this supe yacht worth 8 billion dollars that is the question
right well we're going to get into all the details of that today and by the
end of this video you'll know the truth about this boat all right guys welcome back to the channel
so where are we today we're in imperia this is down the coast from genoa i've just driven
here - it was quite the drive -the weather in genoa was atrocious when i left
anyway we're in the Imperia Marina there's quite a few nice shots in today some of the small ones
a couple of big ones there's a boat here that got quite famous a while ago not this one
a gold colored boat called kala which i'm going to go and look at in a minute and i'll tell you
the back story once we get there this is a beauty look at this i have no idea about sailing vessels
it's called meteor and what i can say is the wood that is in there must take some upkeep and they've
put a cover over it obviously to protect it but the chrome and the wood in there is fantastic uh
my dad would love that it's just his cup of tea i think look at that
wow that is super impressive it's like a museum
the sun is coming out and i can feel the heat it's fantastic what a result alright guys so this is a
m/y Kalela now she's actually a Palmer Johnson built in the U.S.
the hull was built in Norway- i can't remember the name of the company i'll put it
up on the screen, so the hull was built in Norway and then the body was built in norway
and then it was sent over to the U.S. to finish -it was designed interior and exterior
designed by Palmer Johnson in the U.S: and it was delivered in 2014 it's about 490 meters 500
about 490 gross tons - 48 meters in length and i think it's got a beam of 11 meters
and the reason why i mean it's a striking looking yacht isn't it but the reason why this came into
uh into the news fairly recently when i say news i mean youtube news not like uh on cnn or something
um was because there was a video that there was a few videos that got released that talked about
a gold-plated superyacht that was worth eight billion and in that video which was it was
completely fake by the way in that video they actually showed two different yachts and this
was one of the yachts they showed and and the idea was that this this billionaire in the middle east
bought a yacht and then had it gold-plated can you imagine the weight of that on the whole if
that actually happened so this hole is actually a composite and it's actually made out of carbon
fiber and painted gold but a lot of people watched that video and and i actually put some comments on
the video saying it was complete completely bogus look at the gangway passerelle it's a plank of
wood i've never seen anything like that before not on a super yacht uh that's very strange it's
almost like they don't have a gang they don't have a passerelle i don't see a passwell in actual fact
about um normally you'll have some passerella that comes out i think it must be broken uh
they usually come out you know like telescopic to come they come out on hydraulics but i don't see
anything there but that's very strange it's not very safe is it so you can actually see
uh that hole i think that's where the passarelle would come out but it's missing so it must be must
be broken and they've removed it to repair it and then they've just come with this low-tech
solution that's super dangerous especially if you're coming back
from a night out people fall off gangways even when it's got rails
so kala has got a two m94 mtu diesel engines and it cruises at 15 knots but it actually has a top
speed of 26 knots which is about 48 kilometers an hour or about 27 miles per hour which is
very impressive that's probably something to do with it being a composite hull
it's got a very uh you can it almost looks like a like a some sort of a spaceship
the design of the hull is very unusual and if you can see that um
it's almost like a trimer on but it's not i don't know what those fins on the on the
exterior for but they must help with that top speed but that is a very impressive top speed
so
what a great name for boat my escape
the weather is uh it's really turned for the better fantastic i was expecting it to
be raining i was really concerned there was going to be a washout but um i couldn't have asked for
better weather really we're in the super yacht marina i love it we're in the super yup marina
and yeah um to cross over to this size you've got this rickety little bridge
here with bits of metal stuck on top of it listen to it
i can feel it moving as i walk across it
all right guys so uh we're finally getting to the area where all the big boats are
this is what i came to see i mean i came to see all of it
but these are the ones that i'm most interested in so let's check them out
all right so here we have motion secret
now if you uh watch all my videos you'll know who who this own who owns this boat
uh it's a woman called nancy walton laurie if you're from the us you'll know immediately who
that is she's one of the uh the daughters of the founder of walmart and um she recently
purchased or a couple years ago purchased multi-yacht jubilee the 110 meter jubilee
and this is now for sale so the jubilee was his name name was changed to chaos spell k-a-o-s
and and secret has been for sale ever since um no nibbles so far as
far as i know so as you can take 12 guests i would imagine in six cabins a crew of 23
and um and a gross tonnage of uh 2200 gross tons registered in georgetown in the cayman islands
now when the when she bought uh chaos initially they changed the name of chaos to secret three
which was weird because there was no secret too and then a few months later they changed it again
to chaos which which kind of uh kind of uh fitting isn't it when you consider the name changes okay
so this is predator built by fedship it's this slightly older 2008 and it's actually 72 meter
and it only has room for six guests which uh which is quite a few for a vessel of its size
but you know maybe he hasn't got many friends it lives here so every time every time i've been here
in the past two years this vessel has been here so and i i know someone who used to work on board
and um they told me that uh that this is its permanent home next to that we have universe
mercier universe built by amel's in 2018 so she's relatively new or two year or three years old now
12 guests hit six cabins crew of 19 all of them standing by the door on his phone and looks of it
i sound like russian speaking russian on the radio
interestingly and then next to universe we have galaxy
which is quite funny so which is bigger the galaxy or the universe
this instance the galaxy is smaller than the universe well it's actually that's always the
case isn't it thinking about it so this is a 50 meter and it's a benetti actually
registered in the creek which is in uh cayman islands also it's just that the um it's one of the
three registries they have in the cayman islands and uh if you look up on the thing
there you see the little antenna there that's for the wi-fi i think in the marina the summer
