This is superyacht news with eSysman -
hi welcome back and welcome to another superyacht news- in the previous video i talked about various
things -be sure to check it out if you haven't already i'll put a link up above but we talked
about Flying Fox and i was saying that since she left Dominican Republic -she was heading
east looks you know heading across the Atlantic but she's been making some dramatic course changes
however i do believe she is heading to Turkey so in this video i wanted to talk about
is the boss for straight in Turkey the new escape route for Russian super yachts fleeing sanctions
so a couple of weeks ago we talked about in one of the videos we talked about 2 vessels
transiting the Bosphorus straight and heading to Sochi one of them was motor yacht Cleo owned by
Oleg Derapaska Russian and the vessel was in the Maldives and then transited the panel or
the Suez Canal not the Panama Canal transited the Suez Canal and headed to Goseck in Turkey
-she stayed there for a few days then she went through the straits
the Bosphorus Straits and headed to Sochi a couple of days later motor yacht Universe believed to
be owned by former Russian president Jubice Medvedev did the same trip well it does seem
to be a blueprint now for other superyachts that are trying to flee the European and US
sanctions so the rules of the boss restraint are governed by the Montreux convention of 1936 and
there are many different aspects to it but basically it guarantees free passage to civilian
vessels in peace time on the 27th of march however Turkey recognised the Russian invasion of Ukraine
as a war which allowed them to close the straits to all military vessels unless they
originate in the black sea so if a Russian vessel is outside the black sea wants to go back to its
home port he can still do so now according to United States navy news , navy institute news
no country has tried to send a warship through the Bosphorus or Dardanelle since Turkey issued
its warning but this is not stopping Russian superyachts from using the straits of course
the latest vessel to go through the straits is the 65 meter Benetti
called motoryacht Rahil which was delivered in 2011 and it's owned by Arcadie Rothenberg
this photo that you're seeing on screen right now is by Uric Isaac
from Twitter and actually showing the vessel passing through the straits i believe yesterday so
Rottenberg is a close childhood friend of Vladimir Putin and he's a former judo partner and he
also claims to own the property in Russia which was exposed by the Navalny team and is now known
as Putin's palace now he claims he owns this property although he's not provided any financial
documentation to say that he actually had it built he said he bought it 2 years ago he also is
alleged to have laundered about 60 million pounds through Barclays Bank in the UK according to the
BBC in leaked papers in 2020 in a money laundering scheme so yeah that vessel's just passed through
the straits now there are some other vessels Russian-owned vessels that are in Gosek in Turkey
and it seems to be like a staging area for vessels that want to transit i'm not sure if they go
they're going to just stay in Gosek or they're going to follow suit and go through the streets
one of the vessels is Grand Russolina which is a 60 meter or 196 foot boat built by Trinity yachts
and owned by Russian Rustom Terragulov this vessel is in turkey in Ghosek right now
it does seem to be a place where these shots are are gathering -you can see on this on this map
here on Marine Traffic if i click on grand Rossolina and then if i click on the vessel
next to it on this left it's port side - it's a motoryacht Romaya this is also a Russian-owned
vessel and then if i click on the vessel on the other side you have Anastasia K which is believed
to be owned by a Ukrainian billionaire and then if i just go down a couple of miles you'll see if i
click on this one here you can see it says eclipse this is yes none other than Roman Abramovich's
massive 160 plus meter superyacht Eclipse which wasn't Marmaras until recently i had somebody
contact me say that the vessel had loaded on 2 million dollars of fuel before leaving and going
to go second ticket she's now at anchor there not sure what her plans are like i said i think she
may go through the straight you'll know the saga of Eclipse was in the Caribbean when when he was
sanctioned -when Roman Abrahmovic was sanctioned left Anguilla did this amazing transatlantic
18 knots more or less the whole way straight through the streets of Gibraltar and straight to
Turkey as far as i can tell she did the whole trip on one tank and going back to Flying Fox
actually Flying Fox is still across the Atlantic it's going to take another week or 10 days to do
so but she's making some unusual course changes let's say it could be weather related but the
earlier ones the ones i mentioned in the previous video look quite odd and then
this morning when i checked again she was heading towards The UK in the you know in the direction of
the UK- now she's made another course change again anyway we'll find out in about a week
where she's heading but i'm pretty confident she's heading to Gibraltar to the straits of Gibraltar
and then on from there we'll have to wait and see anyway guys that's all i've got for tonight if you
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