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Ahoy There! As 2024 rounds to a close, we’d like to take a moment to run you through ahoy crew founding year. We kicked off 2024 with a bang on the 1st of January as we launched ourselves into the sea of yacht recruitment. Ahoy International was born, spearheading it...

Ahoy! We have some exciting news to share with you, our Ambassador Programme! At Ahoy we are dedicated to the recruitment of crew for yachts, providing them with not just any crew member but the perfect match. Henceforth, we developed our ambassador programme to...

Ahoy! Are you considering a change of Yacht? The number one thing yachts look for on a CV is longevity. When considering the decision to move on, it’s important to consider your career, as lack of longevity can be damaging. If you have lots of short periods of time...

As a lot of the industry prepares to cross the Atlantic to the Caribbean, I can’t help but notice the missing piece of the puzzle… experienced crew member’s looking positions. Of course, experienced crew rarely “Look for work” it finds them, but the number of...

In a world where Artificial Intelligence is integrated into almost everything we do. Does AI have a place in your CV? Recently at Ahoy crew we have seen many CVs come across our desk, which seem to be altered or completely made by Ai. Your CV is the only thing that...

Today we are going to touch a very delicate topic, and that is the existing practice of employers to check on your crew private social networks profiles. Indeed, one would say “my social profile is my private life, and the employer has nothing to do on it, neither to...

It won’t be an exaggeration to say “when you’re not working you are networking” about how one builds career in the yachting industry. At the beginning of your career, it’ll be meeting people by dock walking, trying to impress the chief officer by handing in your CV...

A long-standing tradition in yachting, right from the early days of luxury yachts couples have worked together to run a yacht for the owner. This was very popular in the less than 100ft range and tends to be more on sail yachts. Often these yachts are run with one or...

And what makes a manager agree on an asked salary. Crew salary is by far the most polarising topic, on which wishes and expectation both sides of the employment relationship cannot go more further apart: the Employers want to stay efficient, to say it politely, on the...

Dearest Yachtie’s… Recently, I’ve seen a lot of recruiters, brokers and yacht managers talking about crew retention. They mention all the things crew want and need, never stating though any statistics or numbers how common incentives to stay are. One of the main...