So this is a bit of a news story that happened fairly recently i was actually sent in by one of
my one of my subscribers i thought it was quite funny sailing yacht a as you probably know are
aware it's built by nobus krug in germany it's the largest electronic sailing yacht in the world
it's just shy of 143 metres which is about 470 feet it's got a 24 meter beam or
81 foot beam width and it's actually got um it's actually classed as a 3 mask schooner
and the masts are so high now when it was in the build i don't know whether they ever fixed this
but they what they realized is the height of the masts uh it was too tall to go through the Panama
canal and it's not normally an issue with a vessel sailing through panama canal because
there's only a couple of bridges there and they're very high but apparently this uh the the mass on
this vessel was so high that it was going to uh prevent it from going through now i know in the
in the design phase there was some talk of having some sort of telescopic thing at the top
whether they did that i don't know but anyway the interesting story is the vessel uh today right now
it's in the isle of man and it was in Spain recently and a lot of small boats went out to
meet it and this 6 meter or 20 foot little sailing boat crashed into the side of of sailing
your a and then scraped its way all the way down the side of the vessel until it hit the the one
of the shell doors was open where they'd launched the boat so i think so that was like it was quite
windy that the uh the owner was apparently trying to start the petrol engine so he could reverse
away couldn't get it going they crashed into the side of the vessel and then they scraped all the
way down the side and then the mast of the little vessel hit the side of the tender garage door that
was open and eventually he managed to move it away it was all caught on video um this is from
news flash it was sent to me from metro newspaper i thought that was quite funny and it does show
the size of sailing your a in comparison to this little tiny thing the 6 meter sailing boat
but i don't i don't know whether there was any damage i'm sure the owner won't be very
pleased because i'm sure it caused some scratches on the side so they'll probably get out there -
the crew will get out there and have a look so it says it says the captain of sailing your a
will have to file a report with the maritime captaincy of Vigo but this does not mean
any claims are being made against the little boat and then he goes on to say that
it belongs to andrey milnechenko he's worth 17.9 billion dollars or 13 billion pounds so
he's not short of a bob or two he still owns motio which is uh which was his first boat
and uh it is up for sale but it's been for sale for years since the new one came out
and i i would say there's probably only a handful of people in the world who could afford that boat
so i don't know how serious he is about selling it i i know there was a price drop recently i think
it's for sale for about 230 million right now so grab a bargain all right so a few stats about
sailing a while we're on the subject it's gross tonnage is just shy of 13 000 gross tons now
that's the same gross tonnage as as a sam so yeah it's a big boat so the length is 142.8
meters like i said just shy of 143 meters or about 470 feet the beam is uh 24.8 meters or 81.4 feet
i think it was higher than that originally in the design and they may have lowered it so it can go
through Panama Canal it has a range of 5 and a half thousand nautical miles has a crew of 55
which is a pretty big crew but it is a big boat - i don't know whether that is actually the amount
of crew that they'll have maybe when the boss is on board that will be 55 but i would imagine it's
less than that when he's not there probably probably 10 less than that
when he's not there- the crew -the numbers are probably based on the cabin arrangement
and and very often the cabins are arranged in such a way that he he has room for his entourage that
come with them they're not strictly crew let me know in the comments if you were there if
you saw it or if you're in Isle of Man right now -if you've got any photographs please feel
free to send them over and i'll put them on my channel alright thanks very much for watching - bye