By Staff Commodore Llew Goodfield

Yeast millionaire, and Santa Barbara Yacht Club Board Member,  Major Max Fleischmann owned twenty-two yachts during his lifetime, naming most of them HAIDA after the Haida Indians of the Pacific Northwest whose seafaring skills he so admired. The motor yacht in this water color  is 218 ft. long and was built by the Krupp Co. of Kiel, Germany. The "Major" moored this biggest and most beautiful Haida in Santa Barbara in 1930 where she served her owner for the next ten years. Santa Barbara Yacht Club remembers Fleischmann with affection as the man who put up the money for the (then) new outer breakwater. 
     In 1940 HAIDA was commandeered by the Navy, renamed U.S.S. ARGUS, and converted to a 'Patrol Yacht' that operated out of San Francisco.  After the war she was decommissioned and became a private yacht in the Mediterranean renamed SARINA. Her home ports include Cannes, Monaco, Monte Carlo and Genoa. In 1981 she was renamed ROSENKAVALIER and today represents possibly the last remaining privately owned example of a very-large motor yacht of the inter-war period, with the original Krupp engines still in working order.