The Tom Perkins Collection

When the project began most of the engineering techniques and the necessary integration of technology, for a fully functioning DynaRig had not yet been achieved.

• Builder/Designer: Perini
• Yacht Type:  289' Clipper Yacht
• Model Scale: 1/16"=1'
• Model Completion Date: 2007
• Model Description: Desktop model requiring 2,100 man-hours

Model created for venture capitalist Tom Perkins as park of his private model collection. 

Atlantide can still be spotted off the coast of Maine

• Builder/Designer: Alfred Mylne
• Yacht Type: 110' Sailing motor yacht
• Model Scale: 1/4"=1'
• Model Completion Date: 2000
• Model Description: Family heirloom requiring 5,500 man-hours

Model build for venture capitalist Tom Perkins (link to quote) as park of his private model collection. 

Atlantide was restored in 1999 to new yacht condition by Tom Perkins to become the tender to the yacht Mariette and then became the tender to the modern day clipper ship the Maltese Falcon

This 138’ Nathanael Greene Herreshoff design was built at Herreshoff Manufacturing Co., Bristol, Rhode Island in 1915

• Builder/Designer:  N.C. Herreshoff/ Herreshoff MFG Co.
• Yacht Type:  138' Schooner
• Model Scale: 1/4"=1'
• Model Completion Date: 1997
• Model Description: Private collection - Bequeathed to MIT 4,500 man-hours

Model build for venture capitalist Tom Perkins as part of his private model collection

Launched for Tom Perkins in 1990 Andromeda La Dea was one of the world’s largest and most technologically advanced sailing yachts

• Builder/Designer:  Perini / Perini Navi
• Yacht Type:  154' Ketch
• Model Scale: 1/4"=1'
• Model Completion Date: 1995
• Model Description: Family heirloom requiring 4,200 man-hours

Model build for venture capitalist Tom Perkins as part of his private model collection. 

Silicone Valley icon Mr. Tom Perkins pushed yachting innovations to new levels.