Do the billionaire men use expensive prostitutes and where do they get them from?
Welcome back to the channel. Because of the popularity of these Q&A
videos I'm gonna do another one it's been a few months since I did the last
one so let's get cracking. Okay Jimmy in Mexico 'are yachts
inspected at are every country; does every crew member have to get a visa in each
country or only if you are going ashore?' No all the yachts are not inspected in
every country. Every country has the right to inspect the yachts but they
don't all do it because there's so many yachts in and out that they just don't
have the manpower to inspect everyone. But they do random checks of different
yachts so at any moment you could be inspected
so you have to you have to operate as if you go on to be inspected. If you go in
the Caribbean you do get inspected quite regularly and you get
boarded for immigration quite regularly in the Caribbean it's the place that
I've seen it the most. You have to be legally allowed to land in every country
you go to and when I say land I mean to land from the vessel in that country
legally. This is why a lot of the yachting industry is crewed by British
seamen because we have the ability to go to many countries without needing visas.
Dusty Rusty says 'Are you aware of any nuclear-powered private yachts?' No there
aren't any it would be too dangerous to have a nuclear power just just purely
from the fact that imagine if the if a Pirates went onto that yacht and took
over it and then they just sail it to somewhere and then put a big bomb on it
and then detonate that bomb you've got a you know a dirty bomb which could render
an area completely uninhabitable for 50 years so it's too dangerous so no
there aren't any of those. MS37 'Do any yacht owners actually travel on the
yachts? They seemed to always be anchored in one specific spot.' That's
a good question. They do use the yachts but whether they sell them is another
question because in my experience what happens a lot is the owner will say
for instance, let's say we're in Gibraltar and the owner will say I want
the ought to be in the in the Caribbean you know in the next 14 days so he
will leave the yacht he will get on his private plane and he will fly out to the
Caribbean and the yacht will sail across the Atlantic and then he'll join the
yacht when he gets there. Because he doesn't want to be on the yacht crossing
the Atlantic. It's a great adventure for the crew to go across the
Atlantic; it's potentially very rough but it can be completely calm. I did a
crossing last year which was like a lake every day for the whole trip. And
I've done a lot of Atlantic crossings and every day I was about okay tomorrow
it's going to be rough tomorrow it's gonna be rough and it never got rough.
Now on the way back it was the opposite I said 'well maybe it'll be calm
on the way back' and it wasn't it was rough every single day. So the owners
don't wanna most of them don't like being in that kind of weather so no they
fly and they join the yacht in the nice place where it's not going to be rough.
Not all of them obviously have not worked on every yacht, I'm sure there are
some owners out there that love it but most of them that they don't they
don't want that. So Bend Over as other crew including the captain required to
sign a NDA non-disclosure agreement yes everybody is required to sign an NDA and
basically the NDA amongst other things says that you're
not allowed to film you're not allowed to take photographs and post them on social
media you don't want to take photographs but not allowed to post them on social
media. You're not allowed to take photographs of the interior of the yacht
even if you just want them for yourself. You're not allowed to post on social
media, it's mostly social media. You're not allowed to post the
location or the destination of the yacht, so you can't go on your Twitter account
and say hey 'I'm going to be in Costa Rica next week' because you're
effectively... because if anyone knows you work on that yacht then they effectively
know the movements of that yacht. So these are all fireable offenses but
yeah everybody signs a nondisclosure agreement regardless of
the rank. Denny Skerb - 'If guns are not allowed...' this has gone back to my
previous video when I talked about other firearms on superyachts
'...if guns are not allowed how about plastic explosives or types of grenades?'
Really? No you're not allowed that surprisingly you're not allowed grenades
and plastic explosives. I don't why would you want those? Is there some sort of
experimental fishing you want to do? I don't know why you would want any of
that stuff on board but but no you're not allowed to have that stuff on board.
This is going back to that question in that previous one I got a lot of people
saying all the yachts in America/in the United States that have guns.
There probably are because the laws the gun laws in America or in the United
States are very lax, if you can even call them gun laws, so no doubt when
some of the yachts are just based in the US and maybe go dow to the Caribbean
maybe they have different rules there. As far as transport and those firearms but
I was talking more about international the yachts i.e.
going into Europe and going into other parts of the world other than the US
because I know it's very different there.
