this is superyacht news with eSysman
hi welcome back to the channel so there were dramatic scenes yesterday in Turkey
as the Turkish coast guard gave chase to and fired upon a vessel registered in the U.S. carrying a U.S.
flag now the yacht which was a 27 meter or 88-foot yacht is named m/y Bulger and
was sailing from a marina or nearby marina called Yala Cavic Marina which is near Bodrum
it's actually coincidentally it's very near where m/uy Solaris is at anchor right now
anyway the vessel left there in the in the evening and it was headed to an unknown destination now
the Turkish coast guard received a tip that the vessel was being used to carry illicit substances
so the coast guard were now to intercept the vessel now initially they called the vessel
by VHF and told them to stop moving the vessel ran and the coast guard gave chase
when this happened the coast guard said that the vessel was trying to head to greek waters out of
the Turkish territory and the Turkish actually at one point opened fire on this yacht causing damage
to the yacht and then they when they caught up to the yacht which was still fleeing they rammed the
yacht in order to get the vessel to stop the coast guard boarded the vessel and arrested
four men on board and they confiscated packages that they say carry what was filled with drugs
and the vessel was towed back to a marina after this happened vessel's been arrested everyone on
board has been arrested all the video footage you're watching right now actually which shows
extensive damage of this yacht they're from a Turkish news website called milliert.com.tr
but you can see in this footage here that the vessel was really extensively damaged there and
but it's not beyond repair i don't think but the people who were on it that night certainly
won't be repairing that yacht because they've all been arrested probably be spending a considerable
amount of time in prison if they're convicted of carrying those drugs so what will happen to
that yacht most likely the vessel will be sold if it's repairable or maybe sold as scrap even
but i think it could be repaired but that is quite extensive damage on that iota okay i finally got
contacted by imperial yachts you remember in their previous videos we talked about imperial yachts
leaving Monaco or being asked to leave Monaco and the owner of the company Eugenie Cockman
had traveled to Turkey now i got a statement from Imperial so i'm going to read it and then
we'll talk about it so this is the statement it says your recent coverage culminating in today's
video is materially incorrect and potentially defamatory it's always a bit of a threat
in one of their statements it says number one imperial the arch remains incorporated in Monaco
number 2 imperial yachts has not been asked to leave the principality by any authority number
three the website you referred to Imperial yachts Antalya has no connection with imperial whatsoever
either directly indirectly or otherwise this is a false site set up to impersonate imperial and
our lawyers are engaged in dealing with that and number four please note the very real impact the
inaccurate post ca and comments can have on the crew and their families working in the industry
particularly the additional burden this may place on the local authorities who may have to deal
with the fallout this causes i don't know what that means but i would say that the company being
sanctioned will have a bigger impact on the people that they mentioned at the end of that statement
now on the first point i can confirm that the officers that they were using in Monaco they
are no longer using they've moved out of those offices now they're saying that they're still
incorporated in Monaco that does not necessarily mean they are still in business in Monaco right
also we we tried very hard to get in touch with imperial before we went live with the video
we you know we we used email addresses instagram accounts we contacted them everywhere we could
you know use the force carrier pigeons etc and i couldn't get a reply until a couple of days ago
and another thing that's interesting about the statement is it doesn't deny the fact that Mr.
Cochman has left Monaco and gone to turkey to set up shop in turkey so yeah so anyway
that's their statement so we'll leave it there so moving on to the next story this is quite a funny
one actually because in the last video we talked about m/y Axioma being sold in a one-day auction
by the admiralty in Gibraltar and i said that it was the way they the way they said it was
being sold as is and where is i said it kind of sounded like an eBay auction when people say no
returns etc and i put up a fake eBay auction that i'd made myself in photoshop for a bit of
a joke a bit of tongue-in-cheek but it actually caused a few people out because i had quite a
few people contact not that many but i had a few people contacting me asking me for a link
to the eBay auction i just want to clarify there is no eBay auction for that yacht that i know of
i did that as a bit of a joke because i because of what i was talking about
i would be interested to see it in an eBay auction though wouldn't it now sticking with
that content actually the yacht i had quite a lot of questions about what happens to the money
after the sale of the yacht well firstly the money goes to the admiralty court in Gibraltar
and then they will pay JP Morgan who put the lien against the yield they they are owed over
21 million dollars apparently so that's where the the biggest chunk of money will go now we
don't know how much it's going to fetch right the vessel's allegedly worth about 70 million dollars
i don't think it's going to go anywhere near 70 million i think there's going to be very limited
interest or very limited interest in terms of people who can afford and
who have the willingness to buy a yacht like this but i might be wrong it will be interesting to see
but after that now that yacht's been there since march so there's a lot of mooring fees a lot of
fees for Gibraltar the crew on board haven't been paid i would imagine they haven't been paid
and they will have probably been contracted by now this is a guess again because
it's very hard to find out this information for sure but i believe that the crew will have had
to have been paid by the authority in Gibraltar and so they'll be paying off all of those debts
you know for all of the different things that have happened there maybe they've had fuel
mooring fees electricity all that kind of stuff so i don't think there'll be
a lot of money left over after they pay J.P. Morgan and all of those fees that we discussed
will be interesting to see what the vessel goes for i think what i'm going to do is i'm going to
put a poll on the on the youtube channel and i'll come up with a series of different figures and you
can vote on which which which value you think it will reach in that auction okay i'm going to
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