this is super yacht news with eSysman hi welcome back to the channel I'm sorry we haven't been
posting very frequently lately been working on a project which I can't really talk about right
now and also I've been a little bit under the weather in the last couple of days so but anyway
let's get on with the news so all right so the first thing we mentioned in the last video was
a was a yacht called Pacific X and we said that she was heading down through the Suez Canal
and she had put in AIS that they had armed guards on board and I said in that video that most likely
after they finished transiting the Suez Canal that they would switch off the AIS once they got
to the other side because in the canal it's a requirement to broadcast your AIS all the time I
mean the requirement everywhere but in the in the canal they get into trouble if they switched it
off anyway as you can see from this video here or from this screen grab here they did switch off the
AIS shortly after getting out the other side of the service Canal so they've been dark for about
four days now -all right so we'll move on to the next story and this is about you have Victorious,
85 meter super yacht we have actually did we actually did on board tours of this boat we
did a tour of the guest areas and and the whole boat and then we did a technical tour of this boat
anyway they were involved in a 16-hour search and rescue mission on the 12th of December so they
were they were the Victorious was heading across the Atlantic to the Caribbean when they received a
distress call from a 15 meter catamaran which was in the North Atlantic around 500 miles from Shore
so the crew then spent the next 16 hours looking for this vessel and once they found the vessel
they found that the crew were now in a Lifeboat they rescued them from that lifeboats on board
the yacht gave them first aid treatments and all that stuff and they said that they found that they
all had some sort of injuries like rib fractures and stuff like that so they then were headed to
St Martin and they dropped them off and they took them to hospital there so it was a really great
story there about the crew doing the right thing I mean in terms of receiving distress calls it
is your responsibility to respond to distressed goals at Sea you can't decide whether or not you
you're going to respond but what you can do is if there are three boats that have all responded to
that stress skull and one of them is closer then you can you can say right well there's
another boat that's closer so they're going to respond to it but in this case Victorious
they did respond and they they rescued those people from the water which is a great story
all right so we'll move on to the next story now and in the last video we talked about Vladimir
Putanan we said that he had been sanctioned by the US government and in that story we said that
he he had owned originally owned three Yachts Anastasia Nirvana and Barbara and he had sold
Anastasia and Barbara and that we believe that he still owned Nirvana but it turns out that he has
a brand new yacht that is currently being built at fed ship and it's a 118 meter boat or 387 feet
and currently it just has the build name on it which is nb1010 you can see some footage on the
screen here this is from guy Fleury he's a super yacht photographer and he also has a small YouTube
channel I will put a link so you can go and check out this full video but he shows you there that
that was one of the first sightings of this yacht now what's interesting about this yacht is it's
almost almost identical to the three previous Yachts per timer pounds it's a good indicator
that it is his boat but we have had from sources in the industry telling us that this is his boat
now as per the Dutch regulations The Yards can take payments from unsanctioned Russians
for for building a yacht but they cannot deliver the yacht so they can they can pay for it they can
build it but then the delivery has to wait you know it's postponed until I would assume until
after the Ukraine invasion is is finished and this is why this boat which is named nb1010 is stuck in
the Netherlands by now it's I mean it's almost I mean it's effectively completed this boat but
it still doesn't have its name on it now what we have been told is the the name of this boat will
eventually be or was a plan to be kathyusha and we also got told that the yacht has been paid for
in full in advance all right so in previous videos we talked about a yacht called Motor Yacht Sarafsa
we said that the yacht had been effectively abandoned in Monaco by the owner it turns out
that the owner was that the boat was seized from the owner by the bank Credit Suisse for
non-payments and the the owner the previous owner the Saudi Prince had lost his yacht in a court
case and now the boat was in the ownership of this credit Swiss bank and then they are trying to sell
this yacht with Burgess being the main broker or one of the things that we said in that video was
that the money that was owed to the crew should be paid by the new owner and I got a lot of comments
saying that that the current owner should pay that fee and that it should not be transferred
to the new owner and it should be the the original owner who who has to pay that money
so I was a little perplexed about this and I was pretty sure that in when a lawsuit is
brought by crew it is against the boat and not against the owner particularly so what
we did is we spoke to a lawyer who specializes in super Yachts by the name of Benjamin Maltby
and we asked him this question the question we asked was if the crew file a lawsuit against the
yacht and the yacht is sold does the lawsuit follow the yacht's new owner
and he said the lawsuits is filed against the owning company and Yacht and Yacht as
