this is superyacht news with eSysman
hi welcome back to the channel okay so this is episode 100 of superyacht news
now completely arbitrary number i know but i i started it on the 26th of April 2020 superyacht
news and now we're at episode 100 so a milestone for me - like i said completely arbitrary but i
just wanted to bring it up so anyway we'll get on with the news so the first news story in today is
a yacht fire that happened yesterday so it was off the coast of Ventimilia happened around 17
:35 hours this boat burst into flames apparently unfortunately there was only one person on board
and that was the captain and he was able to send out an S.O.S. before abandoning ship and we did
so by jumping into the water and he was actually rescued right out of the walls he never had a life
raft or a lifeboat apparently it was a very quick incident fire broke out and spread very quickly
this happened in a place called off the coast of a place called borderguerra
which is near the French border between France and Italy and like i said not far from Ventimilia
so the vessel was called san Girello that's according to the Italian publication riviera 24.80
the Italian coast guard were the ones that rescued him they came out of San Remo which
is just up the coast a little way there and you can see some of the photos here
very dramatic incident you can see the the coast guard boat there that's rescued the
captain out of the water and some of the yachts came to er to attend as well so that was good
the plume of smoke that was coming from this vessel could be seen from miles away
and in fact some of the video that we show here was actually taken from the land
so i just want to say well done to the italian coast guard very often the coast guard get
overlooked for what they do but they're complete heroes I wouldn't do what they do so yeah that's
great so the cause of the fire is yet unknown and you know the boat is a total loss and so it might
never be known what happened there but if i do get any updates be i'll be sure to bring them to you-
so we'll move on to the next story - this is going back to the story about the vessel that
ran aground Ferretti yacht 3- people on board you remember that picture that was sort of questioned
whether it was real or not because like people were just so one guy was sat in an empty jacuzzi
and one guy was sat still at the wheel -well that the vest was actually on the reef and it was just
sitting it was listing over to one side and it remained there until it was recovered as you can
see in these photographs so the photos photographs are from cprtimes.com they very kindly sent them
over to us after we requested if we could use them so as you can see the vessel is in quite a mess
unlikely that that vessel will be repaired but you never know there's probably some fiber-glass
experts out there watching right now that'll say oh yeah i can fix that so maybe maybe it will be
repaired i'd be surprised but you know in the same way that i was surprised that it was recovered
as well so um the interesting story there's an interesting story because on the same day another
yacht which was almost identical ran aground but on the other side of the world in the Bahamas
almost identical incident hit a reef and ran aground and it was evacuated of the people on
board so very interesting very unusual um turn of events there so we'll go on to the next story now
in a previous video i talked about motoryacht Polaris delivered in 2020 and the owner is
Maxim Schuberth he is a multi assistant obviously he's Russian but he's a Maltese passport as well
and his vessel was registered in Malta now the reason why i brought it up in a previous video
is because the the flag state had been changed as had the name the name changed from Polaris to pole
star now obviously that name is very similar really because it's describing the same object
and what i question is why the re what was the reason for the flag change and what was the reason
for the name change like normally a vessel only changes names if ownership changes so i did some
digging i contacted somebody in Malta who was able to check the business registry down there they
told me that the owner is still Maxim Schuberth so the name change and the flag state change is
is totally on him what i believe that he's doing is he's changing the flag state because he got a
lot of pushback from Malta or from the people in Malta because of the situation that was going on
in Ukraine so yeah so he's changed the name to pole star and the vessels in Villa Rggio right
now in Italy in the shipyard which which is where it was built which is very unusual right now for a
Russian to take his boat into Italy i'm not saying there's anything wrong with that it's completely
legal if he's not under any sanctions there are other boats owned by Russians in Italy right
now which we'll go into in another video but yeah there's nothing wrong with it as such but
it's unusual as what i'm saying because of the the threat the looming threat of sanctions on anyone
with the superyacht right who's from Russia yeah he still owns that vessel so he's changed the name
himself most likely to try and distract from the fact that he you know that the vessel was known
one other thing i said in that video was about flag states and not being able to have the same
name yacht in a flag state you can have 2 vessels registered in one in one country
as long as the whole port is different so for example if i wanted to register my art mojo AIS
man and there was one already registered in London then i can register mine in Liverpool and there's
not a problem with that but i can't register it in London now that's not a big deal but in
these small island nations that are like Cayman Islands and Bermuda they very often only have
one port registry but Cayman Islands does have 3 it has the creek Georgetown and Bloody Bay
so it's unlikely that there are vessels called Polaris registered in all 3- this was mentioned
in the comments from some people saying perhaps he changed the name because he re-registered
the vessel and the name was already taken and it is a possibility but you just still have to ask
yourself why you would go to the trouble of doing that- changing the name of a vessel is complicated
there's a lot of paperwork you have to change the vessel actual names of on the vessel itself
you have to get new name plates made up which is expensive and they have to be
wired into the system because they're lit - backlit with leds you have to change all of the
all the stuff on board the crew uniform has got the name of the vessel and you have to change all
of that there's a lot that goes into a vessel name change so there's got to be a good reason for it
anyway we'll move on so motion as the name of the vessel has changed in the last couple of days to
alto i think it is aalto so this is an 80 meter or 260 foot yacht built by Oceanco in 2007 and
it is or was owned by Lakshmi Mattel now Mattel is a steel magnate you see what i did there and he's
one of the richest men in the world valued around 18 billion dollars and now the reason why this is
interesting the yacht Amevy was actually advertised for
sale and in recent days those adverts have changed now to the vessel is no longer for sale or is not
currently for sale one of them actually has the name change on it so i suspect it's been sold
now the reason why mr metal has sold it i believe is because he has a new yacht and
his new yacht is mentioned quite often on social media because it used to belong to Alicia Usmanov
at least the Ushmanov is the owner of Dilbar which is the largest yacht by volume in the world
and it's currently detained in Germany and a lot of people were asking on social media where's
his other yacht and it used to be called when he had it was called Lady Julia now before that was
called Tiz so the backstory is that Lürssen built it the owner who was commissioned ford never took
delivery and he and then Lürssen put up for sale Usmanov bought it painted it in that off-white
colour that he has then quite soon after he sold it and there was a name change again to Elea
now i believe that Mittal is the owner of of the vessel now and that's why i wanted
to bring it up because it's often mentioned as still being owned by Usmanov so i don't believe
it is owned by Usmanov any longer and that would explain the sale of of Mattel's old boat Usmanov
is apparently chartering or has charted recently motor yacht Atlanta which is in turkey right now
so uh yeah he's still still got some money there he hasn't he hasn't had all his assets frozen
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