all right guys welcome back to the channel okay so it's time for another five minute friday
so let's put the time on the clock right now and let's just see me
blow by it and keep talking past 5 minutes i'll try not to -
anyway let's go all right guys - so another week in the bag and this is a special week for
me because this is actually my last week in Genoa for now- i'm going home on-leave this
weekend so i'm very excited about that so if i'm smiling like a lot in this video
it's because i'm excited about going home - a few things i wanted to talk about - last night i put
out a video about m/y Go -a 77-meter from Turquoise Yachts that had a bit of an accident in
St. Martin
and anybody who's familiar with the area or any yachties out there will know that this
area is particularly dangerous when it comes to super yachts it would seem - a little while
ago another boater m/y Ecstasy had a bit of a run in with a bridge there and the bridge came
off pretty badly but i think the bridge won overall well this is in the same place
where that is and they actually made it through the bridge without any issue
and then and then they had this issue where they ended up crashing into the pier
now in the comments section of that video there were a lot of comments blaming people - blaming
the captain - captain should be fired, it's the captain's responsibility and all this stuff
but the thing is we don't know what happened yet - i saw an article somebody posted very kindly
a local probably of Saint Martin posted a newspaper article that said that
a computer malfunction caused this issue - it's a bit vague because there's no real - i mean there's
lots of different computers controlling lots of different parts of the vessel and there are
ways to get around these malfunctions but we'll have to wait for the official report to come out
i would say but until we know what happened you can't blame the captain - i mean yes it's the
captain's responsibility for the vessel but we don't know what happened - it is
an interesting area for superyachts but yeah until we know what officially happened we don't
know who's to blame what, or if anyone's to blame for that matter - a failure of systems on
on the boat will will make it very difficult to move the vessel in the direction you want it to
they could have dropped some anchors but you don't know how long
they were out of control before this happened there was a track posted from
marine traffic or one of those types of websites -i'll put it up on the screen- that shows the
the track of this vessel in the time, in the period before this accident actually happened
and you can see that that was not a normal track so there was something going on with this boat
and it would appear to me that they were possibly trying to remedy it
and by moving around like this - trying to get things working testing and stuff like that
but yeah like i said when the final report comes out we'll know what the accident
happened - well i assume there will be a report because it actually crashed into a pier
yeah don't rush to judgement you know because we don't know what happened yet - all right so
next thing is like i said i'm going home at the weekend so be sure to tune in
to my other channel e-Techman- i'll put the name up on the screen here- and i'll put a link below
so you you can get access to it - what i'm going to do is i took all your questions in a video
earlier this week and the response was excellent i've got a ton of questions i'll try to
get through as many as i can i don't know how good i'm going to be at that - i don't want the video the
Q&A video to be you know 50 minutes long but i'll go through as many as i can and - yeah we'll
have a good time but i'm going to post it on the other channel because it's going to be
part of my road trip on the way home - i'm going to post some other videos as part of that road trip
also what it's like - one of the videos is going to be what it's like traveling during covid because
the amount of forms i've had to fill out because i've got to travel through Italy - through france
and then i've got to travel across the channel tunnel and then into the UK and each country has
its own requirements so that's quite interesting also the fact that i'm going home does not mean
there's going to be any less videos on the channel - in fact i'm going to try and
produce more videos because i'm going to be at home so i'm going to have more time to
actually make videos - i'm actually working on another super yacht investigations
i'm not going to say too much about that but i am working on another one- it's very difficult to do
there's an awful lot of reading and you know going through reports and stuff like that and working
things out and i started it while i was here on board but i just realized very quickly that
it's too much work to do whilst i'm doing all my other jobs and stuff like that so
i'm gonna work on that when i get home - one bit of good news i did see is that as at least as for now
the Monaco Yacht Show has been confirmed but as you can see by the Dubai Yacht show which
was due to go ahead in March they confirmed it and then they cancelled it so but the MYS
is due to happen and i think it will because of the timing of it because it's at the
end of September so i'm excited to go to that - i should be able to attend i think
i'll be okay to attend this year the last one i did, I put out videos but i wasn't able
to go for very long - only for one day - but yeah hopefully i'll be able to go for the whole event
that's assuming that they give me another press pass and but yeah i'm excited about the MYS
so tune in for that like i said the Dubai Show got cancelled but
you know it was due to be in March - it was a bit too soon - all right guys i'm going to end
it there um- if you've got any questions if you've got any road trip questions last minute
ones put them below here i'm going to check put a #road trip question if you've
got any questions let me know and i'll catch you guys soon and next time we talk on this channel
i think i'll be back in the UK - alright guys thanks very much for watching and i'll see you soon!