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Measuring just under 40m in length over all, the brand new sailing yacht ACTION , previously known as hull 395, successfully hit the water at the Royal Huisman shipyard in the Netherlands a couple of months ago. The official information and images of superyacht ACTION are still to be released by the shipyard.

Luxury sailing yacht ACTION (hull 395) was launched at the Royal Huisman shipyard pictured above - Photo by Cloudshots

Expected to be handed over to her new Owner shortly, luxury yacht ACTION (hull 395) is currently still in the Netherlands.

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Breaking news, endorsements | catherine, princess of wales, announces she has cancer, endorsements | keeping up with the bezoses: mark zuckerberg buys a super yacht, reports say, a report says that zuckerberg’s luxurious new $300 million vessel was originally was commissioned by a russian oligarch who was the target of sanctions imposed after that country’s invasion of ukraine.

Given that Mark Zuckerberg enjoys a respectable 16th place on a list of the world’s richest people, he probably figured it was time for him to acquire one of the ultimate status symbols for the mega-wealthy — a super yacht.

A new report from The Sun said that Zuckerberg is now the proud owner of a $300 million vessel that he has christened “Launchpad.” The 387-foot-long vessel, which comes with a helipad and a $30 million companion boat, was seen docked this week at Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, with its unique chrome finish reflecting in the sun.

This purchase shows, among other things, that the Facebook and Meta founder and CEO has branched out from buying islands and building an underground complex to help him survive the apocalypse. Perhaps, he wants to cruise the Mediterranean this summer and be among the moguls who can play host to Leonardo DiCaprio.

The yacht definitely grants him admission to the watery playgrounds of such multibillionaires as Jeff Bezos, Larry Ellison, Bill Gates and any of the Russian oligarchs who haven’t been the target of sanctions imposed by the United States or its allies over Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine.

In fact, Zuckerberg reportedly came by Launchpad due to the misfortunes of one of those oligarchs. The yacht originally was commissioned to be built by Vladimir Potanin, one of Russia’s richest men who is on multiple sanctions list, according to a report by Autoevolution.com , a transportation industry site. The yacht was known as Project 1010, and the shipbuilder in the Netherlands was legally barred from delivering it to Potanin when it was completed in 2022, though Autoevolution also said that Potanin was not the yacht’s actual owner.

The Sun reported that the yacht recently received “special permission” to be imported. It has since arrived in the United States, a couple months ahead of Zuckerberg’s 40th birthday on May 14 — which raises the question of whether he meant Launchpad as a birthday gift to himself.

It’s quite a gift: Launchpad can comfortably fit 24 guests aboard. It also requires a crew of 48 and is said to cost $30 million a year for upkeep and usage, according to Superyachtfan.com . But shelling out $30 million for maintenance a year shouldn’t be a problem for Zuckerberg, who reportedly earns between $6 million and $12 million a day, The Sun said.

But as spectacular as Launchpad sounds, super yacht fans might say it’s not as spectacular as Jeff Bezos’s super yacht, Koru. The $500 million sailing vessel features very tall masts, a swimming pool, a helipad and room for a second, smaller yacht. The most noteworthy thing about Koru is that Bezos commissioned a special sculpture to decorate its prow. It’s a “curvaceous winged goddess” that is said to bear a striking resemblance to his fiancee Lauren Sanchez.

The Amazon founder, his wife-to-be and the goddess figurehead spent much of last summer sailing around the Mediterranean, cruising from Spain to Croatia and hosting such famous guests as Katy Perry, Orlando Bloom and Usher. The couple also threw a lavish engagement party off the coast of Positano on Italy’s Amalfi coast, attended by another pack of famous friends, including Kris Jenner, Wendi Murdoch and, yes, Leonardo DiCaprio.

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The epic 10,000-nautical-mile adventure of 48.5m Flyghtship V6

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For many, an ambitious expedition voyage from the sun-kissed marinas of West Palm Beach to the icy realms of Svalbard would have been years in the planning. However, in June 2020, with Covid-19 taking hold around the world, the new owner of 48.5-metre V6 decided there was no time like the present. The owner and Captain Christoph Schaefer talk us through their Voyager’s Award-winning “shakedown cruise”...

