Absolutely hats off to the people who found the yacht. To recognize this vessel after so many months on the other side of the world requires dedication and an honest spirit. If you read this, I applaud you and you are a great example of what the yachting community is all about 👍👍👍👍
Good news for the yacht owners. Boaties are very knowledgeable and don't forget details; equipment, rigging, hull shape, portholes etc. A similar yacht was recovered in the Pacific Islands, yachties in the marina thought; this boat looks familiar, get the binoculars out. Kudos to the finders staying inquisitive and checking this boat out.
Great find from fellow yachtsmen! So good of you to press the police into following through. Positive news for the owners no doubt. Hopefully she'll be ready to go for next year's season.
What a fantastic end to the story! Bravo to you for posting the original story which I remember and also to the amazing people who noticed the disguised sailboat in Brazil. Very happy for the owners of the boat!
Just want to say thank you to the channel. You do a wonderful job of covering this niche topic with insight, concern, professionalism and it brings me calm. Not quite lounging on a superyacht calm, but enjoyable nonetheless!
Good on the people who spotted it, they didn't ignore their suspicion and took action on it, would have been very easy to not act on their thoughts and walk away. Very impressed.
I don’t own a boat but like to follow the channel. Kudos to those who saw something wrong and got involved . Being a retired law enforcement Captain our motto was” see something, say something”.
Might be a good idea to put trackers on yachts to simplify finding them. Don't know if Apple Airtags are enough but definitely reasonably priced ones can be had.
I agree, I just bought one for my $2500.00 e-bike, GPS mini tracker $50 CAD and $120 US a year for the sim card for tracking, you would think folks with these expensive yachts would at the least have a GPS tracker.🙂
A few years back, two local sailers on the west coast of Vancouver Island told their wives and families they were headed off to buy a sailboat in Panana and sail it back, which they were then going to use for a new ecotourism venture. A few months later, they docked, phoned their families, and then just disappeared. Posters placed by their families and authorities, everywhere. After a few months, their bodies were discovered, shot through the head. Took about a year for the real story to be released by the RCMP, that they had been hired & financed by a local Hells Angel gang to run drugs from Equador into Canada but they had got nervous on route and threw the drugs overboard, which led to their execution. Moral of the story is that while drug running in sailboats is very rare (being too slow to outrun authorities), it does occasionally occur. It turned out that those Canadians had been flagged by the authorities as their routing and behaviour was so unusual (not stopping at any US port for provisions, not greeting other cruisers etc). In the same way, this yacht attracted some attention. It will probably take a year for the full story to come out but this was too well planned, funded and executed to be a simple case of joy riders.
Wow, so good that the yacht is going to get back to their owners. It's a pity that two of the culprits skipped town and left the woman in charge to take the rap. Hat's off to the eagle eyed people who alerted the authorities. You are angels.
as a Brazilian subscriber to the channel. I am VERY happy that some of my country people were able to help. SIM O BRASIL É DO CARALHO. O PROBLEMA SAO SÓ OS POLITICOS. PARABÉNS A PF. 🙂
Can you ask the owner for cctv stills (mugshots)of the original hirers? They will be somewhere the departure marina, charter office, fuel pumps etc and post on esysman?
Interesting, that such an electronics-laden thing as a superyacht can disappear and remain untracked for months, with little hope of being found, without social media becoming involved. With videos you see nowadays about using "airtags" to track small parcels, you'd imagine that such large and expensive objects as superyachts wouldn't be chock-full with such covert devices...
"With videos you see nowadays about using "airtags" to track small parcels, you'd imagine that such large and expensive objects as superyachts wouldn't be chock-full with such covert devices..." Crazy isn't it. My teenage daughter and her friends used Airtags to track their luggage when she went on a big trip overseas. One of her friends actually had her bag sent to the wrong airport and they were able to show the airline where it was before they knew themselves. How is that a teenage girl is more savvy than superyacht companies/owners?
@@stephenburnage7687 @googble69 well, there you've got it, folks. So it's either the tech doesn't catch up with yacht owners (just like with Japanese high ranked businessmen, which still use fax machines) or it is some elaborate scheme (like for insurance money).
