this is super yacht news with eSysman
hi welcome back to the channel okay so it's a new week and we've got some new stories to get
on with so today we're going to be talking about Jeff Bezos and his new yacht problems
already he hasn't even had it delivered yet but he's already got problems with it
m/y A in rak that's another story um some Elon Musk news references satellite internet system and
one of the largest yachts in the world has been spotted off the coast of England
okay so first story Jeff Bezos now in February of this year before all of the sanctions stuff
started i made a superyacht news video where we talked about the problem that his vessel was
going to have in the Netherlands so one of the one of the things about all of the yacht builds
in the Netherlands is most of their facilities are up river so they're not out on on the open
ocean the the with the in the river systems and to get the yachts out to the ocean they have to
transit these rivers right so as the yachts are getting bigger and bigger now they've started to
run into issues with bridges and things like that and the width of yachts and stuff like this so
in this particular instance the company "Oceanco" who's been building this vessel for Jeff Bezos
they they they had a problem and they thought they had a solution but they've kind of backtracked on
it now so his yacht is being built in in the Alblasadam facility in the Netherlands
and to get the vessel out of the open ocean there was a there's a bridge in
the way and the bridge is called the Koninghaven or the King's harbour bridge
and it's in uh in rotterdam and it's 145 years old and now what happened is that during the war -
i think it was damaged during the war and it was one of the first things to be rebuilt
at the end of world war II so obviously it has a lot of meaning to the people who live in Rotterdam
and the people of the Netherlands and it's like a predominant thing on the skyline there and
they did some maintenance work on it in 2017 and when the council finished the maintenance
work now oh by the way this bridge is no longer in use it used to be a railway bridge i believe
but it's no longer in use but it's like a monument to you know days gone by and when the council did
the refurbishment on it they said we'll never dismantle this bridge again but then Jeff Bezos
says hold my beer right so the boat being built for Bezos is a 127 meter or 416 foot sailing yacht
it's known as y721 at the moment that is a ship number that's a slot number for the shipyard it
doesn't have a an actual name yet and the problem with this vessel it's so tall that it won't
fit under this bridge in one piece that hence this plan was was they came up with this plan
to remove the center section of this bridge and obviously Jeff Bezos was going to pick up the tab
everyone everyone's a winner right but the locals in Rotterdam or some of the locals at least
got wind of this and they they were not happy about it now i'm not sure if it was more to
do with the fact that we're going to take down this bridge or the fact that it was Jeff Bezos
wanting to take down this bridge but anyway they they created a Facebook page which was
throw eggs at Bezos basically so they were all going to turn up on the day they got wind of
a date and they were going to "egg the boat" right now it does sound funny but the prob the
problem is Jeff Bezos is not going to be there at the wheel it's going to be crew and shipyard
workers and they're all going to get basically assaulted by people throwing stuff and god knows
what else they'd throw as well right the plo this plan now has been withdrawn obviously it's July
now but maybe the date was meant to be the 4th of July i don't know but the plan was withdrawn
the shipyard obviously found out about this and they obviously they felt threatened by
this and they didn't want to go ahead with it now bring on the mainstream media they're saying that
this vessel is stuck upriver and maybe my title i don't know what the title of this video is yet but
as i film this but maybe my title is a bit clickbaity in the sense that it it goes along
with the same the same concept of this yacht being stuck now because it's a sailing yacht
obviously the masts are gonna be what blocks this vessel from getting under the bridge you can see
this footage here this is from Tom Van Hoosen by the way he's a he's a fantastic photographer
videographer he flies drones he does stuff helicopter stuff well this footage is from
him and this shows a another yacht passing under this bridge and you can see how how high up it is
now it's clear that Bezos vessel will only get stuck with the masts in place and the
shipyard wanted to complete construction at their facility and sail it down river
but clearly what's going to happen is they'll have to sell they'll have to tow the vessel down
without the masts on and then take the mass down on another barge maybe and then fit them further
down river and that will be how they do it that they said they didn't want to do that because
they felt all the tools and equipment is in that one place and they'd rather do it all in one place
and so that's what's going to happen so this idea that the vessel stuck
is is really not not really true i mean it just it's a complication which they'll obviously
overcome right they wouldn't have built it if they didn't know they could get a down river
i read a lot of these stories they all seem to be based on the same they also it's they all read
