This is super yacht news eSysman -
hi guys welcome back to the channel it is april the first -this is not an april fool's video- the
title of the video is correct if you're thinking that the reason why you're watching this video
is because Roman Abramovich who owns two super yachts Solaris and Eclipse which are both in
Turkey right now after fleeing sanctions that were put on him by the UK and the US and Europe
that's not what's happening it has been actually determined today that Roman Abramovich owns 2
more super yachts the island of Antigua has recently joined in with the EU
the US and the UK in sanctioning Russians close to Vladimir Putin right so
if you don't know already Antigua is a very popular destination for super yachts
there's always a lot of super yachts laid up there- "Amadea" was there until very recently
anyway they have now joined in with sanctioning and there was a super yacht docked there called
and they were they suspected that this vessel might be owned by Roman Abramovich after an
article in the "financial times"- the financial times- had been talking about this saying that
they believed through an investigation that he owned a um a company in the British Virgin Islands
called "Wenham Overseas Limited" and they found out that a PL8, an aircraft that Abramovic owns
was also registered at that same company so anyway the Antiguan government or the Antiguan
authorities they asked the UK for help and the UK did indeed supply Antigua with definite proof
that Mr. Abramovich owns these vessels -so as we make this video the vessels have not been arrested
as far as i'm aware- but i'm sure they won't be given permission to leave if they try to a-t this
moment like i said there are 2 vessels and the first one is called motor yacht Garcon
the 67 meter vessel and it was built by "Damen Yachting" now for the people who have joined
the channel in the last month in the month of march for these videos about Russia and sanctions
i'm going to introduce you to something that you won't believe when i tell you but there is such
a thing in the superyacht world as a support vessel it is effectively a super yacht that is
for support only so the the owner of the yacht so so let's say in this case Mr. Abramovic sails
along it is 440 meter motor yacht Solaris and in tow we'll have this other vessel motorcycle gas on
the 67 meter will follow him around everywhere and the reason why they do this is because
when their main yacht becomes too small and there's not enough room they build a second
yacht which becomes a support vessel and they put their helicopters on it and their
cars and the jet skis you know quad bikes whatever you want to put on there they can even have it
like hyperbaric chambers if they're divers or they can have medical facilities if they're paranoid or
if they're you know ill health whatever like that so this is what these vessels are for - yeah it's
unbelievable isn't it ? they have a full crew they are built and finished to a superyacht standard so
he if he has a party for instance that he doesn't have room on the main yacht he can put guests on
the support vessel and they will have everything they need on that vessel full service everything
and that's what this vessel is now the the previous owner of the vessel was a Ukrainian
businessman and his name was Yuri Kossoyk and he owned a vessel called "motor yacht Ace"
which is-- i can't remember off the top of my head -it's about 85 meter yacht -and he
had this support vessel that he was building a new vessel and he put both of his vessels up
for sale and Garcon sold last year i believe and but nobody knew who would bought it but anyway
like i said it's been discovered that it was it belonged to Roman Abramovich now interestingly
when i saw the first article by the "Financial Times" i looked at the vessel in Antigua and on
"Marine Traffic" and i clicked on the vessel and it shows like you can see here it shows
motor yacht Ganson and then right next to it was another vessel called motor yacht Halo and this
vessel is also owned by Roman Abramovich and the "Halo" is a 55 meter valued at 38 million dollars
and was originally owned by Australian billionaire James Packer - the rough value of Garcon is
approximately -it was it was for sale for 24 million last year but the value of it apparently
is 20 million dollars so Roman Abramovich does have other yachts he does it for when he wants to
be a bit more incognito um he can use a smaller yacht because everybody knows you know Solaris
or Eclipse -he also has been known to charter the yachts as well when he really wants to be
off the radar so he'll charter a boat send it to a place and he'll join that boat and nobody knows
he's on board Antigua- i'm sure they're about to seize these vessels or arrest these vessels
should i say as part of the sanctions against Roman Abramovich -there is another vessel that
did belong to him i don't know whether it still does it was it has been up for sale it's called
"Susurro" -it's a very fast vessel does like 40 knots i believe and it's been in- it was
it's been in Cannes- a marina in Cannes for years -it was in "La Ciotat" in 2018 having worked on
it was damaged in a fire - that was on another vessel in the south of France and then it was that
was all repaired and the vessel was up for sale - i don't know if ifhe sold it -it is in La Ciotat
right now actually um i don't know whether he owns that vessel but i'm sure someone will know if
that's the case -anyway guys i'm going to leave it there like i said it's a impromptu video tonight
but anyway guys thanks very much for watching - have a great weekend and i'll see you soon- bye