Being called a criminal state is not entirely strange. They even simply remotely registerd the boat falsely. Unbelievable.. Happy for the owners for the return of their vessel. Thanks to social media in a good way.
big respect for people who see boat and put them time to push police do action we are all one big boat family and your baby is gone it very hard and amazing hapy end story thank you guys and thank you to make video and let us know abaut good end of story 🙏
Interesting they knew something was wrong, nice boat not kept up with single woman on board who didn't mingle/didn't wave back kind of stuff. Presuming this is a fairly sophisticated criminal venture, from forged documents to the unknown location where the boat was worked on. The woman on board no doubt has no contact with her handlers so no lead there. Good story.
Thats great news, but i don't understand how a yacht worth that much didn't have GPS tracking ? I worked for Fitzroy yachts in NZ and that was standard on all electronic packages, they couldn't be disabled, sounds bizzar.
QUESTION: If you buy a yacht and rename it, does it retain the same IMO numbers from AIS poit of view? Or does that number routinely get changed? It is easy to reprogram AIS equipment to have different IMO number if you just rented the boat and don't have all the passwrds that one assumed the owner would have changed fro default? or is it more likely the thieves would have obtained new AIS equipment, programmed it with their own numbers and kept the original one turned off (or physically removed it) ?
I hope she did sail across. So few very large yachts do because they need to meet fixed deadlines and the wind always appears to be in the wrong direction and wrong speed. Having said that, I sailed a 46m MY across the Pond, leaving Gib on the same day as a 50m Perini who sailed the whole way in easterly winds. We were together until 1 day past the Canary Is and she sailed away. Beat us to St Maarten by 36 hrs.
It's actually a legit great idea. There are car gps that ping regularly. Problem with Airtag is it requires local bluetooth so if the thief doesn't have it turned on it won't help.
@@OhAwe Yes indeed, it's by no means a perfect solution as someone with an iOS device needs to be near it for an X amount of time as well. But it is the easiest and cheapest way to add some kind of tracking. I have one in my car and one in my scooter.
I am surprised that, after this time, the owners hadn’t made a claim against their insurers. If this was the case the yacht would belong to the insurers, so I guess they didn’t?
Maybe they should have kept quiet about the yacht being identified until the people who stole it returned to Brasil to sail it to the Caribbean and then they could have arrested the real criminals.
I wonder who the people who stole the boat are. To sail any small vessel across the Atlantic is no small feat. Did they plan this whole thing, or just let the wind take them wherever.
56ft is a decent boat for bluewater sailing. No doubt they had it planned. I presume Brazil was a destination to enable fake ownership, with the less than in-depth checking avail.
Do yachts have anything like an automobile VIN number? Even though AIS is off, couldn’t you just put an AirTag or two on vessel so when the yacht sails into a harbor to refuel, it would ping on the internet to the owner? Or place a more sophisticated UHF / satellite tracker onboard that could be activated remotely? Seems like cheap insurance.
I'm sure newer yachts would have those backup tracking features, but this one looks older. Also I could be wrong, but I don't think airtags are commercially available in Russia and most of eastern Europe. Plus the airtag would only work if they were close enough to shore to get a signal ping. By the time you track down where they are, they'd already be on the move again.
Yes you can get small satellite trackers, used to have them in a fleet of vehicles I managed in central Australia, no need for mobile phone system at all. Was quite expensive per month, but if you are putting out you expensive boat to charter.
Do people actually make money chartering out a yacht like this or is it just a way to pay for part of the ongoing costs of running, crewing and maintaining one.
It would be nice to know if the owners show some real appreciation to the people that called the authorities. I think they deserve some TLC rather than the boat especially around christmas time.. Any update on this?
That's amazing news! You don't normally hear about them as they are torn apart and sold off in pieces. I wonder what they had in mind? What little mind they obviously possessed.
QUESTION.... Does anyone know the name of the ship at the very beginning of the video? I'd live to see some more of that one. I love that army color and the way it appears to be an expedition ship. Thanks for the help.
It’s unbelievable,that people have the audacity to just take a person’s property a yacht that sails the world wide ocean and expects to live their best life’s with the owners left to pay for their adventure I would like to know what do the thief’s prison sentences be.
Absolutely hats off to the people who found the yacht. To recognize this vessel after so many months on the other side of the world requires dedication and an honest spirit. If you read this, I applaud you and you are a great example of what the yachting community is all about 👍👍👍👍
This is the absolute positive side of social media, so happy for the owners.
Well yes, but its in Brazil now getting ut back will take ageas and will be expensive haha
@@flayerrr7730 ‘ha ha’? How is this funny?
Thank you for sharing.
