Q: Anonymous, Stewardess, 25: “I’m having a major moral issue with my job. My crew are great, the Captain’s a decent guy, the yacht has a brilliant itinerary and the pay is really good. I love my chief stew…
Q: Anonymous, Chef, 26: “I’m in the Caribbean, we’ve got time off coming up and I know I should feel lucky, but I’m completely miserable. The crew on my boat leave me out of everything, even after we drop…
Q: Jack, 27, New Deckhand: “I’m joining the yachting industry as someone who’s just come from the corporate world, and I’m wondering how job interviews in yachting differ from land-based interviews. Are there any radically different things I should…
Q: Sally, 24, Aspiring Stewardess: “This is the third year that I’ve almost come to Antibes to launch my yachting career. Last year I even got as far as booking my flights, but as the day got closer and…
Q: Anonymous, Chief Stewardess, 34: “It’s mid Caribbean season, and I’m getting more and more negative. It happens each season about this time, even though I go into each season promising myself I’ll think about all the positives and…
Q: Aaron, First Mate, 35: “2016 was a terrible year for me. I had lots of goals, the biggest of which was moving up to Captain, but none of it went the way I planned. The boat I was…
YotHop – The industry leading job board and social platform have teamed up with The Boatshed International to harness their bespoke yacht brokerage platform and provide a unique brokerage service, that sells your boat faster by utilizing and incentivizing…
Q: Greg, Deckhand, 26: “I recently caught up with some friends who I did my STCW with years back, and realised they’ve all progressed much further up the yachting career ladder than me. After nearly four years, I’m still…
Q: Sara, Chief Stewardess 38: “I have a bit of an odd one for you, it might seem like a silly question but one of my young stews has been having some relationship problems lately and she keeps trying…
As you may know, YotHop was built with the aim to put the salary budget back in the crews pocket. We've spoken to a number of you and found that many are paying high bank charges and exchanging salaries…
