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Motor YACHT ABILITY

The ABILITY yacht is a 134' 11" (41.1m) luxury yacht, launched and delivered to her original owner by the leading yacht builder CODECASA yachts in 2007, and refit in 2023 .

The brilliantly appointed interior accommodations has a 5 stateroom layout, which accommodates 11 guests, and crew accommodations for up to 8 crew.

Her hull is made of aluminum, and decks finished in teak, with a beam of 26' 3" (8m), a draft of 4' 8" (1.4m), measuring in at a total of 286 gross tons.

The Motor Yacht ABILITY is currently located in Attica Region, with an asking price of €7,400,000

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ABILITY 138' Fully Crewed Mega Yacht

• Summer Locations: Greece Winter Locations: Greece
• Max Guests : 11    Cabins : 5    Crew : 8
• Starting at : EUR €110,000 (approx. $127,600 USD )

Charter rates do not include expenses or taxes

With a variety of cabin configurations, she is able to accommodate as many as eleven guests. Her master suite features a walk around king bed, large flatscreen T.V., settee, and spacious marble en-suite bathroom. Additionally, she has a V.I.P. suite with a queen bed, a double cabin with a Pullman berth, a twin guest cabin, and an office that can be converted into a double cabin. Each cabin has en-suite facilities.

The main salon features white soft goods accented with dark woods for a nice contrast and a rich, luxe feel. She has opposite facing, contoured lounges, multiple occasional tables, and bar in the main salon. Forward on the bow she offers a spacious lounge with table for al fresco dining. Both the aft deck and flybridge offer large sun pads for lying out.

Steps descend either side of the aft deck to a fullbeam swim platform. Watersports offered include a15-foot jet tender, jet ski, water ski, three 3-seater Wake Warrior tubes, two standup paddleboards, two Jobe Crusher towables, double kayak, wakeboard, and two seabobs.

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The 41m motor yacht ABILITY crafted by Codecasa offers flexible accommodation for up to 11 guests in 5 cabins, featuring interior styling by Franco & Anna Della Role. Boasting sumptuous living areas, ABILITY ensures a warm and welcoming atmosphere, perfect for luxury charters with friends and family. With Wi-Fi connectivity and air conditioning throughout, guests can enjoy comfort and entertainment onboard. Powered by 3 x MTU engines, she cruises at 28 knots , making her ideal for exploring coastal hideaways. ABILITY also offers a variety of water toys and a 4.6m Jet Tender for shore excursions. Ready for charters in the Greek Islands, ABILITY promises unforgettable experiences in the region's magical destinations.

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Congratulations to The Ability Group shortlisted for Power Yacht over 40 Metres Award in The International Yacht & Aviation Awards 2017

Luxe et al are delighted to announce that  The Ability Group  have been shortlisted for Power Yacht over 40 Metres Award  for The International Yacht & Aviation Awards 2017 .

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ABILITY YACHT FOR CHARTER

135.83ft /41.4m | Baglietto | 2004 / 2016

GUESTS 10 | CABINS 5 | CREW 8

CABIN CONFIGURATION: 1 Master, 3 Double, 1 Twin

SPECIAL FEATURES:

• Refit To Exacting Standards In 2016
• Generously Proportioned Swim Platform
• Sleek And Sporty Exterior Lines
• Glamorously Styled Interior

Comfortably on the forefront of the latest trends, superyacht ABILITY is perfect for any spirited charterers looking to vacation in style.

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SEASONAL CHARTER RATES

€133.000 (p/week + expenses)

HIGH SEASON

€147.000 (p/week + expenses)

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MEDITERRANEAN

Croatia, Greece, Montenegro, Turkey

The 135.83ft /41.4m Custom motor yacht ‘Ability’ was built in 2004 by Baglietto and last refitted in 2016. Previously named RC her luxurious interior is designed by Studio Gagliardi and her exterior styling is by Design Studio Spadolini.