some marinas have a plug uh some marines have a plug down here so you've got down here you've
got your water supply that blue light hose there's your water supply and then you've
got your electrics to yellow and then usually the marina will have an ethernet cable underneath that
socket should i say and you just plug in and you run the cable on board plug into your switch but
in this marina they don't have that so they have these little beacons a little uh wi-fi boosters
and you get one from the marina when you come in you fit it up and then you get wi-fi for the crew
well have you ever if you ever come to imperia there's a nice view in tower right
there's not a viewing tower it's a wall it's got a viewing area and you can see all the
yachts quite nicely but you there's no restriction from walking down inside here there's no there's
no no one challenges you anyway so you can walk around in the section over here with
a are sometimes it is closed but today it's not with open so something interesting just happened
unfortunately i wasn't filming i was flew my drone something wrong with my drone actually but
i flew my drone over the vessels and though i just mentioned there was russians speaking on the radio
and uh one of the one of the russians came running up the stairs and said hey mister you can't fly
here i called port authority so you'd probably already call him because i said okay but i was
still flying and uh he said it twice so i said okay and then and then he left so i would imagine
he's already called them because um because he didn't come back and i was still flying so
well there's no restrictions in flying here so i mean i'm very careful about that kind of thing
i don't fly in general at all because i know you're not allowed to and there's no restrictions
here so if they do come there's nothing they well they can possibly tell me to leave but
they can't arrest me or anything like that because i haven't done anything wrong and i'm filming in
the public area so these are these guys here are the ones out in force trying to intimidate me
i wonder who owns the boat because they certainly don't want
any pictures taken so it's quite interesting
it's funny uh people have a funny idea about drones because
i i was filming in front of that boat and he was stood out on deck and he never said anything i
he i heard him call someone on the radio in russian and then someone else came out but
they never said anything while i was filming with with my camera but as soon as i put the drone up
i mean i left and went up into that viewing area so i was out of sight but as soon as i
put the drone up he came running up the stairs and said you can't film i mean he was wrong i
can film but it was just interesting to me that um they've got this perception about the drone
like the camera's okay but the drone's not i mean what's that about i just found that very strange
i i've seen it quite quite a bit over the years people getting upset about drones
there's got it in their head that a drone can see something you know i mean if there were guests on
board fair enough but there's not i mean there's no guests sunbathing in february in italy is there
um so yeah quite quite weird maybe they're smuggling something they didn't want me to see
it's funny when i made a video a while ago about nirvana and i talked i i touched upon the subject
which i don't normally bother with and it was about the rat guards uh on the on the lines
and um the comments that came from that was quite funny actually because a lot of people telling me
that rats can easily get over these uh these rat guards and that would not be a any any uh problem
for the rats that they know it's quite funny like well i don't know i don't know about that but they
they obviously work because people use them um you know maybe this ninja rats where you live but uh
you can see them on most of the lines actually one of the lines doesn't have one there but
so the smart rat will go on that line right so my escape er was built in the united arab emirates
and it's it's actually a grp hull so it's not a steel hole which like most uh most superyachts of
this size would be a steel hole i would imagine i would imagine i would i think i would prefer
to have a steel hole um this was sold last year in july i think the asking price for
this yacht at the time was 11 million euros and it was sold it was it was sell by yatsu
and which is an agency and the um it was in the uh the buyer was introduced by imperial yachts
and that's another agency imperial yachts are super secretive um i had an interview
for for a yacht with them once and they required a non-non-disclosure agreement
just for the interview and furthermore when i sent i sent them my cv and then they insisted
i do this video like a minute video talking about myself and you know full length video
so i i go on there and i talk about the yachts i've worked on blah blah blah blah
and then i send it away and then it comes back oh don't talk about the yacht you've
worked on because it's uh you know it's top secret apparently it's on my cv they've got
my cv in front of them and they're complaining that i mentioned the yachts that are on my cv
alright so back to where i started so i'm gonna i'm gonna wrap this video up here i hope you've
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favorite yacht that you saw today i think i think mine's gonna be kala just because it's so unusual
and the color is so unusual as well but anyway i've got to go and try and rescue my car now
so when i arrived in the marina the barrier was open and i thought oh it's broken you know
whatever so i just drove in parked and now the barriers closed so i don't know how i'm gonna get
out because i'm not supposed to be well i'm not supposed to park in here don't think but i figured
oh if it's open then obviously there's no security so i'll just park inside the marina so
so uh yeah gotta go and try and figure out how to get out maybe there's another way out i
think i've just spotted a place where i might be able to drive out anyway uh yeah that's enough
from me so uh thanks for watching and i'll see you next time all right so this is the exit here
oh there's a barrier coming up oh yes so somebody's opening the barrier here someone
someone's um calling there's like a machine there that you call and tell them and they
open the barrier for you so when they open it i'll drive out what time that's perfect timing
there we go
that's so cool oh that's unbelievable there was another there was a possibility
of getting out another way i saw uh there was a barrier into the uh
port authority building the bar the fence was down and i could possibly drive through there
but i didn't know whether the gate was open on the other side but uh that was just the timing
couldn't have been more perfect i even give the thumbs up to the guys if i was meant to be there
that was lucky all right guys that's really it now thanks for watching bye bye go pro stop recording