'60 Minutes': Sailing by touch screen Video
'60 Minutes': Sailing by touch screen Video Transcript
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>> So, let's do the second step. Even easier.
>> Next he showed me how to unfurl the boat's 15 sails, a job that would take about 80 deckhands an hour on a traditional sailboat. All it takes on the Falcon is five minutes, and the touch of a screen.
>> Let's go sailing.
>> Let's go sailing. ^M00:00:20 And just like that, the sails, housed inside those hollow carbon fiber masts, begin to unfurl, all 26 thousand square feet of them. That's over half an acre's worth of sail.
>> Okay, that wasn't too hard.
>> No.
>> Was it?
>> The Maltese Falcon embodies all the grandeur of a 19th century clipper ship. It's also the biggest, fastest, and most high-tech sailboat on the high seas, a triumph of science, vision, and money. ^M00:00:50 [Ocean sounds ] ^M00:00:55 [ Stopwatch ticking ] ^E00:00:58
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