This is super yacht news with eSysman.
hi guys welcome back to the channel it's the 20th of march -today kind of a a James Bond-esque
episode today so please be sure to stay to the end because i've got extra stories after this one
okay so we're going to concentrate on a yacht called motor yacht "Royal Romance"
she is a 92 meter or 303 foot yacht built by Feadship in the Netherlands
she was delivered to her owner in 2015 and at that time she was the largest yacht ever built
by Feadship the value is estimated to be worth about 200 million dollars
the yacht was delivered to Victor Medfordchuk he's a Ukrainian politician and lawyer
he has been the chairman of the pro-Russian political organization Ukraine choice and has been
the opponent of Ukraine joining the European union he's close to Vladimir Putin in fact Vladimir
Putin is the godfather to one of his daughters anyway the vessel has been laid off it's laid up
means it's not being used it's been laid up in Riyaka in Croatia for the last 6 months or so
she was in the Croatian press recently when a group of Ukrainians who've settled in Croatia
discovered who the owner was and they decided to make a plan to attack the vessel physically
attack the vessel they even put on facebook instructions of how to make molotov cocktails
the story was even more incredible because the captain when he discovered this on facebook
he contacted the police in Rieka and they did not reply it took them three days to actually
attend the vessel the vessel had to hire extra security to to secure the vessel from attack
the captain of the vessel his name is Bubik Sarik and he told the Croatian press that
the vessel had actually been sold in 2021 and no longer belonged to Medford Trump he said if
the vessel was still owned by medford chuck it would have been in Monaco where it was before
but he also said that he cannot say who the owner of the vessel is because of an NDA
now it's quite possible that the vessel was sold right however as you can see the vessel
arrived in Rieka on the 21st of October 2021 according to AIS and he's been there ever since
victor medford chuck was arrested in Ukraine last year in 2021 i think it was may 2021
and he was placed he was charged according to the Ukrainian website interfax.com.ua Medforchuk was
charged with treason and aiding the activities of a terrorist organization due to his involvement
in the illegal supply of coal to the occupied territory the prosecutor general of Ukraine said
he was placed under house arrest in north of Kiev
and he was there until the out until the invasion of the Russian troops
a few days after the invasion it became known that Medvedchuk had escaped house arrest in Kiev
he'd actually been fitted with an ankle bracelet to monitor his movements which he had removed and
fled the adviser to the interior minister Anton Garichenko suggested that medic would escape
back to the Russian federation on the 16th of march this year it became known that a special
group was looking for the fugitive politician later Medvedchuk's lawyer stated that he did
not flee the country but had moved to a safe place his whereabounts are currently unknown
so i contacted the captain of royal romance to asked ask him for a statement but he never replied
the vessel was arrested this week in Riyaka in Croatia because of sanctions placed against Victor
Medfordshire now the vessel's responsibility any vessel all of the vessels we've been talking about
in these videos the responsibility is to prove uh with paperwork that who owns the vessel so
even though we don't know necessarily in the public domain the authorities will go to a vessel
and they will say you need to supply paperwork to show that who the owner of the vessel is and also
who the beneficial owner is so it could be that as an example Usmanov's vessel
was registered to accompany Malta but it was traced back to him and as such was arrested
and is still being held in Germany so the same thing would have happened here the captain will
have had to have shown paperwork that proves that medford chuck is not the beneficial owner
and as as at the moment the vessel is still
arrested in Croatia so that seems to suggest that they don't believe that the vessel was sold
so in other news the 71 meter or 236 foot super yacht Axioma is heading to Gibraltar currently
she traveled across from the Caribbean and as most likely with most yachts once they get across the
Caribbean they go to Gibraltar to refuel the owner of the vessel is one Dimitri Pompianski
and he's currently under eu sanctions however as Gibraltar is part of the uk and the uk does
not currently have him on the sanctions list he is technically allowed to dock in Gibraltar he's
most likely not on board i would say 99% certainly he's not on board - but like i said as there are
currently no that i can find at least UK sanctions against this man that the vessel will probably
be okay to dock but it will be interesting to see if that changes in the next few days right
i think the the date of the ETA for the vessel is tomorrow's date
okay so more James Bond stuff now so we if you if you've been watching my videos
you'll remember - we've been following roman Abramovich's yachts so he's got 2
big yachts that we've been concentrating on he does actually own more yachts but
the ones we've been concentrating on is "motor yacht Solaris" which has been was
which was in Barcelona in refit left Barcelona the day before the uk sanctions were placed
not the EU sanctions then it traveled to Tivat in Montenegro where it sat at anchor for a few
days as far as i can tell and as far as my source has been able to say he did not refuel in Tivat
which was i think was probably the original reason then the European union added him to the list of
sanctions for the EU too just as they did that his vessel departed from Montenegro and headed south
in the meantime motor yacht Eclipse left Anguilla in the Caribbean and raced across the Atlantic at
18 knots passed through the straits of Gibraltar and sailed through the med it whereas it slowed
right down to about six knots 6 to 8 knots and it's been doing that ever since now that is
a long trip it's about 3 1/2 thousand miles from Anguilla to the to Gibraltar - she's
now moved further along it looks like they are heading to turkey what's interesting about this is
the as solaris sail south the AIS just had awaiting orders for the destination
and the vessel was traveling very slowly it was doing about about 6 knots
and then and then a couple of days ago i actually had a few people contact me to tell
me as well that the vessel was very close to a oil products tanker called
Viasma i think that's how you pronounce it and oil products that pro oil products tankers is cancer
can actually hold fuel refined fuel to refuel vessels - and this at one point in the track
when i was looking at AIS the vessels got very close to each other within two nautical miles
and also interestingly the AIS on the oil products tanker went offline for
a period of hours i think it was about six hours there was no - there was no
AIS for that vessel for about 6 hours the vessels were very close to each other the
speed of solaris was two knots which is ex i mean that's extremely slow for a vessel to be at sea
and it could have been that the vessel wasn't even under propulsion it could have just been
being carried with the with the current so these 2 vessels very close together it looks like
they could possibly have been refuelling m/y Solaris at sea a Russian flagged oil products tanker
now in the meantime m/y Eclipse is a is a 500 miles behind - and heading in the same direction
i wasn't able to see that products tanker get anywhere near close to Eclipse but they must be
getting low on fuel now the range of Eclipse is 6 1/2 thousand nautical miles and she's
done about four and a half thousand nautical miles now so she must be getting low on fuel
it look like i said that looks like the vessels are heading to turkey and the oil products tanker
has now left it the area where they were but solaris did look like it was possible that it
could have been refuelled whilst at sea i see it's possible it's it's unlikely there there
are two types of ways to refuel let's see there's one is bunkering which is the vessels come right
alongside each other tie lines to each other and then uh and connect the cable the pipes and then
refill that way and then there's something called replenish at sea which is done usually by military
vessels but a lot of hardware is required for that kind of refuelling so it's unlikely they did a
replenish at say but it is possible if the weather was good enough that the vessels could have come
alongside each other and actually done refuelling that way but i still think it's unlikely anyway
guys that's all i've got for this video uh be sure to like this video and be sure to subscribe if you
haven't already and stay tuned for more to come alright guys -thanks very much for watching -bye