so hi guys welcome back to the channel welcome back to Genoa
and welcome back to a not a 5-minute-Friday it this was meant to be a 5- minute-Friday but
i didn't do it for one reason or another very busy and stuff but my primary job my
my full-time job so uh i'm finally here now and i've got a few stories- i want to talk about
it's more of me answering some of the comments that i've had from previous videos okay so the
first thing i wanted to talk about elephants in the room um as a lot of you have already
congratulated me for i finally ticked over the 100,000 subscribers on youtube something that i
never thought would ever happen and um i'm quite shocked really quite humbled it's a small thing
for people on youtube in general you know there are people who've got millions of subscribers and
stuff but for me it's a big milestone and yeah i'm quite i don't really know what to say actually
what i do have is a video that i took at the time i was actually in work when it when it rolled over
and i i actually filmed that moment because i wanted to share it with my
misses but i've got a little section of it here which i want to show you thank you
-you love me, you really love me !-
that's not the video i wanted to show you this is the video i wanted to show
you holy crap yeah so it was pretty exciting and it got pretty shocking
yeah so great so what i wanted to say is thank you to everybody who subscribed
if you're new to the channel - welcome and i hope you'll you'll enjoy the the videos that i produce
and for the for the people who've been subscribed for a long time and i know there are quite a lot
of you out there who've been subscribed since right since before i had even 10,000 subscribers
um i really appreciate you sticking around and let's hope that we we get only get better as
we go forward right all right guys enough of that stuff a couple of years ago i made a video i can't
believe it's a couple of years ago already but i made a video in monaco couple in 2019 and it was
a madame goo docking and i filmed the whole thing it was one of those docking videos
where i don't speak and i just put like the signs everywhere and stuff like that
and then one of the things that happens in the video is you see the officer the deck
officer standing on the standing at the stern with the microphone talking to the captain and
i i talk about all of this in the video so one of and that video by the way has done almost
a million views now incredibly it's still going and this is one of the weird things about youtube
one of the cool things about youtube but it's a bit weird as well it's like when you post a video
it's there forever and people will watch it people will watch even though it's 2 years
old people will watch it today like it's just been posted and they'll post their comments on it
so i get these comments coming through all the time which is it's quite weird because
it's such an old video and sometimes people will ask me a question like they've just watched it
but it's years old and i have to remember what what they're even talking about but anyway um one
of the comments that comes up a lot in this video is why doesn't the super yacht have reversing
cameras that's the most frequent question and then some have even said why doesn't it have
backup sensors one guy said my Toyota car has backup sensors why can't this super
lol so i thought that was quite funny but the fact is that most modern super
yachts they do have cameras so the captain the captain can see all around the boat
right but when he docks the ship he's out on the bridgewing and they don't always have the same
equipment on the bridgewing because they're not they're not going to be at sea when they're on
the bridgewing so they have they have all the controls but they don't always have the backup
cameras now some modern yards they do have a screen that shows them the backup camera
but you've got to remember they're outside uh this in the sunshine there's lights shining down on the
any screens that are out there and it's kind of tricky anyway that's one thing the other thing is
even though you're looking at a camera view of the aft of the ship as they're docking you know the
they're reversing in there's the dock and they're and they're coming in the stern and they're
trying to put that stone right next to the dock without hitting it and looking at a camera a view
is not the be it's not i mean it helps but it's not the same as being at the stone right and
obviously he can't be at the stand so the next best thing is to have somebody at the stand
communicating to him the distance because although you can see what's happening on the
camera you you can't necessarily tell the difference because it's on a camera right
so yeah they always have somebody there calling out how close they're getting cruise ships do
the same they do it as well and it's one of those things that you you have to do
it's the best thing to do you've got to remember madame goo is 100 meters long
now imagine a football field now the captain is at the 30 oh no the captain's at the 70-yard line
and he's reversing a football field from the 70-yard line now you just try to picture that
in your head for a minute uh trying to reverse that that ship or that yacht
into that spot and that's why they have somebody on the stern it's not because they don't have the
technology it's not because somebody forgot parking sensors don't work it's not a car
i'll still get those questions for the next 10 years most likely but that's fine that's okay.
