hi guys welcome back to the channel and it's friday night and that means it's time
for a five minute friday now i'm gonna state right now i'm gonna blow right through the five minutes
but uh let's put it on the clock anyway and uh let's get going all right so the first thing i
wanted to talk about is something that if you're into superyacht you've probably already know about
is the the reveal should i say or the launch of the new super art motion solaris so it was known
as project solaris but apparently he's decided to keep that name and it's going to be known as
solaris motion solaris this is the person that you would think would never have to think of
the phrase i think i need a new superior and that would be roman abramovich so yeah
this is roman abramovich's vessel it's a 140 meter 11 000 gross ton uh superyacht
and it is an explorer vessel and it's allegedly designed to replace uh luna so back in the day
abramovic bought le grand blue which is 113 meter vessel and um yeah and he loves the fact
that it had a power boat and a sailing boat on the stern section so because he bought le grand blue
and he didn't build it himself this is what this is my uh this is my theory anyway uh he when he
when he got rid of le grand blue which there was a story about him uh losing in a in a in a bet
with a with one of his uh business partners and i actually mentioned it in the video once but i
found out that he actually sued a newspaper in the uk for that story and he sued him one because they
he said it wasn't true so anyway for whatever reason he decided to get rid of legrand blue
and he built luna and that was a that was a replacement for it and it was built along the
same lines 115 meters similar gross tonnage but the stone section was meant to house a couple
of boats but apparently during the uh the build once the once they were fitting out the vessel
they realized that the stability wouldn't be good enough to have those um two vessels on the stern
so they were never fitted this motor yacht solaris is a replacement for luna because obviously
soul luna and it's now been in uh in dubai for three years it seized while the the new owner
goes through a a lovely divorce and um so so um abramovich has built this new boat to replace
luna uh 140 meters as i said 11 000 gross tons so it's over double the size of luna the previous
by gross tonnage so that is a huge huge vessel
so i know what you're thinking what's the retail on one of those my answer would be more than you
can afford pal the numbers being thrown around for this vessel's build cost is 600 million dollars
now unless you're roman abramovich's bank manager uh i don't think anybody knows other than him and
roman abramovich so uh i think it's a guess in actual fact that is the number that gets
thrown around for the cost of eclipse so uh yeah it's it's it's basically a guess at this point
um so based on based on that cost and they say the average running cost of a vessel is 10 of the bill
costs so that would say that 60 million a year those numbers seem a little high to me but knowing
roman abramovich's tastes i can see why he would spend as much as that on a vessel because he goes
for i mean this is sounds odd to say this but he goes for the absolute best of everything now most
super yachts are built along those lines but he's like you know on the next level as far as guests
um the number being thrown around on guests is 36 in 30 cabins now the reason why 36 is because
that's the most you can have on a yacht when it's built to the passenger yacht code any more than
that and you would have to go to a commercial level of build so um you know and then it would
be classed as a passenger vessel not a super yacht so it's most likely 36 or less where does that put
more to get solaris on this on the on the scale last year i did a video called the top 10 super
yachts in the world by volume you can click on a link up here and i'll put one below as well
the based on the volume solaris comes in at number nine because it's uh 11 000 gross tons now if
you base it on length it actually sits around number 12. it comes in at 140 meters which is
the same size as ocean victory which was built by fincantieri and charosarde which was built
by larson i believe that's another reason why it's good to measure vessels by uh gross tonnage
because it's unlikely you're gonna have a vessel with the exact same gross tonnage as another one
the other thing i wanted to talk about is uh the moti art
go crash i just wanted to shed a little bit more light on it so the uh the captain went public
with his concerns about the vessel he basically said that it was a malfunction
he talked about computer malfunctions and um he said that he he's he has a concern about
the way yacht's been built he said the vessel has no redundancy in terms of manual overrides
um what he said happened is that they were they were about to leave to go through the bridge and
it was at that point where he was holding steady and then he said without warning there were no
alarms and the vessel just started to push forward and he had he said he had about 13 seconds to make
a decision on what to do and the the course he was on he would have hit the bridge so he he
managed to use his bow thruster to push the vessel to the to the port port side and then he crashed
into the bed into the pier now after he did that um the vessel you can see in the video the vessel
moves forward hits the pier and then it moves backwards and then it goes forwards again
it's hard to discern what's happening but in the in the video you see as it approaches the first
time you can see the wash coming from the from the engines from from from the propellers now
on the port side on the left side of the boat you can see the wash is going forwards which
which means that the engine is in reverse it's pushing it's trying to push the vessel backwards
but the starboard side engine appears to be the one that's propelling the vessel forward
so that's very strange so after they crash then the propulsion stops
you can see the the wash stops and then the vessel reverses which i assume is the captain trying to
reverse away from the pier and then it starts to push forward again and then he hits the pier again
um so yeah it's very uh worrying that that happened and he's saying that basically he
had no control over it yeah by the way look look in the video you can see that the the vessel is
clearly in trouble and yet a speedboat goes right round the bow of the ship crosses over in front of
the vessel and then another little boat goes goes past the second time after they've already crashed
and they reverse out and then these boats are going by it's absolutely crazy and they
could have very easily been the victims of that boat going out of control like that
uh there will be an investigation i'm sure it's already started and they will look for the cause
of that now one of the interesting things that he said is is that there were no alarms the end the
the the vessel was holding its course and then all of a sudden the vessels started lurching forward
one of the things they need to look at and i'm sure they will
is sabotage it sounds very dramatic the word sabotage but it's possible that somebody
was inside the system and they made changes and that's why there were no alarms now this it is
actually possible on modern vessels down on all the vessels the uh control stations were never
connected to the internet there was there was never any access that way unless physically
there was an issue and you physically connected it to the internet to get somebody to be able
to remote access like back in the day um before that kind of stuff you would always have to have a
technician fly out and they're just you know quite costly now obviously they've built into these new
vessels a way for people to be in the system now i've i've actually been on a vessel and i've seen
one of the control panels and i can see the mouse moving around there's actually somebody
in the system without our knowledge and we've had to contact the company and say is that you
now as a result of that we started to physically unplug the cable from the network
so they couldn't get in unless we wanted them in so it's quite possible that it was
somebody was in the system and accidentally made changes while they were trying to
fix some issue without telling the engineers which is like i said i've seen that happen
or somebody deliberately gained access to it and caused the the crash deliberately
this is something i'm going to be talking about in a future video uh talking about superyacht
security cyber security and and other types of security so stay tuned for that one by the way
if you have any questions about that subject about superyacht security put them below and
i'll try and incorporate them into the video put the questions below for that one so
i'm going to be talking about superyacht security so it can be any aspect of security that you want
to ask a question but i'm going to concentrate in the next video on or in this video on cyber
security so anyway i'm gonna round up here because i'm sure i've blew through that five minute thing
um let me know what you think of the project and now motion solaris and also about the motion go
crash all right guys thanks for watching and i hope you have a great weekend
bye bye what's the retail on one of those things and my answer would be more than you can afford