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

[mjf]

see here
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7450985.stm

[B175Chris]

What??

Are you telling me people aren't fancying being bossed around as some rich bloke's slave? [img]/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

[jfm]

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)

[itsonlymoney]

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. [img]/forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img]

[Sneds]

Me to!
Am I to old at 45?

[Greg2]

Never too old!!
Wonder if my traing at the firefighting school at Excellent is still valid....it was a few years ago [img]/forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

[Gludy]

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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 [img]/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] [img]/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] [img]/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[jointventureII]

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 [img]/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] there are worse jobs!

[Gludy]

I know some delivery crews that do just that and manage to pull in some very nice women - they seem to have an amazing time.

[jfm]

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 :-)