Alright guys welcome back to the channel I hope you all have a great new year
it's now January I'm back in Italy in Genoa and I've just come down to the marina
for a quick scout around seen seen a really nice boat wasn't intending to
film today I even have shopping with me but I can't ever go shopping and in
Genoa without popping down to the marina to have a look around. This time of
the year down at the marina it's not usually that busy and and it's not that
busy but there is a really nice boat in I've been wanting to feature on the
channel for a while now the boat is called motor yachts hodor I saw this
boat the first time last year didn't know what the name what the relevance of
the name was because I'm apparently the only person in the world who never
watched Game of Thrones so apparently there was a big guy in the Game of
Thrones and his name was Hodor so this boat has been named after him and it is
a class of boat it's technically classed as a super yacht but it's actually a
shadow boat so you don't know what a shadow boat is basically when the owners
boat isn't big enough for all his toys he he buys a second boat and that
becomes a shadow boat so he shadows the main boat everywhere. Many reasons why
this boat in particular it's a 66 meter boat, it's a catamaran one of its big features
is helicopter flying overhead it's big features as its able to carry
five tenders and what I'm the largest one is a 17 meter boat so it also is
able to carry cars it's able to carry out helicopter operations also has
massive cranes on the deck and one of the things about on a SuperYacht even a big
SuperYacht is when they do helicopter operations it kind of affects the
day-to-day running of the boat while that helicopter is either taking off or
landing so it's kind of disruptive while it's going on
you have to have guys in fire suits and the whole thing so all of that stuff
takes place on the shadow boat so the there's no disruption at all on the
main boat so the helicopter flies into the shadow boat lands give you all the
helicopter operations on board refueling with the helicopter as well which is
obviously important and then they just tender them across in one of the five
tenders that this boat has and for the discerning billionaire who needs his
helicopters it's a great way to go about so Hodor it was built for the owner of
vocal Lonian and that's an 87 meter boat it also has the helicopter landing
pad on it but with this boat in he doesn't need to use that anymore
so that's an 87 meter boat that was built by Feadship and Hodor was only
delivered in March of 2019 I almost said this year then. It was
built in conjunction with a company called 'InCat Crowther' an Australian company
but it was actually built in in Spain by a company called Astillos Armon so
and they specialize in building this type of vessel. They actually have a
section on their website now where you can order a Shadow Cat similar to the
one that they've just built.
lots of space, an amazing amount of space inside
and and also it's outfitted superyacht standards the boat has a fully equipped
dive center on board has nitrox and o2 and it also has a hyperbaric chamber in
the in the ship's hospital so if anybody gets into trouble they can go down there
and decompress. Also comes with an ROV a remotely operated vehicle which sits on
the foredeck and they winch it down with a massive crane and they can operate it
from there it's incredible. It really is incredible
okay in terms of its capabilities it's a top speed of 22.5 knots
it's got a range of 5500 nautical miles but it only
requires 160,000 litres of fuel to do that which is
really impressive and that's based on the design of the hull. It's very
efficient that's that range is at 14 knots which
is very good for about of its size one of the great things about a boat with
this kind of hull is it doesn't need stabilizers doesn't need most boats have
got something called zero speed stabilizers which basically counteract
the rolling motion of a boat so what especially when it's an anchor
and about the boat tends to roll side to side like this so the stabilizers will
will move to counter that effect well because this is a catamaran it doesn't
need it so that's great it has something on the back called an active
interceptors which stops pitching reduces pitching when it's in under way
but apart from that it doesn't need any stabilizers which is good because that
uses power which means you use more fuel it makes it more efficient. Okay guys I'm
gonna wind up here as just an impromptu video another one from Italy which which
I don't do that many impromptu videos but yeah just happy to be here and see
this boat so I hope you enjoyed it I hope you found some information in this
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I'll catch you guys soon alright guys by.