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Roman Abramovich’s £300m super-yacht delayed

According to the Daily Mail online, the  German shipyard Blom & Voss have been unable to meet the standards sets by Roman Abramovich and the superyacht Eclipse is still on dry six months after it was due to be delivered.The wolrd's larget private yacht Eclipse was due to be handed over to Roman Abramovich last Christmas.

But according to the Daily Mail "...a list of problems has led to disagreements between Mr Abramovich, the world’s 11th richest man with a fortune estimated at £7.6 billion, and the company, which now faces a bill of tens of millions of pounds to rectify the faults.

The problems are said to include a giant mirror on one of the nine decks being smashed during tests in the North Sea. And Austrian crystal glasses purchased for Mr Abramovich’s dinner guests are said to have ‘rattled’ when the electro-diesel engines vibrated. It is claimed the vibrations have also spread to Mr Abramovich’s personal deck."

Read the article here

"We have plenty of space for Your yacht Mr Abramovich"

Pelorus in Antibes

Here is an interesting article published on Baltic Business News website:

Latvians offer bankrupt country to Russian oligarch

More than 400 Latvians have sent a letter to Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich, asking him to buy bankrupt Latvian country, arileht.ee quotes Ria Novosti.

“As You know our home country Latvia has gone bankrupt and is in negotiations with the IMF to get a loan in amount of EUR 7.5 bln,” says the letter.

After that is a description of the goods, describing Latvians as laborious and pleasant people.

“In case You’d like to buy Latvia then the population is laborious and pleasant, environment is pure and we have plenty of space for Your yacht,” the letter says.

It is not know how much Latvians ask for their country.
At the same time the petition in which Latvians beg for occupation from Sweden has collected over 12,000 signatures.

The article does not mention if the Latvians know that Mr Abramovich has 3 superyachts and has lost almost more than $20 billion in the recent economic crisis...

Roman Abramovich's yacht Pelorus in Antibes

Pelorus, the 377 Ft-115m superyacht built by Lurssen shipyard in 2003 and design by Tim Heywood is currently lying in Antibes Port Vauban


Pelorus near Leander built by Peen Werft shipyard



Crew at work gives an idea of the size of the yacht...


Beige hull & white superstructure