this is super yacht news with eSysman
hi welcome back to the channel hope you had a great weekend i've got a lot of stuff to get on
with so let's let's do that so first of all i wanted to update you on what's happening with
motor yacht Garçon and motor yacht Halo so they've been heading from Antigua across the Atlantic
through the mediterranean and heading towards Port Said in Egypt -now Halo stopped in Iran
and in Algeria Oran not Iran in Algeria for fuel and Garçon carried on straight through
now after Halo left Algeria they had Port Said as a destination they still do as i film this .
now Garçon which which shot ahead of Halo because it didn't stop for fuel had Port Said also
as a destination but before they even change the destination you could see a course change -
you can see that the vessel started to change course to turn to head up towards Turkey -
now not long after that -this was yesterday on the 7th of august
the vessel did change its its destination to Marmaris in Turkey and
continued to head towards Turkey now at this point they're they're safe right they're in
Turkey has become a safe haven for Russian yachts fleeing sanctions and Garçon and
Halo were both owned by Roman Abrahimovic who who is sanctioned in the UK and the EU -
so the vessel then changed its destination again from Marmaris to a place called Fetae i believe
it's called( it sounds like a character from Star Wars ) but( i don't know whether that's the
correct pronunciation by the way) but then as they approached Fetae they they turned off the AIS
and so that would lead us to believe that that was their final destination right
however they then changed course again and headed to Gojek which is to the north
west of Fetai, and as you can see on the photograph here the vessel arrived in Gojek in Turkey not long
after now in the background there you can see m/y Ana that's the new motor yacht Ana , the 110 meter
m/y Ana that is broadcasting the AIS and that is currently in Gojek and Turkey so that confirms
that the vessel has arrived there the sources in that area said they saw tenders going to and from
Garçon and Eclipse so it's clear that the vessel is -well it's possible the vessels
brought some supplies for Eclipse -which has been sat in Gojek for quite a while now-
now why are we tracking these vessels i had some comments- critical comments-
about why the fact i was tracking private citizens vessels -well the fact is that
the owner of the vessel is under UK and EU sanctions and the vessels were detained in Antigua
until a few weeks ago when they suddenly left and were allowed to leave and headed across the
Atlantic so that's the reason why we're tracking these vessels so i would say anyway that as with
regards to motor yachts Halo that they're going to follow suit right that they're currently heading
towards Port Said - that's the destination on the AIS but i'm sure that they're going to
do the same thing and change direction once they clear Crete so we'll follow that anyway and
we'll update you when we know more- all right so we'll move on to the next story now if you
remember a couple of months ago search and rescue vessel a Spanish such a rescue vessel crashed
into a sailing yacht in Tarragona port and put a big hole in the side of it and the yacht sank-
now i've had a lot of people asking me what's happening with that yacht
and to be honest up until up until today there was no update to give you and that's because
the vessel is still sat there in the marina on the bottom waiting to be recovered now what's happened
is just like if you've ever had your car stolen or crashed or something happened to your car you
go to your insurance company you tell you know you inform them what's happened they come and assess
the situation and then they either write it off or they give you money to fix it well that's the same
thing that's happening here the insurance company that the owner used has assessed the situation
they put out to tender because -obviously it's a big operation to different companies to recover
this vessel and they have finally chosen a company to recover the vessel now what's interesting about
this is that in the meantime all this has been happening because it has taken a couple of months
the port has been putting pressure on the owner of the sailing yacht to get the vessel moved
out of the way the vessel was smashed to pieces in their port and sank by a Spanish search and
rescue vessel and now they're putting pressure on the owner to get the thing moved out of the way
some of the companies that were approached they suggested
cutting the vessel into pieces and removing it bit by bit but the company that has apparently
been contracted to move the vessel is going to use big floating bags and they're going to
raise the vessel and move the vessel in one piece now i don't the vessel has been declared
a total loss now i don't know if anybody is going to try to repair that vessel and you know and and
use it again i mean the vessel was worth seven million dollars or the vessel was being sold
for 6.9 million dollars was for sale for 6.9 million dollars and it was about 75 ,000 euros
a week to charter this vessel it was a charter vessel so there's there's value in this vessel
but the insurance has paid out so i would imagine though the insurance will be trying to recover
some of that money so it's possible that someone may buy it just depends on the damage to it when
it's when it's recovered on the website Spanish website at diary the Tarragona this is where some
of this information has come from and the article itself was sent to me by Richard Smith he's
somebody who's been telling me a lot about the about the situation that's going on in
Tarragona and what it says in the article is that the the Civil Guard closed their investigation on
this incident and they have ruled it an accident and they said that the vessel named m/v Punta
Mayor, a maritime rescue ship had suffered a mechanical failure and was unable to stop
from reversing into the sailing vessel -now what's interesting about this is at the time
of the accident a lot of news organizations released a storyline that the vessel had dropped
both anchors in an attempt to stop the rescue vessel from reversing into that sailing yacht
but the video footage and eyewitness reports said that that didn't happen at all now i'm
not suggesting that it wasn't an accident i mean it's in all likelihood it was an accident
and these incidents have happened before there was one quite recent actually in Genoa in Italy where
a vessel crashed into the pier and then reversed in the other direction and crashed into the pier
