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all right guys welcome back to eSysman Superyacht News, so the boat you just saw
coming out of the shipyard and heading for sea trials
was project Enzo earlier this month - since then she's been officially named motor yacht Apu okay
it's a 115 meter or 377 foot super yacht and she was built by none other than Lurssen who have
announced the delivery of the vessel to her owner so the owner is believed to be Michael Lee Chin
and he's worth an estimated 1.5 billion dollars according to the superyacht fan website
the yacht is 5,000 gross tons and is said to be focused on health and fitness with an extra
large wellness center on board so the excellent footage by the way is unfortunately it's not mine
and i have to thank Tom Van Ussanen for this footage - you can check out his Instagram page
at Tom Van Usenan and you'll see some incredible photos and videos like the one you saw at the
beginning of this video all right guys moving on uh the 71 meter or 230 ish foot super yacht
with one of the most commented names in the world of e-cis mancipits at least scat has been sold
Stuart Lasen from Frasier yachting was responsible for selling the vessel
and in this case he also found the buyer so that's a double bonus for him i think - Skat was owned by
Russian billionaire and former microsoft engineer and the man who brought us microsoft excel i don't
know whether that's a good thing or a bad thing anyway his name is Charles Simony i've made
videos about this before Simony, is the first space tourist to visit the international space station
twice charles simony the U.S. A. space flight participant floating in to be greeted by
Yuri Lanchikov the Russian cosmonaut - each trip reportedly costing him 60
million dollars i made a video about this a while back i'll post the link here also interestingly
60 million dollars is approximately what SKAT sold for so that puts that into perspective
most yacht SKAT is a 71 meter as i said super yacht built by Lurssen in 2002
and she stood out in a world of white wedding cake super yachts by looking more like something
you'd see escorting shipping off the coast of somalia right with a military style profile and
grey colours and numbering along the side like a military vessel it's actually said that Simony
wanted to buy an old warship and convert into a yacht but he uh settled on a brand new lot
from from Lurssen instead often commented on because of the name Skat which means darling
and Danish and also means taxes in Danish which when you think of it it kind of makes sense right
will the new owner be changing the name well does it bear Skat in the woods
Simmony is selling because he has a new larger also from Lurssen in the pipeline well it's more
than in the pipeline it's actually - it's already been launched and i made a video about that a few
months ago i'll put i'll put some footage up here and it's actually being finished being outfitted
at the Lurssen yard all right guys next story and the yacht brokers Camper & Nicholsons have
released the first photos of the 126 meter super yacht Octopus because she's joining their roster
of available vessels for charter the once ultra secret superyacht was originally owned by
microsoft co-founder Paul Allen who died fairly recently he was super private and
as such there were pretty much no photographs of this vessel available interior photographs that is
currently the largest superyacht for charter is flying fox and at 136 meters she is the longest
and most expensive yacht you can currently charter so enter Octopus and even though she's shorter 126
meters she has a larger gross tonnage by almost a thousand tons at just shy of 10,000 gross tons
in total and flying fox is reported to cost three million dollars per week to charter so
you can imagine that Octopus will cost somewhere similar right and in 2022 she's set to embark on
a 2-year round-the-world voyage in which you'll be able to charter the vessel in whichever area
takes your fancy all right guys next story the 72 meter or 236 foot super yacht motor
Azteca has been sold by Camper & Nicholson's and Edmundston the vessel seen here earlier this year
at the Monaco Yacht Show was for sale at the show and it looks like that's that's paid off
because the vessel sold and it was originally built by the italian shipyard CRN yachts
all right next story Dammen ships built commercial shipping vessel will be converted into a superior
it's been announced the conversion project of the 61 meter or 200 foot former commercial shipping
vessel will have a full conversion to a superyacht in the same sort of way Ragnar was converted
project Cassius as it's been named will see the vessel converted into an exploration
and as you can see in the renders here and it will have
1,500 gross tons added in the way of 2 additional decks on the rear of the vessel she's going
to carry 6 guests and have a crew of 16 and she'll have a cruising speed of just 10 knots
but a range of 12,000 nautical miles which is approximately 22,000 kilometers to put that into
perspective that's approximately 3 atlantic crossings from Gibraltar to the Caribbean and back
all right guys last story and this was sent in by subscriber Pedro Vaz Pinto in a marina
near his location in Portugal in Cascais Marina with four boats sank and others were damaged when
one of the vessels caught fire in the night and witnesses say they had an explosion at a rock
approximately 01:30 hours on them i think it was the 18th or 19th of November which resulted
in a fire which spread to the other vessels there were no reports of any injuries
so guys if you know of any yachting stories especially if you've got video or photos
to back it up and you think it might be of interest to me please get in touch you can
contact me through the about page on youtube or via Instagram at eSysman_Superyachts
also please remember to subscribe or follow to my on my Instagram account as i'm trying to get it to
10,000 followers on there - by the way thanks to Pedro for supplying that story or
"muito abrigado" and if you like i said if you have any stories please get in touch even if
you even if you don't have any footage you went there but have you heard of an interesting story
that i haven't covered and you think it might be of interest uh you can drop me a line also
you can even put comments in the comments section of this video okay guys i'm
going to wrap up here thanks very much for watching and i'll see you soon bye
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