each other's story and just wrote another story or or it was the same story syndicated out but
a couple of things that they said that that were wrong in those stories and one of them
is that this was the second largest sailing gun in the world at 227 meters and that's incorrect
and they're obviously comparing it with sailing yacht a which is a 142 meter sail
assisted yacht it's not the same thing the yacht Bezos has built or had built is a full-on sailing
yacht and it will be the largest sailing out in the world unlike um the sailing which is a sail
assisted which means it needs its motors and it only the sails only assist it so it's not
the same thing so it is not accurate that it's the second largest it is the largest selling
on the world upon delivery and i'll give you an update when they finally get that vessel through
okay so we'll move on to the next story now this is about motion a "m/y A" and rak so mutias a very
striking vessel is it belongs to Andre Milnechenko he was sanctioned uh a few months ago i think it
was march he was sanctioned and his two vessels we just mentioned one sailing yacht A and m/y A they
were obviously the sailing gate was arrested in Trieste and in Italy and it's still there now
and motor yacht A was in the Seychelles and it discipline was the Seychelles or
the Maldives anyway it was in that area and the vessel disappeared
off AIS at that time hasn't hasn't reappeared on AIS since but we've tracked it -" eSysman
Superyacht Channel" -has tracked it to Ras al-Khaimah as you i'm sure you'll know if you watch
regularly the vessel's been there ever since now there was some there was a story in Fox business
that said that the vessel had been reflagged with an emirates flag that is incorrect the vessel
where i got some video footage from yesterday and you can see that this was taken at 11:30 a.m
so and there's no ensign on the vessel so that means that that the enzyme every day of the week
they'll put that ensign up at 8am take it down at 8pm also unless it's in the shipyard out in
the dry dock or something and also underneath where the big a is there should be the home port
name there and it is blank so the the vessel has not been re-registered and that's probably
one of the reasons why it's still sat where it is so yeah so no home port no flag state
so yeah so that's as of the 3rd of July and that vessel is still sat there
okay so we'll move on to the next story about a year ago almost a year ago to the day i made
a video about how Elon Musk will transform the yachting industry i'll put links so you can go and
watch that video it's a very in-depth video in how super yachts and other marine vessels communicate
you know using visa satellite internet and 4G and all that stuff and i go through all the stuff and
it's done in a way that you can understand that you don't have to be a digital or technical person
but we talked about this new constellation of low earth orbit satellites that Elon Musk is is
building it's a massive endeavor and when it's finished it's going to have 40 ,000 satellites
moving around the planet he's not the only one that's building one of these constellations by the
way there are a number of constellations they're all this is the new thing in satellite technology
one of the problems with Elon Musk's system is he wasn't approved by the FCC the was a
"Federal Communications Commission" he wasn't he wasn't approved for use on moving vehicles
and up until recently his system was geo locked to prevent people from using them
moving around well the FCC has just approved the system for use on mobile on vehicles such as
ships right so this is great news for Elon Musk it is not it does not mean that every V-Sat system
is now redundant because Musk's system will take over there are still restrictions for that system
but it's very interesting watch the video if you're if you're interested in this story
but yeah the big news there is that the FCC has approved it for use on moving vehicles
so in the U.S. for instance if you've got an RV and you want fast satellite internet you can use
this system now on your on your vehicle okay i've got one more story and that is moto blue
spotted off the coast of England it left the Lürssen facility in Bremen and Germany on the
second of july i believe and it headed through the english channel and and a chap on instagram called
phantom and the drone he sent me some photographs not from his drone unfortunately but the yacht was
passing by in the english channels five miles out anyway it's too far for his drone to go so this
yacht is now the second largest yacht in the world only second to Dilbar and we're going by volume of
course and it's 15,320 tons compared to Dilbar's 15,917 gross tons so that is very small difference
however blue is longer than Dilbar at 160 meters or 524 feet compared to a Dilbar at 156 meters
and she has a 26 meter beam it is a massive yacht so the vessel is heading to Malta according to
AIS data and um it looks like the vessel is going to arrive on the 9th of July in Malta
now the the owner of this vessel is not a Russian owner according to superior
i think he's a member of the Saudi world family he also owns m/y A Plus
which is obviously too small but it's 147 meters long or 482 feet and he has
a boeing 787 dreamliner as his private jet so yeah he's not short of a few bob
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