this is Super yacht News with eSysman
hi guys welcome back to the channel welcome back to a lot of news that's coming in today
first big item that we've got to talk about here is Roman Abramovich we've
been talking about him over the last few days he was placed on the sanctions list in the UK
a few days ago just before his vessel departed or just after his vessel
departed Barcelona- right and we i talked about the the timing of that being a bit suspicious
anyway today or in actual fact Sunday it's Monday today but on Sunday the EU had a
meeting they agreed to add Roman Abramovich to the EU sanctions list -so that is a big
big deal and as such his assets have been frozen so the assets obviously in the west that they can
get their hands on they have all been frozen - what does this mean for his vessels well as
i as i mentioned "m/y Solaris" left Barcelona went straight to "TIvat" which is in "Montenegro" -
"montenegro" is not part of the EU however they are have in an unusual turn of events agreed
to follow suit with EU sanctions against Russia so i'm not sure what is happening right now
because "Solaris" is an anchor there and she's been there for a few days i thought initially
she was just gonna go there to get fuel because it's quite a common practice for vessels when
they leave a shipyard in the EU is they leave and they go to Montenegro to get fuel and then
and then they set on their to their onward journey but they've been sat there a few days now -
not quite sure what's going on last night they looked like they were leaving i even had
contact from a source telling me where they were going and then after about an hour the vessel
just turned around and went straight back to to Montenegro and back to its anchor position now -
there's a few reasons why this could happen under normal circumstances i would say it's
probably a technical issue which they've had you know maybe a stabiliser wasn't working or
a pump or something like that and they've turned around and gone back
but because of the way things are right now it could be something to do with these sanctions
that just landed right maybe they've got us to turn around should be noted though
that Montenegro does not have a navy so they would have had no physical way to stop them from leaving -
like i said it could have been a technical issue - it could have been a short sea trial that
they were doing and maybe they weren't planning on leaving at all and they were just doing the
sea trial and then they just turned around and went back i'm not sure - but as you can see from
the footage here they just they went quite fast then they slowed down to a halt turned around and
came back another thing about the crew on board is i've been told that the crew have been told
"if you have another job offer from another boat then you probably should take it" so that
is suggesting that this vessel is expecting to be arrested or seized somewhere and they're going to
lay off the crew if that is true that statement then that looks like what they're expecting
to happen they're telling crew if you've got another opportunity you should probably take it
all right so the next story is sailing yate - i've had sources tell me that
sailing got a so okay so the registry for sailing got a was originally Hamilton in Bermuda
as was the motor yacht area or the vessel but in the last year they changed for some reason
and "m/y A" became UK registered i think it's registered in London now -and "sailing yatch A" became
registered in the "Isle of Man" now recently i talked in previous videos where the "Island of man"
was deregistering the helicopters of Alisher Usmanov they de-register 2 helicopters of his -
Anders, his airbus A340 they deregistered them so they basically made them un-flyable
they also did it with Roman Abramovich when the UK put sanctions on him -they deregistered
his aircraft -his helicopters and on that plane and i'm hearing now that they've actually deregistered
his sailing yachts so "sailing Yacht A" has been deregistered from the "Isle of man"
i've been unable to confirm this independently but this is what i've been told by a source
which basically means it can't go anywhere even if it was allowed to leave the shipyard because
obviously in dry dock right now in trieste in italy even if they were able to leave they can't
go anywhere without a flag state also means their insurance is invalidated plus with the "Lloyds
register" thing happening - yeah it's going to be very difficult for yachts to be moving around now -
as far as the crew on board sailing they'll say i've been told that their employment contracts
are being terminated or have been terminated but they've been told that they're going to get a
new contract from another source i have no idea what that contract is going to be like whether
it's going to be as good as the one they're on right now and i i don't know why that is but
my guess is that the reason why that's happened is because the the management company is also
part of the seizure or the arrest the frozen assets of Melnichenko may be that
that management company is under his ownership - and they've been seized too so they've had to go
to another management company that would explain why all of the contracts would be terminated -
one other thing you remember last week "m/y Dilbar" massive boat, which is in Hamburg
in Germany 156 metres 15 almost 16, 000 gross tons one the largest ship-the largest super yacht
in the world by tonnage- by volume and they had a crew of between 80 and 96 - well they now have
a crew of 5 so all of the crew were laid off and that was quite public in actual fact the
letter that the captain sent to all of the crew i think he sent it in the text it looked like it was
in the text format - the letter was published on twitter last week and basically he was telling all
of the crew that they were all being laid off and he said in that in that email or letter that there
would be a caretaker crew that would that would be chosen from that crew at some point by lesson
and what i've heard is i don't know whether it was that captain because i don't know the name
of the person who wrote the letter but i've been told that the captain and 4 crew have been
kept 2 deck departments and 2 engineering so there are 5 people on a vessel now that
did have almost a hundred must be very strange for those guys they're not staying on board because
it's in dry dock they're staying in apartments on land and they're traveling too every day i'm told
they've been hired by Lurssen not by Alisher Usmanov so the Lürssen just hired them just
to look after that boat wallet in dry dock now had the boat been in the water they would have
needed a bigger crew they would have needed enough crew to be able to move the vessel should
they need to in in the case of an emergency so they would have needed probably 15 to 20 people
as well as with sailing got a with it being in dry dock also it's very unlikely
that i don't know how many crews on board right now by the way so with it being in dry dock it's
most likely got a small crew on already like a lot of the stewardesses and the interior stuff
probably not there i'm just guessing based on my own experience um so it might have already been
a reduced crew so it's quite possible that sailing i will end up with a very short small crew as well
all right guys that's all i've got for tonight quite a quick one hopefully
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