Jubilee was the first 50m + superyacht I had even seen in my life. It was moored outside Oceanco in preparation for sea trials just after it was built. This was two days after arriving in the Netherlands to begin my design internship at Feadship the following week. Seeing how these superyachts are designed & built is nothing short of mind blowing. Coming from an aviation background, yachts were a whole new world for me. Grateful to have had this opportunity.

Paul Allen was one of our bigger clients, during one particularly memorable business luncheon in 1999(?) he regaled us all with a presentation on his concept of the Octopus. During her construction we'd get updates every first Thursday of the month. The science world will benefit from The Octopus and her capabilities. The rest of us just get to enjoy her beauty.

@ACPilot

4 жыл бұрын

David Earnest - They are selling her :-/ I hope the new owner will be a great and fun person..

Also, Lurssen's yard is very impressive! I've never seen a shipyard look so organized and just plain clean! They're really an incredible boatbuilder.

@crowdog56

5 жыл бұрын

@Lino Andrade And Benetti builds fabulous yachts in their fabulous yard!

Perfect video!!!, great information. And a bit of fun

So cool! Lurssen has always been one of my favorites! Keep up the good work!!

Dream job! Covering Lurssen vast complex

Awesome preview of some of their facilities! I will be visiting them this September prior to Cannes, extremely excited about it

Thanks David!! Incredible to get visual access to something like this!

Loved this video. Very interesting. Would be awesome if you could do a tour like this of the Feadship shipyard.

Thank you so much for the wonderful video. Love the way you present your content and share with us your vast knowledge of ships and shipbuilders. As always, another excellent video.

Very nice video. It looks like a TV production but very short! Excellent job.

M/Y Octopus. So big it has its own time zone. (Great video!)

@julietwhitemore1604

5 жыл бұрын

he who dies has the most toys wins..... uh wait. pretend bond didnt win

Great job David!

I wonder if Octopus is still owned by the Allen estate. Would love to see a video tour of my favorite ship.

@tl9785

4 жыл бұрын

It is now up for sale around 330 million USD

@ianboard544

4 жыл бұрын

It's still listed on Frasers and Burgess web sites, as well as their latest magazine ads.

@scabthecat

4 жыл бұрын

@@tl9785 I'd find it difficult to raise that sort of money

@pauljrcarty9314

3 жыл бұрын

I clicked this video right after an octopus video and I'm wondering if these vessels come with infirmaries

@pinoyelvis

3 жыл бұрын

I saw one. It might be in fraser

Excellent stuff!

That's awesome! Just think, they can easily put a pro' football field inside each of those buildings. Thank's again for such an awesome video.

Wow! What a huge place. I would have loved to see where Bismark was launched especially since this is 75 years for D Day. All in all though, excellent. Thank you and have a great day.

A very impressive well equipped facility.

Another fantastic video David

Love your videos, but you should've gave acknowledgement to the late Paul Allen, former owner of the octopus. He was a great philanthropist, owner of the Seattle Seahawks and a awesome human being. I've built many of his projects in Seattle and he's kept a lot of money in that City for blue collar people like myself to make a living. Anyways thanks for your videos and continue keeping us informed. 🛥️⛵

Quite an impressive shipyard indeed. Thanks for the video.

@kellingtonlink956

5 жыл бұрын

Btw. Amazing filming and editing. Well done!

I live in Iowa. I love your videos.

I'm convinced David! All I need now is a yacht.

Awesome and great vlogs

Great Video David.

Amazing video

Brilliant insider look at the scale of these fabrication units.

What a great channel this is, I've watch the entire back log of videos the last two weeks and thoroughly enjoyed them all. Well done. Now what can you offer me yacht wise, I got about £3 to spend :) Keep up the great content so I can continue to dream on :) Cheers

its like a city within a city, wow

Great job on this video!!! Can you do a similar video on Amels?

what an intro!! wow!

Great vid still waiting for a nordhaven vid

Hard to believe Jubilee needs "refitting"- she's practically brand new! And gorgeous too, imho. I'm sure the new decor is of the same caliber as when new but I really loved her "old" look. Guess I should have bought her when I had the chance!

Hahaha I guess we are just going to have to wait 12 months for the end of this video. No doubt you'll keep us busy till then 👍.

My uncle works at Lürssen as a sales manager. Sadly hes not selling yachts, but rather he is negotiating deal with other nations on defense contracts. I also used to work for them during holidays. Its a nice company to be with.

It’s so nice

*HOLY MOTHER OF STEEL!*

Very cool.

Very interesting video👍🏻😀

Good yachts.

If Jubilee is refurbished by Lürsen it’s a slap in the face for Oceanco, the builders of the ship.

@williamdrijver4141

5 жыл бұрын

Oceanco only has one drydock. At the time taken up by "Dreamboat" probably.

@anastasiosgeorgiadis7741

5 жыл бұрын

William Drijver Jubilee is just a couple of years old. What kind of refurbishment would take so much time that it couldn't be planned a year ago?

@michaelzdanis3979

3 жыл бұрын

@@anastasiosgeorgiadis7741 Completely gutting it I assume. It was built for the Emir of Qatar who died just as the yacht was completed. It looked like an Arabic palace inside. It was bought by Stan Kroenke (who owns the LA Rams) and his wife who is a member of the Walton family. Think they wanted something different stylistically.

Outstanding video. I feel like I’ve been shown something I shouldn’t have seen, like Area 51. Shame we’ll never see a facility of this scale and complexity in the U.S.

@julietwhitemore1604

5 жыл бұрын

didn't see any boats... lame..

@Thesdr666

4 жыл бұрын

There are several far larger such facilities in the US. Thing is, they build commercial ships of varying types or military vessels. Admittedly, the US is sadly lacking when it comes to superyacht yards, that much is true.