The whole idea behind owning a yacht is to be able to go to places you need a boat to visit,” says the owner of 48.5-metre New Zealand-built Flyghtship V6 . It was this desire to head further afield that persuaded him to purchase his first yacht, after more than a decade of chartering. “The charter market is focused on the traditional yachting centres in the Med and the Caribbean, and we wanted to see new and exotic places off the trodden path,” he explains.

With this desire in mind, Edmiston ’s James Lloyd found V6 and introduced the owner to experienced expedition captain Christoph Schaefer. “It was the end of May, and I had just finished a stint on Gene Machine . I was in between jobs, but I was actually quite happy to be at home,” Schaefer recalls. However, when he got the call about the opportunity on V6 he agreed to have a chat with the owner. “I spoke to him for about 20 minutes and then I said to my wife ‘This is just too good an opportunity to pass up.’”

During their initial conversation, Schaefer pitched the route for a “Covid summer”, visiting the Canary Islands before heading north to explore the east coast of Ireland and Scotland. Schaefer then suggested crossing into Norway, ending the summer in icy Svalbard. “The proposal that Christoph came up with is pretty much what we did during this first summer. It turned out to be the perfect trip,” says the owner.

Th e sale was completed in June 2020 , and with the yacht renamed V6 it was a quick turnaround for the new crew to put Schaefer’s suggested itinerary into action. “We picked up the boat and within four days we left Fort Lauderdale and did the Atlantic crossing,” says Schaefer. “Then, when we arrived in the Canary Islands, I jumped in a car and went to the airport to pick up the owner. The rest of the family then came out two days later; we were still very much learning about the boat at that stage.”

Despite the challenging circumstances the pandemic caused, Schaefer was pleased to be able to introduce his new boss to the Canary Islands, which he considers one of the “most underrated cruising destinations”. “The weather is really benign, and it has predictable temperatures all year round. There’s also plenty to do, it has great culture, excellent fishing and absolutely fantastic food.” Schaefer, who previously spent four weeks in the area with 60.35-metre Vive La Vie , also argues there is greater variety than you might expect. “You have Lanzarote and Fuerteventura, which are basically desert islands. Then the more to the west you go, the greener it gets. La Palma is subtropical with lush vegetation. You have got a bit of everything,” he enthuses.

The owner, who is an avid kitesurfer, was equally impressed with the Canary Islands as a yachting and kiting destination. “Lanzarote was one of the few places that was Covid-free in July 2020,” he says. “The conditions for kitesurfing in Fuerteventura were ideal and it set the tone for the rest of the summer. V6 was the only large yacht in the area at the time and we virtually had the place to ourselves – exactly what you want during a pandemic.”

After their time in the Canary Islands, the family briefly departed while the yacht headed north via Gibraltar. They rejoined V6 in Brittany, stopping for a few days in the Isles of Scilly before exploring the east coast of Ireland.  “We went into Dublin especially because our kite pro is from there and we anchored right in front of his parents’ house,” says Schaefer. The yacht then continued into Strangford Lough, to dodge the unsettled weather, which plagued V6 during her time in the Irish Sea. “It was funny, because we dropped anchor there and we were making jokes about the weird noises we were hearing,  I said it’s the White Walkers. The next morning, I found out we were right next to Castle Ward, which was used as a filming location in Game of Thrones ,” Schaefer explains.

After sheltering in the lough for a couple of days, V6 then made her way past the Mull of Kintyre to the calm waters off Islay and Jura. Most of the whisky distilleries in this region were closed due to the pandemic, but the family were able to pay a visit to Tobermory Distillery, which is famous for its single malts. From there the yacht went on to the island of Tiree. “It is one of the most well-known kiting stops up there so obviously we didn’t miss that one out, and it didn’t disappoint,” says Schaefer. “We also came across a whole shiver of basking sharks. Unfortunately, it was too rough to get into the water with them but that was pretty amazing.”