It really is a small world 🌎 after all
Yup. One win out of one-billion heresies, treacheries, frauds, defamations, humiliations, grotesqueries and humble-brags. Oh, well. Baby steps. 🤷♂
Good news for the yacht owners. Boaties are very knowledgeable and don't forget details; equipment, rigging, hull shape, portholes etc. A similar yacht was recovered in the Pacific Islands, yachties in the marina thought; this boat looks familiar, get the binoculars out. Kudos to the finders staying inquisitive and checking this boat out.
I know every scratch and imperfection
Great find from fellow yachtsmen! So good of you to press the police into following through. Positive news for the owners no doubt. Hopefully she'll be ready to go for next year's season.
thanks to the people who found her and followed through with their thoughts to the authorities. A great Christmas gift for the owners.
"partly due" - Esysman is so modest!
Incredible news. Way to fans of Superyacht News.
Thank you to the people that got involved to recover the boat.
💙🇺🇸💚👍😇
What a fantastic end to the story! Bravo to you for posting the original story which I remember and also to the amazing people who noticed the disguised sailboat in Brazil. Very happy for the owners of the boat!
👏👏👏👏👏👏Awesome to know how the power of social media can be used for good.
Just want to say thank you to the channel. You do a wonderful job of covering this niche topic with insight, concern, professionalism and it brings me calm. Not quite lounging on a superyacht calm, but enjoyable nonetheless!
Good on the people who spotted it, they didn't ignore their suspicion and took action on it, would have been very easy to not act on their thoughts and walk away. Very impressed.
Thanks eSysman…..what a great detective caper! 🕵️♂️
I don’t own a boat but like to follow the channel. Kudos to those who saw something wrong and got involved . Being a retired law enforcement Captain our motto was” see something, say something”.
well done eSysman
Might be a good idea to put trackers on yachts to simplify finding them. Don't know if Apple Airtags are enough but definitely reasonably priced ones can be had.
Yeah, we could call them AIS.
I agree, I just bought one for my $2500.00 e-bike, GPS mini tracker $50 CAD and $120 US a year for the sim card for tracking, you would think folks with these expensive yachts would at the least have a GPS tracker.🙂
@@jiminauburn5073 we could make AIS that can't be turned off.
@@jiminauburn5073 AIS can be turned off air tags have to be found.
Yeah, and they switched it off...@@jiminauburn5073
Bravo, indeed!
Well done, everyone.
Bravo to E Sysman and the people who reported the yacht ot the authorities!! Well done by all...
Well done Esysman fam bravo ⛳
Good job, I do remember this case. Thank you
Wow. How awesome they found it. Thanks to all involved. Take care ❤
The owner was fortunate enough to take over the boat without any damage
A few years back, two local sailers on the west coast of Vancouver Island told their wives and families they were headed off to buy a sailboat in Panana and sail it back, which they were then going to use for a new ecotourism venture. A few months later, they docked, phoned their families, and then just disappeared. Posters placed by their families and authorities, everywhere. After a few months, their bodies were discovered, shot through the head. Took about a year for the real story to be released by the RCMP, that they had been hired & financed by a local Hells Angel gang to run drugs from Equador into Canada but they had got nervous on route and threw the drugs overboard, which led to their execution. Moral of the story is that while drug running in sailboats is very rare (being too slow to outrun authorities), it does occasionally occur. It turned out that those Canadians had been flagged by the authorities as their routing and behaviour was so unusual (not stopping at any US port for provisions, not greeting other cruisers etc). In the same way, this yacht attracted some attention. It will probably take a year for the full story to come out but this was too well planned, funded and executed to be a simple case of joy riders.
Dan Archbald and Ryan Daley
Wow, that's amazing!
Brilliant work by people.
Super Yacht Sleuth Sysman does it again.
Beautiful sailboat.
Wow, so good that the yacht is going to get back to their owners. It's a pity that two of the culprits skipped town and left the woman in charge to take the rap. Hat's off to the eagle eyed people who alerted the authorities. You are angels.
Good on you too for bringing it to the reporting party’s attention! And good on them also. You do great work
The people who spotted the vessel and notified authorities should receive a half million award from the insurer, or owner if not properly insured.
Love a Good News Story!❤
as a Brazilian subscriber to the channel. I am VERY happy that some of my country people were able to help. SIM O BRASIL É DO CARALHO. O PROBLEMA SAO SÓ OS POLITICOS. PARABÉNS A PF. 🙂
Fabulous effort.