Simon Templar asks 'Have you ever seen anything strange at sea that you
couldn't explain, sea creatures, floating objects, subs watching your ship etc.? I've
never seen any creatures that I couldn't describe I've seen plenty of
whales and dolphins. I was on a large super yacht over 120 metres
and we were at sea I think we were going to
Thailand I'm not sure but we hit something in the water and the whole
yacht juddered and whatever it was was submerged and the word from the bridge
was that was probably a whale because it only a whale was big enough to
cause that kind of Judder. And it wasn't like a... it wasn't the noise of
hitting something solid and I've been on vessels that have hit
some sold things it wasn't that kind of noise. Zarih Sundberg says 'How many years
have you wait to see?' I've worked at sea for about 19 years, thereabouts. Tait Leaney,
and we're gonna put these at the bottom so sorry if I'm mispronouncing it is
there a maintenance schedule for metal hardware on yacht? How long do things last
due to salt water corrosion?' A lot of good questions actually and yeah if you
go to Marina and look at the yachts one thing you'll see is the deckhands
cleaning constantly. And if you were there if you saw it enough times you
think why are they cleaning that boat again they just did it yesterday. And
that's because of this very reason because there's a constant battle
between salt water and rusting and then the deckhands and that's why you'll see
them cleaning down, hosing everything down, brushing cleaning and they're using
fresh water so the water is actually created if they're in port the water is
filled into tanks from the shore and it's fresh water and if the boats at sea
if you see the boats at anchor and there's people cleaning that that water
is created on board with the RO plants reverse osmosis plants to create fresh
water. And they use that to wash down the boat to get the salt water off it.
There are various maintenance periods most boats go through. A yearly
maintenance period and then a five-yearly sort of big big maintenance period
where the boat usually comes out of the water and the hull is cleaned and
repainted and a lot of that kind of heavy maintenance. Because obviously they
can't clean the hull every day because it's under water so but they do go down
they have qualified divers onboard, he'll go down to inspect
the hull to clean off any any things that have secreted themselves to the
hull and to check for damage and stuff like that. And at the five year period
that that all gets taken care of in the dry dock; usually if the boss wants to
pay for the paint. Morticous, 'How many times have you been seasick and
the worst voyage you've been on?' It probably only
happened to me once and that was after a long period in the
drydock and it was like I've been at sea for like 15 years at the time as well
I've never been seasick and we came out of Germany I'm going to sail down to
remember where we were going now but we were going through the English Channel
and the English Channel is renowned for being rough and we were going...
it was a big boat as well and yeah I felt sick. That was the first time I
ever felt sick, it's the only time I've ever felt sick and I've been in much
worse seas than that. And that crossing I mentioned earlier coming back from the
Caribbean was much much worse than that and I never got seasick so. But when
you've been on land like I've been in dry dock for over a year at that time
you kind of lose you sea legs, if you're not at sea all the
time you kind of lose you sea legs, you have to get used to it again. The worst
voyage I've ever been it was a crossing from or Ushuaia in South America
down to the Antarctic and we were doing the Drake Passage and that is well known
for being bad. You know you go past Cape Horn and you go down and it's three days
of a constant barrage of bad weather and that was awful. Unfortunately I never
filmed it because this was this was quite a way back, I think it was
2008. I've got some still still pictures of it though I'll try and dig them out
and I'll put them on the screen so you can see. Ray MC 'How often
would a crew-member have to deal directly with the owner?' Depends on the crewman
The chief stewardess, Butler or captain, eto, they they are more likely it
depends on the setup of the boat as well they're more likely to have to deal with the owner on
a day-to-day basis. Some owners have a butler some owners don't speak English
let's say they speak Russian, they have a butler who speaks Russian and the rest
of the crew don't speak Russian. That's how they get their privacy. So he will
tell the butler what he needs and then the butler will pass that on to the rest
the crew. I've worked for English owners and they will call the people I've mentioned
they will call them directly themselves and and speak to them directly so some
some people they speak to them daily. The captain is the most obvious one because
if the boat is moving around and the owners called the captain saying okay
let's go or when I go to the next place. So yeah it just depends on your job.
Chandler Bing bong 'How are ship's captains trained and selected? Do
owners prefer to employ ex-navy skippers? well they're trained and selected I mean
the training is is yachting or all Merchant Navy or cruise ships so and
every deckhand is a potential captain right. So the the captain's
all start as deckhands, they work through they do all the training while there are
a deckhand will do courses to get to get qualified and then they'll do...
they'll do an Officer of the Watch course depending on the level that
they want to do. There's different levels like under five hundred tons
under three thousand tons and then over three thousand tons; that's a commercial
license you need. Some of the captains are ex-navy, I've worked with people who
are ex-navy, I'm ex-military myself.
