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hello
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hi guys welcome back to the channel i've
got funny marks on my face
uh which my my missus finds hilarious
but
what can i do with mask life eh so i'm
back in
genoa marina aeroportal well as it's now
known
just genoa marina or marina general
because it used to be called marina
genoa era porto but
i noticed this last time i was here that
they've taken down the europorto sign
it's super cold today the the uh the
my app says it's 12 degrees but the wind
chill factor is not taken into account
it's super super cold on the old fingers
and uh yeah i have to have i can't put
gloves on because i'm filming right so i
have to operate my camera
so anyway uh royal falcon 1 still here
as far as i know it's still for sale i
tried to contact the people
who run it and the crew and stuff like
that and got nothing
yeah i got tumbleweeds so if you're
watching this
if you know it's still for sale and they
want to have somebody come on and do a
a video get in touch with me put a
comment below or contact me through the
email address that's
connected to my youtube channel
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so i didn't recognize this at first by
the name or by the design but this is um
this is called motion baraka
and this was built as you can see on the
side it says that this was built by
protiksan turquoise
now in 2010 this was built now that was
a year before
motif yogi was built and if you watch my
videos
uh you'll uh you'll know all about yogi
right
so yogi sang is the largest superhero to
ever sink
and it sank not long after it was built
this is a sister ship
this was the previous build so there was
three i mentioned in the video
i'll put a link above in case you
haven't seen it but in the video i
talked about those three vessels that
they built the first one was called
baraka
the second one was called turquoise
after protects and turquoise
and the third one was called yogi a yogi
was bigger than this one and they added
an extra deck and they added a lot of
weight onto it and that was
part of the reason why it sank i think
uh it still has protests and turquoise
route on the side which is
strange because after the accident the
vet
the the shipyard went into new ownership
and they changed the names of turquoise
shots
so this was one of the last vessels to
be called
to have the name proton turquoise on it
and if you look on their website
actually turquoise shots website uh
yogi's not on there for some reason
all the vessels are listed in order of
how they built them and there's a gap
between this talisman c is the one built
after
and they don't mention that one
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strangely
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okay guys if you saw my recent
news video and i talked about force blue
well here it is uh yeah it's uh it's
it's stocked in marina general airport
or
marina general whatever you want to call
it it's been here
in italy since 2010. i mean the owner is
italian
but it wasn't originally based here i
believe it was based in la spezia or
that's when it
was arrested for uh non-payment of fuel
uh there's quite a few comments in the
comments section about why didn't you
just pay the bill
uh it's a little bit more complicated
than that
uh flavio briatore has got a history of
fraud i think it's his middle name go
back to the 80s
he was convicted for faking
card games he would invite rich people
to his house or to
a location and he would have a number of
people to play cards and they were all
fictional characters that he'd arranged
and they had fake
cards that that they could uh figure out
you know numbered cards
whatever they call it trick cards and he
would rip people off
for millions he was convicted and he was
given a two-year prison sentence
and then he fled to um to the
uh to saint thomas and he lived there as
a fugitive
for for a while until the uh until he
managed to get the
sentence overturned and it wasn't until
2010 this was in the late 80s it wasn't
in 2010 he was actually
um freed by the court you know they they
said his he was rehabilitated
which was which was uh does not seem
like it was the truth
um the reason why he was given this big
vat bill is because
the ch the boat was registered as a
charter vessel but then it
it they started to suspect that he
wasn't chartering it at all
and he was living on it and so he was
registered as a charter vessel and
the way you buy fuel uh when you're a
charter vessel is slightly different to
the way you buy fuel
when you're living on board or if it's a
private vessel generally
you if you buy like if i if this is my
boat and i buy fuel here in italy today
i have about 60 days to leave the eu
or i'm liable to pay tax on this vessel
on the on the fuel so what generally
people do is they they either buy fuel
just before they go across to the
caribbean or when they're gonna go
somewhere like montenegro or gibraltar
or tangier or somewhere outside of the
eu
and then they're not liable then they
can stay overnight and they can come
straight back
that's that's the way they get around it
um he didn't do that
he had a because he was registered as a
charter vessel he had slightly different
rules and he broke those rules because
he was suspected of just living on board
and not actually
chartering it out so he was
also after after this
in this arrest of the vessel uh he was
also
given another prison sentence in 2014
for fraud
and uh yeah so he's not uh it's not as
simple as
he just had an outstanding bill on the
vessel for five million and he didn't
pay it because you know
he paid 70 million for this uh when he
bought it
and that's why in the original video i
said it was even sold for a fraction of
the original cost
because uh the value of this vessel now
is around 20 million but
he paid 67.2 million for it
and bernie ecclestone bought it at
auction on the 27th
of this month of january for 7.4 million
so uh that is quite the bargain but if
you're an f1 fan or if you know about f1
you'll know that bernie ecclestone and
flavio briatore they go way back
so the fact that uh he bought it
assuming
that they didn't have a major falling
out and he did it to spite him
i would say that most likely you might
see flavio back on this vessel at some
point in the future
whether or not it stays in eccleston's
name and and he gives it to flavio to
use whatever he wants i don't know
but uh that's the way i suspect it went
i might be wrong
but uh the time will tell i suppose
right
there is there are some signs on the
vessel that it has not been looked after
uh the way it would be and and that's to
be expected right if
you pound you yacht and you you don't
have access to it it's not like you're
gonna
keep spending out millions on it every
year to keep the upkeep
to do the uh you know all the
maintenance very often
as soon as a new ownership takes place
they move it to a prepared location
or they take it into a dry dock and
start working on it but we'll see
time will tell i've been i've been
checking on it every day to see if it's
still here
and as of the end of january is the 31st
of january today
there it is
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it's great when i first got here it was
quite cloudy and uh
and it was freezing cold i think i
mentioned it at the beginning of the
video
and now the wind's dropped and the sun's
come out and it's actually turned into a
into quite a nice day i'm i was actually
tempted to take off my hat but i've got
locked down hair right now i haven't had
my hair cut since september
last year and uh it's a bit out of
control so um
i think i'll just keep my hat on for now
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all right guys look at this boat
on the road interesting just so you i
just wanted to show you this marina
genoa now it used to say arena genoa at
a portal
but uh they seem to have got rid of the
airport section of it
i think that might have been because uh
it didn't sound exactly alluring for
yacht owners to want to
dock at the airport so yeah quite
interesting but anyway
i'm going to it's very strange i've been
here for a few hours and it's been
completely deserted
and then all of a sudden in the last
half an hour it got super busy
so i'm building a retreat and uh and
i'll end the video there hope you
enjoyed this uh let me know in the
comments what you think of uh
if anyone's out there wants to buy that
baraka boat
and uh let's talk about it in the
comments all right guys thanks for
watching bye