V6 experienced plenty of “typical British summer weather” during the cruise, but this didn’t hamper the owner’s enjoyment. “The joy about cruising is to experience the local conditions,” he says. “Rainy days, fog and stormy weather are all very much part of the British summer. Ireland and Scotland show themselves in this very special light and mood when any kind of weather moves in, highlighting the rugged landscape with large Atlantic swells breaking on the exposed shoreline, rays of sunlight breaking through the low clouds bathing the green slopes in intense light, the air is fresh and crisp – it has its very own magic. Plus, enjoying a whisky after a cold, wet and windy walk is certainly more enjoyable than sipping it in the heat of a Spanish beach.”

After continuing on to the Shetland Isles, stopping in Lerwick, V6 left the British Isles – and the British weather – behind her, crossing into Norwegian waters to Bergen. The yacht then spent nearly three weeks cruising the 1,000 nautical miles up to Tromsø. “It’s all smooth sailing, you hardly get a drop of salt water on the decks because it is all through the fjords. It’s basically inland,” says Schaefer. “We mainly cruised at night, even though it doesn’t really get dark there, and we would then try and be at anchor by eight or nine o’clock the next morning. Then the family would just spend the entire day rafting, hiking or paddleboarding around the fjords to enjoy the scenery.”

The global lockdown also meant that the family were able to have some of Norway’s most famous tourist attractions practically to themselves. “We only encountered two other large yachts in Norway, both of them recent Amels launches,” says the owner. “We also crossed paths with one small cruise ship coming in to Nordfjord. It is easy enough to avoid crowds in Norway even during a busy summer, but you will probably never experience some of the more popular fjords such as Geiranger or Sognefjord the way we did.” This was a silver lining to the pandemic that the owner hadn’t initially considered. “The major objective was to be away from the crowded urban centres, to have the children out of school and as far away from any source of infection,” he explains. “It only really dawned on us how exceptional this summer shaped up to be in this respect once we were well into our cruise.”

The grand finale of V6 ’s summer expedition was two weeks in the Svalbard archipelago in search of polar bears. To help achieve this aim, the yacht was joined by polar bear expert Jason Roberts, who has worked on BBC television programmes including Planet Earth and The Blue Planet . His expertise quickly proved invaluable as he was able to direct the yacht to a fjord off the Hinlopen Strait where a group of bears were feeding on a whale carcass. “It was amazing seeing the polar bears up close,” says the owner. “The bears had set up their quarters on a small island, not just a handful but 14 of them – huge, fat and very relaxed, with the odd cub in between.” Captain Schaefer witnessed an equally remarkable sight one morning when anchored off a small island. “I looked out my porthole while having a shower and counted no less than six fat polar bears. It was incredible –  I don’t believe many sailors could have had a similar experience,” he says.

Not content with watching the bears from the safety of the boat, V6 ’s owner also took the opportunity to kitesurf in the waters near the island where the huge carnivores were eating. “Kiting in the waters of this fjord was a highlight, and it was reassuring to know that the bears were not hungry at that moment, but pretty much in a blubber coma on the beach,” he says. It was the culmination of what had been a fantastic kitesurfing summer for the owner. “The single biggest new experience was probably kiting in such a short time in such  a range of diverse climates,” he says. “Kiting in 20 knots of wind with 28ºC water temperature and doing the same thing in 2ºC water are obviously not the same thing at all. Kiting in the waters of Svalbard with apex predators such as polar bears on the prowl added yet another level of excitement that is totally unique to the high north.”

After squeezing in a few final kitesurfing stop-offs and taking in the ice wall of Brasvellbree, V6 completed her final leg into Longyearbyen, marking the end of her owner’s spectacular first summer on board. The yacht is now in the process of completing her five-year survey, but the owner has already set his sights on a return to the ice, with Antarctica, Greenland and the Northwest Passage all potential destinations.