Demitrios Tsiganis 'Thanks for spending time answering. What is the most remote
place you visited?' It was probably the Marquesas Islands in the South Pacific.
Tahiti is pretty much pretty remote. Rangiroa
which is an island in that area which is an atol. Basically and that's quite a
few days I think that's like a couple of days sailing from Tahiti; those places
are pretty remote. Bob Smithis 'Do the billionaire men use expensive
prostitutes and where do they get them from?' Bob they're not called prostitutes
when they're expensive they're called escorts! Okay? You know there is
a class system within the professional industry as well. Yes they do use them.
Obviously not all of them, some are married this is the ones who
are not married they some some use escort agencies. I know of one owner who
met his wife through an agency... thorugh one of these agencies. So he used the agency
they sent out this woman who was a 'model' and he obviously liked her and used her
a number of occasions and eventually he started to have a relationship with her
and they got married. If you look at some of the videos of them in the past
about Luna for instance and that divorce settlement you might understand a little
bit more why they do this. But some yacht owners actually have have relationships
with women and they have a contract drawn up. So they have a relationship
but she's paid a salary every month so let's say she gets paid 20,000 Euros
a month and it's written into a contract and in that contract she has to...
the agreement is that she has to be available whenever he needs whenever
he wants to get together and she needs to perform professionally whenever
he wants or so many times per week or per day or depending on what the
contract says. She gets very well looked after in the sense of remuneration
should I say and yeah they have a they have a contract. And this is to avoid you
know getting into a relationship where here has to have lawyers involved and
trying to do divorce settlements or common as because in European
countries you have a common-law wife system where if you live together with
someone for two years then that woman can actually get a divorce settlement
just like they were married. So to avoid these kind of things the
owners have these contracts written up and that people sign it and then they
and the contracts are generally a one-year or two-year contracts and at
the end of those contracts sometimes the owners... they, they move along move on
and they get a new new woman in with a different contract with a new contract
and the other woman is you know 'dispatched' and and they they get a new
woman in and they start all over so. This is the way they work to protect their
money. 'What happens when super yacht crew gets sick?' What happens when you get sick?
Okay so depending on the size of the yacht some yachts have nurses on board, yachts
I think over a hundred meters are required to have trained nurse so if you
get sick you go to see the nurse. And on these vessels over a hundred meters they
actually have a medical center as well anything she can't deal with itself then
we have a system called Medair system which you can actually its communicating
over the Internet and she can actually call a doctor on
this system and she can say 'I've got this patient...' and then obviously
you can all communicate through this like a FaceTime session. If the
person it terns out that they have got an appendicitis or they've got some illness
where they need medical treatments the yacht will dock at the nearest port and
they will be offloaded and sent to the hospital. Now if you're in the middle of
crossing or something and you can't get to a port then as soon as you're within
range, search and rescue will dispatch a helicopter and they'll come and airlift
that person off and take them to hospital. Marty Allen 'If you had $40
million would you buy a 40 metre and why or why not?' More likely what with 40
million what I would do is I would buy an apartment on a ship called The World.
I don't know whether you've heard of this it's a basically it's classed
as a private yacht it's technically... it's it looks like a cruise ship, you
might have even seen this ship and not even known what it was
assumed it was a cruise ship. But it's not it's it's basically privately owned
but I would probably buy one of those apartments because it travels all over
the world it spends weeks at a time in different places and I've been
onboard. My sister actually used to work on board and the apartments are amazing
they've got these massive balconies jacuzzis on the balconies. The apartments
are beautifully decorated they actually get designers...
different designers to design different apartments. So yeah I'd buy one
of those because you can buy one for like $2 million and then you pay like a
hundred thousand yeah depending on the size of your apartment you pay about a
hundred thousand a year and not keep so I'll probably buy one of those. And then
I'd get my my fill of traveling at sea. All right I think that's it, Ithink I'm out of
questions. So I hope you've enjoyed this, be sure to post any
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which I'm sure some people will, post them in this video and then the next
time we do a Q&A I will come to this video and, I'm possibly go to some of the other
videos but most likely this is what I'm gonna come first. Get all the questions
and and I'll do another one in a few months time. So I hope you enjoyed it let
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