ACCOMMODATION

Ability’s  interior layout sleeps up to 10 guests in 5 rooms, including a master suite, 3 double cabins and 1 twin cabin. She is also capable of carrying up to 8 crew onboard to ensure a relaxed luxury yacht experience. Timeless styling, beautiful furnishings and sumptuous seating feature throughout to create an elegant and comfortable atmosphere.

Ability’s  impressive leisure and entertainment facilities make her the ideal charter yacht for socialising and entertaining with family and friends.

PERFORMANCE

She is built with Aluminium hull and Aluminium superstructure. With a cruising speed of 21 knots, a maximum speed of 35 knots and a range of 800nm from her 35,000 litre fuel tanks, she is the perfect combination of performance and luxury.

Air Conditioning, WiFi connection on board, Stabilisers underway, Stabilizers at Anchor

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Ability  is currently available for charter, to find out more about this superyacht please contact your preferred charter broker.

Luxury Charter yacht  Ability  is a motor yacht.

For your relaxation and entertainment  Ability  has the following facilities, for more details please speak to your yacht charter broker.

• Stabilizers
• Air Conditioning

Ability  is reported to be available to Charter with the following recreation facilities:

• 2 x Jet-Skis
• Snorkelling Equipment
• Fishing Equipment

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Scientists explain why orcas keep ramming yachts

• Orcas just want to have fun.
• Orcas have been ramming boats off Spain, Portugal, and Morocco since 2020.
• Scientists now believe it's simply because the orcas are bored and feeling playful. 

Orcas have been causing mayhem off the coasts of Spain, Portugal, and Morocco for the past several years, driving local sailors nuts by ramming and bumping their boats .

But scientists now believe the orcas actually don't have malicious intent — they're just being silly .

A group of over a dozen scientists and orca experts who've been studying the region's orcas for years explained their findings in a report from the International Whaling Commission published Friday.

The Portuguese and Spanish governments commissioned the report in response to a spate of incidents of a small group of orcas around the Iberian Peninsula ramming into — and sometimes sinking — at least 673 boats since 2020.

Despite the damage the orcas have done, scientists believe the orcas are not trying to be aggressive or destructive. Really, they're just bored teenagers looking for a bit of fun.

"The sea is a very boring place for an animal," Renaud de Stephanis, president of marine life preservation organization CIRCE, told USA Today . "Imagine if you're a dog or some other mammal, you can interact with objects around you. But in the sea there's not much for the orcas to interact with, so they play with the rudders."

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Scientists believe young juvenile orcas, who tend to be more curious and exploratory, started the trend, which then spread through the population, according to the report.

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President Biden is considering escalating U.S. support for Ukraine with two tough new countermeasures.

To combat Russia’s advances in Ukraine , President Biden is considering two tough new countermeasures: punishing China for supplying key technology to Moscow and lifting limits on Ukrainian use of U.S. short-range weapons to attack inside Russia.

These moves would represent a significant escalation of Biden’s carefully calibrated policy of supporting Ukraine while seeking to avoid direct confrontation with Russian President Vladimir Putin or his key ally, China’s Xi Jinping. The fact that such moves are being considered now shows the administration’s growing concern about Ukraine’s vulnerability on the battlefield.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken telegraphed a tougher stance after recent visits to Beijing and Kyiv. While in Beijing, he told the BBC in late April that China was “helping fuel the biggest threat to Europe” since the fall of the Soviet Union and indicated that the United States was weighing new sanctions against Chinese companies and financial institutions.

Blinken then visited Kyiv and heard firsthand accounts of Russia’s recent gains near Kharkiv and elsewhere in eastern Ukraine. What he heard worried him enough that he urged administration colleagues to re-examine the prohibition on Ukraine firing American artillery and short-range missiles into Russia, U.S. officials told me and, separately, other journalists.

The threat of new sanctions against China is especially delicate because it comes at a time when both countries have been trying to stabilize their relationship. But U.S. officials are troubled that Beijing, while technically adhering to its pledge not to supply weapons to Moscow, has become the biggest enabler of Russia’s defense sector and its full-scale invasion of Ukraine .

