Maltese Falcon Society Don Herron and private investigator Jayson Wechter. The society's first meeting was held at John's Grill, a restaurant where Dashiell Hammett ate and which he featured in "The Maltese Falcon". The speakers at that first meeting were David Fechheimer, a Hammett researcher and private investigator, and E. Hoffmann Price, a pulp fiction author. The society opened chapters in New York and Japan. By 1982, the society had 110 members in San Francisco, 55 in Japan, and 50 in New York. As its official toast, the society adopted the one used by Sam Spade in Chapter 2 of "The Maltese Falcon":
Maltese Falcon (yacht) rotates about deck and keel bearings and have symmetrical elliptical sections for better aerodynamics in both flows. Insensys also incorporated a fiber optical strain monitoring system into the spars to analyse real time loads under sail. A fiber Bragg grating system was embedded during wet layup of the carbonfiber structure. The loads are transmitted to the bridge monitors. "Maltese Falcon" has received industry prizes from shipowners and the press. She has also won the Perini Navi Cup regattas on two occasions as well as the Palma Superyacht Cup in 2010. "Maltese Falcon" was involved in a collision on October 4,