this is superyacht news with eSysman.
hi welcome back to the channel so it is unprecedented time for the people of the UK
right now and the people of the Commonwealth, quite a sad time for reflection hence no video yesterday.
but we've got some updates on the fire in corfu that happened a few days ago
now if you saw the title of this video you might be thinking there's been another fire
but this is not a new fire this is an update on all of the vessels that caught fire on one in
particular so on wednesday we reported that 4 vessels that caught fire in Corfu in a marina
and it was a very busy marina and one of the good things that came of it is a lot of people in the
marina rushed to try to help to see what they could do put out the fire etc the two chaps in
the rib that we reported on in the last video who were able to pull that vessel away from it from a
mooring well the reason why they were able to do that is because other workers who were on the key
side cut the lines to allow them to pull that vessel free because obviously that vessel would
have been moored these people were releasing these vessels so they could be pulled away from the fire
the chaps in the rib they told me that the vessel that they pulled away in the in the
video that we saw they climbed on board and they were they had to put out embers of that had landed
on the vessels that were starting to smolder and that vessel would have most likely been a victim
of that fire too if they hadn't reacted so i think the owner of that vessel owes those guys a beer or
two but yeah it was great reaction by all those involved in that and all of those people who
helped the fire vessel that you see in this still photograph pouring water onto this sailing yacht
it it didn't arrive for 30 minutes after that fire had started so unfortunately the vessel was
probably quite far away so the vessel that's in that photograph there with the fire vessel trying
to put the fire out that is a classic sailing yacht we mentioned it in the previous video
it's the most it's called sailing got halcyon this vessel was built in 1929 by Vosper Thornycroft
in the UK now Vospec Thornycroft is this that's the same company that built motor yacht Shimara
you might remember recently i i talked about jeremy clarkson was holidaying on that vessel
and that vessel was also built by the same company and it was built it's almost 100 years old was
almost 100 years old that vessel caught fire you could you could see it was the extensive fire on
that vessel and the vessel later sank and as you can see in the photographs there the only thing
you can see now are the masts sticking out the water kind of reminiscent of Eleanor E which is
currently at the bottom of the marina in Tarragona but this vessel 29 meter or 95 foot yacht
and it was built for Lancashire industrialist sir sam turner in later life the vessel spent 30 years
as a training ship for Warsash which is a merchant navy college in the uk all wooden
yacht the interior all wooden you know you have to have a very specific kind of crew to work on
a vessel like that for the upkeep of that yacht as it's very very sad that that vessel has been
has been destroyed in that way i don't know if it's beyond repair it will be interesting to see
when they if they or when they raise it because they'll have to raise it because
it's in the marina so one of the one of the things i wanted to say and i don't generally
bother because people have their own opinions but awful lot of comments again on the subject of
insurance fraud you know and i just wanted to point out that that vessel
being the age that is over 100 years old you know a much loved yacht had a very good
a very interesting history and was actively being used as a charter vessel and the fire started on
a different yacht and spread across right so the idea that all of these vessels are in some sort of
conspiracy to commit insurance fraud is is a bit ridiculous i understand that people have these
opinions that not everybody watches every video right but you know there are hundreds of thousands
probably millions of boats and yachts all over the world there are boats everywhere and you know
we've reported on a lot of them so it might seem that there are more fires and there might indeed
be more fires when we get the stats at the end of the year but it is not you know every single
vessel out there apparently that i report on is is is a is the result of insurance fraud
anybody who's ever had had a loss whether it be a car or a boat or whatever
they'll find out that you never get back what what an item is worth from the insurance company very
seldomly i'll give you an example motor yacht Yogi it costs about around in the region of 40 million
euros and the final settlements for the owner of that vessel was 13 million euros
and that was a brand new yacht it could have easily been sold for a similar price to what it
cost in in many cases yachts are sold above the price that they cost to build because
it takes three to five years to to get a yacht and sometimes people don't want to wait that
long so they buy a yacht at a premium to have it right away so there's a very very strong market
right now for yachts and super yachts as well so the idea that they're all insurance fraud i would
say it's probably very very low percentage of vessels are done for insurance purposes
okay so we'll move on to the next story so we've got the launch of a new yacht it's called global
fast and it's built by a company called global yachts in Australia now if you think you've
seen this vessel before you you're not wrong in the sense that it is the sister ship of another
vessel called motor yacht Bold this one is completely white which i to me it looks a
bit strange because i'm so used to seeing motor yacht Bold in that sort of military gray color
and interestingly at the Monaco yachts last year there was a model of this boat that is that has
now been launched i don't think the vessel's ready yet it's not looking like it's going to be at the
Monaco yacht show i think it's been it's been lo like it's been launched into the water in other
words but it's not been delivered yet but the vessel is effectively identical to motion bold
and i know because i've been on board m/y Bold and in 2019 we did two videos of tours of that vessel
one of them was a kind of a rush tour the guy who was walking me around was kind of rushing me
but i still got to see the interior of the boat and then i did a second tour later on with the
with the guy who built the AV and the it systems and this is something that i know about and we
did a great walk around of the boat and he showed me all the all the systems on board
i'll put links in all the normal places so you can go and watch those videos so if you want
to know what this vessel looks like you can go and watch those videos and you'll get a very good idea
of what the new of what that new vessel looks like because it's almost carbon copy even the master
cabin photographs that i got from their website looks like the master cabin on m/y Bold so yeah
so it's the stats on this boat by the way is 85 meter or 278 foot around about 1600 gross tons and
you know quite a narrow beam so it is fast it does about 23 knots that's quite fast for a super yacht
yeah so i'll go check out those videos if you want to see what it's like on the inside
i don't think that boat's going to be at the Monaco yacht show possible that m/y Bold may
be at the Monaco yacht show but one yacht that is going to be at the Monaco yacht show and
i know this because it's on their website is a vessel called motion i'm not sure you pronounce
this actually if it's spanish it's Sevilla but this vessel is for sale by Ocean Independence
and it is going to be at the Monaco yacht show it's a 50 meter or 164 foot yacht
and it was built in 2015 by Houston yachts in the Netherlands now the reason i the
reason why i focused on this yacht is because according to various sources this yacht is owned
by a Russian who is the ex-father-in-law of Roman Abramovich and his name is Alexander Shukoff now
he's a Russian he was born in Russia and he made his money in Russian as far as i can tell
he now lives in the uk though he has British citizenship also apparently um and he lives
in London which is no surprise there London is often referred to as London grad there are so many
Russian-owned properties there but he actually does live in London whereas most of them just
own properties that they never live in um i don't know why he's decided to sell i don't know maybe
something happened in the world that made it seem like not such a good idea to have a super yacht
i don't know but yeah that vessel will be at the Monaco yacht show i will of course try to get on
board if i'm there so i'm still not sure whether i'll be at the Monaco yacht show i hope to be
but work commitments come first so we'll find out and i'll let you know as soon as i know something
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