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USS Potomac (AG-25) USS. Potomac. (AG-25) USS Potomac (AG-25), formerly USCGC Electra, [4] was Franklin D. Roosevelt 's presidential yacht from 1936 until his death in 1945. On August 3, 1941, she played a decoy role while Roosevelt held a secret conference to develop the Atlantic Charter. USS Potomac and USS Sequoia are the last two existing U ...
Maltese Falcon. (yacht) Maltese Falcon is a full-rigged ship using DynaRig technology, which was built by Perini Navi in Tuzla, Istanbul, and commissioned by her first owner, Tom Perkins. She is one of the world's most complex and largest sailing yachts at 88 m (289 ft), similar in size to the Athena and Eos. The vessel dropped its BVI flag in ...
12. Black Pearl at night. Black Pearl is a sailing yacht launched in 2016, which is 106.7 meters (350.1 ft) in length. [4] It has three DynaRig masts supporting a sail area of 2,900 square meters (31,215 sq ft). [4] The yacht was known during its build process originally as Oceanco Y712 and thereafter as "Project Solar".
List of motor yachts by length. M/Y Azzam, seen here in Cadiz, Spain, during the summer of 2020, is the world's longest luxury yacht. This list of motor yachts by length, is a table of the world's longest active superyachts, with an overall length of at least 75 metres (246 ft) and up. These boats are also known as "megayachts", "gigayachts ...
The Point-class cutter was a class of 82-foot patrol vessels designed to replace the United States Coast Guard 's aging 83-foot wooden hull patrol boat being used at the time. The design utilized a mild steel hull and an aluminum superstructure. The Coast Guard Yard discontinued building the 95-foot Cape -class cutter to have the capacity to ...
A, at 142.8 metres (468.5 ft) the largest "sail-assisted" motor yacht, as of 2018 [1] A superyacht or megayacht is a large and luxurious pleasure vessel. There are no official or agreed upon definitions for such yachts, but these terms are regularly used to describe professionally crewed motor or sailing yachts, ranging from 40 metres (130 ft ...
Robert H. Perry is a U.S. yacht designer based in Seattle, Washington. Among his designs are some of the most successful cruising yachts in modern cruising such as the Tatoosh 42, Tayana 37 and Valiant 40. Through his career he has designed boats for many well recognized names in the yachting industry, such as Tayana, Cheoy Lee, Valiant, Baba ...
List of large sailing vessels. This is a list of large sailing vessels, past and present, including sailing mega yachts, tall ships, sailing cruise ships, and large sailing military ships. It is sorted by overall length. The list, which is in the form of a table, covers vessels greater than about 200 feet (61 m) LOA, which includes overhangs ...