Permanent and Rotational Crew
Captains, mates, engineers, deckhands, chefs, stewardesses and sole crew for privately used yachts, placed on year-round or rotational terms. These searches take time because the fit matters more than the certificate: a family boat with children needs a different person from an owner who races. We interview at length, present a short list with honest reservations, and stay in contact through the first three months to catch problems while they are still small.
Seasonal Charter Teams
Complete crews assembled for a charter season, recruited as a group rather than as individuals because personalities on a small boat matter more than any single résumé. We plan the season from January, verify everybody's documentation before contracts are signed, arrange arrival logistics and hold reserve candidates for each role. Fleets running several vessels get a single point of contact who knows every boat and every rotation date.
Day Work and Emergency Cover
Vetted people available at a few hours' notice for illness, injury, a sudden departure or an unexpectedly busy week — deckhands for a wash-down before guests arrive, a relief engineer for a yard period, an extra stewardess for a turnaround. Everyone in the day pool has been verified and referenced exactly like a permanent candidate, so short notice never means unknown quantity, and hourly rates are agreed in advance.
Workboats, Schools and Commercial Vessels
Crew for sailing schools, dive boats, passenger day boats, survey vessels, pilot launches and small commercial craft, where the certification requirements differ sharply from private yachting and the wrong ticket makes a hire useless. We know which endorsements each role and flag actually demands, and we recruit instructors and skippers who can handle passengers as well as the vessel — a combination that is rarer than it should be.
Career Guidance for Crew
Free advice for people entering the industry or trying to move up: which courses are genuinely required rather than merely sold, how to present sea time, what a realistic first season looks like and which promises in a job description should worry you. We review documentation, rewrite unhelpful résumés and tell people honestly when they are not yet ready for the role they want. Registration for candidates is free and always will be.
Crew Management for Fleets
For owners and management companies running several vessels we take on the whole crewing function: employment agreements, payroll, insurance, certificate expiry tracking, rotation planning, appraisals and the succession of people moving up between boats. It removes an administrative burden that otherwise falls on captains who would rather be running the vessel, and it means a departure in August is covered from within the fleet rather than from a cold search.
