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all right guys welcome back to the channel welcome back to italy and welcome back to a
five minute friday okay it's been a while since i've done a five minute friday
uh for reasons that are many and i'm not gonna go into right now but let's just say
it's nice to be doing a five minute friday again i'm sure i will blow straight through it
but let's put five minutes on the clock and let's get on with it all right guys so it's
been kind of a big week for news this is my third video of the week which is actually
going to have some news in it um so yeah it's been it's been a busy week uh what with the
renaming of seven seas uh information about the new steven spielberg yacht and now we've got
this just came out just after i posted the last video the jeff bezos yacht allegedly jeff bezos
uh it's just been seen at ocean cove for the first time came out of the shed on extremely slow wheels
and they they bring it bring it out of the shed on these wheels i'll put the images up on the screen
so you can see it this will have taken several hours to get it out these things move incredibly
slowly as you can imagine they don't want the last thing they want is to fall over after being built
in there for so many years um it's it's allegedly uh the new york for jeff bezos as i've said and it
is 127 meters long and it will be the largest pure sailing yacht in the world and it will
knock black pearl off the top spot as the largest sailing yacht in the world which is a 106 meters
so this is considerably larger than black pearl you might be thinking around in a minute selling
your a is 143 meters but selling your a is not a pure sailing you're selling your a is an assisted
sailing yacht which means it can use its sales but it also requires motors for assistance so it's not
a pure sailing yacht and that's why that's not uh the the biggest pure sailing yacht in the world
okay the second thing is in my uh in the in the video when i showed a man of steel coming out
of the shipyard i showed um it making a turn and there was a lot of black smoke coming out the side
and there was quite a lot of people putting comments saying what's with the black smoke
um it does look kind of unusual because most people uh are accustomed to seeing any smoke
coming from the top of the vessel right from the smokestack or funnels as we call them in the uk
this vessel however does not have traditional funnels at the top of the vessel
now a lot of soup yachts don't have that a lot of them have underwater um exhausts and
some of them have exhausts that are down on the water line not underwater but on the water line
and managed steel or seven seasonal man of steel it is one of those vessels that has uh exhausts
on the water line so what you see is purely just the smoke coming out of
the exhaust now why is it black smoke um there's a few reasons really the vessel is maneuvering
it's just coming out it's just come out of a synchro lift a type of you know the way they
pull the boat out the water has just been lowered into into there and it's maneuvered and it's
maneuvering out of the shipyard and it's making a big turn almost like a 90 degree turn to go out
so it's using bow thrusters and stern thrusters to turn now that requires a
lot of power and what possibly happened there is is as they got to that point and started to turn
another generator came on so generally you'll have a number of generators running
when the power request from the bridge or from the boat in general becomes over a certain ampage then
another um another generator will automatically start up and that was probably what that was
um also the vessel just started its engines after being in the shipyard for a number of weeks
so it's most likely just that it's like an engine clearing its throat so there was nothing nothing
to be of concern i know it looks odd that you've got so much smoke bellowing out you
should see my 911 when i start it when i go home after two months it kind of does the same thing
um yeah but there's nothing to worry about and everything was normal and that's just what it was
okay so the next story is what i'm gonna call uh luna watch so i'm kind of excited because
luna is on the move as i said in my last video and she when i did my last video she was actually
sailing up through the sewers canal and you can actually see in the in the screen grabs that i
show uh in that video is the um you can see on the the window that shows luna's image in it
it actually shows the location where it came from and where it's going to and it actually says in
that location sues canal as its final destination by the time the video went live it already cleared
uh sue's canal and it was in the med and i said in that video that he was probably heading
to gibraltar to refuel and possibly heading up through the english channel afterwards up
to germany now um the vessel is now heading to gibraltar that is its loca that's its direction
um on ais so as you can see from the images i'm showing you on the screen you can see it's in the
mediterranean sea there and it's just passing by to brook and um and you know it's on the same uh
longitude as to brook and it's heading west so it's going to get to gibraltar in uh a few days
it's eta is the 26th of of this month no doubt uh gibraltar yachting will be filming it so we'll
hopefully we'll get some of the first images of it in the med since it returned from over
three years ago so looking forward to that stay tuned i will try and bring you some footage of it
i am genuinely excited to see lunard again um and i think it's a beautiful looking yacht
and uh you'll be nice to see it in the med maybe next year another possibility of course
is is that when after it clears gibraltar it will head across the atlantic to the caribbean
maybe i mean maybe they had some refit time in uh in dubai and it's ready to go and it's
sending it over to the caribbean for the for the for the winter season who knows we'll find out
um on the 26th no doubt after they've refueled all right so i'm going to wrap it up here as
a quick one uh five minute friday after all um i hope you have a great weekend and stay
tuned i've got more stuff to come next week and i'll catch up with you soon alright guys bye you