China’s growing assistance is clear in a report by Nathaniel Sher for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. By analyzing international customs data, Sher found that China was Russia’s largest supplier of 50 “high priority” dual-use items. The customs data also showed that China’s share of Russia’s imports of these goods had risen from 32 percent in 2021 to 89 percent last year.

Blinken told the BBC that these dual-purpose items “are being used to help Russia on what’s an extraordinary crash course effort to make more munitions, tanks, armored vehicles, missiles” — even though China continues to refrain from “provision of actual arms.” The secretary said China was supplying about 70 percent of Russia’s imports of machine tools and 90 percent of its imported microelectronics.

China is also providing Russia with satellite technology that can be crucial for communications and targeting in the Ukraine battlespace, according to the Royal United Services Institute , a British foreign policy think tank.

Xi has maintained his own balancing act since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, less than three weeks after he and Putin had declared a “no limits” partnership . China publicly called for a cease-fire, but Putin pleaded for weapons. They were ready for delivery when Biden called Xi to warn him that the United States would respond — drawing what officials told me was an angry riposte from Xi asking whether Biden was threatening him.

Since that showdown, Xi has refrained from direct weapons shipments. But U.S. officials said the Chinese leader directed Liu He, former vice premier and one of Xi’s most trusted negotiators with the West, to oversee quiet help for Russia’s war effort. At the same time, China has sent peace feelers to Ukraine and its European backers about an eventual settlement.

Ukraine’s vulnerability has increased partly because of the long delay in U.S. weapons shipments. While House Republicans dithered, Ukraine was forced to consider retreat . And many weapons the United States had hoped would bolster Ukraine — such as M1 Abrams tanks, HIMARS missile systems and F-16 fighter jets — proved vulnerable to Russian drones, electronic jamming and air defenses, respectively.

U.S. officials worry that Russia is massing troops and equipment just across the border inside Russia for its assault on Kharkiv and other cities in eastern Ukraine. U.S. artillery and short-range missiles could strike these targets without threatening deep strikes into Russia. But, for now, the United States restricts their use to inside Ukraine, so they aren’t able to strike the big Russian logistical and troop-marshalling centers just over the border. But that may be changing, as other NATO countries press Biden to loosen controls.

The loudest call for strikes inside Russia came this week from NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg. “The front line is more or less the border line, and if you cannot attack the Russian forces on the other side of the front line because they are on the other side of the border, then of course you really reduce the ability of the Ukrainian forces to defend themselves,” Stoltenberg told a NATO parliamentary meeting Monday in Sofia, Bulgaria.

“The right to self-defense includes the right to strike legitimate military targets outside Ukraine,” Stoltenberg added. The NATO parliamentary group meeting in Sofia joined him in endorsing “ lifting some restrictions on the use of weapons. ”

We might be nearing another inflection point in Ukraine. As China leans harder into its partnership with a newly dominant Russia, Biden is weighing whether to deepen his alliance with Kyiv. This would bring new risks, but it would make sense if it could bolster a wobbly Ukraine and rebalance the negotiating table, which is where this war must eventually be settled.

Moscow rampage reveals ambition, deadly reach of ISIS successor groups

A few months before being killed in a U.S. Special Forces raid, Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi released a final video message that symbolically passed the torch to far-flung followers in distant lands. His self-declared caliphate had been defeated, he acknowledged, and it was now up to the terrorist group’s regional chapters to carry out “revenge operations” around the world.

“Our battle today is one of attrition and stretching the enemy,” Baghdadi said in the April 2019 video, released just after the fall of the Islamic State’s last stronghold in Syria. “They should know that jihad is ongoing until the Day of Judgment.”

Friday’s bloodbath at a suburban Moscow concert hall is but the latest reminder of how effectively Baghdadi’s brutal vision is being carried out. While his self-proclaimed Middle East “caliphate” is in ruins, a constellation of Islamic State regional affiliates is gaining strength in many parts of the globe, fueled by a mix of traditional grievances as well as new ones, including the war in Gaza, counterterrorism officials and experts say.