“One thing we know for sure is that we as a family are excited to push on to new places we haven’t seen yet and that our crew is equally excited about the future,” he says. “I never imagined that owning and cruising our own yacht would be just so much fun and so rewarding. In hindsight, maybe we should have gotten into ownership a little earlier!”

First published in the March 2022 issue of BOAT International. Get this magazine sent straight to your door, or subscribe and never miss an issue.

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Antigua and Barbuda to auction off $81m yacht ‘owned by Russian oligarch’

Andrey Guryev, who has been put under UK government sanctions, claims he is not owner of Alfa Nero

An $81m (£67m) superyacht said to be owned by the sanctioned Russian oligarch Andrey Guryev is to be auctioned off by the government of Antigua and Barbuda , which claims the vessel has been abandoned in the Caribbean since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last year.

The government of Antigua and Barbuda on Monday warned the owner of the Alfa Nero superyacht that they had 10 days to claim the vessel or it would be sold to the highest bidder.

The information minister, Melford Nicholas, said Alfa Nero had been abandoned in Falmouth harbour in Antigua since February 2022 and the government was “trying to prevent a future hazard since the luxury vessel is not being maintained by its owner”.

In a statement the office of the prime minister of Antigua and Barbuda said: “A notice to the newspapers and other media will be published for a period of 10 days, notifying the sale of the Alfa Nero vessel in order to satisfy the requirements under the law for a forced sale. If the owner fails to claim the vessel within that time period, the government of Antigua and Barbuda will sell it to the highest bidder.”

Guryev, 62, who made a $10bn fortune from the Russian fertiliser company PhosAgro, is the owner of Alfa Nero according to the US government, which imposed sanctions on him last year. The US Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) said it had “identified Alfa Nero, a Cayman islands flagged yacht that AG Guryev reportedly bought for $120m in 2014, as blocked property of AG Guryev”.

The yacht, which features a 12-metre infinity pool, a Jacuzzi, a spa, a beauty room and a helipad, has been used by Guryev’s family, including his son (also Andrey) and his son’s wife, Valeria, who studied at the London College of Fashion and once reportedly stated on Instagram that she was “too pretty for work”. Like many yachts, it is owned via an opaque offshore structure, and Guryev has denied being the owner.

Guryev, who was subjected to UK government sanctions in April 2022 , is also, according to the OFAC, the owner of London’s largest private residence: the 25-bedroom £50m Highgate mansion Witanhurst.

The property is officially owned via Boradge Ltd, a company incorporated in the British Virgin Islands. Guryev’s London-based lawyers have said “Mr Guryev does not own Witanhurst”, without providing further details. Guryev’s spokesperson has previously told the New Yorker that he was a beneficiary of a trust owning the property but not the legal owner.

Last year Gibraltar auctioned off the £65m superyacht Axioma owned by the sanctioned steel billionaire Dmitry Pumpyansky. The sale of Axioma attracted controversy because it is being sold not for the benefit of the Ukrainian people but for a US investment bank, JP Morgan, which claims Pumpyansky owes it more than €20.5m (£17m).

Pumpyansky was until March of 2022 the owner and chairman of the steel pipe manufacturer OAO TMK, a supplier to the Russian state-owned energy company Gazprom. The UK said the billionaire, who it said had built up an estimated £1.84bn fortune, was one of the oligarchs “closest to Putin” .

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The owner of a $3.4 million Lamborghini yacht screamed 'I will kill you' and threw $100 bills into the water when told he couldn't use a private dock

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The owner of a $3.4 million Lamborghini yacht threatened a private dock employee after being told he couldn't be there, the San Diego-based broadcaster CBS8 reported on March 11.

Joseph Holt, a 21-year-old employee at Marriot Marina in San Diego, told CBS8 that he spotted the yacht sailing into the private dock. The owner, whom CBS8 identified as Ajay Thakore, tried to pick another person up at the dock, Holt said.

"I told him respectfully that he couldn't be there, and I honestly was hoping to have a conversation with him about his cool boat," Holt told CBS8.

