this is super yacht news with eSysman hi welcome back to the channel so after the incident last
week that we reported on the last video at the Breman Shipyard the headquarters of Len which
saw the door of the dry do facility almost destroyed Len has finally launched the yacht
that was involved in that incident complete with damage to the bow sustained in the incident
as you can see in the photos here photos are are from uh Christian echar via super yach times now
as mentioned in the last episode of super yacht news the door of the massive shed where the new yacht
was being outfitted was severely damaged in an incident with the brand new 140 M plus yacht the
yacht which is named by a project name which is currently pro project Alibaba was clearly being
ready to be launched when the yacht came into contact with the door uh a connecting Bridge
which sits in front of the door also ended up in the wessa river in the incident one person
was slightly injured in that incident now Lon uh did give us a statement which we read out in
the last video but there being very tight lipped on the cause of that incident and we'll probably
never get an actual explanation as to what happened anyway the yacht was launched as you
can see here as mentioned from uh pictures from Christian eard via super yacht times as mentioned
in the last video also the original owner of the opart was believed to be Leonard mikkelson the
now sanctioned Russian business businessman he's also believed to be the owner of moot
Pacific X according to former crew and others with knowledge of that yacht now the yacht was
meant to be a replacement for this yacht Pacific X and as you can see it Bears a striking resemblance
of the 85 M or 278 ft yacht which was built in 2010 now that yacht is currently in Dubai which
has been there for quite some time one of the refuges of Yachts belonging to people on on the
sanctions list now this new yacht the one that's just been launched by Len is over 60 M longer than
his current yacht and will no doubt have a much larger volume it's hard to say from the pictures
how how much the volume will be but looks I would say probably 7 to 9,000 gross tons maybe more Now
sources have told us that the yacht was sold H in in coordination with the German government
and the new owner completed the build however the yacht remains an almost identical but much larger
replica of mikkelson's other yacht and you have to wonder who would want something to look so
similar to another yacht already out there um it just depends on how far along the build the Y was
when this this sale took place I suppose but it's been at least a year now it will be interesting to
see if once this yacht is delivered it heads to Dubai or turkey or somewhere like that if
you want to see the article uh by superat Times by the way I'll post a link in the description
below and you can watch it there or you can read it there should I say all right we'll move on to
our next story now in a recent video we showed you what the superpop migration pattern looks like a
many Yachts that inhabit the Mediterranean during the summer months of the northern hemisphere of
course head off to the Caribbean once uh October November arrives as you can see in this uh AIS
information from Marine Traffic uh it looks like a migrating birds doesn't it heading across the
Atlantic there however some Yachts head in the other direction into the southern hemisphere
where the summer is arriving now however to do this from the Mediterranean they must go
through some very dangerous Waters now one such yacht that is doing that at the moment is moat
bold we've done features on this Festival in the past I'll put a link in the top Corner if you want
to see that feature but this yacht looks like a military vessel and it has been navigating through
the sewers canal and the Red Sea in the last week now this is one place the yacht's design could be
an asset or a hindrance now the yacht can clearly be seen on AIS broadcasting that they have armed
guards on board now this is a clear warning to anyone who has any ideas of trying to board that
yacht in an area that has had major issues with piracy over the recent years and this has become
a standard operating procedure now whilst heading through this part of the world that's having armed
guards on board of course now one possible asset the yach may have had in in recent times is more
than a passing resemblance to a warship which might put off pirates in a skiff thinking about
trying to uh take on such a vessel right however since the conflict in Palestine and Israel has
flared up things have become even more perilous in the Red Sea now just last week uh Yemen was
reported to have fired missiles directly at a US warship in the area and the US Navy had to
engage those targets to eliminate the threat so looking like a warship is now possibly more
dangerous than helpful especially if a trained militia is actively looking for military ships
to engage right well anyway hopefully they won't uh have any trouble like I said they've got armed
guards on board and obviously the data we've put on screen is is a couple of days old now
so uh it's we're not it's not like we're TR I mean they are broadcasting live AIS data but it's not
like we're giving away their immediate location all right so we'll move on to our next Story and
there's been somewhat unusual movement today on board the 77 M or 255 foot yacht mot yach Tango
in Spain this also coincides with activity in terms of AIS updates and other activity recently
um the movement on board appears to be crew uh the video that we're looking at here of the movement
on board appears to be the crew possibly engaged in safety training looks like they' been shown
how to launch the rescue boat now there's nothing usually that would not be unusual but this yacht
has been deserted for a long time seemingly the yacht has been very quiet in the last 18 months
with little sign of any movement which is why it seems unusual to see such movement all of a
sudden and like I said the AIS data which hadn't changed for a long for a long time and in the last
week or so there's been multiple updates of AIS data although the vessel hasn't moved anywhere
now moak Tango has been sitting in palmod muca since the 15th of March 2022 when the vessel
was seized by federal authorities from the US in cooperation with the Spanish authorities now the
US say the yacht is owned by Victor velber who is a sanctioned Russian businessman uh velber
was actually born in Ukraine to a Russian and Ukrainian parents but he has Russian citizenship
and uh cypriate and Israeli passports as well but he is based in Russia uh velber has been on the US
sanctions since 2014 after Russia invaded Crimea and his company was placed on the sanctions list
in 2018 by the US and the yacht was seized because it was alleged by the us that he was using the US
Financial system to make payments for his yacht which is a sanctioned as a sanctioned person is
not allowed to do so by us law the payments were actually made through two people one the CEO of
Master yachts in Palmer who changed the name of the yacht in his paperwork to hide the fact that
it was for a sanctioned person the US even tried to extrudate the British man Masters to the US to
face charges but the Spanish courts ruled he would not be extradited and said he had actually broken
no laws in Spain where he resides as lucky as he was to not be extradited to the US which where he
would have have faced severe charges no doubt uh Masters did not get off scotf free after he
was charged his yacht Management Company in Palmer closed and it hasn't reopened now the yacht Tango
is which is still in Palmer is being paid for by the US government as they have seized that vessel
from Monaco to gibralta was 865 nautical miles and the crossing was 3,396 nautical miles all right if
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