Boatfag Report
Good afternoon, frens.
Not much to report concerning visible traffic, will drop a few caps here to just exemplify the very little I'm seeing.
Military traffic is mostly not visible. 1st cap is San Diego - odd that you never see ANY mil traffic, but that's what is on scope r/n.
Flashpoint areas are a mixed bag. 2nd and 3rd caps show the Taiwan Strait and South China Sea, respectively. Nothing particularly unusual about the traffic, except that the middle of the Taiwan Strait seems to be a little more empty than normal. Traffic seems to be more interested in staying a little closer to the coast.
Same thing seems to be the case with the South China Sea. Traffic seems to be a little bit more motivated than normal to stay away from the Paracels and Spratlys. Scarborough Shoals in the northeast circle is also sorta true - there is shoal water there, though, so a lot of vessels steer clear just on general principles.
Last part of the report - yachts of the bitch and shameless.
As previously reported a week or so (I think) ago, most of the yachts have moved to warmer climes. Remember, many of these are "rented out" working assets, it just costs upwards of $5 mil a week to ride on the larger megayachts.
One of the more prime destinations is, of course, the Carribean, and it's in the Leeward Islands where they mostly seem to be concentrated. Took a long sweep through, checking vessel names (lots and lots and lots of damn names) and some of the bigger players popped up…
4th cap shows ULYSSES, owned by Graeme Hart, off the W coast of Guadaloupe. What about a mile or so due N of her, by the way, is Sheldon Adelson's QUEEN MIRI.
Some more examples: a little farther north, at anchor just off Gustavia, is ECLIPSE, owned by Roman Abramovich. And hanging out off the coast of St. Johns in the BVI, the RISING SUN, owned and occupied by that rat bastard David Geffen.
No sightings of ChiCom ships sneaking around off the coast or anything else that would be of interest for now. We'll keep looking. Who knows, maybe we'll find the needle in the haystack.
Hope my buddy is around who has a better handle on suspect merchants than I do, maybe he has more to share. He's got a better track list than me by a lot, a credit to how long he's been doing this.
BF out.