all right guys next thing i wanted to talk about is last week i posted a short video in
portrait mode which i hate doing portrait mode when my misses sends me videos in portrait mode
i always tell her to turn a camera to shoot it properly but i uploaded a very
short video about pizzas on the super yacht because i was trying out a new thing that they've
got it's called "youtube shorts" and it's basically trying to copy "tik tok"
so you upload it in portrait mode it's got all the same features of "tik tok" down the
right hand side the like buttons and and all that kind of stuff but weirdly when you upload it even
though you're uploading it in portrait mode it also posts it as a regular video in landscape
with your portrait mode stuck in the middle and it sends it out like a regular video
notifications to all my subscribers which is very odd i didn't know when when i posted it that was
going to happen so i was just trying it out because some of these videos that i've got
in my feed i've got millions of views and i earn revenue on those videos so i thought i'd try it
so since then i've put i actually contacted youtube and said why are you putting it in
portrait mode in the short section and posting it to all my subscribers it doesn't make any sense so
so i'm not sure i'm going to do any more of those until they fix it i think they might
think it's going through that testing phase it's to beat her at the moment so hopefully
they'll fix that but that's the reason why that video came out in that video it shows all those
pizzas arriving at the vessel now in the in the in that little video i just said it's like you know
billionaire ordering pizza because it's it's kind of a catchy thing i hope it might catch on
and pick up a lot of views in the short section but the reality is what was happening there is
Friday night the boss is not on board sometimes on a boat they'll just do that
they'll order food out usually peter especially when you're in Italy right
and the guy and that's for the crew and on a vessel that size i think they've got about 32
crew on there and they ordered 30 pizzas so pretty much one pizza each these pizzas are not massive
they're not like you know US large pizzas which are you know the size of a small planet.
-that's my moon- they're more sort of moderate in size so they ordered 30 pizzas
and that will would have been for the crew i think the guy who received them was the chef
and they were just you know relaxing the chef doesn't have to cook and everybody gets
to have some pizza and you're in Italy so you have some pizza so that what was happening there
but i just wanted to try and cash in on that um shorts thing it didn't really work
but anyway there you go that's the explanation for it okay another thing that came up
the Jeff Bezos video or the Jeff Bezos news that he's building this massive Superyard and the
support vessel now i i made a video previously talking about i'm not going to talk about the
same subject but what i wanted to actually touch on was um i saw i was looking at other videos or
other videos on youtube of people talking about that same subject and one of them
that caught my eye was the the young turks now in the past i've made a couple of videos about
whenever they talk about super yachts they always get the details really poorly wrong
and and it always frustrates me um that they do it and then and on this video they talked about
Jeff Bezos having two yachts right now they clearly don't know what a support vessel
is and that's that's okay because it's it's a it's an unusual subject right
so they didn't know and but they instead of trying to find out they just sort of talked about
what they thought it was so i've seen ships yachts where they open up the bottom and then another
ship from within the ship comes in like like a russian doll or something right uh but this has
a yacht so big within the yacht that you could land a helicopter on it's just
poor research on their part and i posted a comment in their video saying hey guys you know
your research on this is pretty bad if you if you want some fact checking why don't you get in touch
now i have a quite a few comments from other people saying it's not important
the story's about you know him having all this money and stuff but but what i think
is it is important because it's like if they can if they get that wrong in the story
and i know it's wrong because i know what i'm talking about on the subject
what else are they getting wrong when they do other news stories that's the thing you've got
to look at when somebody gets details wrong in the story you have to ask yourself well what are the
stories that i don't know about are is this news outlet getting wrong so that's why i left that
comment they never contacted me obviously anyway guys i want to end it there um i i just that was
basically like a catch-up video i wanted these are the some of the things that i've written down
that i've wanted to talk about for quite a while uh again thanks very much for being a subscriber
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