Hell of a day! super yacht crisis - no crew!

What??

Are you telling me people aren't fancying being bossed around as some rich bloke's slave? /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
Just done a motoryacht skippers course at UKSA, cowes. The more I hear about superyacht industry (at which the course was aimed) the less I want anything to do with it.
Gonna give it a try next summer, just to make sure.
Rich mans slave sounds about right.
 
Would you, in a roundabout way, be suggesting that perhaps the way for the crew to have a more tranquil life, would be to chuck the bugger overboard? /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
No doubt there are many boats where there is a master-slave relationship and worse, but there are also plenty where the owner is truly interested in the boat rahter than upstairs-downstairsness, and there is a friendly and respectful relationship between crew and owners

I'd be interested to know what Whitefin has heard in UKSA, which by the way is staffed by very out-of-touch people with fingers miles away from the pulse (despite their bla bla claim to be training scentre for superyacht industry)
 
If I had my time again (ie. was 25yrs younger) I would love to be a deckhand, no responsibility and messing about cleaning a boat in the sun all day.............aagh heaven. /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif
 
Never too old!!
Wonder if my traing at the firefighting school at Excellent is still valid....it was a few years ago /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif
 
Yeah would agree with that - there was a few people who claim to have been in the Med but I only really took the word of 1 person who was a stewardess for 12 years, she gave a superb lecture about the industry, including all the issues you will face - drugs, women, owners, locations
 
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I would love to be a deckhand, no responsibility and messing about cleaning a boat in the sun all day.............aagh heaven.

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That can be arranged and you would not have to pay much for the honour /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
I'm gonna give it a bash next year. Lets face it, cleaning boats when there are 6ft blonde models strolling past, then lying about owning the boat later that night to try and pull them /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif there are worse jobs!
 
€2000-10000 per month tax free and you get to visit some of the most exotic destinations on earth whilst slumming it on a 200' luxury mobo and ogling the toppest totty around? Sure beats working in a dirty factory 9-5 for £1500 a month, half of which the govt takes. We're all slaves to somebody whether it's our boss, our customers or our SWMBO /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
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get to visit some of the most exotic destinations on earth whilst slumming it on a 200' luxury mobo and ogling the toppest totty around?

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Were do I sign................ /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
You dont even need to lie about owning the boat, and they'd know you're lying. The crew world is full of 20-something totty none of whom care that you don't own the boat. So you can have all the fun without lying :-)
 
Yeah that's what happens in terms of those stories being remebered. There ARE owners who make their captians (loaded up with cash) go ashore and get them drugs and women. There's one large boat which I could name (now sold to a decent owner) which I've been on (not as crew) whose first US owner was well know for bringing underage girls back to the boat, urgh. And these stories get told and remembered. But they are not the whole story at all. There are loads of big boats whose owners are nice people, respectful to the crew, and the crew still have a great time among the tons of top totty mentioned elsewhere in this thread! Likewise one of the big boats (I could name it but wont, for crew tax reasons!) came in from a big highrolling 2 week charter in summer 2005 and each one of the crew got a €18000 tip!
 
We berthed in Ibiza town a couple of years back and we got into the habit of strolling down the superyacht quay just to watch the nightly ritual on some boats whereby a gaggle of girls would hang around the quay and it would be the captain's job to stand on the passarelle and pick out the ones that he knew would suit the owner's taste (and the crew I guess). SWMBO was ever hopeful but failed /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
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