this is super yacht news with eSysman
hi welcome back to the channel hope you had a great weekend i had the first weekend off in
as long as i could remember so i'm raring to go got a lot of information to get through so let's
get cracking so first of all i wanted to update you on the whereabouts of the movements of m/y
Garçon and motoryacht Halo now if you remember these vessels were in Antigua they had been detained by
the Antiguan government at the request of the UK government and then a few days ago or a week ago
they suddenly just left -now they've been heading across the Atlantic since then and they are now
getting to the latter stages of that crossing in the AIS destinations they had
2 locations in Morocco Casablanca and Agadir -now Halo was going to Agadir and Garçon was
going to Casablanca i thought was a little bit odd to go to those locations to refuel because they're
a little bit quite far south and the track across the Atlantic did not sort of lend itself
to those destinations well it now looks pretty certain that they are not going
to those destinations well m/y Halo for sure because they've actually changed their destination
you can see on the screen here that halo has changed its destination to Tangier
and Garçon still as i record this still has a destination of Casablanca although
i'm pretty certain now that they're not heading there- probably will go to Tangier also now clearly
they're going to tangier because they can't go to Gibraltar they don't want to go to Gibraltar
because they'll most likely get arrested when they go in there
so both vessels i've got a range of about 4 1/2 thousand nautical miles at about 12
or 13 knots which is the speed they've pretty much been doing on the whole crossing so
at some point they're going to need to refuel so most likely Tanger will be the place to do that
so it's become quite common now hasn't it to put in a destination that you're not heading to and
then change it later on you can't have legitimate reasons for doing that whether usually being the
main one anyway we'll keep track and we'll let you know as and when we know something more.
all right so we'll move on to the next story so if you remember in the recent video we talked
about Al-lusayl motoryacht owned by the Emir of Qatar the vessel was in Norway and it left Norway after
switching off its AIS and then headed through the english channel and headed down to Portugal
and we picked up the vessel in the English Channel a subscriber contacted me saying
what's this vessel and why is it not broadcasting AIS and we quickly identified and then tracked
the vessel down to Portugal to Gibraltar and then up to Barcelona -when the vessel was in Gibraltar
the the port authority told them that their AIS was not broadcasting and they said that they
had permission to not use it because of whoever's on board right so the vessel
went to Barcelona and then turned on AIS again and now is back in Tarragona which is
where it sits over the winter now the point of this story really is they're switching
off their AIS because they've got an important person on board but it kind of like- it's almost
doing the opposite it's kind of broadcasting the fact that you've got someone on board
by switching off your AIS and we've proved that with a little bit of attention you can
easily track a vessel even if it doesn't have its AIS on so i don't really see the point
of doing that i think it would be more inconspicuous to just leave it broadcasting.
Anyway we'll move on so motor yacht Ulysses now this is an interesting one motoryacht Ulysses is
heading from the Bahamas headed down to Panama in the last few days it's now at an anchorage
waiting to go through the Panama Canal i believe so Graham Hart wanted clever marine to build in
the super yacht now "Clever Marine "are not yacht builders they build commercial vessels for the gas
industry and things like that very robust you know deep sea going vessels and "Graham Hart" of whatever
reasons asked them can you build me this yacht so they said well we can build it for you but you'll
have to put in a minimum order of 2 so okay why why have one when you can have 2 at twice the
price right so he builds the first yacht calls it Ulysses it's delivered and i think it was 2016
and then he uses that vessel for a couple of years until the second one is is ready which is this one
now called Ulysses he then sells the first one to a Russian billionaire called Yuri Milner and
then a few years later he sold the second one and we believe that he that Yuri Milner
also bought the second one the larger- one first one was about 108 meters i think
and the second 116 meters or 380 feet as i said earlier and the second one is slightly improved
slightly longer had slightly different features. Yuri Milner as i said is a Russian billionaire
he lives in silicon valley -Mr Milner is allegedly friends with Mark Zuckerberg and Ed Norton
to name a few -and he has made a lot of money in then startups airbnb twitter and facebook
but he made his fortune in getting formerly state owned assets
in Russia for very low prices and then making money from them -that's according to bloomberg.com
now it should be noted that Yuri Milner is not under any sanctions currently
anyway the vessel left the Bahamas a few days ago and headed down to Panama and it's now
going to go through Panama Canal in itself is unimportant but this is what m/y Amadea did
- the difference is that the Amadea was allegedly owned by someone who was on the
sanctions list but it's just interesting that it's sort of taken the same path and we'll keep track
of the vessel and we'll see where it heads and see if anything happens to it all right so we'll move
on to the next story -so motoryacht A disappeared in the Maldives around the beginning of march
the vessel has turned up in Dubai recently the last few days now the vessel was in Ras Al-Khaimah
for a long time so the backs quick backstory a vessel is owned by Andre Melnichenko he was placed
on the sanctions list and i believe it was the 9th of march but it was around the beginning of march.
