Lots of superyachts stopping in Guernsey recently...

[wellf100]

We've had quite a few big superyachts stopping over in Guernsey recently to fuel up. Various lenghts but most recently the Le Grande Blue at 113m which is the biggest ever private yacht to stop here. 11m bigger than the Condor Liberation! Looks like she topped up the tanks with 100,000 litres, which is quite a procession of fuel tankers going back and forth. Love the Sunseeker Predator tender
https://www.facebook.com/Oceanskies-Limited-546543458691546/

Also had the 55m Kamalya, a 40m Sunseeker ZOZO and High Power 3 which took on a mere 80,000 litres.
https://www.facebook.com/Boatworks-Ltd-238650186318473/

On sunday we also had 2 huge cruise liners with over 8000 people on board anchoring in the Little Russel with tenders going back and forth all day!

Busy times!

 

[sarabande]

"On sunday we also had 2 huge cruise liners with over 8000 people on board anchoring in the Little Russel with tenders going back and forth all day!"



Does anyone really really know how the sewage system on cruise liners works, please ?

 

[Firefly625]

"On sunday we also had 2 huge cruise liners with over 8000 people on board anchoring in the Little Russel with tenders going back and forth all day!"



Does anyone really really know how the sewage system on cruise liners works, please ?

I believe its 3 miles out for treated sewage and 12 miles out for untreated..

its not pretty, so usually done at night..

 

[sarabande]

eeek ! Say 150 litres person per day, with 8000 pax and slaves, that's ONE THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED cubic metres of effluent per day. And if there's a norovirus outbreak on board......

What if a cruise ship is in, say, Southampton for 3 days ?

Who regulates and monitors these discharges ?

 

[jrudge]

We've had quite a few big superyachts stopping over in Guernsey recently to fuel up. Various lenghts but most recently the Le Grande Blue at 113m which is the biggest ever private yacht to stop here. 11m bigger than the Condor Liberation! Looks like she topped up the tanks with 100,000 litres, which is quite a procession of fuel tankers going back and forth. Love the Sunseeker Predator tender
https://www.facebook.com/Oceanskies-Limited-546543458691546/

Also had the 55m Kamalya, a 40m Sunseeker ZOZO and High Power 3 which took on a mere 80,000 litres.
https://www.facebook.com/Boatworks-Ltd-238650186318473/

On sunday we also had 2 huge cruise liners with over 8000 people on board anchoring in the Little Russel with tenders going back and forth all day!

Busy times!

Outside the eu for vat exit purposes and bunkering with duty free fuel for the season ?

Friend on a super yacht used to do that to Tunisia about this time each year for that purpose. Displacement hull etc and on bunker would pretty much see them through the season.

 

[mm42]

eeek ! Say 150 litres person per day, with 8000 pax and slaves, that's ONE THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED cubic metres of effluent per day. And if there's a norovirus outbreak on board......

What if a cruise ship is in, say, Southampton for 3 days ?

Who regulates and monitors these discharges ?

I was on an STCW course last week with a girl who'd worked on cruise ships, they generated 5 tonnes of crap a day.

 

[Third mate]

I was on an STCW course last week with a girl who'd worked on cruise ships, they generated 5 tonnes of crap a day.

Must be Civil servants on board

 

[longjohnsilver]

Must be Civil servants on board

To produce it or weigh it?

 

[wellf100]

Outside the eu for vat exit purposes and bunkering with duty free fuel for the season ?

Friend on a super yacht used to do that to Tunisia about this time each year for that purpose. Displacement hull etc and on bunker would pretty much see them through the season.

I wonder how much revenue this business actually brings in for the island over a year?...at less than 50p / litre there can't be much duty.

 

[Nick Burnham]

We've had quite a few big superyachts stopping over in Guernsey recently to fuel up. Various lenghts but most recently the Le Grande Blue at 113m which is the biggest ever private yacht to stop here. 11m bigger than the Condor Liberation! Looks like she topped up the tanks with 100,000 litres, which is quite a procession of fuel tankers going back and forth. Love the Sunseeker Predator tender

https://www.facebook.com/Oceanskies-Limited-546543458691546/

Also had the 55m Kamalya, a 40m Sunseeker ZOZO and High Power 3 which took on a mere 80,000 litres.