In a YouTube video posted by @SM-wc9eq on March 10, a dark blue Tecnomar for Lamborghini 63 is seen sailing out of a dock. A man in a gray T-shirt, a pair of jeans, and a cap was shown standing on the yacht. The man appeared to be Thakore, per CBS8.

Thakore was shown shouting at Holt. "I will kill you, you know I will kill you!" he can be heard saying multiple times in the video

Thakore was later shown pounding his fist on his palm and pointing his thumb down before telling Holt: "To your face!" Holt was shown responding by pointing his middle finger at Thakore.

"I really was trying to restrain myself from getting fired from my job or stepping out of line. The only thing I did was give him the bird," Holt told CBS8.

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Holt said Thakore then took $100 bills from his wallet and threw them at him. He added that Thakore mooned him. This exchange was not shown in the video.

"He was saying I'm nobody, I'm nothing, I work a silly job. He said that he knows people, he has connections, he can change my life and ruin it," Holt said. Holt did not immediately respond to Business Insider's request for comment.

The San Diego Harbor Police arrived at the marina 10 minutes after Thakore's yacht exited the dock, per CBS8.

The Harbor Police told Business Insider that Holt decided to press charges against Thakore and that they are investigating the incident.

According to Thakore's LinkedIn page , he's the CEO of Doctor Multimedia. The company's website shows that it's a healthcare marketing firm based in San Diego. Thakore appears to go by the name Ace Rogers on Instagram and TikTok, where he's noted as being a professional gambler.

Thakore, through his public relations team, told CBS8 in a statement that his altercation with Holt was "regrettable."

"What started as a minor misunderstanding escalated into an argument, and I apologize for my actions and to those who witnessed the unfortunate exchange," the statement said. Thakore did not immediately respond to a request for comment from BI.

Thakore isn't the only CEO who's been called out for threatening another person. In November 2021, an Activision spokesperson told BI that its ex-CEO Bobby Kotick had previously apologized for telling his assistant he would have her killed. The spokesperson added that Kotick's threat was "obviously hyperbolic and inappropriate" and that "he deeply regrets the exaggeration and tone."

In June 2020, Lisa Alexander, the CEO of LaFace Skincare, a cosmetics company, apologized in a statement to the media after she had threatened to call the police on her neighbor for writing "Black Lives Matter" on his property. Alexander said in the apology that she was "disrespectful" and "should have minded my own business."

March 21, 2024: This story has been updated with Harbor Police's comments.

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Candace Owens departs Ben Shapiro’s website after antisemitic commentary

Owens became a star right-wing pundit. then she started promoting ideas about jewish people drinking christians’ blood..

Prominent right-wing commentator Candace Owens has left the Daily Wire, the website founded by conservative commentator Ben Shapiro, after months of promoting antisemitic ideas.

In a statement posted to social media Friday morning, Daily Wire CEO Jeremy Boreing said the company and the pundit “have ended their relationship.”

“The rumors are true — I am finally free,” Owens said in her own post .

The details of Owens’s exit weren’t immediately clear, but it follows increased tension over antisemitic rhetoric that pitted Owens against Shapiro, who is Jewish, and the rest of the site’s more mainline conservative figures.

The Daily Wire didn't respond to a request for further comment. Owens couldn't be reached for an immediate comment.

In a Thursday appearance on “The Breakfast Club” radio show, Owens acknowledged her strained relationship with Shapiro but claimed that “Ben doesn’t have the power to fire me.”

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Owens’s split with the Daily Wire represents the latest example of a high-profile conservative figure contending with the expectations of a more staid employer. Last year, Fox News fired star host Tucker Carlson for reasons that were never made public but which came after he promoted conspiracy theories and disparaged Ukrainian leaders .

A telegenic presence and pugnacious social media warrior, Owens, 34, first rose to prominence on the right for her commentary skeptical of women who had been harassed during the 2014 “ GamerGate ” controversy that consumed the video game world. An unabashed booster and defender of Donald Trump, she launched a campaign in 2018 known as “Blexit” to try to encourage Black voters to leave the Democratic Party.

