Another great video this week shows more of the behind-the-scenes. Chief Engineer Alex and Steve did a great job showing what it takes to fill up Loon as we prepared to cross the Atlantic Ocean to start our summer season in the Mediterranean. Next week, the crossing starts 😎

Total fueling time = 5.17 hrs 5 Fuel trucks 133,000 L of fuel Guesstimate of fuel cost: $105k Seeing Chief Engineer Alex in his natural habitat: Priceless

would've been cool to have a timelapse of the waterline. Just to see how much the boat is now lower than before. Maybe for next time.

As a Fuel Roadhouse owner in the outback of Australia that was fascinating to see the safety, checking of fuel quality and decanting systems. Seeing that amount of pipeline was interesting. For us that amount of fuel in Australian dollars would of cost us $263,340.00. That's about as much fuel as we take in a month. Following this channel because of the Aussie chef, we lived in Airlie Beach for 11 years. This channel just keeps on surprising. Thank you for allowing us to see how behind the scenes of the yachts routines and how all the operating systems work.

As a guy who's taken on/pumped off millions of gallons of fuel, methanol and assorted other potentially nasty stuff, on an assortment of commercial vessels, I was very impressed by Loons professional crew...again.

About $150k. Loving a look at the technical side of running Loon. It’s like a Swan - all above waterline is Serene and composed and below the waterline is all frantic to keep things running smoothly.

Make sure you use your reward card for points. $126,437.96

I've got so much respect for the work chief engineer Alex does. His work is most of the time behind the scenes, but without his hard work, Loon couldn't function at all. So, kudos to Alex!! 👊🏻 And saying "hallo" to you all from the Netherlands. 🤗 🇳🇱

Interesting to see this. I spent 20 years in the US Navy as an engineer and have done numerous refueling evolutions. We always took on amounts of around 150,000 US gallons at a time. We could hold over 644,000 total gallons. Can't imagine trying to do that from tanker trucks. We either refueled from a barge or from a Oiler underway. I am curious as to how the storage and service tanks are set up. We had two 10,000 gallon service tanks for each of the two engine rooms. The storage tanks were grouped in to six banks of overflowing tanks. Our storage tanks were seawater compensated, meaning that as we pumped fuel out one end of the bank we pressed seawater in the other end. This helped with buoyancy. We were actually heavier in the water when low on fuel. Moving fuel from storage to service was done by our Fuel Oil purifiers. These purifiers could take a 50/50 mix of fuel and water and separate it out into clean fuel and contaminated water. The fuel we burned was F76, people commonly call it diesel or DFM but that is not correct, the product on the market called DFM is not F-76 and while F-76 is close to diesel it is not the same as what you would find in your local gas station. We could also burn F-44 (JP-5) but that was not our usual diet.

that is so cool that the fuel manifolds look the same on a yacht as they do on a warship. the few times we refuelled in port instead of underway at sea, it took us two days to take fuel from the 50 tanker trucks that pulled up one by one over the two days. refuelling at sea its a lot faster about 2-3 hours to take the same amount of fuel from the 50 trucks from land.

Love the technical details. Steve another great vid with Alex! Would love to see more of this!! Well done ya’ll. Safe voyage in the med

More engineering videos please! These are a lot of fun.

Description of MY fueling is helpful to those of us who will never experience the magnitude nor technical aspects of fueling. Many might focus on the purchase price of a vessel in this class but this video gives a glimpse of the type of on-going cost of supplying and staffing involved. I call this the cost of waking up every morning ... hard for us of limited wealth to imagine.

I absolutely love these Engineering focused videos! Thanks for sharing this more raw side of yachting too. Absolute legend crew!

I deliver fuel for a living. They are making this sound way more complicated then what it is. Weighting the truck? Every truck gets a bill of lading when they load the truck . The api heads have a glass eyes on them when the little green ball drops that compartment is empty. The truck gravity drops at about 300 gallons a minute. They’re bigger trailers that carry way more fuel at once .

Bravo for this very interesting and instructive video. I did not imagine such procedures to supply a ship like this one.

$136,500. It’s a wild guess. Another great video

❤ love these stories. You all look do professional. 🎉 thanks for sharing. Loon is amazing 👏

I'm guessing $132,500. I love these engineering videos. I really appreciate what it takes to keep a rig of this size safely operating. Thanks for sharing.

Another awesome video. Love the behind the scenes stuff. Brings a new respect for the work each different specialty onboard does to keep the whole thing running in top shape. Really fun to watch!😊

Nice work Alex!

Very cool video. Always interesting to see the logistics of managing all of the components of the M/Y Loon operation (especially behind the scenes). Have a great and profitable summer season!!

