this is super yacht news with eSysman
hi welcome back to the channel -okay it is definitely getting colder now so hence the
long sleeves all right so first story tonight and this is about Yuri Milner you'll remember him he's
the non-Russian. Russian as we've referred to him now he's the guy who renounced his Russian
citizenship recently and he is now solely an Israeli citizen however he's living in the U.S
so anyway he has 2 yachts. if you don't remember one of them is called motor yacht Ulysses,
one of them is called motor yacht Andromeda they are almost identical they were built at Clever
Marine in Norway, (you know the backstory) I will put a link up here to a video about this story
in particular if you want if you're interested in seeing it's an older video but it's got a lot
of information about those vessels, anyway both vessels are on the move right now, well actually
Ulysses has just arrived at her destination I believe it's her destination -she's in Tampa
Bay in Florida, so if you're in that area and you want to see a super yacht I'll put the location on
screen here so you can see where it is. so Ulysses sustained some damage in an accident when she was
at anchor at the entrance of the Panama Canal hit by a tanker, it was minor damage I believe
but the vessel did sustain some damage which needs to be repaired, I don't know whether that
going to Tampa Bay to have that repair done but anyway if you're in that area and you want to go
down and film, check out to see if the if there's any damage still on the vessel ,the other vessel
is motor yacht Andromeda and she headed- if you might remember recently we did a video where she
was heading to Darwin in Australia- however when she arrived there she only stayed overnight to
refuel most likely and then she continued on her trip and she headed to Papette in Tahiti -
now this was this was a while ago now this is this is over a week ago she's still on her way there
okay the ETA of this vessel is the 8th of November so she's due in there tomorrow hopefully we'll get
some footage over here arriving there I'm sure the crew will be happy when they arrive hopefully
before the boss trip starts they'll get some time off because they've worked straight through now
for over a month so I mean you know that's what we do but yeah I'm sure they'll be hoping for a
few days before the boss trip starts all right on to the next story m/y A is M.I.A so 8 months ago
motor yacht A was in Maldives she turned off at AIS the day after Andrew Milnerchenko was placed
on the sanctions list so it's been 8 months now of no AIS on that vessel the vessel left the Maldives
and sailed to Razzle climate with AIS Switched Off and the vessel was in Russell County for a long
time we we covered that quite extensively in all older videos put some photographs on the screen
here then a few months later she actually sailed down to Dubai and she was at the World Resort
there with ocean Victory which is still there now and she was that retracted there by tracking the
tenders the tenders had AIS fitted also and they were still broadcasting however after
we we mentioned on the channel that the boat was there and we showed some footage of of the tenders
moving around they've disabled the AIS on their tenders now as well so so and that's been 3
months of no AIS on the attenders now you might you might wonder why a tender would have AIS, it's
really useful actually when you're doing tender operations so when the boat is somewhere
at anchor and the boss is on board and the boats are going around taking them either to
a beach somewhere or taking them you know ashore it's really useful to have the AIS for the bridge
because they can monitor the location of you know all of the tenders at one time
so it's a bit of a pain when you don't have that certainly when you're
used to having it that you're relying on radio communications between the boat and the bridge
so that's why they have it the vessel seems to have left that area now it's not in Dubai as far
as we can tell and it's also not in Raz Al Khaima if you've got eyes on motor yacht A please get in
touch- all right we'll move on to the next story now now quite a lot of people have been asking
us for a Nord update well the update is really that there's not really any updates so the AIS was
switched off 12 days ago now, when they were in the Indian Ocean so they had Cape Town in South
Africa in their destination, they switched off the AIS and they headed over to the Maldives, and the
vessel has been in the Maldives ever since, as far as we know it was at the Adu Atoll so if you know
different please get in touch and let us now but that's where we believe the vessel still is
the visit to Cape Town is looking unlikely now, it could still happen of course, it could have been
just a a a location that they put in to mislead people into thinking that she was heading there
or it could be a genuine location, sometimes the owner of a yacht will just decide he wants his
boat somewhere else at short notice and then they just move, I I think it's more likely that the
intention was to go to the Maldives and they never intended to go to South Africa but we'll find out
soon enough, the ETA on the boat was originally for Cape Town was originally the 9th of
November which is the day after tomorrow so if the boat turns up I'm sure someone will let us know.
all right so move on to to the main story now. now this is about motor yacht Meridian a now this
vessel was formerly known as Valerie now we told a story recently of the boats changing names which I
thought was unusual ,couldn't quite figure out- because we were under the impression that the
vessel had been frozen by the authorities there but the vessel had merely just been arrested which
basically meant that the the management company or the sorry the management on board was still in
charge of the vessel so the company that owns the vessel they gave permission to another company to
operate that vessel now it's most likely that other company was a shell company they then
changed the name of the vessel this new company changed the name of the vessel to Meridian a
all with the purposes of getting that pestle out of Barcelona , then the Vessel applied
for permission to leave under the new name and initially the permission was granted but then
the authorities got wind of what was happening, the police went down boarded the vessel and
they prevented that vessel from leaving now we mentioned in previous videos that so some of the
countries were allowing owners to continue to pay for these vessels even though they were frozen and
that was a story in its own right right because these vessels are meant to have been arrested
and but they're allowing those people to continue paying even though those people are under sanction
anyway the owner of this vessel stopped making the payments soon after now the yacht was in
mb92 which is a shipyard in Barcelona and he stopped paying for the work that was
being done when the war in Ukraine started so now mb92 has a legitimate reason to have
that vesesl arrested a legitimate in the terms of that the vessel owes mb92 money
which they're not paying so they can have that vessel arrested now let's just pretend for a
minute there are no sanctions this is the most often reason why York gets arrested it's in a it's
in a shipyard somewhere it owes money for dockage fees owes money for work being carried out on it
fuel electricity whatever it is and they don't pay it so the company has the vessel arrested the
Maritime police come down arrest The Vessel the vessel's still in operation in terms of the people
on board the crew is still managing the vessel but you're not allowed to leave that's what our rest
is until that money is paid you can't go now if that goes on long enough and the money is never
paid the vessel can be seized in a forfeiture to sell to recover the money owed to that company
and this is what the Spanish government now is apparently going to do to recover the money now
unless the money owed to mb92 is received from the owner then that vessel will be eventually sold
now so Bloomberg have said that mb92 complaint has now led to the Spanish Court having authorized
the confiscation of Valerie and Meridian A and a source that the Ministry of Transport confirmed
that the payments for the ship repairs (we've reported this before) the ship repairs the mb92
stops shortly after the freezing of the vessel in March the owner is believed to be Sergey chemozov
and he's on the US and the EU sanctions list however the vessel is registered through a
series of shell companies to his stepdaughter so that is the update so that that looks like
that yacht is going to be seized by the Spanish government ,one of the things that I've found
quite amusing is when I looked on AIS today at the at the vessel in Barcelona look at the
name of the yacht that's sitting right behind Meridian a it's called motor yacht "Vanish"
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