Brilliant work thank you
Can you ask the owner for cctv stills (mugshots)of the original hirers? They will be somewhere the departure marina, charter office, fuel pumps etc and post on esysman?
The "original" hirers may have had only that one task...
get her out of the marina...
then the real crew for the real sailing would have taken over...
Really positive outcome and certainly a great outcome for this channel's superb reporting - very well done to all concerned 👍👍👍
Interesting, that such an electronics-laden thing as a superyacht can disappear and remain untracked for months, with little hope of being found, without social media becoming involved.
With videos you see nowadays about using "airtags" to track small parcels, you'd imagine that such large and expensive objects as superyachts wouldn't be chock-full with such covert devices...
"With videos you see nowadays about using "airtags" to track small parcels, you'd imagine that such large and expensive objects as superyachts wouldn't be chock-full with such covert devices..."
Crazy isn't it. My teenage daughter and her friends used Airtags to track their luggage when she went on a big trip overseas. One of her friends actually had her bag sent to the wrong airport and they were able to show the airline where it was before they knew themselves.
How is that a teenage girl is more savvy than superyacht companies/owners?
I chartered a sailboat in Croatia a few years back and the owner tracked all of my movements through such a tag.
@@stephenburnage7687 @googble69 well, there you've got it, folks. So it's either the tech doesn't catch up with yacht owners (just like with Japanese high ranked businessmen, which still use fax machines) or it is some elaborate scheme (like for insurance money).
Never mind bravo to you, what about a finders fee/reward for the kind soul who supplied the information leading to the recovery of this vessel?
Amazing Story!🛥️
Such terrific news.
Being called a criminal state is not entirely strange. They even simply remotely registerd the boat falsely. Unbelievable.. Happy for the owners for the return of their vessel. Thanks to social media in a good way.
Power of press works
big respect for people who see boat and put them time to push police do action we are all one big boat family and your baby is gone it very hard and amazing hapy end story thank you guys and thank you to make video and let us know abaut good end of story 🙏
Excellent news
Great work
Great news that there yacht was found and are getting her back to
Looks like they painted the mast and boom silver to cover up the distinguishing black color.
THANKS ESYSMAN..GREAT WORK AND A HAPPY END 🤗💚💚💚
Bravo!
Bravo 2 u, eEysman!
I would like to forward that Bravo!!!
Good work web-sleuths!
Used to be you could go where internet wasn't & be relatively safe of getting found out but now no corner is safe from the star-link.
Thanks for the vidio well done
In addition to the official tracker, why not hide discreet trackers such as Airtag?
Interesting they knew something was wrong, nice boat not kept up with single woman on board who didn't mingle/didn't wave back kind of stuff. Presuming this is a fairly sophisticated criminal venture, from forged documents to the unknown location where the boat was worked on. The woman on board no doubt has no contact with her handlers so no lead there. Good story.
Great teamwork!
Can you please do a non-Patreon Q&A at some point in the future
Good job by all the Team !!
awesome great story ..
Thats great news, but i don't understand how a yacht worth that much didn't have GPS tracking ? I worked for Fitzroy yachts in NZ and that was standard on all electronic packages, they couldn't be disabled, sounds bizzar.
It was switched off by the thieves.
Stole the yaught and went to the other side of the world is amazing congrats on that long journey 😆
Great story,....👍
well done to this website !
I remember the blue yacht , it used to be in lake worth aka south of palm beach inlet. Used to idle by it in the evening
Fantastic on the Yacht recovery!
Well done to ALL involved. social media can be used for good :o)
Reward or Finderds fee for the yachtsmen w keen eyes? Maybe Esysmon can suggest to the owners since they are in touch w them.
Russians not doing a lot to improve their general reputation 😂
Poetic named mischief😊
I spent the 400th St. Barth's day and Christmas in Gustavia before it was cool aboard Happy Days.
bravo is right
QUESTION: If you buy a yacht and rename it, does it retain the same IMO numbers from AIS poit of view? Or does that number routinely get changed?
It is easy to reprogram AIS equipment to have different IMO number if you just rented the boat and don't have all the passwrds that one assumed the owner would have changed fro default?
or is it more likely the thieves would have obtained new AIS equipment, programmed it with their own numbers and kept the original one turned off (or physically removed it) ?
