'60 Minutes': How to steer a mega yacht Video
'60 Minutes': How to steer a mega yacht Video Transcript
>> Inside, there were two 1,800-horsepower engines, 11,000 square feet of living space, and his crew of 20 includes a gourmet chef and a team of stewards and stewardesses.
>> Keep that sugar away from me. So, here's the wheel house.
>> The wheel house.
>> C'mon in.
>> The wheel house or "captain's bridge" is command central for the boat's technological wizardry.
>> This is my invention. This is my baby and I'm gonna teach you how to sail this boat.
>> Yeah right. Perkins designed the software himself for the computers that make sailing on the Falcon as easy as playing a computer game. Look at this.
>> Real simple, real simple.
>> You know the wheel a skipper uses to steer a boat? Well, the Falcon's is much smaller than that.
>> I'm gonna turn this knob.
>> This knob turns the masts, so that the wind, signified by the yellow arrows blows into the sails at the perfect angle.
>> Turn the mast like that...
>> And they're gonna tell me when to sail.
>> Yeah, just keep going, keep going...
>> Oh, yeah we keep shifting.
>> A little more you're -- yeah, about there. Okay, you like that? Okay, so I start.
>> And it's doing it.
>> As we see the mast is turning. The mast is now turning.
>> And how much did you tell me that mast weighs?
>> Well, the mast weighs about 25 tons. Look how easy it was. ^M00:01:20
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