All right guys welcome back to the channel okay so today we have something a little different
so a common comment on my channel is that all boats look the same they're all these
white wedding cake style boats well this is certainly not a victim of that
comment because this is a very unusual looking boat this is m/y Artifact it's a brand new boat
it was delivered in 2020 so I would say that makes it brand new it's an 80 meter boat and it's the
most voluminous 80 meter boat in the world so for its length, it's got the most volume of any
boat in the world- it's 2,999 gross tons which is the same as "Madame Gu" which is a 99 meter yacht
gives you an example of how much volume this boat has - it has a top speed of around
and a half knots and a cruising speed of around 15 knots now there's quite a few things about
this boat that are different to other boats and this is kind of a sign of what's to come
now one of the biggest insults that people make about super yachts is that they're not good for
the environment but you know environmentally bad they're pollutants and all this kind of stuff but
believe it or not the people who build these yachts and the people who buy these yachts are
concerned about the environment to the extent that they want their boat to be the cleanest boat
that can be made now it's a little bit like people who buy cars and buy houses and stuff
like that you have to buy a car, you have to buy a house so you make it as green as you can
i know it's super it's different in that you don't need a superyacht,
you don't need a private plane etc like that but the lifestyle of the people who have the money to
do this is not going to change so what they try and do is make it as eco-friendly i know that's a
contentious phrase for this industry but to make it as clean as possible and this boat has excelled
in that this boat has systems in place that make it one of the most efficient yachts i'm not going
to say eco-friendly but i will say makes it one of the most efficient yachts in the world today
now this boat had to comply with new regulations that have been implemented in the superior
industry in the last few years and they're called their imo tier 3 emissions regulations and they're
quite strict and this boat complies with that now not everywhere in the world uses this tier three
but enough places do like the United States in Europe in the north sea where the UK is we all
adhere to this so if you want to go to those places your boat needs to comply so effectively
everybody every new boat that comes out needs to comply with those regulations and this boat
does that and it's got some really interesting ways that it does that and we're going to take
a look at that one of the biggest pollutants is it's known as nox which is a generic term
for nitrogen oxides the most relevant for air pollution namely nitric oxide and nitrogen
dioxide the technology being used to reduce nox emissions on this vessel is called selective
catalytic reduction or scr so they have scr unit and it uses a diesel exhaust fluid called urea
that acts as a reductant so when it mixes with the nox it converts pollutants into natural elements
such as nitrogen water with a minuscule amount of CO2 other systems in place are on the sundeck
there's a 23 square meters of solar panels and they're connected to lithium-ion batteries so
the vessel can store the sun's energy into these batteries and it gives the vessel an
extra six kilowatts of power and this enables the vessel on those batteries it can actually
uh run for a short amount of time just on battery so they can turn off the main generators and just
run on batteries or they can use it when they're maneuvering so when they come into the port they
can just switch over to batteries and use that power so they're not polluting at all at that time
another system they have is that they can actually reuse waste water and they recycle it and use it
for technical water instead of it just being flushed out or put flushed into tanks and then
flushed out when they're at sea so there's another creative way of reusing things and preventing
too much waste another thing the owner wanted to do is this is not not so much to do with uh what
have we just been talking about this is more to do with aesthetics is the owner wanted to use a
lot of glass he wanted to get a lot of light into the boat so he used you can see from the images
you used a massive amount of glass on this vessel one of the things you might not know is that
marine glass has to be very very thick this is why sometimes when you hear that Abramovic has
got bulletproof gras glass on his vessel and stuff like that it's just marine glass it's very thick
and so this it weighs an awful lot and it can you know it could stop a bullet or two
I haven't tested that but it is that thick so it's like ballistic glass in that sense now
they've used an awful lot of it on this vessel and as a result of that because of the weight
what they've had to do is and they've used and also the the shapes that they cut they've used
their composites on the superstructure composite material to make a lot of the superstructure be
because of the weight of the glass they had to use composites to try and reduce the amount of weight
because if they'd made it all out of steel then it would have really been very heavy so yeah so a lot
of these shapes have been cut in in composites but that was mainly because the owner wanted to have
a lot of light inside the vessel and he certainly made the vessel look
quite unique with the amount of glass that you can see here okay so the owner of this vessel is Mike
Lazaridis I hope I pronounced that correctly he's originally from Turkey but he lives in Canada now
I think I believe he's a Canadian system now you might know him if you are in the Tech Industry he
started the company blackberry so yeah remember those well they're actually
still going there blackberry but they don't make phones anymore but they do
other stuff which I'm not going to go into in this video but so this vessel is the result not only
of that but of of him starting that company he also is involved in the Quantum computing quantum
computing company I don't remember the name of it now so yeah so blackberries and them this yacht
which is incredible I wonder if he still uses the Blackberry i wonder what phony uses now
completely irrelevant.
so his net worth is around 800 million dollars and this vessel cost him approximately or
yeah allegedly cost 150 million dollars to build and it in actual fact obviously because of the
design because of the unusual design it actually was it was five years from concept to delivery so
that's something I talk about a lot on the channel is is that the reason why the reason why the value
of used yachts is quite high is because you know you want a building out like this you have to wait
5 years not everybody wants to wait especially billionaires they don't like to wait for
things usually so this five years from concept to delivery that's uh a lot of yachts take that long
all right guys thanks for watching i hope you enjoyed this video and let me know what you think
of the boat uh i'm sure it's gonna be a marmite boat you know i'm sure some people are gonna love
it and some people are going to hate it i'll be interested to know what you think of the design
the use of glass and also some of the technology that we discussed the the um efficiency technology
let's say rather than eco-friendly let me know what you think anyway uh in the comments below
and uh thanks very much for watching remember to subscribe remember to like because it really helps
the the video to be recommended to other people on a completely separate note it's so nice to see
things getting back to normal i mean we're still wearing masters still mandatory to wear a mask
in Italy right now but it's so nice the restaurants open and people sitting out
and and life just sort of getting back to normal now i was here in in the winter and and in the
end of last year and it was quite different so it's really nice to see that alright guys bye