Do SuperYacht Crew Burn out? | Q&A9 

I own an av company that does Crestron and Savant systems and you did a great job with explaining how an AV system is updated!!! Good job. Love the vlogs!!

Thanks for another great Q&A. Appreciate they way you're not dismissive about topics you might think are obvious; rather, you take time to explain answers with patience and respect. Also appreciate the b-roll footage to break things up a little. Well done.

Loved the video and the effort put in to the video, by adding timelines of what topic you speak about. Great video, as always!

You make all your videos fun to watch and a joy to learn. Thank you for putting in the time!

I'm never disappointed watching these videos. Great quality and very informative. Two thumbs way up 👍🏽👍🏽

Awesome video, as always! The road trip was fun to watch, too.

When you do the q&a's they're always informative.

Funny how you talked about all your expenses being covered to & from home & also super yachts refueling @ sea… yet I still remember someone running out of fuel not to long ago 🤔🙄😜 cheers 🥃🍻 keep up the great videos 🇨🇦

Thrilled to have discovered your channel. I spent my younger years working the docks on Lake Michigan. For a period of time an older gent had a 93’ Broward there that he ran alone quite often. Granted, the same dock, rarely traveled other places but regardless ran the boat alone. He brought it back from Nassau with 3 crew ( a trip i was invited to join and to my eternal regret turned down). Love following the industry and I’m in awe of the incredible craftsmanship and all that goes into making these yachts as incredible as they are. Keep up the good work.

Enjoyed your trip and this Q & A immensely. Thanks so much

Great video as usual. Very informative thanks for taking the time to knock out a few questions.

While the boat I was on was not a Super Yacht, we had a great fuel system. In the morning we transfer an estimate of what is needed for the day, run it through the fuel polishing system. From there it went into the day tank. The polishing system really works when you get fuel from places that might have dodgy fuel. With a total of 5000 gallons we could quite a few days chasing marlin and tuna. Great site, your are one of the few that, can explain boats and systems that keep them going. On anchor having crew that can keep watch to make sure the anchor is not dragging.

Excellent and Informative as always! Thank You!

I like how knowledgeable you are on so many different subjects. Thanks for what you do.

Hello from Vancouver 🇨🇦 I just found your channel due to war in Ukraine. I’m very impressed with your knowledge about everything under the sun. Answering questions in this video regarding AV equipment was spot on. I’m a retired tech and I really am interested in electronics on large vessels. Thanks for you time and effort you put into each video.

Another excellent video! Thanks my friend

VERY good & informative video. Thank you.

Brilliant thanks for sharing these insights. Very very interesting. It’s no wonder the insane cost of operating these boats when you start taking in to account all of the costs. It’s like the modern day equivalent of running a palace!

Thx for Q&A...u r very knowledgeable ...good luck with your new Porsche...

Already saw your new car absolutely beautiful looking forward to seeing it unwrapped anyhow as always this video was very informative, thank you

Another great video with quality information. 👏👏👏

Lots of very interesting information. Great video. 👍👍

Great video love watching. Looking forward to seeing the car after its detailed.

Awesome content! I love hearing about the electronics inside super yachts!

Excellent Q&A session... Love your new car that you highlighted on your other channel. Both of your channels are fantastic.

If you change the timestamp for "Intro" in the description from 0:05 to 0:00, it will show the time stamps imbedded within the slide bar.

Last answer was informative as hell. Thanks a lot for that. I need a refit for installation I’m working on ( not on boat), but you give me a very nice prospect for that.

I love the blank expressions in the picture frames ! Great Q&A, I like these the best !! Stay Safe !!

Great video mate well done, and great info 👍👍

Loved this vlog, thank you

This Q&A was great, thanks.

Love these videos!

frames are back in frame 🤣👌

Very informative. thx!

Excellent Info. Especially about the yacht size in relation to crew or not a crew. As I'm currently looking at Sunseeker 105's. Very helpful!! 👍👍

You are very informative! Thanks.

I was at anchor opposite Eclipse yesterday and this morning off Antibes… a stunning piece of metal - looks like a destroyer!

THANKS for a FASCINATING q&a!

Love your vlog, very interesting, love the new car,

This was very interesting thanks

Thank you for sharing.

Your road tripping skills are amazing. I've driven 1650 km in one day, exactly once in my lifetime...never again!!

Now that is what I want to do...live on the yacht full time with family and travel the world 🤗

New to the channel, but I’ve really enjoyed how informative your videos are! Thanks! A few questions if I may ask: As solar panels become more and more efficient in their energy output capabilities, do you feel there’s a possibility for hybrid or even fully solar powered yachts in the near future? When an owner sells a super yacht, does the new owner buy out the contracts of the crew or do they generally start from scratch and hire all new people? Thanks for all the great content!

Great Job, per usual!

