this is super yachts news with eSysman- hi welcome back to the channel -okay we got
a doozy for you today i'm gonna get into that in a minute -but just before we go go into the
main story i just want to give you an update so a couple of days ago i talked about motor yacht
Pacific and i told you about the backstory of the vessel disappearing from AIS across the atlantic
gone dark as they say and then reappearing in Turkey- the name of the vessel on AIS was replaced
with the MMSI number and then a couple of days ago it changed again and they changed it to Pacific X -
now we've been notified that the vessel has actually changed the flag state so now this is
a common trend right now and we mentioned in the previous videos a few boats that have changed
their flag states recently -and that includes Sailing Yacht A which was registered with the Isle
of Man but the Isle of Man de-registered both of his vessels and they re-registered in Sierra Leone -
Galactica Supernova which was with the Cayman Islands was also re-registered to Sierra Leone
now this boat went dark in february disappeared coming out of Montenegro and
hasn't been on AIS ever since but it doesn't mean that we don't know where the yacht is
i'll put some photographs on the screen here this was in in a place called MARIS in Turkey recently
another vessel that's re-registered recently is Sheherezade re-registered to Malaysia -now Pacific S
the name that they've put on AIS has coincided with a change of flag state for this vessel also
now this vessel has been re-registered to Malaysia just like Sheherezade-
now i'm thinking that the possibility is that the name Pacific was already
taken on that registry and they've had to add the X to get on there that's a possibility i don't
know yet i we haven't been able to confirm if the name of the vessel's actually changed on the stern
it might even not have even been changed just yet so but that's interesting that the vessel has
changed flag states -now the owner Leonard Mickelson he's the CEO and major shareholder
of Novitec which is a Russian gas company and that he is currently under sanctions with the UK
and with Canada but not with the USA but the company Novitek has been sanctioned by the us
since 2014 since the invasion of Krimea so that's a very interesting development of that yacht i've
got more to come about that yacht in a future video anyway we'll move on to the main story
we talked about motor yacht Axioma and the vessel the last in the last update we told you that they
that had 63 bids that lots of people going to visit the boat looking around and we said
that the the broker Nigel Hollier said that it's going to take him a couple of weeks
to go through all the bids and to verify that the vessel has been sold now we've been contacted by
multiple people who are close to this i want to clarify that we've we've been unable to
verify this information but we've had the same information come from different
sources who are unrelated so it adds credibility to the story anyway i'll get into it okay- so
the first things first a few a few things that have been scaring off potential buyers
now the first and most obvious one is that it was owned by Russian and it was seized
and it's been sold right so that's the first thing that is going to scare off a lot of people
the second is that next year in july i believe it is the 21st
july 2023 the boat is due a 10-year survey now the the boat is has its class with
the American Bureau of Shipping the class society is like Lloyd's and DMV stuff like that but this
is the american bureau of shipping it's got a 10-year survey coming up the vessel launched in
2013 and it's 2023 it's a 10-year survey and we're told that the boat's going to need a couple of
million dollars spent on it in that survey now another thing that you've got to add on top of
when you're thinking about bidding is the vessel owes currently around 8 million dollars of unpaid
fees back pay for the crew dockage and other fees that have accrued while the vessel has been
arrested in Gibraltar so the new buyer will have to pay all of that in a previous video i said
that the money to the for the sale of the yacht would probably go to pay off all those debts but
it turns out that's not gonna happen at all and the new owner will be responsible for
all of that debt too so you've got to add that to your to your bottom line and the vessel has
been docked there since since march and it's august now so that's that's a good old while-
so anyway we contacted Nigel Hollier now he has not replied to confirm or deny
any of this now the the most controversial part of this story is who the potential buyer is- now
what we've been told officially is that there's no buyer and we have to wait 10 days
but what we've been told again by these multiple sources is that they've already selected a buyer
just a little bit of a backstory on the yacht- the yacht was built in Turkey by a
company called Dunya Yachts d-u-n-y-a Dunya Yachts and the boat was launched with the
name "Red Square" i kid you not it was called red square and it was it went to the Monaco yacht
in 2013 and it was bought allegedly by Dimitri Pompianski at the Monaco yacht show in 2013.
now if you go to the Dunya yachts website it's listed in 2 languages you so you can
read it in 2 languages like you're gonna say english and Turkish right no it's listed
in English and Russian- now having said all of that what we've been told is that first of all
the sale price was 38 million pounds -that's the price that was the bid that's been accepted
apparently- allegedly accepted by the broker and the person who has bought the yacht is from Turkey
not only is he from Turkey but he is connected to that shipyard "Dunya Yacht Shipyard "
if you are Turkish and you're buying a yacht that's been seized from a Russian owner and you
live in turkey and you're going to take that yacht to Turkey ( then i guess that the rush you used
to get from skydiving is not what it used to be) because currently Turkey is full of Russian yacht
owners and the idea that you're going to take your yacht to Turkey and and then sail around on it
I don't believe that will happen for a second so what it's looking like is going to happen here
is that if you read between the lines it looks like that this yacht is going to go back to Dunya
Yachts for its 10-year survey under a Turkish owner that's legit right so the American Bureau
of Shipping can go and give it a new and do its 10-year survey all the work gets done
by the shipyard that built it and then he will sell it and most likely the new buyer will be
the old buyer -now we like i said we can't confirm any of this independently but we've had
this from multiple sources and we've not had any information from the broker so i want to make just
clarify that -now if we get any information back we'll bring that in the future in a future video
but that is the information that we've received so it's going to be very interesting to see what
happens over the next few weeks anyway guys i'm going to leave it there if you want to get in
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