Maltese Falcon Society Maltese Falcon Society The Maltese Falcon Society is an organization for admirers of Dashiell Hammett, his novel "The Maltese Falcon," and hardboiled mystery books and writers in general. Founded in San Francisco in 1981, the organization is no longer active in the United States; however, a chapter in Japan has been active continuously since 1982. The Japanese branch of the society presents the Falcon Award, Japan's highest honor in the mystery field, to honor the best hardboiled mystery novel published in Japan. The Maltese Falcon Society was founded in San Francisco on May 20, 1981 by literary historian and biographer
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,