co-defendants and as such it will move it will have moved with the yacht as the yacht was seized
from our owner by the bank so unless the crew specifically filed against the owner personally
which they wouldn't do because their employment is with the yacht and not with the owner he said
it's called an action in rem REM just me is a Latin word meaning thing and he says the right
to bring an action follows the thing in this case the yacht as well as the registered owner which is
useful as owners are usually specific purpose Vehicles which is the company that that has
only one asset which is the yacht and when it's sold that company has no assets any any longer
so then the next question we asked was assuming the crew filed against the yacht how does it work
in terms of the cause and the sale Etc and his answer was he says if the crew filed a claim the
owner of the yacht can settle in court or in some cases can file a counter claim against the crew
for loss of earnings so if the yacht was a charter yacht for instance and they had to and they got
arrested when they went into France let's say and they couldn't fulfill that Charter because of it
that they can actually counter Sue against the crew for the loss of earnings for that for that
Charter that they've missed out on but in this case that's not that would not be the
case because this boat wasn't planning to do any chances because it's been seized right
but what he did say is that anyone potentially buying the Earth should get
a guarantee there is nothing owed to the crew or companies known as claims and incumbencies
so with with that information in hand we went to the new owner of this yacht the bank Credit Suisse
and we asked them a series of questions and we we and we we asked them can you confirm that
the yacht Sarafsa has changed ownership this year and that Credit Suisse is the new owner
and they said that the yacht ownership is public and can be checked in the flag State database
and Imo database so they're not saying that they own it but the IMO database is not being
updated it still goes back to 2008 but I mean clearly they own it by then but the answers to
the next questions it's clear that that they are in position of this yacht so then the next
question we went on to ask was about the owner's personal belongings because we understand that
there were there were a number of Arts pieces of art on board that were worth millions of dollars
so we asked them from what we've been told there are many R pieces on board the yacht
we have millions as one person put it including a Picasso painting can you confirm these pieces
are being sold with the yacht and their answer was as Market practiced the yacht alone is for
sale subject to an inventory of onboard and assure items but it excluding the personal effects of the
owner and crew and Burgess is the exclusive broker for that sale so then we went on to talk about the
the condition of the yacht and we we said that the pains on the yacht looks quite bad in the photos
we've received this week in Monaco doesn't reflect a great deal of care in the upkeep of the yacht a
captain with extensive experience in the shipyard having Yachts painted tells us that it would take
five to ten years of neglect to allow the hole to end up in this condition does this reflect the
maintenance record of the boat so they said all the odds need to be maintained in line with the
flag state requirements in compliance with Plus rules and comply with insurance requirements they
require maintenance and paint work periodically during the life cycle and the decisions as to when
to carry out said maintenance varies considerably from one vessel to another the pictures presented
on Burgess internet page and circulated our our recent and show the current condition of the yacht
but that's just not the case because if you look at the pictures on the Burgess website of the
Sarafsa hall as you can see on the left hand side here it looks fine it looks like there's
no problems and then if you look at our pictures which came after the pictures which are the most
recent pictures of this boat the hall is a complete mess so that is just not the case
so okay so we went on and we asked about the lawsuits we said that we know that there are a
former crew who have filed a lawsuit in France over unpaid wages can you confirm this would a
potential buyer be required to settle the amount now remember the lawyer said that
they should get a guarantee that there is no outstanding money owed against the boat
so they said in return for paying the purchase price a buyer will receive ownership of a yacht
free and clear of any lien so they're guaranteeing that whoever buys that yacht that will not have
any outstanding debts on the boat the yacht is for sale as is and the asking price is 65
million euros and the yacht is open for viewings by interested Brokers and buyers so basically they
were saying that the yacht is for sale as is so whoever buys that yacht will have to pay to have
that whole painted so that you know whoever buys it most likely it will immediately go to refit
and have the whole painters and also very often when a yacht is sold the new buyer wants the
interior to look different they might not like the decoration of that the yacht currently has
and they'll have it all taken out and have their own stamp put on it so I hope that's
cleared up some of the things that were mentioned in the previous video the boat is still for sale
I'm laughing because I just can't imagine trying to sell something in that condition
I think they should have painted that hole that would have made a massive difference to the final
sale of that boat yeah it's quite interesting well we'll keep track of the story anyway and we'll let
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