on the other side and that clearly vessel was out of control but they have ruled
an accident and there's no they're saying that nobody is to blame for that accident -
all right so we'll move on to the next story now so we did some articles about M/Y A
in Dubai and we showed you that the vessel had been in Ras-al khaimah for months despite
the AIS on that yacht being turned off for over 4 months now and the last known location
in AIS is in the Maldives now the vessel we tracked the vessel all the way to Ras-al
khaimah and the vessel has been sat there ever since -since it was deregistered by the Isle of Man
-deregistered means the vessel lost its flag state very recently the vessel was seen
at the world archipelago in Dubai i wondered if the vessel had a new flag and we saw the tenders
of that vessel broadcasting the AIS and moving around in that area but the yacht itself is still
not broadcasting on AIS now i had a video from a subscriber sent in to me but he was so far away
you could we couldn't see what was going on the vessel however today i received some photographs
of the yacht from yesterday 7th of august and the yacht was back in Dubai because it had gone back
up to Ras Al Khaimah and the vessel as was back in Dubai at the same location and you can clearly see
here these photographs were taken at 600 hours you can clearly see here that the yacht does not have
a flag on it now any anytime between 8 a.m and 8 p.m the the flag should be flying from the stern
so you can also see here this is A2 is one of the tenders of motion a and the last location for
that was at an anchorage at Ras Al-Khaimah now the vessel motor yacht a went back to Dubai as i said
but i've not seen any activity from their tenders while it was there so it's possible
that well it's possible that they never launched any tenders but it's unlikely so
it's possible that they've actually turned off that AIS on those tenders now as well
well we'll see, time will tell the fact that the vessel's moving without a flag state is is a
curious thing because first of all if the vessel's got no flag state the vessel's got no insurance
so to have to be using a vessel of that value what's probably around 300 million dollars
without insurance is quite precarious isn't it also the fact that they have no flag state
being given permission to move around in the United Arab Emirates without a flag state
is very interesting in itself assuming they've got permission
now why are we tracking this vessel the vessel is owned by Andre Melnichenko who was sanctioned
by the UK and by the EU in march of this year. more about Mr Melnirchenko in an upcoming video
a couple of other vessels we'll talk about before i go and one of them is m/y Octopus now this is my
favorite yacht in the world i think i just love this vessel it's an old vessel it's a massive
vessel 126 meters 10 000 gross tons it's one of the still one of the largest vessels by gross
tonnage in the world now the vessel was bought after the death of Paul Allen who was the original
owner he ordered it from from the builders and the vessel has been in his possession ever since he
died a couple of years ago and because he didn't have any kids all of his wealth was passed on to
his sister and she sold a motor yacht Octopus now the owner is believed to be the Swedish health
company owner Roger Samuelson and they advertised the vessel doing a world cruise and it was heading
out on that world cruise and it went through Panama Canal and it was meant to be going
around South America but sources tell me that they actually threw a shaft bearing on the
vessel and the vessel had to stop on its trip and it's been waiting for that part ever since
now the vessel is actually in Panama it's on the southern side of the Panama Canal and it's been
sat there for about four months now the vessel has been moving around in the last couple of days but
i think they've just been moving the vessel around just to keep the things that are working working
you know they haven't tried to transit the canal so far but the that's just what i've been told
is that they threw a shaft bearing they're waiting for that part to be delivered from Lürssen
and to be able to get the vessel back on its itinerary i would imagine i don't know whether
it's going to continue with its trip or whether it's going to head back to the shipyard for
further repairs i'll let you know as soon as we know more and then one last vessel we're going to
talk about is a Motor yacht Plus Ultra now this vessel is also sat in Panama and it's actually quite
close to where Octopus is sat right now -now this vessel is owned by Russian Andrei Goncharenko
he's the CEO of Gas Prom Invests subsidiary of Gas Prom which is Russia's largest gas company -
now his vessel's been sat in that location for between 2 and 4 months
hasn't moved and this is- i think as a result of the sanctions on all of the Russians now Mr.
Gonchirenko as far as i can tell is not currently under any sanctions but his vessel has been sat
there for a long period of time and i believe it's on a skeleton crew as well now this is what this
is this goes back to what i was talking about in previous videos that the effects of the sanctions
have have also included people who are not under sanctions because they've you know reduced the
ability for people to transfer money using the swift system things like that and that is
why the restrictions have affected people who are not necessarily on those sanctions lists
i had a lot of comments recently from people saying no trust me the Russians will know how
to move money around and pay for their crew and stuff like that you know these sanctions aren't
going to stop them but that's not clearly not the case because these vessels are just sat there
with small crews on like Alpha Nero in Antigua there are vessels all over the world Luminosity
in Montenegro are just sat there not being used because the owners can't move their money around
to because they've had a lot of their assets seized as well they can't move their money around
to get those vessels moving again so it's not a given that oh yeah they'll just find a way to move
this money because that's clearly not happening -so points of interest of Mr Gonciarenko by the way is
he owns 4 properties in London which he purchased over a 4 year period with a total
value of 250 million pounds which is about 300 million dollars including the most expensive
property in London, Hanover Lodge which he purchased in 2012 for 120 million pounds and
that's approximately 145 million dollars- all right i'm gonna leave it there a longer video than usual
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