this is superyacht news with eSysman
hi welcome back to the channel okay so we've got a bit of an update on motor yacht Axioma now as
you all know if you watch the channel regularly the vessel was put up for sale at the beginning
of this week and they they built it as a 24-hour auction a sealed bid auction so it wasn't you know
a room full of people with an auctioneer it was sealed bids according to the Admiralty
Marshals broker Nigel Hollyer of how Robinson he said there was 63 bids were received on the 73
meter yacht or 239 foot yacht now that doesn't tell us an awful lot does it ? i mean you could
have had 62 bids of you know $7 so it doesn't really give us that much information he
did say that there was quite a lot of interest in the vessel and there were lots of people going to
look at the vessel over the weekend but you know again to me that's the kind of thing that
people say when you're going to buy a car and the guy tells you i've had a lot of interest-
they just say it's just saying it to make you feel the pressure or
so you won't try and haggle the price down but anyway he said he's got 63 bids and he said that
they're through the process and it's expected to take between 10 and 14 days
to go through the bids so i think we should all club together and buy him a better envelope opener
because it's going to take him 2 weeks to open 63 envelopes apparently
yeah but we don't know much about the auction- we don't know whether there was a reserve we
don't know how how much the people have bid -
let's assume that they don't get as much as they were wanting i would imagine there'll be a bit of
a back and forth with the highest bidder saying well we want to sell it to you but we're going
to need this much- i don't know i mean i don't know whether that happens you know it
all depends on how much is bad i suppose- now we may never know we may never find out how much
is bid on this boat -hopefully we will but so if you're in the know please get in touch
- so when the auction was announced last month i put up a poll on my channel asking people to
to vote on what they thought the vessel would sell for now like i said i have no way to tell you who
was right and who was wrong but i thought it was about time to go over the poll and show you
how people voted -so very impressed with the turnout of this poll actually and the
question was simply how much do you think motor yacht Axioma will sell for in the auction next
month? - because it was i did it in july i had 10,000 votes on the auction and the answers were
20 million or under 50 million or under 70 million or under and the last
option was nobody will buy a Russian yacht and here's the results so the overall voters 37 %
of the vote went to 50 million or under i think that's a safe bet
interestingly 22% of the poll assumed that nobody would buy this boat and you might be right
yeah i mean -we don't know do we -we don't know if like i said if there was a reserve so but
it'll be interesting to find out if we ever do find out how much the vessel sells for-
i suspect once the vessel does change hands- i suspect that the vessel will disappear from view
for a while will go into a shed somewhere you know in a shipyard and it will be painted a different
colour and the name will be changed and they'll make it look different and then in 12 months ,15
months time it'll come back out under a different name that's what i suspect is going to happen
but we'll find out -as soon as i find out anything i'll be sure to bring it to you- like i said if
you are somebody who's in the know please get in touch -all right so we'll move on to the next story
and if you remember back to april if you've been watching since this all
started- the the Russian invasion started one of the first vessels to be arrested by the
US was a boat called moor yacht Tango and it was in in Spain in the Island of Majorca and the
vessel was bordered by a multinational task force back in april and it was the Spanish police and
the FBI were involved in this one as well -yes they can operate overseas - and yeah like
i said it was the first US-led action against the Russian-owned yacht after the invasion of Ukraine -
now what's interesting about this is when they when they did the same thing to Amadea they
were very quick to act on that boat and now it's in San Diego with the US flag on it right
it didn't take that long really- this boat has been in Spain since april and it hasn't moved-
now i don't know why that is- i don't know why it's taking so long it's possibly to do with
the Spanish laws that are preventing the Americans from acting on it more quickly than they want to
but we have had a source contact us recently saying that we think that motor yacht Tango might
be about to move -now that's all we know we don't - well we don't even know-that- it's a possibility
right so we don't know where it's going we don't know if it's going to be under a US flag -we don't
know if it's going to be heading to the US- to join Amadea or whether it's just move into another
location to allow the shipyard to get their berth back we don't know - The vessel has moved
a couple of times but it always comes back to the same spot so because it's in a working shipyard
whenever they need that space they move the boat out of the way and then another boat comes in
and then Tango comes back once that boat has left - interestingly for the first time in in
a long time i i noticed some activity with the AIS on the boat and that was within 24
hours of me getting there this source telling me that the boat might be moving so that might
be something it might be nothing but that's the first time they've updated their AIS since april
so if you know more about this story please get in touch with me because it would be really
interesting to find out some information now this boat is was owned by Victor Vexelberg now he came
up with a story recently with Amadea and they believed that they'd found the Fabergé Egg on
Amadea right we still haven't even had any updates on that whether it's actually a real Fabergé Egg
or not which i suspect it will be i can't imagine a Russian billionaire having a fake one on board-
now the reason why i brought that up is because Victor Vexelberg paid 100 million
dollars to buy a set a series of Fabergé Eggs a few years back that's quite crazy isn't it ?
but anyway yeah that's all we know about this boat um so as soon as we have an update we'll
we'll come back to you with that information like i said if you know more about this story
or if you know where the boat's going please get in touch- all right guys i'm going to leave it
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