Does Paul Allen's family/trust still own Octopus? He love his boats!

@teojorsin

5 жыл бұрын

Yes, his sister owns it, as well all his other stuff.

@michaelzdanis3979

3 жыл бұрын

@@teojorsin It's been on the market for a year at €295,000,000

@teojorsin

3 жыл бұрын

@@michaelzdanis3979 sorry, didn't know that. Thought it wasn't on the market for so long.

Hi David, When did you film this? Solandge arrived in Canary Wharf on Friday. Its really great to see more and more superyachts using the Wharf as their London destination. I did, however, note some rust bubbling under the paint at the end of her starboard accommodation ladder, which was being used as the gangway - so Lurssen missed a bit in the refit!

Jubilee is so new. Why is she undergoing such an extensive refit?

@AxelAStein

5 жыл бұрын

She was sold so you could assume the new owners wanted to personalize her to their liking

@williamdrijver4141

5 жыл бұрын

Google for Jubilee interior photos and you will realize why....

@ohanabennett

5 жыл бұрын

She’s a beautiful boat but madly eccentric. I’m gonna guess she’s losing all the fake decks to clean up her lines and gain tons of technical space, storage, etc.

That’s building yachts on a grand scale.

Time to start a TV series guys!

Lürssen My Grandfather his Father all my uncles they all worked there most as welders Ill work there hopefully too when Im done with my apprenticeship

5:30 is it mayan queen at the left?

Golden

01:46 Blohm und Foss Not "blummnwos". The letter "V" is pronounced like an "F" in almost all German words. This includes the name "Voss".

Massive massive massive. The Germans do know their stuff.

Amazing facility. Does this mean Blohm And Voss doesn’t exist any more or they just sold this facility.

@marcelx174

5 жыл бұрын

Blohm&Voss is still existing of course. It's just owned and runned by Lürssen now. They even saved the name, it's still called Blohm&Voss, not Lürssen Hamburg or something like that. Too traditional.

The fact that this company paid you to do this means your invaluable to them and us

Didn’t Blohm & Voss help Adolf Hitler quite a bit during the second match against the Germans? Great video, getting better and better. The humourious scene of the borrowed bike worked well.

@591desperado

5 жыл бұрын

Every big shipyard in Germany was building warships during that time, even Lürssen. That is nothing special. There is even an articel on Wikipedia about the "Lürssen effect", a special hull design for fast military boats in world war 2.

@Sandhoeflyerhome

5 жыл бұрын

I agree.

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Wow one year for a refit? Is that normal?

Probably no. 1 yard.

Did the worker whose bike you stole ever get it back? :D

i was very disapionted i never saw a glimps of the inside of a ship

Lurssen the world class boat builder s the world s best on this planet are world class they only build the best the customer wants no matter the price could be billions or millions the Luxury they want I have been and still am very much following these Luxurious yacht s are Beautifully built from scratch around four to five years depending size especially the price tag running in to millions of dollars for multimillion wealthy rich customers these magnificent superyacht s today are more advanced than ever price tag well maybe looking a billion dollars only Lurssen could built a super Luxury yacht of its kind to suite a customers taste of Luxury 👍

The search for Jubilee never delivers. Is Lurssen Yachts is the same way?

I'm guessing Paul Allen's family didn't really want its location to be outed, although reasonably difficult to hide her. Interesting what will be her future.

А. Мне. Можно. Такой. Караблик

It is wonderful to see the craftsmanship of these boats. At the same time, we should make preparations to eat the rich.

There seems to be a gap in your history lesson. What were they doing at that shipyard, say... early-mid 20th century?

@orangelion03

5 жыл бұрын

He did mention Bismark...

@marcelx174

5 жыл бұрын

Shipyards build warships in wartimes. No need to fill another 10 minutes with this exclusive news

The title is a little misleading - I was expecting to see a walk through of an actual yacht mid-refit.

@hall2jc

5 жыл бұрын

Not sure how the title could be any more accurate... he didn't mention a specific boat name. You just didn't understand.

@drloppy

5 жыл бұрын

hall2jc it could be way more accurate. If you’re having a walk through of the facilities, say so in the title.

@hall2jc

5 жыл бұрын

That is the name of the facility!! Lol

@drloppy

5 жыл бұрын

hall2jc and if he was actually having a walkthrough of one of their yachts being refitted he may entitle the video - Lurssen yacht refit - a walkthrough tour. Do you see where the potential for confusion is yet, or are you still insisting on being pedantic?

@hall2jc

5 жыл бұрын

@@drloppy I dont even see why you give a shit, you watched the video didn't you? Are you only here for yachts tours? If so piss off!!

Second

Americans usually have a different taste than arabs, so the Jubilee "refit" will be a new interior, partial new interior layout, and a nicer hull / superstructure color than the qatari had chosen

So a nearly new Gigayacht from one of the most reknown shipyards in the world is now refitted at Lürssen?That shows indeed the reputation of our German yachts builders, which seems to be even higher than the outstanding dutch ones.

@williamdrijver4141

5 жыл бұрын

Or Dutch yards had no capacity / no drydock available

New Subscriber !! 👋. In August 2021 he would be interested in buying a megayacht for 500 million dollars to 1 Billion dollars. I speak seriously, without jokes or games.

1st ha

@Yachtsforsaleblog

5 жыл бұрын

Well done!

You’re selling boats but stealing bicycles?

Jubilee is a new yacht what do's it need doing this early in it's life and what a company.

What’s the point of this video?🤨

what do you want with JUBILLEE that yacht absolutely sucks

What a lot of crap, it's a man riding a bike and has no idea about the yachts. He was invited to see .... nothing but old bits and pieces.