this is super yacht news with eSysman hi welcome back to the channel I hope you all had a great
Christmas or you know whatever celebrations you've just had one super yacht that is definitely having
a white Christmas is m/y Octopus now if you have flat-earther please change the channel now
because we're going to talk about the Antarctic and m/y Octopus has been in the last few days in
the Antarctic she traveled down there last week to get down to the Antarctic you have to cross
the Drake Passage which is one of the most atrocious places I've ever been for weather
you can get instances where it's like a glass but for every time I went it was really pretty
bad so hopefully they have a smooth Crossing you can see in the AIS pictures here that she
is anchored off Neko Island which is actually not that far from the Peruvian section of the
Antarctic which is called Machu Picchu base so yeah she's down there on Charter in actual fact
now you probably know that this vessel used to be owned by Paul Allen the late Paul Allen but it
was sold to a chap called Roger Samuelson who's a Swedish billionaire and it is now a charter
yacht it is actually the largest charity Health in the world because it is in 10,000 just shy
of ten thousand gross ton charity house which is actually more gross tonnage than Flying Fox which
is considered to be the largest charter out in the world Flying Fox is the most expensive charter
yacht in the world at 3 million dollars a week and this one is 2.2 million dollars a week so yeah so
she's down there having a white Christmas so yeah I hope they enjoy it so we'll move on we'll talk
about quickly talk about this other yacht called m/y Vixit and you can see here what happens to be
yacht when it runs aground these pictures were taken in the shipyard a couple of months back
showing the the results of this vessel running the ground I don't have an awful lot of details about
where she ran aground or you know the details of the accidents if you know more about it please get
in touch let me know but you can see here that the stabilizers have been completely ripped off
and the anti-fouling has been scratched off and indentations across the and all of the underneath
of the hole there was just so it's pretty bad it's repairable and I'm sure it's already been repaired
like I said these are a couple of months old these photographs but that's what happens to a boat when
it runs the ground depending on what it hits of course all right so we'll go on to the main
story here and this is about Jeff Bezos that you might be aware of Jeff Bezos has had a super yacht
built recently 127 meter sailing yacht it is the largest sailing yacht in the world when delivered
that boat will be called Karu I believe according to sources k-o-r-u now you might remember also
the Uproar when that boat was originally going to be completed up River in the Netherlands with the
mass in place and then we're going to dismantle temporarily a bridge in the Netherlands to get
the boat through and a lot of people said that they were going to go down there and egg the
boats they built up a a petition on Facebook to get people together to go down and egg the boat
when it passed through and as a result of that they actually changed their plans they didn't
put the masks in place they kept the mass off and they took it a different way at night top
secret and then they put the mass in later on when they got it down river so yeah that was all as a
result of that egging threat so you but you might be surprised to hear that that's not the yacht
I'm talking about when I say that this boat is almost completed this second boat so what's what's
actually happening is he's built two super yards simultaneously and you've got the main sailing
yacht and he's got this boat which is known as a support vessel or a shadow vessel now what is
a shadow vessel a shadow vessel is simply that it is a vessel that Shadows the main yacht wherever
it goes and it carries things like helicopters and toys you know boats Sea-Doos submarines you
know it has it can have hyperbaric chambers on board Medical Center all those kinds of things
it also is finished to Super yard standards so it will have very high-end cabins on board so we can
actually bring on extra guests for instance if he wants to keep his main sailing out to himself but
he wants to have guests with him and bring them over to a dine and stuff like that he can put
them on the support vessel and then he can stay in total privacy on the super yacht these are all I'm
not saying that that's what he's going to do but these are the kinds of things that people who have
support vessels that's what they do with them and I'll and like I said they carry all the toys too
so his second yacht is a 75 meter this is the support vessel 75 meter yacht it's going to be
named wingman according to sources although the vessel currently still has its build number on it
which was a Yankee Sierra 7512 which is the build number from Damon yachting where it was built
so yeah so he's got two Yachts coming along 2 brand new Yachts now while we're on the subject of
Jeff Bezos because every time I do a story about Jeff Bezos they'll be a comment or two saying what
about Nord or what about flying fox does he sell that boat he never owned those boats but if you