In 2020, she joined the Daily Wire — a Nashville-based conservative entertainment conglomerate with a massive following and ambitions to become a conservative alternative to Hollywood — and immediately became one of its leading pundits.

Her profile grew when rapper Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, praised the way she “thinks,” both appearing at a 2022 fashion show wearing matching “White Lives Matter” shirts. But Ye had already moved into his new role as an erratic provocateur, recently making antisemitic comments — if occasionally apologizing — and speaking admiringly about Adolf Hitler.

Meanwhile, Owens began to use her Daily Wire platform to promote antisemitism — claiming this month on her show that “secret Jewish gangs” terrorize Hollywood — and recently favorited a tweet repeating a lie about Jews drinking Christians’ blood.

She has also clashed publicly with the avowedly pro-Israel Shapiro by criticizing the nation in the wake of the Oct. 7 attacks.

“I think she’s been absolutely disgraceful,” Shapiro said in a recording posted on X in November. “I think that her faux-sophistication on these particular issues has been ridiculous.”

Owens shot back on X that “you cannot serve both God and money,” in what appeared to be a jab at her employer.

Still, the November feud appeared to have been settled, with Boreing releasing a statement saying Owens’s “job is secured.”

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Talk about a bizarre scene that could’ve been pulled straight from a movie.

The owner of a $3.4 million Lamborghini yacht threatened a private dock employee after he was informed that he couldn’t be there, CBS8 reported back on March 11.

The story begins with Joseph Holt, a 21-year-old employee at Marriot Marina in San Diego, where he told CBS8 that he saw the yacht sailing into the private dock Sunday afternoon. Apparently, the owner, identified as Ajay Thakore, attempted to pick up another person at the dock.

“I told him respectfully that he couldn’t be there, and I honestly was hoping to have a conversation with him about his cool boat,” Holt said to the news outlet.

“But yeah, it completely went the other way,” Holt added.

Captured on a video that was posted to YouTube by @SM-wc9eq on March 10 was an embarrassing verbal confrontation between Holt and Thakore, in front of a host of onlookers.

A dark blue Tecnomar for Lamborghini 63 can be seen sailing out of a dock. Standing on the end of the yacht was a man sporting a gray shirt, jeans, and a cap.

The man seen in the video footage was seemingly the local business owner and philanthropist, screaming at the young man as the yacht sailed away.

Thakore was seen threatening his life, shouting at Holt, saying, “I will kill you, you know I will kill you!” He can be heard repeating himself multiple times in the video.

Thakore can be seen pounding his fists on his palm and pointing his thumb down, and telling Holt, “To your face!”

This caused Holt, who is standing on the dock, to respond with hoisting his middle finger in the air, directed at Thakore. Thakore’s screams can be heard echoing through the arena.

“It escalated immediately. It was 0 to 100 immediately,” he said to the outlet.

“I really was trying to restrain myself from getting fired from my job or stepping out of line. The only thing I did was give him the bird,” he added.

Holt said Thakore went as far as to take $100 bills from his wallet and throw the money at him, which landed in the water, and even dropped his pants and mooned him.

“[He] started to make gestures to everybody watching and me. You can’t act that way in public. It’s just not ok. Especially threatening my life, at the very least. There were women and children there. That’s the most important part,” Holt told the news outlet.

Unfortunately, the lewd act wasn’t caught on video.

“I’m a minimum wage worker, he was commenting on that, on my status just because of my job. He was saying I’m nobody, I’m nothing, I work a silly job. He said that he knows people, he has connections, he can change my life and ruin it,” Holt said.

The San Diego Harbor Police reported to the scene 10 minutes later.

Thakore, who goes by the name Ace Rogers on Instagram and TikTok and has a LinkedIn page stating that he’s the CEO of Doctor Multimedia, a healthcare marketing firm based in San Diego, had his public relations team provide a statement to CBS8, saying that he regrets the altercation.

