hi guys welcome back to the channel and welcome to Portofino !
Portofino is a small fishing town that's been here since the 12th century it used to
belong to Genoa which was independent and Florence which is French and they changed hands a few times
but now obviously it's part of Italy in the late 19th century first British then other European
aristocratic tourists began to visit Portofino which they reached by horse and cart Audrey Hepburn
and Elizabeth Von Arnhem were amongst the more famous British people to make the area fashionable.
Eventually more expatriates built expensive holiday houses and by 1950 tourism had replaced
fishing as the town's chief industry and the waterfront was a continuous ring of restaurants
and Cafes today- it is a popular destination for billionaires including many super yacht owners -
it's about 25 miles southeast from Genoa so i drove down here today i did not come
solely to look at this beautiful town village i came down to chase a super yacht - it was
actually in Molovecio Marina in Genoa yesterday and i missed it -i didn't i saw it -i saw it leave
and i just did not i just didn't have time to get down there and i saw that it came to Portofino so
i chased that down in my car and we're gonna go and check it out let's go before we get onto the
boat i just want to say one of the problems with Portofino is it's such a beautiful place that it's
it's kind of a victim of its own success in that there's only one road which is this road that i'm
on right now - that leads to it to and from- so all of the traffic of all those people that
want to go there like me i'm included will go along the same road right so if you hear noises
in the background it's the traffic from this road it's a very busy road unfortunately there's
nowhere else i can go all right guys so let's get on to the boat that boat out there is can you
guess it is "m/s Planet Nine" if you've seen the film "Tenet" which i haven't you might recognize this
boat because it was in that film it was featured in our film i've actually talked about Planet Nine
before it was a few years ago was when it first launched i saw it in "Cannes" in the south of France
and i made a video about it then i got very little fuss just basically passing by on another yacht
but i found the the the general arrangement or the blueprints of that boat and i made a video
- kind of like the one i did of Andromeda so if you enjoyed the Andromeda video which i
looked at in depth at the the actual plans of that vessel then i will put a link in all the
normal places so you can go and watch that video so one of the big features that this boat has
is it has an ice raided hull -we talked about this recently with the "m/y Ragnar" so i'm not going
to go into it in too much detail if you want to know more about the ice rating you can actually
go and watch the video that i already made of this boat a few years ago or you can watch the
video about "Ragnar" because i talk about the way an ice rated hull works etc and what it's used for
the other big feature this boat has which is only usually found on a boat that's
much bigger than this is it has a commercially rated helicopter landing pad on top of the landing
pad it actually has an aircraft hanger underneath so basically what happens is they they open the
top of the hatch there the the elevator comes up the helicopter lands on board then they stow the
rotors and then the helicopter goes down on the elevator inside and then the doors close on top
why would they do that they do that for obviously protecting it from the ocean you know salt water
it kills anything over time also it stows it for passengers like if you're going across the
Atlantic you don't want to leave that helicopter outside really if you can help it one of the
other problems with leaving the helicopter up there as well is it is that that is a you know
that's a heavy helicopter so what you want to do is you want to lower that sensor of gravity
to stop the boat from rolling side to side when you're in heavy seas so taking that helicopter
down inside of the hangar that lowers that center of gravity of the boat makes the boat more stable
they also have refueling facilities in there so they can they can run that helicopter indefinitely
so it is available for charter "Planet Nine" as you've seen in the movie obviously they
charted it i wonder how long they charted it for but because the chart the rate for charter
in this vessel is about 700,000 euros a week so to make a movie i bet they had it for a while
so the vessel has a maximum speed of 16 knots a cruising speed of 14 knots and at that cruising
speed has a range of 6,000 nautical miles which is very impressive for a yacht of this size
oh there's one other thing the vessel is for sale now in the video i made in 2018
it just been delivered this boat and it was for sale straight away
and it's been for sale ever since so they're obviously trying to sell it nobody's buying it
the the price of this vessel is 85 million Euros would you rather have "m/y Soaring"
which is brand new by the way or would you rather have planet nine let me know in the
comments which one you'd rather have "m/y Soaring" is for sale for 105 million euros
i think i'd rather have "Planet Nine" - I straightened hull helicopter landing pad refueling
it has a 120 inch cinema screen as a cinema by the way with a 100 120 inch screen
LED tv apparel apparently it has noisy paranoia has state of the art AV systems on
board it says it has "Apple" AV systems on board now i've i love apple i'm an apple user but
in regards to yachts being set up with apple equipment
everyone i've worked on has been a disaster so i'm not sure how i feel about that if it's
just like the cinema that has apple stuff in there then that's fine but if it's the
whole boat then i'd have to check out that system seriously and to make sure it was working properly
because the boats i've worked on that i've had Apple systems in the past have not worked
so another thing this has which is unusual again for a vertical of this size is it has a Beach Club
now a Beach Club is something that usually sits at the stern of the ship where you would
normally keep your tenders and sometimes the Beach Club doubles as a tender garage
if you remember the video i made about "Queen Miri" the Beach Club was surrounding that tender
garage which was effectively turned into a pool as well so it could be a sea water pool or they
could open the back and and they could drive that tender straight in but this has the beach club
which is like i said very unusual for a vessel of this size i've got some footage of "motor
yacht Faith" which is just out of shot over there the beach club on "motor yacht Faith" is very impressive
and so this has something similar to that but remember "Faith" is a 97 meter boat and "Faith"
has also has a aircraft hangar on below the heli deck and a beach club but it doesn't have
an ice rate at all one of the things i love about this about "Planet Nine" is the interior
very often you'll see these boats and they have quite specific or quite particular interiors
and that obviously that makes sense because if you build your own boat remember these all these boats
are one of one so if you build your own boat you're gonna build it to exactly how you want
to have the interior and most of them you're like oh you know on ragnar there was some
stuff in there i was like oh well you know maybe maybe not i might change that but on this boat
this boat has an extremely modern interior made a great use of the led lighting the interior on
this boat i don't think i would change a thing because it just looks fantastic
so yeah that's unusual to find the boat that has the exact interior that i might fit myself
but yeah i'm really impressed with the interior i really really like this boat i say that i'm
starting to realize i started to say that about everybody but i do really like this boat i love
the gray hull on it as well which is unusual and it's a big difference from the white normally
or you know you see a lot quite a lot with blue now but this has the gray hull which looks great
probably not so great for the people who have to clean it but i still like it well let me know if
you if you're if you think differently if you'd rather have "Soaring" or another boat of similar
size put it put any comments in the comment section below i hope you enjoyed this video
absolutely love Portofino! - i'll definitely gonna be coming back here because it is absolutely
amazing if "Faith" is still here next time i'll do another video on "Faith" because it's been here all
week but like i said i just did i just did a video a couple of a couple of videos back when i talked
about it and "Planet Nine" is one that i haven't featured for quite a while like i said if you if
you want to check out the the video i did with the general arrangement or the plans uh of the boat on
deck by deck i did that video i'll put a link in the description and a link all in all those places
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