Some Islamic State chapters or “provinces” in Africa now support large, well-equipped armies. Especially in West Africa and the Sahel region, they have repeatedly shown an ability to seize and hold territory and beat back government forces when they try to intervene, counterterrorism officials and experts say.

By contrast, Islamic State-Khorasan — the hyperviolent strain linked to the Moscow attack, known commonly as ISIS-K — appears to be increasingly specializing in external attacks. The group has dispatched terrorist operatives to Russia, Iran and Turkey while also plotting attacks against Western countries, including the United States, U.S. intelligence reports show . In two attacks just so far this year, in Iran and Russia, ISIS-K terrorists targeted large groups of civilians, killing nearly 250 people — assaults that were celebrated by the Islamic State’s propaganda organs as proof that the group is again on the ascent.

“For ISIS, these operations are its way of sending a message to the world that it remains a relevant, deadly threat,” said Rita Katz, an expert on violent extremist organizations and founder of SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors and analyzes social media postings by the Islamic State.

ISIS-K, the most operationally oriented group, is rapidly evolving by establishing cells and seeking recruits across Central Asia, specifically those who speak Tajik, Uzbek, Farsi and other local languages, she said. “Today it is a deadly and capable ‘province’ whose tentacles reach across Central Asia, including in regions of former Soviet states,” Katz said.

The Islamic State quickly claimed responsibility for Friday’s rampage through the Crocus City Hall concert venue in Krasnogorsk, a few miles west of central Moscow. U.S. counterterrorism officials say they believe it was ISIS-K, specifically, that recruited the four gunmen who fired automatic weapons at concertgoers before setting fire to the building, killing at least 139 in one of the deadliest terrorist attacks in the history of modern Russia.

More attacks may be coming, counterterrorism officials warn. In a development that has been largely overshadowed by the conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza, ISIS-K and other regional groups have been expanding in size and ambition in recent years.

In the past 12 months, the Islamic State has claimed responsibility for more than 1,100 attacks that killed or wounded nearly 5,000 people globally, according to a terrorism monitoring project launched last week by the Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP), a think tank. An Islamic State group in Mali, in North Africa’s Sahel region, seized portions of two provinces last year, and other African affiliates have taken over towns in Somalia and in Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado regions, according to WINEP researcher Aaron Zelin.

Even in Syria and Iraq, where thousands of the group’s fighters dispersed after a four-year campaign by a U.S.-led military coalition, the Islamic State remains a potent threat, said Dana Stroul, the Pentagon’s deputy assistant secretary for the Middle East during the first three years of the Biden administration.

“The group remains capable of planning and executing small-scale attacks,” Stroul said. Islamic State leaders in Syria appear particularly focused on engineering breakouts at prisons and detention camps, she said, noting that such facilities in eastern Syria collectively house 9,000 seasoned veterans of the Islamic State’s terrorist army.

But it is ISIS-K that has emerged as the Islamic State’s main affiliate for conducting external attacks. Friday’s assault near Moscow comes two months after a pair of suicide bombers killed 100 people at a memorial ceremony in southeastern Iran, an attack also linked to ISIS-K.

The splinter group was founded in Afghanistan in 2015 and emerged as a violent antagonist to the country’s Taliban leadership after the 2021 U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. While the Taliban has succeeded in killing many of the group’s leaders, ISIS-K has adapted by establishing roots across neighboring countries that were once part of the Soviet empire.

For ISIS-K and its parent organization, the targeting of Russia is deliberate. Islamic State propaganda has railed against Russian President Vladimir Putin since Moscow intervened in Syria’s civil war in 2015, sending bomber aircraft and helicopters to attack rebel groups opposed to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. The rebels included an array of Islamist militias, including Islamic State fighters and groups backed by al-Qaeda.

