Boatfag Update Report
Quick Carribean Sweep Only, not including GoM or South FL
Gitmo
Pic#1 related. Picked up a couple of Auxiliary craft coming out of Gitmo harbor. These vessels came from the US base side, so whoever is coming in is not heading through Guantanamo Bay to the Cuban port in the interior north of the Bay.
Also had a couple of pings on a cargo ship that is in the immediate vicinity. There is also a tanker in the area, however it has passed the Bay already and heading away, so I don’t believe it’s in play.
Yachts
Pics #2, 3 and 4 related. #2 is a data sheet on a mysterious yacht known as BYTE THE WORLD 1. Confirm that it’s the same yacht as the “Byte the World” yacht picked up about 2 weeks or so ago near Barcelona, Spain in the Med, b/c it has the same MMSI# 319888608. It doesn’t register at all on vesselfinder and only a little bit of the time on marinetraffic.
Note the length of the yacht, 56 meters – this is “superyacht” territory. Almost zero info on this boat. However, lucked out and hit on it anchored near Gustavia harbor, St. Barts (about 10nm SE of St. Maarten in the Leeward Islands, if you’re lookin’). That’s pic #3.
You may recall, there is a new yacht added to the Yacht Watch List under observation recently, the ARTEFACT, in the same area. ARTEFACT has now shifted to an anchorage at Ile Fourchue, a small island between St. Maarten and St. Barts., about 7nm NW of Gustavia harbor. So ARTEFACT and BYTE THE WORLD 1 are very much in the same hood…
Venezuela
Pic#5 is the DELTA KANARIS, a Liberian-flagged tanker heading due north out of the Jose Terminal at Puerto La Cruz, Venezuela. The pic of this track is 6 hours old, but a check using the MMSI# shows a 45-minute old track where the tanker turned NE to a heading of about 045 at 13kts, and it shows her heading to the Med. Nothing else that I can detect of interest on the Venezuelan coast.
No further info to report at this time.