this is super yacht news with eSysman [Music] hi welcome back to the channel this is episode 160 of
super yacht news time flies first story is Motor Yacht Eclipse as Roman Abramovich's yacht Eclipse
has been in Turkey since the beginning of the war in Ukraine and the yacht has effectively been
either in Gojek or in Marmaris in those in those 2 areas at anchor for the most part the boat has
moved, in the last couple of days it moved up to Marmaris and it docked at the marina in Marmaris
where a bunker badge dock next to it then looks like the boat was being refueled by this bunker
not sure if that means that they're going to go anywhere soon but they're taking on - by
the looks of it -taken on a full refill of fuel so it's possible that the boat is heading somewhere
maybe -we will follow that of course and let you know -and we'll move on to Motor yacht A , m/y A
has been size it again in Dubai the boat has been effectively in Dubai since she went out there from
the Maldives after switching off her AIS after Andre Molochenko was sanctioned by the EU- now
that this time it's been spotted actually docked in the marina, the marina is called Mina Rashid
Marina and it was actually on an Instagram account by someone called Oksana McYachting
and she's actually concentrating on another yacht Dubai which is docked on the side of the marina
that she's on but she pans at one point across and you can clearly see motor yacht A docked on
the other side of the marina and just start on the corner of that image you can see the QE2 the old
Cunard ocean liner there which is now permanently there as a hotel -oh in the image that -we took a
still image from that and you can see that A's got the tender garage door open there and also
it appears that it's hard to tell from this image because it's obviously it's low res- it's taken
from Instagram that it looks like the the bridge deck there has got a scaffolding on and it also
looks like possibly that that crane there is is working with the yacht so it looks like they're
getting some work done on the boat out there - m/y A still has no flag state registered with the
IMO and she's been like that for approximately 9 months now since the Isle of Man deregistered
here after the owner was sanctioned- it's been 9 months of no AAS as well so the AIS was switched
off 9 months ago and the boat has been in Ras Al kaima and Dubai ever since we'll move on to the
next story and this is the sale of motor yard Albatross so Albatross is a 72 meter 236 foot
yacht and the it was built by Delta Marine in the U.S and the boat was sold about two days ago it
was for sale by Burgess Yachts for 95 million dollars I believe it could have been Euros but
it's effectively the same right now the exchange rates and the boat was sold after just a little
over 2 months of being on sale which is pretty fast The Emirati billionaire who owned the vessel
he passed away in December and the vessel and his other vessel which he had yet to take delivery of
when he passed away which is called motion yacht Lucine at the Monaco Yacht Show -we actually did
a walkabout tour of motor yacht Lucine this is the boat with the piece of moon rock that is
embedded into one of the tables in the main Salon I'll put a link in the corner if you haven't seen
that video but it was interesting because at one point the captain on board there told us that he
said it was unfortunate that the owner would never get to use the boat and I I wasn't sure who owned
it at the point when I was actually doing that walk around so now it makes sense that the owner
has passed away -now the reason why both of his boat report for sales because like I said after
he passed away he had 3 wives and 7 children who all have a claim to his fortune and an arbitrator
has been assigned of his estate to try to resolve all of those claims and as a result both of the
Yachts have been put up for sale as far as I know the other vessel Lucine is still for sale-
like I said I'll put a link in the corner if you want to see the the video on that tour
but we'll move on to the main story now and this is about motor yacht Madame Go
it's a 99 meter or 324 foot yacht built by Feadship this is a very
well-known yacht it's got a very distinctive blue Hull which was actually the inspiration
for the color that Porsche created for the new 992 GT3 and they call it shark blue
but this is the inspiration for that and James Proyninger saw this boat while he
was on holiday and he said he loved the color so he took the color and put it on the new car
now the reason why I'm talking about this boat is because the U.S Department of Justice is
taking steps to confiscate Madame Go and that is according to the New York Times but they said it
will be diplomatically phony based on where the boat is currently docked I think it's going to
be impossible because the boat is in Dubai and as we know the United Arab Emirates have been
very friendly towards the Russians who have been sanctioned by Europe and by the US and
by the UK and there's quite a number of boats out there like we just mentioned motor yacht A, he's
been out there and there are there are a number of other boats that have that went out there as
a safe haven when the war broke out the yacht is allegedly owned by Andrei Scotch and he is a steel
tycoon and a legislator in the Russian government he's also a steel magnate and a lot of these steel
magnates actually have factories in Crimea so another thing that always comes up when I mention
