediterranean not long ago, and he is an unabashed fan. It will be "a spectacular sight," said Richard Spindler, publisher of Latitude 38, the Mill Valley sailing magazine. The Maltese Falcon pulled into Drakes Bay, near Point Reyes, early Wednesday and is being made shipshape for its entrance into San Francisco Bay.