Rafting Up $100M Yachts in the Arctic… Should We Be Doing This? | EP 2

Some boats absolutely just push the boundaries of doing the coolest sh** in the world. I'm currently following one of the most unique yachting programs in the world, Motoyacht After You and Emotional Support. We will be traveling through some of the most remote cruising areas in the world and taking you with us every step of the way. Meet the crew, see the operations unfold and join us through one of the most documented expedition yacht trips Nice brisk cold day out here in Nuuk. On our way to do a provisioning run as this will be the last time that they get to a proper shop. I think in like the next 45 or 48 days. So it should be pretty interesting watching the provisioning take place today. So we're just taking our eight RBC tanks off here for our jet fuel for the helicopter. There's only one jet fuel truck in Nuuk, Greenland and it's broken. So we're having to charter this flatbed. They're going to take it to the airport for us. We're going to go there then buy the jet fuel separately, get them in the RBCs, bring them back here, get them back on board. A little bit of ops on the go here but four meter tidal range is making it quite interesting. This is so not approved. For the last few days the boat has been kind of sat in and around Nuuk to prepare for this next major stint as the vessel heads up north. Next main village is a little town called Ilusat which is quite far up north and it's going to take us the next seven to ten days to get there. We've now picked up the guests that's on the main vessel after you and we're headed back in near that restaurant where we were just the other day to kind of wait out some weather. It's about 14 knots of wind that's going to be hitting Nuuk. We should be mostly protected over here by this beautiful backdrop and this is pretty cool. This is like as close to formation flying as I've done with yachts being this close with the two boats. I'm going to launch the drone in a minute and give you a perspective of these two beautiful boats. Expedition capable yachts pulling into one of the most beautiful fjords I've ever taken photos of and then they're going to do another thing that I've never really seen which is to raft up two boats side by side use it as one major platform. A 60 meter and a 53 meter rafted up right next to each other to create one of the most epic platforms I've ever seen. Let's go let the trip begin. Yeah so quite a unique moment for us over here we are actually the support boat but we are following the mothership usually we are one hour ahead of them but we're doing a bit of a unique thing today it's called the after you tie up and that's when we raft these two super yachts together so it's pretty pretty unique match made in heaven because we raft up so tight together and yeah we are 45 minutes out from the anchorage got some beautiful waterfalls on the go over here flat calm conditions and just the way we like it for our rafting up sessions. What do you call this little um maneuver this little formation maneuver? Well usually we bring the water guns out on the foredeck over here and we have a bit of a war with their boys This doesn't happen this is the coolest thing I've ever seen. It is now it's midnight it's midnight what is wrong with this place it's midnight I'm gonna get some sleep I'm gonna be up at 6am maybe a bit earlier I want that early morning glass off of these two boats sitting side by side so I'm gonna call it a day I was only anticipating getting really going on the 23rd and here we are rafted side by side in this beautiful fjord uh so certainly exceeding expectations yet again. Muddy up after you in emotion. Sleep tight we'll see you tomorrow morning. All right tender mission number one done packing up head and heart and then have the two boats going through the ice together yes let's do it. Okay Matt so I got four interview questions for you while you're getting your hair cut it's a perfect opportunity since you don't look too busy at the moment for those who aren't familiar what exactly is the role of emotional within the after you fleet? Yeah I mean it's a crucial role for the program itself you know to be able to house extra crew extra staff guards you know scientists whatever we need to carry we can carry when it comes to personnel which frees up a lot of critical space on board after you and just makes the whole experience a lot more seamless. We handle a lot of the logistics and moving parts and carry a lot of the toys currently carrying 8 000 meters of jet a1 fuel about to cross over to the Canadian Arctic where we're going to pick up our helicopter for our trip through the northwest passage do whatever we need to do to help the program keep moving forwards. Why have a second yacht rather than simply making a mothership? If you do a wide angle shot now you'll see we rafted up to each other and basically got a yacht with a 20 meter beam currently so you don't really get any of those out there do you? You don't. I think one of the things we noticed first and foremost is when you're setting up in an anchorage we can get there an hour or two before get all the inflatables in the water the jet skis all the tenders all the toys set up all the dive gear set up the STPs and fully operational and it's a seamless transition for them they drop the hook and everything's handed over to them ready to rock and roll. And the amount of space that I suppose it frees up on after you by having everything on here if everything that was on here that was on after you there'd be no space. No yeah absolutely. And how closely do the two bridges work together throughout the day? Myself and the other captain on board there are continuously on the phone with each other speak to her more than my wife and daughters for sure. Through the fog super still and quiet just the sound of the ice hitting the hull every now and then it's so beyond special man wow. All right 13 hours of travel and this is what we are treated to it's insane there's waterfalls everywhere there's glaciers everywhere. Glacier number one, glacier number two, glacier number three, glacier number four, glacier number five, glacier number six. Gigantic never seen before that big glacier holy wow it's insane. Just arrived at this beautiful location I'll make sure to sort of give you a little map overview of exactly where we are but dying to get the drone back in the air it's about 20 knots of wind so we're gonna wait until we're a bit closer. We will then see the depth see where we can anchor raft up the two boats together again and this will be home base for at least the next 10-12 hours all dependent on the anchorage so we're gonna get in there get the drone up get some perspective good after you just through the gap over there so they're not far behind us after doing the 13 hour passage. Is this one of the most beautiful places you've ever brought a boat? Yeah no it's insane you know on top of all of that it's blowing 20 knots and I'm trying to raft up two super yachts currently so. So we're interrupting so I just flew an FPV drone down a glacier flew a Mavic 4 Pro inside a glacier have drank water from the glacier and now I'm running back to catch up after the guests as I kept taking drone shots so in my element I'm absolutely losing my ---- I feel so fortunate man so lucky what an epic epic epic opportunity and to have those two boats sitting there in the wow this is the coolest way I've ever seen anybody use their yachts and it's such a beautiful thing to experience wow