his other vessel sailing your day was in dry dock in Trieste in Italy the vessel has been arrested
it's been there ever since and Motoryacht A was in the Maldives they turned off their AIS
and disappeared went dark and they and we found them in Ras Al-Khaimah and it was
laid up there for a long time because they both vessels were deflagged by the isle of man
so but now motion a has turned up in Dubai and it is very close by to another yacht that is
under sanctions and that is Ocean Victory and it's in an area called "The World" and it's a
man-made archipelago of small islands that it's created in the shape of the world and the vessel
has been there for a few days now based on the operations that we've been able to see so we have
some satellite footage here from hisutton.com and we believe that this is motivated on the left
hand side and Ocean Victory on the right hand side so we've not been able to confirm we don't have
any video footage or any photographs of motoryacht A in this location so we're not able to confirm
if they have re-flagged but it seems possible that they have reflect because they've moved
after being sat in Ras Al-Khaimah for so long without a flag now the tenders the boats that they
use to get to and from they are flying Marshall Islands flags -now it's usual for the tenders to
fly the same flag as the mothership -now you can register the tender in its own right with its own
you know numbers MMSI numbers etc and on own call signs etc and they can stay on a
different flag so it's it doesn't confirm that motif air has reflected with Marshall islands
and also it in the past m/y A was a Marshall islands flag did have a Marshall islands flag so
that could be let the tenders could be left over from then so if you're in the area but please be
sure to get a photo or video of this vessel and send it to me through the normal methods
all right so i've got an update on a previous story in the previous video quite a few people
were triggered by the title of the previous video so in the previous video we had a story about the
coast guard the Turkish coast guard intercepting a yacht that was carrying allegedly carrying drugs
quite a few people got upset with the title of the previous video saying it was biased or misleading
but so before i show you the title i will tell you give you a brief explanation of what the story was
and that was that a Turkish coast guard vessel intercepted fired upon and rammed a U.S. flagged
super yacht yeah so that's it so that was that's what was happening and here's
the title on the screen now so i don't know how that title can be biased or misleading
but i thought i'd just bring that up because i thought it was quite funny that people
can somehow decide that's a misleading title anyway we've got an update in that story so
the back story is that the Turkish coast guard received a tip off that a 94 meter
general cargo vessel called "Ocean Blue that was registered in Vanuatu (I think it's pronounced )
that vessel they got a report that that vessel had drugs on board so they decided to follow
the vessel into the area where it dropped anchor and they observed the vessel for time to see what
happened now this yacht this bolger b-o-l-g-e-r came along alongside this tanker or this cargo
vessel and they were observed putting something on board and then the yacht left so then the Turkish
coast guard pursued the yacht and you know the rest of the story they fired upon this yacht to
try and get them to stop the yacht was trying to head into Greek territory and the Turkish boats
then rammed the vessel to to make it stop. in the pursuit the people on board the yacht are said to
have thrown over 60 kilos of packages into the water to try and get rid of the evidence which
the coast guard then collected and they found a further 25 kilos of drugs still on the boat
so the in actual fact that was the Turkish interior ministry that said that they recovered
the 85 kilos 84 kilos or 185 pounds of drugs. all right so i think we'll leave it there if
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