[Leica] IMG: Wanted for sequestering - Vlad's pal's yacht

Douglas Barry imra at iol.ie
Thu Mar 10 15:35:06 PST 2022


I went for a walk down by Dun Laoghaire today and was looking at yachts 
when I thought of this one.
Summer '19, I was in Juan-les-Pins in the south of France and took this 
photo of the superyacht Eclipse owned by Putin's pal Roman Abramovich, 
an oligarch who has finally just been sanctioned by the tardy Boris 
Johnson's government.

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DouglasBray/France/Cote+dAzur+2019/Cap+d_Antibes+Eclipse+in+Golfe+Juan.jpg.html

The yacht is currently in the Caribbean, but was moored a good bit off 
Cap d'Antibes where I took the shot, so it looks almost small, but it 
certainly isn't. It's over 500 feet long, was built by Blohm & Voss who 
built the Bismarck, and is fitted with a mini submarine for quick 
escapes, military level radar, missiles, helicopters, and cost a pretty 
penny. Unfortunately, those pennies appear to have come from a dirty source.

I only had my Fuji X100S with me, so a 23mm lens didn't exactly cut the 
mustard.

Douglas




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