If you scroll down the Oceanskies Limited Facebook page linked in your post to May 26th - the drone photos of 'Zozo' - the fellow at the very front of the uppermost deck as it enters port is me! I joined it on the trip across from Poole. And indeed, in the background of the shot of it leaving port you can see a chap stood by the lighthouse - that's also me. 'Zozo' was heading on to the Med, I was heading for the Condor ferry for a trip back to Poole.

There are quite a few photos of the crossing (we left Poole at 5am, just as dawn was breaking - it was stunning) on my own Facebook page (scroll down to May 26th again):

www.facebook.com/ProfessionalMarineMedia

But here are the 'opposite' photos to those drone shots. Indeed if you look behind and above the yacht you can actually see the drone taking the photos! I did wonder who it belonged to.

 

[AIDY]

We followed the grace e from sark to Dartmouth the other day she's 73 metres... I believe she's in Falmouth now..

Charter was 100k a day plus expenses according to the webpage.

 

[wellf100]

If you scroll down the Oceanskies Limited Facebook page linked in your post to May 26th - the drone photos of 'Zozo' - the fellow at the very front of the uppermost deck as it enters port is me! I joined it on the trip across from Poole. And indeed, in the background of the shot of it leaving port you can see a chap stood by the lighthouse - that's also me. 'Zozo' was heading on to the Med, I was heading for the Condor ferry for a trip back to Poole.

There are quite a few photos of the crossing (we left Poole at 5am, just as dawn was breaking - it was stunning) on my own Facebook page (scroll down to May 26th again):

www.facebook.com/ProfessionalMarineMedia

But here are the 'opposite' photos to those drone shots. Indeed if you look behind and above the yacht you can actually see the drone taking the photos! I did wonder who it belonged to.

Excellent!!...looks like a great trip.

 

[prv]

"On sunday we also had 2 huge cruise liners with over 8000 people on board anchoring in the Little Russel with tenders going back and forth all day!"

Saw those as we were leaving Beaucette for Alderney. Looked absolutely hideous, and we wondered what St Peter Port must be like with so many emmets being disgorged into it.

Good for the local economy, I suppose, but a pity for any other visitors who happened to arrive at the same time.

Does anyone really really know how the sewage system on cruise liners works, please ?

Well, on the 200' square-riggers I sailed on, it was all treated on board and discharged as fresh water. One time there was some problem with the underwater plumbing and the second engineer rigged up a temporary route that discharged through the main-deck scuppers. The water looked and smelled clean to me from a few feet away, though I wouldn't go so far as to try drinking it

I would be amazed if modern cruise ships discharged anything untreated, and very much doubt it would be legal. The overboard-disposal rules were significantly tightened up a few years ago.

Pete

 

[jfm]

Outside the eu for vat exit purposes and bunkering with duty free fuel for the season ?

It's a mix J. Le Grand Bleu has been in Germany for big refit so makes sense to go to Guernsey to dip out of EU as you say. Gibraltar would have done, but maybe she isn't heading to the Med or Guensey was just easier.
Likewise the other older boats.
But Zozo is brand new and they were almost certainly stopping in Guernsey to deliver it/hand over to buyer outside EU - if the boat is delivered in UK it is VATable. Magnum did exactly the same, as pictured lower down on that facebook page - its owner, poster on here, lived then in CH (there is an old thread with the build story. 2008 ish maybe)

 

[Bathdave]

The marina toilets and shower block have been coopted for the cruise ship passengers as they queue for andreturnto their buses, which means as a mooring-fee paying marina users the block is much more crowded and dirty

No discount in the mooring fees...

 

[AIDY]

It's a mix J. Le Grand Bleu has been in Germany for big refit so makes sense to go to Guernsey to dip out of EU as you say. Gibraltar would have done, but maybe she isn't heading to the Med or Guensey was just easier.
Likewise the other older boats.
But Zozo is brand new and they were almost certainly stopping in Guernsey to deliver it/hand over to buyer outside EU - if the boat is delivered in UK it is VATable. Magnum did exactly the same, as pictured lower down on that facebook page - its owner, poster on here, lived then in CH (there is an old thread with the build story. 2008 ish maybe)

I picked le grand blue up on the ais she due in gib on the 2nd July at 4 am.