It also has diesel engines that can propel it to 17.5 knots (32 km/h). As there is no rigging, the masts and yards can be rotated without restriction for all points of sail, making Black Pearl a capable upwind clipper.īlack Pearl is a sailing yacht with three 70-meter (230 ft) high masts and is capable of 30 knots (56 km/h) in suitable weather conditions. The sails are trimmed by rotating the masts. The furling sails are stored in the mast and can be deployed along tracks on the yards in six minutes. The fifteen square sails are set between the yards in such a way that when deployed there are no gaps in the sail plan of each mast, enabling them to act as a single airfoil. Each of Black Pearl 's masts supports six yards, which, unlike a conventional square rigger, have built-in camber of 12%. The DynaRig consists of freestanding rotating masts with rigid yards and acts as a square rig. The DynaRig owes its origin to Wilhelm Prölss' research in the 1960s. It was delivered in early 2018 to the customer, after it had undergone sea trials.
The yacht was constructed at Oceanco, a shipyard in Alblasserdam, the Netherlands and launched in September 2016. The overall yacht design was done by Ken Freivokh, Gerard Villate, Nigel Gee, and Nuvolari Lenard, with others. The final design had the yacht at 106.8 m, and the yacht, built under the name Y712, was then named Black Pearl. The design and details of the yacht developed continuously during the build process, with the owner having a direct input on many aspects of the final design. Dutch builders Oceanco were selected from the tendering process to construct the yacht at their Rotterdam (The Netherlands) shipyard. By November 2011, Freivokh had extended the design from 96 m to 100 m (328 ft) and a scale model was produced.
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