if you in actual fact if you go to Google and you type in Jeff Bezos yacht you will see many
many photographs of different Yachts including Flying Fox; Octopus ignored a Rising Sun there
are many many boats Ken show is another boat I saw when I did this Google earlier there's many
many boats attributed to Jeff Bezos apparently you just put a picture of a yacht and Jeff Bezos
and you get lots of views but those boats don't belong to him and they never did he never owned
naughty never owned flying fox he's never owned a yacht before he I think he may have charted Flying
Fox at one point and probably got sore on seen on board and then that's where it came from but
he doesn't own and never has on those yachts all right we'll move on now to another another yacht
in the news and this is motor yacht Luminosity now this is a story that we are breaking here
now motor yacht Luminosity is a 107 meter yacht 353 feet and was delivered in 2020 by Benetti
now the original owner reportedly refused delivery of this boat and Benetti put the boat up for sale
now what happened is the OWN the the new owner the person who purchased the vessel his name is Andrei
now you may be familiar with that name because we have talked about it before on the channel
he also owns a yacht called Alpha Nero which is currently laid up in Antigua and has that
has been bordered by the FBI in recent months now when he bought a Luminosity
it was all a bit weird because the boat was very rapidly prepared and delivered to Tivat in
Montenegro to where they that was the delivery location of the yacht and within a few days of
the boat arriving there Andrea was placed on the sanctions lists how it is originally placed on
sanctions by by Europe and then later by the US and as a result of that the boat has sat in
Montenegro ever since as far as I know he's never been on board and the boat has just been sat there
now the reason why we're talking about it today is because as the as the owner was sanctioned the
management company which is Burgess Yachts you may have heard me talk about them before they severed
ties with the yacht straight away which they were required to do because of the sanctions because no
company is allowed to work with any sanctioned any yacht owned by a sanctioned individual
and so they they actually sent an email to all of the crew when they learned of the sanctions
and here's a copy of that email and it says it is with regret that we find ourselves in
a position where we must end the employment of all the crew on Luminosity because of sanctions
please find attached a letter confirming the final final monies you are owed the letter explains the
process and we will keep you updated as regards to the success of the license applications if you
have any questions please direct them to me and that was from the fleet crew manager for Burgess
now what she's referring to there's licenses now what happens is when a yacht is sanctioned or
when an owner is sanctioned who owns a yacht the company has to apply to hm treasury for a license
in order for them to be allowed by law to pay those crew now we contacted the person the flee to
a crew manager from Burgess Lucy meds we contacted her and we asked her you know what's happening
with that application and we got a statement back from Burgess she said we applied for a license in
March 2022 and we are baffled why it is taking so long to get it I suspect the OFSI the state
HM treasury have been inundated also we have had to start an additional license in May when the U.S
applied sanctions we are now receiving assistance from Cheryl McCann strategic organizer at Nautilus
the Seafair Union to push the OFSI to provide the license I agree it's taking too long but
we cannot do anything without the license so they they're in contact with a British Seafoods Union
who was who is assisting them in communicating with the government so we contacted hm Treasury
and the OFSI and they came back to us with a response and they said that thanks for getting
in touch on this the following information is on background and then it says in line with
data protection obligations OFSI cannot comment on the details of specific license applications I'd
point to chapter six of the OFSI general guidance which gives examples of some of the exceptions to
find sanctions restrictions and so on so forth It's just nonsense really so basically they've
used the lamest excuse the government can find to not answer that question and that is about data
protection now we in the UK have data protection laws which on the whole is a good thing it means
that people can't hold on to data that they're not that they don't have good reasons to have there
are limitations on how long they can keep data Etc but it is very often used as an excuse for
not giving out information and in this particular case the government should be explaining why it's
taking so long I mean it's like eight or nine months now so we've got no answer unfortunately
and we're going to keep pushing the government to get give us an answer and to trying to find out
what is going on with that license because those crew are still not being paid eight months later
all right so if you have any information on that story by the way
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