Assad ultimately prevailed, mostly due to military assistance from Russia and Iran, Syria’s closest ally. Islamist groups since then have repeatedly condemned Putin as having the blood of Muslims on his hands.

Many also remember Putin’s harsh campaign against Muslim Chechen separatists in Russia in the early 2000s. Chechen militants carried out three deadly suicide bombings in Moscow’s Metro in the 2000s, and staged a mass hostage-taking at a Moscow theater in 2002. Russia’s deadliest terrorist attack was carried out by Chechen militants who besieged a school in the town of Beslan in the northern Caucasus region in 2004, holding 1,100 people hostage. The siege ended in a violent assault that left nearly 350 people dead, many of them children.

More recently, ISIS-K appears to have assumed the mantle as chief avenger. In September 2022, ISIS-K claimed responsibility for a bomb attack outside the Russian Embassy in Kabul, which killed two employees and three other people. Last year, ISIS-K set up a Tajik-language propaganda network, ramping up efforts to recruit members in autocratic Central Asian states, which the group portrays as Moscow’s puppets. Multiple Telegram channels in Tajik, Uzbek and Russian transmit Islamic State propaganda and glorify Tajik militants who have taken part in attacks in Afghanistan, Iran, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.

The four men accused of carrying out Friday’s attack were identified in Russian media as Tajik migrant workers, at least three of whom had Russian registration papers.

The attacks highlighted Russia’s continued vulnerability to attacks by Islamist militants. Russian officials have not attributed Friday’s attack to any specific group. Late Monday, Putin acknowledged that the weekend assault was carried out by “radical Islamists,” while asserting without evidence that Ukrainian operatives may have provided assistance — an accusation that Ukraine has vehemently denied. Since the arrest of the four suspects, images and video showing the perpetrators before and during the attack have been posted online by the Islamic State-linked media outlet Amaq News Agency, appearing to confirm their identity.

Despite the arrests, in an indication of Moscow’s ongoing concern, Putin on Saturday called leaders of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkey and Syria, all nations where Islamic State militants are known to operate or to recruit members. In recent years, Russia’s Federal Security Service also has reported multiple operations against Islamic State militants, including an ISIS-K cell in Kaluga, southwest of Moscow, this month, which was allegedly planning an attack on a Moscow synagogue.

At a meeting of security officials last October, FSB director Alexander Bortnikov warned that ISIS-K members now numbered more than 6,500 and could start launching attacks outside of Afghanistan “in the near future.” U.S. intelligence reports, some of them leaked last year on the Discord messaging platform and obtained by The Washington Post , also cited ISIS-K plots targeting European and Asian countries as well as “aspirational plotting” against the United States.

The leaked documents revealed specific efforts to target embassies, churches, business centers and the 2022 FIFA World Cup soccer tournament, which drew more than 2 million spectators in Qatar.

Neither the Islamic State nor ISIS-K have linked the Russian attacks to the ongoing fighting in Gaza. But the deaths of Palestinian Muslims during Israel’s retaliatory campaign against Hamas have prominently featured on social media platforms as incitement for new waves of terrorist attacks, including against Western countries.

While the Islamic State has historically opposed Hamas because of its Iranian ties, ISIS spokesmen have lionized Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel as a model for a low-tech terrorist campaign that produces high numbers of casualties and generates enormous media attention, according to Middle Eastern and European intelligence officials.

“Hamas has succeeded in being in the media for months now, and that has created a situation where other jihadist groups feel the need to prove to their followers and members that they can also hit strong countries,” said an Arab intelligence official, speaking on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media.

A European intelligence official, who also spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive information, said his government expected that aspiring terrorists, enraged by Gaza, will draw inspiration from the events at the Moscow concert hall. Likewise, he said, the attack could provide fresh encouragement for Islamic State factions competing with one another for money, recruits and recognition.

“We have unfortunately to prepare ourselves,” the official said, “for a scenario where there will be other attempts made.”

Dixon reported from Riga, Latvia. Warrick and Mekhennet reported from Washington.