The story of the vessel Andromeda starts with Graeme Heart, a billionaire from New
Zealand who had money burning a hole in his pocket. He wanted a yacht, he wanted a
big yacht, he wanted the SuperYacht equivalent of a Ford 350 pickup, you know the one
with the dual wheels on the back axle. So he went to Kleven Shipbuilders in Norway
and asked them to build a badass expedition style vessel. Only problem is
Kleven don't build yachts they build offshore vessels and
specialized expedition vessels for exploring Mr. Hart said 'no problem you
build a vessel and I'll take you to Bremerhaven in Germany to have it
outfitted as a super yacht there.' Kleven then said 'there's another
issue if you want us to build this vessel you'll need to place an order for
at least two.' Mr. Hart again says 'ok that's no issue
I'll take the first one outfit it, use it for a year or two then sell it when
the second one is ready.' And that's exactly what he did why buy one when you
can buy 2 it twice the price!
So welcome back to the channel so that's quite a
story eh, I hope this clears up some of the questions I've heard surrounding
this vessel this seems to be a lot of confusion regarding Ulysses Andromeda
which one is which and the fact that there are two vessels that are almost
identical so this explanation here hopefully
clears that up for everybody. So here we are in slightly cloudy Cannes
So yeah so here we here we go this is a Andromeda formerly Ulysses, 107 meters in
length tonnage is just under 6,000 tonnes at 5937 tonnes
beam of 18 meters we've got a bulbous bow
steal hull as you can see at the front there on the bow you can see the the
anchor chain on the starboard side it's being supported by another line this is
called a snubber line this is designed so the vessel can be at tanker but the
chain is not rubbing on the bow and on the bulbous bow and scraping off all
the paint. I'll put up some stats as I mentioned this is the first vessel
produced and was named Ulysses for about two years from 2016 to 2018 and believed
until the second vessel was delivered and then he sold it the name changed to
Andromeda. Now one of the interesting stories about this the vessel is when he
sold it there was a rumor that it was bought by Mark Zuckerberg and it was
known as Mark Zuckerberg's yacht this is not true he never bought it I don't know
where that rumor came from but it's not true there are some rumors that the new
owner is a Russian named Yuri Ulna I will confirm that it is owned by a
Russian that's all I can confirm for various reasons the only difference
between the two vessels is the new Ulysses is 117 meters which is about 10
meters longer than the original their beam height which everything else is the
same it's just slightly longer because why not! Okay up on the top deck Sun Deck
we have a helicopter landing pad has a D value of 13 if you haven't seen any of my
previous videos, it's the diameter of the helicopter while the
rotors are turning which basically means it's capable of carrying a bell 429
or an ACH 135 also has a helicopter hangar which can complete with its own
refueling station one of the interesting things about what there's the plenty of
interesting things but one of the interesting things about this vessel is
one of the tenders that it has now this tender is almost as SuperYacht in its own
right it's a three deck catamaran it sits just short of 21 meters 68.6ft
or 20.9 meters has an 8 meter beam has four
caterpillar engines and it has a total outputs of 636 kilowatts or 853 BHP
Graham had commissioned a company to build this specifically and
he wanted a design of a motor yacht to be able to do speeds of up to 50 knots with
all the amenities required for deep-sea fishing and luxury cruising and it's
fitted with water jets driven by quad engines so then the main deck features a
huge saloon area and galley leading to an upstairs lounge and wheelhouse via a
spiral staircase this is not as tender this is not on I'm not talking about on
the main yacht here this is the tender this is this is the tender slash fast
cruising vessel and it also has the ability to sleep up to seven guests in
five private cabins it's incredible. Okay guys so I'm gonna I'm gonna round up
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