This is what the security guy told me today when i said i want to go in and see the yachts.
He also told me that the reason of the security was requested from the owners of the yachts so common peasants dont go there and take pictures of the name of the yachts because apparently alot of criminals and money launderers bring their yachts here 🤷♂️
What is your guys take on this?
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If you build things for rich people, you will find eventually they become only for them.
Don’t worry, you can find them all here!
https://www.vesselfinder.com/
Yeah, a pretty unfriendly marina.
But honestly the boats are not worth the faff
there were occurrences where people were getting on the yachts causing minor damages, sometimes even leaving their rubbish on them. i think renting a secured place to park your yacht guarranteens that your property is safe but doing so costs a lot of money.
Next do the marina villas!
I will try to be civil despite this conversation being extremely ignorant. Firstly there are intentional standard for shipping to protect crew and assets that ports and marinas follow. This is all under port security, which you can look up, all major ports and marinas have security it’s not just Cyprus. Secondly if you had a yacht would you want any stranger walking past with access to your asset? Would you be happy with a stranger loitering outside you house? Granted you might not have ill intent but the next person might throw a cigarette and then your yacht is gone. Stop hating on people who have more wealth than you and go live your life.
Some years ago, before security on the larger marinas became what it is now, people would walk around, look, take photos and mostly things were good.
Then two things happened;
1) Cyprus got into a lot of headlines, repeatedly, in connection with major drug cartels using Cypriot businesses to launder money and using the yachts to physically move tens and hundreds of millions of US$ of cash.
2) People living close to the marina started to notice which boats were always empty and which showed signs of being used or actively maintained. And they started to throw parties on the ones that looked unattended. You know, because it makes for amazing IG photos. One day that back-fired very spectacularly and some local boys got their asses firmly handed to them and were forced to eat a knuckle-sandwich or two.