Interesting as always. Did take a look at your Spider, v.nice. Can understand the thinking on the exhaust (noise regs) I’m sure you’ll be careful and buy a valved - would be a shame to remove prospect of occasionally driving it to Genoa in the summer etc. Thanks for a good channel

I will never own or be on board a superyacht, yet I find your videos strangely alluring, i guess it is the pedagogical approach that appeals to me.

fantastic channel. congrats on new car. you earned it.

very interesting, thank you.

A great video. In my case, our A/v is quite simple. I have a 1985 Birchwood 33 (that's feet not metres :) ) It came with a single cassette player !!!! but speakers had been run to each cabin and the pilothouse. The TV was a standalone but flat screen.

Excellent question.

again thank you for a great video

Very interesting. You did well :)

Complements on the excellent info and the great Porsche shirts you often wear.

Interesting , Thank You

Same thing with brand new aircraft, there is a period of the first few flight hours where you will have to conduct maintenance here and there. Back when I was flying corporate jets, I lost an engine due to oil pressure on the first month of operations. Of course, since everything was under warranty it was replaced for another brand new engine but as you can imagine, it took some convincing so that the owner would climb aboard again.

Hello, I have been enjoying your channel but have not picked up on what "your" current job is on a super yacht. Thanks for the learning experience of a subject that I will never be a part of. Keep up the great work!

Captain Christian, I have had looked at your industry as a Licensed Mariner and I found it would be a lot harder than working the commercial side. Too many moving parts with Owner and crew. So, Salute to you Sir. Having said that, I really enjoy the banter.

Thanks again for an informative video. We all wonder how these owners live. It’s amazing the life you can have with lots of cash. I love boating and could only imagine how cool it would be to have a large yacht.

Excellent presentation.

Great video! I'm curious, in your opinion who makes the best electronics. Also Galley equipment. I really liked this vid. Love that new ride.

Cancel my question I asked 20 minutes ago!! I have just seen an episode of yours and you answered that very question. Cheers!

The legendary pictureless frames return!

Good show!

I know a family who crews their own 88 foot Sunseeker and enjoys it on weekends

From Porsche 2 Super Yachts...Good day of watching RU-vid👍👍

Great presentation as always. sorry to hear about your car that sounds like the kind of luck I have and if it’s going to happen to somebody it’s probably going to happen to me first sort of the way my luck runs

My thumbs up is based on media systems. As an old fart inventing the base capability, glad you all sort the new stuff.

Do you often get patrolled ? If yes, when and where and by whom (customs, police, marine police, …) ? Also, what do they usually search for ? Thanks for all your content ! You got me hooked and since I discovered your channel I took my boating license ;)

Questions for the next Q&A: 1. when in port in exotic locations and the boss isn't around, do you get to go visit a bit the place? also, do you ever sail on large sailboats? Like SY Adele?

Love your videos...I’m interested in knowing more about who manages the HR on a yacht. So like who do you report to? Who hires you and how does HR generally work in the industry?

I’d love to see a tour of the engine room of a super yacht.

Good video!!!

Nice to see a RU-vidr to know how to hang pictures. Most do not.

great info! love the super yachts. still dreaming. how long does it take to clean a super yacht say after a voyage with some guests. of course guestimate on an avg from your experience. do owners interact with with the crew much or usually they just have someone else handle the interaction say like a executive secretary?

Hi. Great channel! Question for your next Q&A:- When you know the owner will be off ship for a long time do the crew sleep in the luxury cabins? Thanks in advance

How often does customs search or inspect your vessel?

Thank you for your candid feedback. Did you ever have experience with other control systems eg KRAMER, ELAN, EXTRON, among others? How much is the home automation space influencing newer vessels tech decisions? Home Assistant, Alexa, Siri...

That's a sweet Porsche, Congrats.

Anchor breakage? Who is responsible in your example? Great story.

Heya E! I see a lot of the smaller yachts (70' and below) and the coastal cruiser type MYs have crew quarters, but with only one or two crew bunks. What crew would be the norm for smaller vessels like this? Do crew fill several roles in these cases and, with so few bunks, do they hot-bunk or something?

Luna is such a gorgeous boat! 😍

Another great video Q&A. Have you encountered owners or guests frolicking naked or topless aboard? Any owners have reputations that crew try to avoid?

Since you drive home when off work, do they pay for your fuel, tolls, hotel, and ware and tear? And how about for storing your car in/near the port?

didn't realise you know Tristan, that makes me happy.

