this is superyacht news with eSysman.
hi welcome back to the channel so we've got some breaking news coming in from Corfu right now this
came to us just as we were about to start filming this video it is a fire in a marina in Greece
so the information that we've got so far came from 2 chaps in a small zodiac who were trying
to help to recover people and yachts moving them away from this fire that's engulfed 4 vessels
now the information that we got is that there are 4 vessels involved two catamarans one
motor yacht and one wooden catch now these guys rushed in from across the other side of the marina
in their boat to try and see if they could help and then they managed to pull -with this little
zodiac- they managed to pull the sailing yachts away from the pier- because it
was unmanned i believe -and they pulled this yacht away from the pier away from where this fire was
- as you can see the fire is spreading the wood obviously in the direction of the
wind blowing the fire stuck to the starboard side of those vessels- this is from
a company called "No Stress Yachting" other other is the company in Corfu that managed to pull this
vessel away - these 2 chaps worked for that yachting company and they said that he said
i'm led to believe the fire started on a motor yacht it then spread to its starboard side
to the next berth which may be a motor cat then onto a catamaran and to a classic Ketch- i went
around on the rib see if i could be of assistance - i think a couple of yachts managed to motor out
and other attended jots were managed to be pulled away to safety of which my colleague and i from
"No Stress Yachting" managed to pull a big sailing yacht away to safety- the fire boat took a while to turn
up and unsure if anyone was on board or injured but yeah that's a big fire that's going on there.
he just texted me just before i started filming to say 3 hours later and the fire is still
burning and he just heard an explosion so it's still go in there we'll bring you more on that
as soon as we have more- okay so we'll move on to the next story now this is about Eleanor E
if you remember Eleanor E, this is the yacht that sank in Tarragona marina after it was hit by
a vessel that's been described as a search and rescue vessel and a support vessel -this vessel
was reversing apparently it was stuck in reverse and it crashed into this replica sailing yacht .
this is a replica of a 1910 sailing yacht and put a big hole in the side and the yacht sank
all the crew were on board when this happened nine crew members were on board some information here
from the Boat International website they're going to use from land- They're going to use 2 250 ton
cranes with the assistance of re-floating balloons as we mentioned before and then they said once the
yacht is upright the damage will be inspected by teams specialist teams and preliminary repairs
will be carried out underwater the boat will then be raised so the main deck is out of the water
and the rescue teams can begin to pump the water out of the flooded compartments and
then the final stage we'll see the yacht towed 800 meters to a shipyard in Tarragona
yeah so that's the latest update i had some video footage sent in to me very recently
from the location the yacht is still in place there does appear to be a team there now
who are preparing to start what we've just talked about there but so far there's been no movement
all right so we'll move on to the next story okay so motor yacht Secret and this vessel
has been for sale for a long time - i'll give you the clue how long in 2019 i was in Barcelona
and it was actually there's a yacht show in Barcelona- i was crewing on a yacht at the time
and i did a walk down the marina i'll put some footage on screen here and you can see the vessel
Secret here and i mentioned then it had just been put up for sale the old owner was Nancy
Walton Laurie- the Americans i'm sure will know who that is that she is the one of the daughters of
the founder of Walmart -she bought motor yacht Jubilee, 110 meter yacht and renamed it Chaos
and this vessel was then put up for sale it was at the Monaco Yacht Show the same year
that they reportedly went to visit Jubilee and and actually bought it and that vessel's been
for sale ever since it was at the Monaco Yacht Show last year i believe and yeah it's just been
sold and the owner the new owner is reportedly the owner of another vessel called Sea Pearl
and his name is Sri Prakash Lohia (I probably butchered that name) he's an Indian businessman
with a "Indorama Ventures" which is a petrochemicals company and he already owns a yacht called
Pearl which i think is a 60 meter 50 to 60 meter yacht and he's just bought this vessel which is an
85 meter yacht and he's renamed it also Sea Pearl and re-flagged it to Cayman Islands now what i
think is (what i i've got good information here to suspect that) he's going to sell the smaller vessel
2 reasons first one is he's renamed his new yacht the same name
as the old yacht -secondly the the old yacht is listed as attending the Monaco yacht show
this month at the end of this month that suggests with great certainty that that vessel will be up
for sale -there's only 2 reasons really a vessel goes to the Monaco yacht show that's one is
it's a charter boat and the other one is it's for sale -sometimes a company that built a yacht
will take a new yacht to the show potential potential clients what they can do
but those are pretty much the 3 reasons why a yacht would be at the Monaco Yacht Show
okay so in the last video i did a piece about a new visa that's now available -allegedly available -
for a non-EU crew like myself who are working in Italy in shipyards which allows them to stay in
Italy for up to 365 days -this is great news for all non-EU citizens a lot of British people work
in the yachting industry i'm one of them and this is a great news for those people - however this
chap is going through the process currently he says that he's working on a on a vessel
in Italy and he said that the process is that the application must be supported by the local
port authority and the shipyard which ours is. So the shipyard that you're working in has to
support you applying for this visa once the documentation is complete
it then goes to the country's Italian Embassy of your nationality so the
the Italian Embassy in Britain would be the one to process it
they should then issue you with a 12-month visa to stay and work on your project in Italy he said we
gathered all the information and permissions the application has been made to the Embassy however
the Embassy are saying they know nothing about this change and will not issue a work visa -i hate
to say but it's almost expected- the rule is very new and it sounds like it has not filtered down at
least to the Italian Embassy in the UK so there's probably going to be some sort of delay but i'm
sure now that they've been asked to facilitate this, that they they're going to get some
information from Italy and hopefully that will solve that -hopefully that's just the road bump
on on the way to getting this this sorted but yeah there's a bit of a problem there so a lot
of people contacted me saying this is great news for the industry and it is great news for us
but for the British people who work in the industry but it sounds like it's not gonna
be all smooth sailing -anyway i'm going to leave it there -if you've got any information about
the stories that we've mentioned here today or any other stories especially the fire in Corfu
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