This video was GREAT. I learned so much about bunkering. (Landlocked Texas gal. Boats are foreign to me.) I especially loved the long shot along the pumping tubes. What a distance! I have no idea how much this costs (Texas gas prices vs. Florida gas prices??) But I can't wait to hear the numbers. Cheers to Engineering Chief Alex and the rest of the Crew🥂

I just learned I’d probably not do well working engineering on board M/Y Loon. I suck at paperwork 😂 I’m guessing around $125,000 for full tanks. It’s interesting. I’ve heard the volumes before, but until you see the 5 trucks needed to fill Loon, it’s hard to truly comprehend the volume. I’ve not hauled fuel, but I’ve run liquid tank before, so really understand the sizes we’re talking. It almost seem like she’s a thirsty beast, but when you consider that’s enough for a round trip Miami, Med, Miami, it’s not that bad. Cheers guys. Thanks for another awesome video

I would say somewhere around $ $133,200 USD. Thank you so very much for your videos. Having been in the NAVY I spent more than my share out to sea. I miss it very much. Fair winds and following seas

One of your best videos! Thanks

That was very impressive. Amazing how many steps are involved. Thanks for sharing. 😊

I always love the behind the scenes, what guests never see.

Price? $150,000. My guess. It's diesel (code 1993), estimating $4.25/gal. Converted 133,000 litres to 35,135 gal. I am still amazed at how complicated a system like Loon is. Yes I see it as a system. I worked in aviation, and what you do has analogues to aviation. You don't just gas and go. While I love seeing the fun things, the cruising, the cooking, the beauty shots from the drones, the water toys, the locations, it's so much fun for me seeing what it takes bts to make all of that happen. Great work, great videos!

No Dom this vid? He's like a ghost! Lol. Love the more technical behind the scenes vids! That shot of the fuel going through the sight glass was cool too

Great video! Very interesting, thanks for sharing! I really enjoyed learning how loon works behind the scenes!

Hey I maintain these Palmdale Units! I work for The Petestore. Good to see these units at work.

Perfect Video, Steve!👍 Great Drone-Shots!

I was surprised to see you bunkering in such a location; I would have thought there would be a designated fuelling berth?

Do the tank truck pumps have the ability to pump air at the end of the delivery to clear remaining fuel out of that much hose?

Having a chief engineer like Alex is such an asset to Loon. Obviously biased as a fellow Brit but he seems to really know his stuff, and be professional but super chilled out.

Right-O Bunkaz complete. Furl the bunkerin flag eh mate! Carry on

You pump that much fuel at Flying J and they will give lifetime shower for free!

Wow I never knew how involved refuelling was. Great informative episode guys 👏👏👍

Outstanding. The nuts and bolts videos are excellent Love the range. Go across the pond and back ❤

The videos of the guest charters in beautiful locations are of course wonderful. But the technical aspects of running a super yacht are, in my opinion, so interesting. Hooray to the Engineers!

Loved this. Perfect tempo, really enjoy the calmer videos. Also interesting to see the technical details, inspections etc showed.

My guess is around $250k (give or take $2-$3k) cost of fuel. Very thorough process very impressed with the diligence and management of this fuelling process. Thanks for your awesome videos 👍😊.

I was very impressed with the video when you say how much fuel that you have to load on to the loon it sounds like a lot of fuel but when you actually show the fuel trucks and how many of then you can truly understand the volume that she holds

I hope no one who works or cruises on the yacht ever preaches to the rest of us about climate change.

Its sounds as if fueling would be boring, but no it was not. Its amazing all the prep that had to be done. Then the fueling, the care and attention to details of the tankers and their cargo. Making sure no spillages yhe smooth filling of Loon's tanks. It was a well planned team operation and gives us all another side to what makes the glamour t that the guests will see and experience. No fuel no go. 😊

Excellent video Love it Keep them coming please. 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

Really amusing to see how antiquated the refuelling process is! We uplift this amount of gas twice a day into the aircraft; it’s fully automated and balances the tanks, no flags or special meetings or big values to manually adjust. Just a check of the flight plan and an instruction to the fueller who gets on with the job. We board passengers, load baggage. We typically load “a tonne per minute per hose”. Diesel is very similar to jet fuel

Love the videos❤️

That is quite the process. Thanks for sharing.

Excellent video. Thank you as always for posting

Wonder how many paper straws we have to use to offset all that fuel for ONE yacht...

Enjoyed this. Much like fueling a B-747 or any large jet. I am surprised that there is no filtration anywhere in this process. In aviation, any time fuel leaves one tank into another it is filtered. Flashlights into a tanker looking for contaminates,unless it is a dead cow, won’t cut it. Also, do you address the density of the fuel? That would affect volume into the tanks. Really look forward to more content into the operation of Loon. It’s definitely a complex machine. Thanks.

Quite a difference between fueling a vessel and dropping fuel into a storage tank like in a typical gas station. I run a Mobil station and the only checks and balances that occur are done by a TLS (Tank Level Sensor). If the system isn't operational or if the tank probes are out of calibration it's kind of "oh well". Use a wood tank stick and water paste to check for contamination! Yes, very different.

Really loved this video soo interesting! I really love how the video style is progressing I think you’ve nailed it !

That’s why I clicked your video. I wanted to know how much it costed to fuel that boat with 35,000+ gallons of fuel and you didn’t even say not cool.

One suggestion: The constant in and out playing of the music is totally unnecessary. Im not saying dont use music, but every minute you are not talking, doesnt mean play music... IMO

I hate to think how much that would cost. Nice to see the process, not like the smaller boats where you just go to a marina filling station. Cant wait to get underway for the crossing, feels like more of the crew will be onboard going back so should be a great time. Take care.

