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Hi guys! so i'm back i'm back in in Genoa in Italy and i've just driven back
from the UK in the mighty Kia Sportage if you've looked on my other channel you'll
see that there's a video that just got posted on there that documents the whole trip it's an
interesting video -didn't run out of fuel this time so yeah go and check
it out i'll put a link under the description of this video - i had a great trip on the way down
thoroughly enjoyed it- it's hard - it's tiring you know- it's an 18-hour trip i divide it into 2
days but it is exhausting to drive so long crossed over the channel tunnel on the train
through the Mont Blanc so 2 massive tunnels one was 50 kilometers long the other one is
11 kilometers long so please do go check out that other video -we're going to check
out this boat in just a second so yeah -i just wanted to say a couple of things the channel is on
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subscribe let's get on and let's have a look at this boat behind me - now this is called
Motor yacht Queen Miri -it's a 2004 delivered in 2004 but it wasn't called Queen Miri back then it
was called Annalisa it was built for a British businessman and he built it as a charter vessel
and the idea was you know try to get as many people on as you can and as a result of that
it was built with a capacity of 36 guests at the time of its build it was an 85 meter boat
with 3,000 gross tons so 36 guests that's a lot of people for a boat of that size and the idea
was obviously to charter the vessel and to make money from it so it was built as a charter vessel
now because it was built in 2004 the the codes back then the large yacht codes and stuff like
that didn't account for a vessel to carry so many people so it was actually built to
commercial standards and if we look in the original photos when it was called Annalisa
you can see it has davit launched lifeboats on the sides of the vessels and if you look here
well i'll show you in a minute you they're not there anymore they've been removed the boat was
sold and it spent some time out in the middle east and it was and the name changed to Delma
and then in 2016 the boat was bought by an american businessman called Sheldon Adelson he
sent it to "AMICO Shipyards" in Italy in Genoa right here and it went through a 2-year
conversion - there is the best word to describe it is a conversion - and it went from an 85 meter
2 900 gross ton. vessel to a 92 meter it was extended 7 meters and it gained 400 gross tons
so what they did is they took away the amount of work on this vessel was incredible! - in actual
fact in some of the literature from "AMICO" it says that it was almost like a new build that they did
so much it took away the davit lifeboats because by this time we had a new code that could be used
for yachts called the "Passenger Yacht Code" which allows for up to 36 guests so i think as
a result of that they were able to take away those lifeboats because it's not a requirement under the
"Passenger Yacht Code" but it is under the class the commercial class that it was probably built under .
The vessel was extended so this stern section had something that's known as a stern extension and
they basically extended the stand but to do that they they had to cut back 16 meters of the hull
to account for the hydrodynamics so they had to make sure obviously it still was
that it was still hydrodynamic able to move through the water at good speed
so they had to cut back the hole 16 meters and when they did so they removed the engines
and the generators and they fitted new engines and generators
now when a vessel like this is built the engines and generators are fitted during
the build phase because once the boat is finished you can't get them out without cutting the hull
so they took that as an opportunity while they had the hole in pieces to actually remove the engines
and generators and and put them put new ones in they also fitted in the stern section they also
fitted a a tender garage that could be flooded and you can see the boat that's in there right now
that's actually on the water and they could fill it with sea water and it and um it's effectively a
swimming pool so you can have a sea water swimming pool that holds i think it holds 90 90 cubes
of water in there and the reason why that it's sea water is because you the boat couldn't produce
enough fresh water to fill that pool also you it's effectively a tender garage that you can swim in
so it's an incredible amount of work that they did that like i said they extended
the amount of room up on the aft section there they extended to gain all that extra space
and like i said they created a vessel that was 7 meters longer than original so it's now
a 90 well it's a 91.5 meter vessel and also the interior was completely done as well so he had
his own tastes of interior so he went through the whole boat all of the work that they did
took 2 years the vessel was in "AMICO shipyards" the shipyards that's not that far from here
for 2 years so that's an incredible amount of work and the and the quality of the finish was
described as a build spec quality in other words that it was almost like a new build
and that was the the cost of that i can only imagine massive amount of money
as long as i know it's no longer a charter vessel it's still posted on
charter websites it says 2.2 million dollars a week or 1.8 million euros i have a feeling
though since 2016 since Sheldon Adelson bought it i don't think it's a charter vessel anymore
now if you know - if you're an american you may know that Sheldon Adelson died in January
of this year i haven't seen the vessel sold so i suspect that it is still owned by the family
of Sheldon nuttles - by the way the name Queen Mirri Sheldon Adelson's wife's name is Miriam and the
vessel's named after her so i have a feeling that might be a nickname that he gave his wife
one of the things about the boat that i've noticed whilst i've been looking at it is it
does have a commercial feel to it almost reminds me of a cruise ship rather than the superior
i think it's you know because of the way it was originally built no doubt but yeah it's quite
interesting that i did get that super um i did get the cruise ship feel from it when i was looking at
the deck and the the way the deckheads are done and and uh the way that the fairing is done on
the outside i don't know why but i just got that i got a cruise ship feel to it it is a big yacht for
its size if that makes it probably doesn't make sense but what i mean is that for a 90 meter
boat it is quite large in its volume and that's obviously because of the 36 guest capacity the
interior pictures i found online uh show the what what it's like on the inside it's quite amazing
so the boat was actually built in in greece in a in a on an island called cyros it was built by
a company called "Neorain" and despite what that sign says up there -that sign says "Amico" .
Amico don't build new boats, this certainly wasn't built by "AMICO" but the amount of work that
went into this vessel over that 2 year period obviously they felt that they could put that badge
up there there i mean it was a massive refit that they did new engines new generators, new interior
stern extension but you know essentially they didn't they didn't build it originally but
but yeah still a massive amount of work that went into it all right guys i'm going to wrap up the
video now - i hope you enjoyed this video - i hope you enjoyed looking at this boat so i'm going to be
here for the next couple of months and but the great news is is that the restrictions that we've
had since i've been here in the past are now slowly being lifted we're in a yellow zone now not
an orange zone which we were before which means i can now explore the Liguria region that's what
we're in so far which means i can go to Imperia i can go to Portofino places like that i'm hoping
that before i go home that all the restrictions will be lifted and then i can go wherever i want
and hopefully i can go to Monaco and Monaco Grand Prix is on this month so i don't think i'm
gonna be able to make it to the Grand Prix which sucks i don't think i'm actually allowed across
the border anyway stay tuned anyway for more videos from Genoa and from Italy and from the
the Riviera mediterranean and i'll catch up with you guys soon alright guys bye!
if you wondered why i introduced this video with bagpipes in Italy it's because i just bumped into
that guy who was dressed in the uniform of Malta -he was an Italian playing bagpipes
in "Molovecio" in full uniform marching up and down the pier which is so strange- i talked to
him actually and he was a very nice chap but bagpipes have nothing to do with Genoa as far
as i know- he got their bagpipes in Scotland and he's a very much a fan of all
things bagpipes apparently completely random things you find at the marina- all right guys, bye!