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[Music] all right today we're here to look at this yacht here this is, it's an unusual shape
let's say it's very high quite short to explore a yacht and it was known as k-42 in build to 42
meter about 140 feet and the owner of this boat was this was not his first boat he had a previous
boat a 29 meter at the time that he commissioned this boat to be built in Italy and the owner was
not your average super yacht owner because he was an owner who lived on board uh lived on board 24 7
12 months of the year he was a live aboard owner like I said it was called k-42 in the build and
then the name as you can see on the backer is a bit confusing the way it's spelled on the boat
but we'll go and have a look at the back of the boat and then we'll talk more about it so what
we can see from the side here like I said it's quite a tall boat for its length it's got a large
volume for a yacht of 42 meters it's a it's just under 500 gross tons there's a reason it's under
500 gross tons because there is a there are regulations that are you know required when
a boat goes over 500 gross tons this is why you often see these similar numbers on different bills
if you look closely there you can see there's some damage on the bridge Wing there and that's
probably when they were docking the boat alongside another bus when it was stand to
and the other boat probably hit that and you can see there's a fender there to prevent that
kind of damage but it unfortunately it managed to get damaged anyway that's probably recent
because it's unusual for a boat to have damage on it like that for a period of time so this
boat was at the Monaco yacht Show recently and so it's possible that it happened at the Yacht show
but as you can see from the name here it seems to say Avdace but it's actually the owner who's
Italian the name of the boat is Avdace and that V is actually pronounced like a u so I
think the spelling of it is actually with the U but it's for some reason it's been put on there
like that it's got a black top to the vessel interesting color scheme and then also Malta
flag and it's registered in Valletta obviously and then you've got a massive crane there on the stern
there is another I believe equally sized crane on the bow section and this vessel is unusual again
because of the size of the vessel but it actually contains a Land Rover Discovery that can be that
can be craned off the boat onto the shore side now I believe that is held in the forward end of
the boat there is a massive crane there anyway so that's clearly there to lift big items on and off
the vessel for the owner of this yacht is his name was Andrea Maloney and he is a lover of things
like bicycles and Yachts clearly and he was the owner of indesit the you know washing machines all
that kind of stuff he loved super yacht so much I love Yachts so much that he decided to live on
board this yacht and he built it specifically so he could live on board all year round
and you can see that in the way it's been designed the equipment that's on board like I said the the
ability to have a vehicle on board be able to winch it on and off which is unusual for a CPU
I believe it or not you might think that that's quite normal to have cars on board but it's not
and certainly not on board a vessel of this size like I said it's only 42 meters I know
that sounds funny but it's it's a small Superior to have a car on it the only other yacht I know
for a fact that has a car on board is Motor Yacht Nord and that's 142 meter yacht so yeah this this
owner was passionate about yachting and he loved his yachts and he commissioned the build of this
vessel in Italy so one of the things that the owner wanted was to have a completely separate
space to live in and this deck up here this top deck here is the owner cabin and it's a private
space for the owner and only the owner can access these spaces through private staircases so nobody
can come through it and this is because the owner wanted to live on board and he didn't want people
just walking through his private areas obviously if you're going to build a yacht you want to have
spaces for the guests and what he did is on the main deck he had guest cabins with their and they
had the ability to have sections that open out on the side of the boat so they've got great comfort
but at the same time the Privacy for him is is quite clearly apparent are by the way the boat has
been designed now as I was saying the vessel was the code name for the vessel or the build name was
k-42 the vessel now as it stands though is is no longer 42 meters it is a 46.6 meter vessel or 152
feet so that means that the vessel was extended and it had a refit where it was extended it was
extended from 42 meters which is 140 feet to 46 meters I think this is a perfect size for me so
the vessel normally carries a big tender and the tender sits here normally when they're at Sea and
this crane here is capable of lifting nine tons and it is that's that is there to lift the tender
from the aftec into the water nine ton crane and they have two of them Andrea Maloney had no kids
he wasn't married he was 50 I think he was 50 50 or 51 years old when he commissioned the boat and
he said that he because he didn't have a family or kids he wanted to maximize the enjoyment in
his life and and he built this boat to live on permanently now the vessel was delivered in 2019
and then it was refit not that long after and that's where the stone extension or the extension
of the vessel was made unfortunately tragically Mr Maloney he passed away in 2020 so just a year
later he died and I think I don't know why but for me it makes it a little bit more sad that
when he died he wasn't on board he was in Milan and they they made found him the next morning I
needed they suspected it was cardiac arrest 53 years old he was when he died so he built this
beautiful boat very specific you know for his future and and to enjoy life and unfortunately
he never really got a chance to enjoy it I'm sure he enjoyed it for the year that he had it
but yeah it's very sad ending to a great story about a beautiful yacht now this this was at
the Monaco Yacht Show, the yacht is for sale and considering the unfortunate circumstances of the
owners or the late owner's death the vessel is posted by Edmuston on their website for
sale for 26 million Euros which at this point in time is about the same in in US dollars.
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