Thanks for sharing! Interesting information👍👍👍

Captain Paul looking for the change jar to pay for the fuel..

Wow! What a sexy looking Chief Engineer 😉

That's a lot of paperwork. My guess is that within 5 years and certainly 10 you'll be able to take a photo of it all and have it entered into software that has all the maintenance records. The tech already exists to make that happen and coming from an industry myself that went through a lot of automation I hope it does for you guys. Saves so much time that I can use on more productive things.

Seems like quite a lot work with fueltrucks. Normally we either get a bunkerboat to come, or go to a pier with a bunkerhose. Normally we get 300-500 m3, and are having a flowrate og 150 m3 when reciving, however we can carry up to 1400 m3 on a 85 meter vessel. Also quite oldschool with a manifoldbattery, compared to just having it all electronic ontrolled from ECR

I did some sounding last night 🤫

If you actually took 35,000 gallons... $131,250???

Years ago I worked for an oil company concerning the terminals where the trucks are filled for delivery to gas stations. The tanks emptied on gravity flow, so it was important that the gas station tanks could accept the full tank from a truck, otherwise there would be spills. I assume the overflow alarm system diverts any extra into another tank if I understood that part correctly.

Thank you for sharing!

You run on red ?

That's 35,000 gallons and each big tanker truck can hold around 7600 gallons each. The "No Smoking" sign makes me laugh because you couldn't light a bucket of diesel with a hot cherry from the tip of a cigar!!

Love these videos. Keep them coming. Fair seas!

Not sure I needed to know any of this ... but actually I did really enjoyed learning... once again great Video to the crew... #secretyacthbusiness 😊... Great seeing the behind the scenes

great video CPC and cost of fuel $452,200.00 USD

No person who owns a yacht should be allowed to talk about the global warming lie.

Wow, all that technology and to be accurate you check the fuel by dipping the tanks!

Very interesting and informative,, thanks for sharing,,😊

Great video very annoying music

Thanks for helping justify why we need much higher marginal tax rates.

I always like seeing this side of things, as well as all the lovely stews and the comfy pillows and whatnot. Does the boat feel or handle drastically differently when it's full of fuel? I imagine there must be at least a little bit of a difference with it sitting lower in the water?

Fascinating. Thank you.

If you’re in Florida you are getting gallons of fuel.

I saw a LOT of yachts the size of Loon (or lager) last time I was down in West Palm and Miami last year. One yacht had 2 helipads on it! Do all those yachts have to go through this long process of refueling? I thought the Marinas that handle super yachts had refueling stations that were less labor intensive than waiting on 6 different marine diesel trucks to show up? I know from going on cruises there are fuel barges that dock alongside for fueling. Well, I learned the proper term for refueling a yacht. Bunkering.

This was interesting, and the editing is much easier to enjoy. Thank you.

Just another silly question: How do you pay/paid the fuel? I am from Bavaria...there is no stop for you*hehe...and i dont know so much things from yachting. Why i am here, its so easy, its your Chef. I love how she is cooking and see the fun she have with it.

Another question- how much lower in the water does Loon sit when filled with fuel? How often do you bunker?

Just a question. When fueling the boat do you clean your fuel as it is going into the boat or do you have a system on board that cleans the fuel.

Wow! So cool to see the engineering behind it all!

Nice seeing this side of the operations.

What a process!

Fascinating…. Thanks for sharing.

Really enjoyed watching this video. There's something about seeing the "behind-the-scenes" of running a yacht such as Loon. I also find Alex really good at explaining what's going on. I wish they would also feature some of the other engineers, just so we know that Alex can get some down time! My guestimate for the fuel: right around $125k if they are paying around $3.50/US gallon.

Nice and interesting video, thanks for sharing!

Enjoyed that. Thanks all😊

Estimating $100k. One thing to note is the fuel is dyed red because it's for off road purposes only. If you were caught using it in a vehicle, the authorities can use it's estimated fuel economy and odometer reading to charge you road tax on every gallon its ever driven to cover the known tax evasion.

Amazing shots Steve!

Great video, beautiful boat, and looks like a great crew!

I saw something similar on Auckland waterfront a few years back. I think that was superyacht "A", and 5 trucks came and dropped their load over a couple of hours. I'm glad I wasn't paying that bill! :)

Captain Paul: 🤩🔥 & of course CO Tyler & David CE Alex: The man!! 🔥 All of the Engineers: we are all in awe 🔥 All of the Crew: Super 🔥 The Incredible Chefs (Nina brought me here and we all 🥰 Dean & the SousChefs: They are always 🔥 Steve: 🔥 stunning work, my guy! And I thank the entire Motor Yacht Team for bring us such an amazing bunch of incredible hard working & fabulously entertaining group of people!

My god, you guys earn every penny of your salary and then some. Very thorough and professional work. Thank you for the education.

This was one of my favorite videos, love all the tech things to learn! When testing fuel in tankers do you use some kind of testing device aside from just visual? Thanks again!

Amazing content learned a ton thanks Loon u have become my fav channel