by Natalie | Oct 5, 2020 | Crew Life-1
These four words used to haunt me when someone said them to me because you immediately knew that it wasn’t okay. After a busy summer on a relatively neglected, older boat with questionable initial build quality, I now find myself uttering these very same words as I...
by Natalie | Sep 23, 2020 | Crew Life-1
I wrote an article for OnboardOnline back in 2015 discussing the extent of sexual harassment in the superyacht industry, but how has this changed five years on? The superyacht fleet has more than doubled in the last 10 years, with nearly 5,000 yachts...
by Natalie | Sep 14, 2020 | Crew Life-1
The human brain is a wonderful thing. It has to deal with enormous amounts of data and information in seconds and make thousands of decisions every day. To help us manage all those decisions, our brain has constructed short cuts which mean that we don’t have to...
by Natalie | Sep 8, 2020 | Crew Life-1
News travels quick. Maybe it’s because we live in an age of the creating and sharing information that we are hearing of more and more fires on board yachts. Just last month, we saw a 65ft Sunseeker engulfed in flames at the fuel dock at Valentines Marina in Harbour...
by Natalie | Aug 20, 2020 | Crew Life-1
At the time of writing pretty much all my client’s yachts are doing different things. One is sitting in a marina in Greece with the captain on board and the owners stuck at home. Another is in full charter modus. Then we have a yacht that is still under its...
by Natalie | Aug 13, 2020 | Crew Life-1
A controversial subject that rears its head every summer, is that concerning the use of personal watercraft (PW), or ‘jet skis’ are they are commonly referred to. To use the term ‘jet ski’ is akin to using ‘Hoover’ as the verb for vacuuming when the manufacturer’s...
