Finding a yacht crew is one of the responsibilities of a yacht manager or yacht management company and not an easy job to match a crew with a yacht. The wrong crew can reduce the pleasure of yachting easily, especially the wrong captain can finish the journey. So not by order, but the most important traits when choosing crew are; legal competence, experience, and personality.
Before listing the websites for finding yacht crew, let’s categorize the jobs to see the work structure of yacht crew. There are four main areas for yacht crew:
- Deck (including Bridge) ( Captain, Chief Officer, 2nd Officer, 3rd Officer, Security Officer, Mate, Bosun, Lead Deckhand, Junior Deckhand, Carpenter)
- Engineering Chief Engineer, Second / Third Engineer, Motorman, ETO / AV/IT Officer, Electrician
- Interior Purser, Chief Steward(ess), Interior Manager, Head of Servicer, Head Housekeeper, Spa Manager, Steward(ess), 2nd Steward(ess), Service Steward(ess), housekeeping Steward(ess)
Laundry Steward(ess), Sole Steward(ess), Junior Steward(ess), Butler, Stew/Deck - Galley Head Chef, Sous Chef, Crew Chef, Cook, Sole Chef, Stew / Cook
Also, the other common crew can be Beautician, Hairdresser, Massage Therapist, Nurse, Dive Instructor
The need for the crew is growing and this job segment becoming more international and many specified websites exist for this purpose. Below you will find the list of online platforms for finding yacht crew for both amateur and professional yacht crewing positions worldwide, from day sailing to trans ocean including all experience levels.
Some of them are:
- Database for ocean sailors and offshore captains; Ocean Crew Link
- One of the largest online Boat & Crew network; Find a crew
- One of the largest online crewing platform Crewby
- Independent platform run buy sailors; Crew seekers
- One more global jobs onboard; Yotspot
- For paid jobs and also voluntary jobs at yachts; Oceannomads
You can log in, post a job list and try to find the right person. Also, there are networks of the crew on Facebook and this is a good option in the search for the right candidate. For example, Worldwide yacht crew jobs is a Facebook group with 15.000 members.
After finding the crew, you should keep them in your database for next occasions. FOMCS yacht management software gives you the opportunity to archive and keep in contact with the crew easily. Even you can put your remarks and keep specified traits such as special talents, success records, eating habits, smoking, personality etc. FOMCS crew forms are created to make crew management easy and organized.
Also Fomcs management software helps you to keep all documents, licenses, certificates of each crew and reminds you – warning about expiration dates (by email or on dashboard need your attention or on calendar event). Also keeping the booking calendar card if is not a permanent crew on a yacht.
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