After Peter Silvester began sailing the 1926 Q-Class racer Falcon, which had undergone a five-year restoration in Maine, he decided to build what that yacht’s original designers might have created if they’d possessed a century’s worth of modern technology.
Silvester’s concept became the Falcon Study, a new interpretation of the original developed by his San Diego start-up Q7 Yacht Designs, with naval architecture by Dutch firm Dykstra, known for its work on the series of…

