this is super yacht news with eSysman -hi welcome back to the channel so we've had more sightings
of m/y Nord- if you I've seen the channel before you'll know m/y Nord it's a massive 142 meter
super yacht that looks kind of like a Russian warship from World War II -the yacht is owned
by Alexi Mordashoff who is currently on the sanctions list of the UK the EU and the US.
the vessel was in Hong Kong where it caused a bit of a stir with the U.S sort of calling
out the Hong Kong government it left Hong Kong with the AIS destination of Cape Town in South
Africa however the vessel never made it there and it once it got into the Indian Ocean after
the Malacca Straits it switched off the AIS and headed to the Maldives so she's been in
the Maldives since the beginning of November as far as we can tell these photos and this video
that you see on screen you can see the three islands on the photo and then we'll switch to
the map and you can see if I zoom out you can see exactly where the boat was at the time of
those photos being taken now the person who wants to remain anonymous sent the photos in and they
were on a seaplane flying overhead when they saw the boat -and then in the video you can see
obviously somebody's in a speed boat of some sort and they're taking that video as they go
past Nord- now what's interesting is a couple of things interesting about the boat one of them
is just a interesting to notice that they've got a basketball on the the bow section there
with the fence All Around The Edge stop the ball falling off the side which is quite cool
but what's it what's interesting is that we're told that the video was shot at 12 40 PM just
after lunch time and you can see that there's no flag hoisted there so that's quite interesting so
maybe they don't want to put up a Russian flag right now -maybe that's the reason why there's
no flag but that flag should be there from 8 AM onwards -all right so we'll move on to the next
story -now in the last video we talked about a boat satin Monaco that looks pretty much
abandoned called m/y Sarafsa the boat has been sat in Monaco for a few weeks now and
we got these photographs sent into us by a subscriber who wants to remain anonymous and
we talked about the fact that the vessel had been arrested in in Sardinia and there was a ongoing
court case because of non-payments of loans that were taken out and like I said there was an
ongoing court case well the court case was settled and the boat is now in the ownership of the bank
the prince lost that case and yeah that the ownership is now resting with the bank the
banker trying to sell this boat and hence it being in Monaco but we've got a bit of a
timeline as to what happened and how the boat ended up where it is today in the custody of
this of this bank so the boat was in Crete where the owner of the prince prince Fahad
bin Sultan from Saudi Arabia he joined the boat in a Septa approximately September last year
the bank tried to seize the boats increase however for some reason he was he was able to
get this thrown out in the court and the boat sailed from Crete and eventually I'm
not sure if it went anywhere else in between that but eventually it headed to Sardinia
now when the boat went to a place called Cala de Volpe in Sardinia and the boat was arrested there
now they were tied to a boy out there and they were there for a few weeks and then eventually
they were allowed to move the boat to Porto Cervo after the Cold Case was cons it was finished and
the Court ruled that the bank now owned this boat the boat headed eventually to Genoa I went into
genuine had some work done on some anti-fouling some basic maintenance on the boat to get it up
to a standard where it could be sold and then the boat moved to Monaco now which I said in the
last video it's probably the four Brokers to go and look at the boats and and to try to sell it
now we spoke to quite a lot of people who have had dealings with the boat over a period of
time it's quite an interesting story some of the people said that despite the exterior and how it
looks on the outside but the inside is actually in excellent condition one person who's close to
the vessels even saying that the interior was pristine so it's quite a mystery as to why the
accident the exterior would look so poor on the scale of things you know it's not that important
it looks bad especially when you're trying to sell it but ultimately it's it's an easy fix
it's just just costs money to fix it and whoever buys this boat will no doubt send it somewhere
to have that paint job done a number of people former crew have said that they never had any
problems getting paid they all received their pay that there were some delays at some point but they
eventually all got their pay however we found out that there is alleged really a five or six French
former crew who filed a lawsuit in France against the vessel for non-payments and apparently these
people hadn't been paid for between five to six months and they filed this lawsuit in the hopes
of trying to get that money back now in this case that would mean that if that vessel was assailant
to French Waters that the vessel would be arrested so any potential buyer would have to bear that in
mind I would like to hope that anybody spending the amount of money that it will cost to buy this
boat and get it up to up to scratch would not think too hard about paying those former crew
even though it it happened when they didn't own The Vessel I would hope that they would do
that because it's the right thing to do and also because if they ever want to go to France you know
to Antibes to Juan-le-pins all the places that they go the Yachts like to go during the summit
then they'll need to settle that amounts but which in on the scale of things is a small amount right
so so yeah so that's that's the backstory of that boat the the reason why it's ended up in Monaco
the Yacht is for sale apparently exclusively with Burgess Yachts who are based in Monaco for
65 million euros we did contact Burgess and we've asked them a number of questions which they have
referred to the new owner the bank and they said they're hoping to get back to us with some answers
we've also asked if we can go down to the boat and go on board and and make a video to
show what What It's Like on board there and so they're all also asking that and they've
said that they've recommended to the new owner to let us on board so hopefully we'll be able
to bring you something about that and be very interested to talk to some of the crew as well
about you know the engine room and the technical stuff as well so let's hope that that happens
anyway that's the backstory of that boat and and the current location of it is in Monaco still
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