Think they deserve a free weeks charter 🤣
super brasil police 👏
I hope she did sail across. So few very large yachts do because they need to meet fixed deadlines and the wind always appears to be in the wrong direction and wrong speed. Having said that, I sailed a 46m MY across the Pond, leaving Gib on the same day as a 50m Perini who sailed the whole way in easterly winds. We were together until 1 day past the Canary Is and she sailed away. Beat us to St Maarten by 36 hrs.
Greeat
"Trust no one." -- Claudius, Roman Emperor.
Hide a couple of airtags in your boat, it's better than nothing and they're easy to hide.
It's actually a legit great idea. There are car gps that ping regularly. Problem with Airtag is it requires local bluetooth so if the thief doesn't have it turned on it won't help.
@@OhAwe Yes indeed, it's by no means a perfect solution as someone with an iOS device needs to be near it for an X amount of time as well. But it is the easiest and cheapest way to add some kind of tracking.
I have one in my car and one in my scooter.
Any news on how the Soviet Yacht Squadron off Sochi fared in the tempest which just flattened the Crimea and points east?
I am surprised that, after this time, the owners hadn’t made a claim against their insurers. If this was the case the yacht would belong to the insurers, so I guess they didn’t?
No place to hide in today's world, a good thing
I'm still trying to figure out why Koru's sails only go 3/4's of the way up the mast. Or are all the photos of her under sail with the first reef in?
Maybe they should have kept quiet about the yacht being identified until the people who stole it returned to Brasil to sail it to the Caribbean and then they could have arrested the real criminals.
I wonder who the people who stole the boat are. To sail any small vessel across the Atlantic is no small feat. Did they plan this whole thing, or just let the wind take them wherever.
there're Russians what more can you say, no intelligence among them.
56ft is a decent boat for bluewater sailing. No doubt they had it planned. I presume Brazil was a destination to enable fake ownership, with the less than in-depth checking avail.
Do yachts have anything like an automobile VIN number? Even though AIS is off, couldn’t you just put an AirTag or two on vessel so when the yacht sails into a harbor to refuel, it would ping on the internet to the owner? Or place a more sophisticated UHF / satellite tracker onboard that could be activated remotely? Seems like cheap insurance.
I'm sure newer yachts would have those backup tracking features, but this one looks older. Also I could be wrong, but I don't think airtags are commercially available in Russia and most of eastern Europe. Plus the airtag would only work if they were close enough to shore to get a signal ping. By the time you track down where they are, they'd already be on the move again.
Yes you can get small satellite trackers, used to have them in a fleet of vehicles I managed in central Australia, no need for mobile phone system at all. Was quite expensive per month, but if you are putting out you expensive boat to charter.
Charter companies often put small trackers on their boats, to monitor their customers movements.
Does "shipped back to Croatia" mean they will take it apart and put it into a 40ft container and put on a cargo ship?
You would think that if you were going to steal a yacht you wouldn't steal such an unique looking boat. You'd want one that looked like all the rest
Free delivery to the carrib just in time for the season
Appears Russian's upping the usual thefts of Bath towels, toiletries, buffet food/drink they want the actual accommodation as well .
Do people actually make money chartering out a yacht like this or is it just a way to pay for part of the ongoing costs of running, crewing and maintaining one.
It would be nice to know if the owners show some real appreciation to the people that called the authorities. I think they deserve some TLC rather than the boat especially around christmas time.. Any update on this?
That's amazing news! You don't normally hear about them as they are torn apart and sold off in pieces. I wonder what they had in mind? What little mind they obviously possessed.
QUESTION.... Does anyone know the name of the ship at the very beginning of the video? I'd live to see some more of that one. I love that army color and the way it appears to be an expedition ship. Thanks for the help.
Warship Thinly disguised as a Superyacht?
th-cam.com/video/pnndrKZaUmc/w-d-xo.html
Sneezes Shouldn't be too hard to laminate a tag/ badge in any boat needing to be signed of or scanned with any checking in or out?
New here. Why is AIS required? If someone is willing to take the risks with turning it off, it's their boat
Curious..what makes it the largest sailing yacht and not a three masted sailing vessel? The hull? A retrofit or it started out as a yacht??
Why am I unsurprised there were Russians involved with the disappearance
They were false passports so we have no idea what nationality they might be
There are more eyes on the sea than you know..... It is just a thing.
It’s unbelievable,that people have the audacity to just take a person’s property a yacht that sails the world wide ocean and expects to live their best life’s with the owners left to pay for their adventure I would like to know what do the thief’s prison sentences be.