um the U.S government or the FBI searches for instance is why is it that a yacht can
be taken by the FBI or search by the FBI in another country, well this is a very important
sentence the United States cannot seize property in a Sovereign Nation without the permission of
its government so when the FBI go out and help with searches it's because they've been asked
to do so by the government of the country that they're in not because they just barged in and
out of black helicopters and said we're going to search this boat it doesn't work that way
Madame Go was designated as a blocked property in June by the U.S government and that means
that the yacht cannot use U.S companies for its maintenance employ any U.S citizens and they're
not even allowed to use the US dollar -by using the US dollar for any maintenance even if they
were paying a company in another country and it didn't go through the us but just by using the
dollar that would mean that they have broken the rules of those sanctions. now there seems to be
a skeleton crew on board working on the boat the boat has been hooked up to generators now it did
come out recently that the generators they were using were owned by a company which was owned by a
British company so the British company was renting generators when that story came out they quickly
moved the generators away because that means that that British company was breaking the sanctions
Rules by a lot by renting those generators to them and they're not running the Generations on
board for reasons that are are unknown to us very often when a boat is long-term in a marina they
will go on to shore power but it's possible that where they're docked well it's likely that where
they're docked in Dubai there isn't enough Shore power so they've had to bring in these generators
but they have to switch out the generators and the new ones that came in were owned by a company that
was not British -the bottom line is that the Americans want to they want to seize this boat
but they are going to have problems and, like I said I think it's going to be impossible
for them to do that while the boat is in Dubai but stay tuned for more on that story
-Now One Last Thing Before I Go we are going to be doing which is something that we've been
doing for the last few years -we're going to be doing a super yacht of the Year award
um now this is not a super yacht of the Year based on which you think is the coolest which is what
we would have done in the past it would have been you know whichever boat is taking our imagination
based on its size or its design or something like that but this year it's going to be very
different the year has been very different hasn't it and what we're going to do is we're going to
base it around the way Time Magazine picks their person of the year so the way Time Magazine picks
their person is they say that they only have one Criterion and that is that the person or
persons who most affected the news and our lives for good or ill and embodied what was important
about the year so the way we're looking at it is we are focusing on how the particular vessel has
impacted the super yacht world in the news and how it has shaped the view that we have of yachting in
general so it's not about which one like I said which one is the coolest or which one is the
biggest or something like that- now I'll give you an example there's there are 5 boats on the list
there is a poll already on our site I will put a link in the description here so you can find that
poll - one of the boats on there is Motor Yacht Nord, motor Nord obviously was in the Maldives
left there it crossed right over the Indian Ocean up through the South China Sea up to Vladivostok
and Russia to avoid sanctions she then went to Hong Kong caused the big stir in Hong Kong,
the Americans were telling the people the government of Hong Kong they wanted the
boats arrested Etc then she left there and was headed to Cape Town and then she went dark and
Indian Ocean and disappeared and we know that since then she went to the Maldives another
boat of motor yards Amadea, Amadea probably the most high profile of all sanction Yachts headed
from Antigua through Panama Canal across the Pacific Ocean we believe it was headed to
Vladivostok went to Fiji to refuel was immediately arrested in Fiji then there were a number of court
cases and the boat was eventually seized by the US and sailed back across the Pacific to the US
where she's she currently sits in the U.S awaiting future court cases and and sale eventually but she
is currently on a U.S flag and the other another boat on the list is Eleanor E the sailing up that
was hit by the session rescue vessel and sank and sat on the on the marina floor there for 3 months
and then was raised that the hole was patched and she's been sold and that she will most likely be
repaired- there are a couple of other boats on that list but I'll like I said I will direct you
to the poll just remember to go the Criterion of the boat that you select is not which one
you think is the coolest- We the team at eSysman SuperYachts will be picking the superior of the
year but we will also tell you what the people voted for as well we have the similar poll on
Patreon and so we'll give you the results of those two polls at the end of that video so look out for
that will be coming around the end of the year all right guys I'm going to leave it there if you've
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