Enjoyed all your vids, thx‼️ Just a simple question for your next Q/A vid: When a superyacht is sold (2nd-hand), does the crew usually stay with it to serve the new owner❓Thanks for answering in advance 🙏🏻

I just discovered your channel and truly love it. Thanks for all your hard work. I have a couple of odd ball questions. #1 Assuming the Yacht is registered in the Cayman's would it be legal to hire sex workers as crew? I know they would have to have the STCW and G.U.E.S.T training, not sure of other certs needed.(I said they were odd ball questions) If yes would they be legal to work in the Bahama's, the Med, and the Caribbean? #2 how bad are mosquitos on deck in the Bahamas and the Med? #3 If an owner had their own satellites would this improve their internet capabilities or is the system proprietary for yachts? (Not sure if the Crestron system only works with specific providers.) Thanks again for all the vids. Very well done and down to earth.

Have you gone on the inland waterways on any of the superyachts you have worked on? Do you know if others regularly do? Rhine, Donau, Kiel canal etc.

as a long term yacht crew member U see things differently than yacht designers & owners so how would U design U're perfect yacht 1 version purely from U're perspective 2 with still in mind that the owner comes first ^^

Before she burned and sank off Florida, I was a Crewmember on "Defiance" ( Malcolm Forbes's Highlander III , before Roy Cohn bought it ) . He rarely Chartered the Boat out, but when he did, we fed the guests, and the Crew ate the same food the owner and Charter guests did. I can't imagine that practice continues today, or am I wrong ?

Absolutely dig your channel. Both actually. Just did a small pun on you the other day, but you take it like a friend. Sure you survive. Sorry about that.

Really enjoying this "new" view of the world of super yachts,😲 your interests, your lifestyle dedicated to this employment and your stories you have and over the decades in this industry. It really is quite fascinating! I will never be a billionaire though....😉🇨🇦🍁 I have subscribed to your channel and look forward to more especially the ones that relate to support to the Ukraine people. Please, the war needs to stop asap!😔😥

Two crew questions, do large yachts employ green crew or just those with proven records. Also is it possible for a deckhand on a >3000 gt yacht to do their cadetship on a yacht or do they need to go the merchant navy and qualify on tankers, cruise liners etc.

Love the shirt

Many large yachts are owned by people who made their money in some unrelated field so they don’t necessarily know how to run large boats. In some cases they’ve bought the boats used and they have not been maintained in perfect condition. And then also they figure they’ll cut themselves a discount and under-crew the boat while also under-paying what little crew they are willing to hire. As I told the owner’s daughter, the boat manager, of the Feadship I was the mate on, who threatened to fire me for complaining about the incompetent captain they’d hired, “I’m an AB unlimited in the SIU union and anytime I’m hard up I can get a prepaid airline ticket left at the nearest airport if I’m willing to ship out through the SMU union with the military sealift command just by dialing 1-800-SEA-CREW and by the way, they have unlimited overtime, pay better, and pay everyone’s hospitalization whether or not they’re new hire.” These yacht owning clowns had a broken radar and an auto-pilot that couldn’t be used without removing the steering wheel. Then also their safety equipment was crap, they didn’t have a satellite telephone, and they didn’t even have a fire axe to leave next to the towline in the event that we needed to get towed. They had me doing the cooking because as a canoe tripping guide I used to feed the kids by heating up freeze dried rations we bought from the Canadian company Gumperts. Fortunately for them my mother taught me to cook but their captain didn’t know how to navigate, which I could determine being a former QM2/SS in nuclear submarines, or in other words the watchstanding navigator. He also had never had a gun in his hands in spite of the fact that they wanted to cross the Gulf of Mexico to go visit the Yucatán Peninsula. The one time we transited from Tampa Bay to the Fort Walton Beach area in the panhandle of Florida we were nearly boarded by the Coast Guard. The captain told me that “the owner doesn’t like guns”. I left after 4 months and went back to crewing on freighters. One of the stupid guests remarked to me “I’ll bet you’ve never been on such a big boat!”. I had to explain to her that I was a merchant seaman and that my last “boat” had been a 900 foot LASH ship hauling ammunition for any possible invasion of the Middle East, an invasion which did in fast occur and for which I received a medal. Then the owners college room-mate from some shitty open admissions state university insisted upon calling me “Betty Crocker” since I had to cook in addition to standing wheel house watches. As they say in merchant marine passengers are “cargo that complains”. So no thanks.

I enjoy the channel

Love your channel...how can we aplly for a security agent position in a yacht?

I don't know how you can read out some of these questions and keep a straight face, I would be in stitches, there are some really daft people on this planet, or they just don't think about what they are actually asking. Hat of to you for keeping the stiff upper lip, old chap 😃😊

I love the new car and the "old" one too. What made you chose that over the M2CS?

Hey man, love the content. I live in Michigan, USA, so I'm surrounded by pretty huge fresh water on all sides. I've sailed 4 of the 5 Great Lakes quite a bit and am more a fan of the smaller sailboat sailing. I know the Great Lakes are nothing compared to the open ocean but I 'm curious what are your thoughts on the skeleton crews making huge oceanic passages in 20 or 30ish foot sailboats that rely heavily on the winds? Would this be something you'd consider trying out as a SuperYacht fella?