“What started as a minor misunderstanding escalated into an argument, and I apologize for my actions and to those who witnessed the unfortunate exchange,” the statement said.

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Yacht owners are finding ways of giving back – as shown by the work of YachtAid Global, which celebrates its 10th anniversary this year.…

“In 2003,” begins Captain Mark Drewelow, “I started a port agency in San Diego called C2C. We were always looking for a way to be corporately responsible and to give back. We couldn’t find anything suitable, but one day I realised that all these big yachts that we work with are potentially a pipeline to move things. We just had to verify the places that actually need needed help and we could start by having the yachts move humanitarian aid around, and that’s what we started doing in 2006.” From this, YachtAid Global (YAG) was born.

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Drewelow – a yacht captain who began his career in 1984 – was able to draw on both his two decades of direct yacht industry experience and his growing network of yacht agent contacts around the world to put his plans into action. Set up alongside C2C as a non-profit organisation, YAG runs with no office and no dedicated staff, yet is having a growing impact on communities and disaster areas around the world.

“We’re very methodical with how we do things,” Drewelow explains. “There’s a very exacting standard in the superyacht industry, and any projects that we approach a yacht with have to be done to the same standard they are used to.” The first stage was to study the UN’s Millennium Development Goals, which cover major issues affecting the planet, then extract particular points that YAG could take action on. “The easiest thing for us to focus on was school supplies,” Drewelow continues, “so we started out basically moving school supplies to isolated communities that needed help.”

Tapping into C2C’s extensive network of agents and contacts meant that Drewelow could extend YAG’s reach globally, by reverse engineering each project from the beneficiary school back to matching up a yacht that was heading to that location. “The very first boat we worked with was the 44.7m ketch Timoneer. We put aid on board in San Diego, and originally they were heading to Costa Rica but then changed their plans, so we diverted them to a place called Puerto del Sol in Nicaragua and discharged the aid there instead. It all worked out really well; since then, we have done dozens of humanitarian humanitarian-aid deliveries all over the world with different yachts.”

The full version of this article appears in issue 22 of The Superyacht Owner, out now. If you would like to know more about YAG or to get involved, visit YAG’s website at www.yachtaidglobal.org, send an email to [email protected], or email Mark Drewelow directly at [email protected].

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R ussian President Vladimir Putin has ordered the nationalization of an ammunition plant in Moscow after a mechanical failure caused tens of thousands of Muscovites to lose heat and water amid freezing temperatures beginning last week.

On January 4, a heating main burst at the Klimovsk Specialized Ammunition Plant in the town of Podolsk, which is around 30 miles south of central Moscow. Since then, tens of thousands of Russians are reported to have no heating in their homes in the Moscow region amid subzero temperatures.

Affected areas include the cities of Khimki, Balashikha, Lobnya, Lyubertsy, Podolsk, Chekhov, Naro-Fominsk, and Podolsk, a map published by a Russian Telegram channel and shared on other social media sites shows.

Other Russian media outlets reported that in Moscow, residents of Balashikha, Elektrostal, Solnechnogorsk, Dmitrov, Domodedovo, Troitsk, Taldom, Orekhovo-Zuyevo, Krasnogorsk, Pushkino, Ramenskoye, Voskresensk, Losino-Petrovsky, and Selyatino are also without power.

That means that in total, more than a quarter of Moscow's cities have been hit with power outages and a lack of heating.

Newsweek has contacted Russia's Foreign Ministry for comment via email.

Many residents have taken to publishing video appeals on social media to complain about their freezing conditions. In one clip, people living in Moscow say that they are left with no choice but to warm their homes with gas stoves, heaters, and "whatever else we can find." Others said they are lighting fires in the streets to keep warm.

Andrei Vorobyov, governor of the Moscow region, announced on Tuesday that Putin ordered the ammunition plant to be nationalized because two of its owners have been "located abroad." He didn't name the individuals.

"We received the right to take control of this boiler house within the framework of an emergency," Vorobiev said, adding that the plant's boiler room was managed "very poorly" and there was "virtually no qualified competent personnel."

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