Colton Yacht Crew

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Colton Yacht Crew

Super Yacht Recruitment We specialize in providing a personalized, high-quality recruitment service, tailored to the unique needs of both yachts and crew.

Colton Yacht Crew is a boutique yacht recruitment agency, owned and operated by Jenny Colton, who brings over 15 years’ experience working as a crewmember in the maritime industry. Our agency prioritizes building long-term relationships, working exclusively with clients and yachts that understand the importance of crew well-being, mental health, and overall satisfaction. We are dedicated to findin

g quality matches over quantity placements, investing time to fully understand our clients' needs, programs, and cultures. We also invest time in getting to know our crew, understanding their aspirations and preferences. This personalized approach ensures we match the right crew to the right yacht, and we pride ourselves in finding crew that will fit in with exciting teams. Understanding the value of your time, dealing with recruitment onboard is limited, let us handle your recruitment with precision and passion, so you can focus on running your yacht with a happy, healthy, and well-supported crew. Whether you are a yacht owner, yacht manager or captain seeking a reliable team or a crew member looking for your ideal role, we offer unmatched expertise, integrity, and a dedication to building strong, lasting professional relationships. At Colton Yacht Crew, discretion, trust and loyalty are at the heart of everything we do, ensuring each placement is seamless and harmonious.

04/09/2026

Ever wondered what it actually takes to land a helicopter on a superyacht?

It’s not just a flat space on the deck for sunrise workouts. The yacht needs not only a helipad-shaped area, with markings, load ratings and fire cover... but also a trained Helicopter Landing Officer, Landing Assistants and a well-drilled crew. The HLO, usually a senior deck or bridge crew member, runs the deck through the whole approach. FOD checks, wind, swell, deck movement and personnel all have to be accounted for. The call to land always sits with the captain and pilot, not the guest. Everyone on deck knows their position before the rotors are even in sight.

Thirty seconds of footage doesn’t do justice to the hours of careful planning and procedure that go into making every landing and take-off as safe as possible.

How many of you have been involved in a helicopter landing onboard? What’s the best piece of advice you’d give crew doing this for the first time? Let us know below 👇

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03/09/2026

Experience doesn't get you rehired. Trust does.

Every season, captains and chief stews quietly build a mental list of who they'd take on again. It's rarely the most qualified person on paper.

It tends to come down to a few things:

Reliability. Turning up on time, every time.
Communication. Flagging a problem early, not after it's grown.
Discretion. What happens on charter stays on charter.
Adaptability. Handling a changed itinerary, or a changed mind, without a fuss.

None of that shows up on a CV. It shows up in whether you get asked back for a second season.

Which of these would you say matters most in your department? Let us know below.

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31/08/2026

💫 SENIOR HK STEW | 85M+ PRIVATE MOTOR YACHT ⚓

We're looking for an experienced Senior Housekeeping Steward/ess to join a well-established, high-profile 85m+ private MY on a dual MED/Caribbean season. A brilliant role for someone who takes real pride in their craft and thrives in a professional, drama-free environment.

🔹 Permanent Position
🔹 85m+ Private Motor Yacht
🔹 Dual Season MED/Caribbean
🔹 60 Days Leave
🔹 Annual Bonus Programme
🔹 Discretionary Training Budget
🔹 Medical Insurance
🔹 Salary DOE

📌 Requirements:
✔ STCW, ENG1, PDSD & Food Hygiene Level 2
✔ 2-3 years' Senior HK experience on 75m+ MY (or lower HK role on larger vessels)
✔ Must be based in and able to repatriate to the EU/Schengen area
✔ Excellent eye for detail, strong communicator
✔ Proven longevity & verifiable references
✔ No smokers

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Link in bio | Job ID #4132565

29/08/2026

Monaco Yacht Show is a few weeks out, and if you're crew, it's worth treating as more than a spectator event.

This year's show runs 23-26 September, with over 560 exhibitors and 120 superyachts on display in Port Hercule. There's a dedicated Captains & Crew Lounge built specifically for the industry's working side, not just buyers and brokers.

If you're between contracts or actively looking, this is exactly the kind of event where the networking advice from earlier this month actually pays off: show up prepared, know who you want to talk to, and follow up properly afterwards.

Worth planning around if you'll be in the South of France that week.

Let us know who's attending!

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27/08/2026

The next generation of yacht owners doesn't look like the last one, and that's changing what crew are expected to deliver.

More younger owners. More first-time female owners. Less focus on status for its own sake, more focus on genuine experiences, exploration, and time spent actually using the yacht rather than just owning one.

For crew, that often means a shift in what "good service" looks like. Less formal, more personal. Less about ceremony, more about anticipating what this specific owner or guest actually wants, which isn't always the traditional playbook.

The crew who adapt fastest to this shift tend to be the ones building the most interesting careers right now.

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25/08/2026

Nobody hands you a rulebook, but somehow everyone learns the unwritten rules of yacht life pretty quickly… 😅

The little bits of crew etiquette that make living and working onboard that much easier:

☕ Finish the coffee? Fill the beans.
Future crew-mess you will be grateful.

🧺 Give interior your laundry on time.
Tomorrow's charter uniform is much easier to wash before tomorrow morning.

🚪 Cabin door ajar? Always knock.
A little privacy goes a long way when you live where you work.

📻 Keep radio chat short and sweet.
Clear, calm, concise... particularly when things get busy.

🥡 Label your crew-fridge treasures.
And if it's not yours, refrain.

🧹 Use the last of something? Replace it — or tell someone who can.
Coffee, milk, bin bags, cleaning supplies… it's the small things.

🍽️ Leave the crew mess as you'd like to find it.
It's everyone's happy place, after all.

🤝 Finished while someone else is still flat out? Offer a hand.
It might not be your department, but you're all on the same boat. Literally.

🤫 And what happens in the crew mess…
Well, some things are probably best left in the crew mess.

None of these are particularly groundbreaking. But put them all together and they're often the difference between simply sharing a boat and being a genuinely good crew to live and work with.

Do you agree? Let us know the unwritten crew etiquette you value onboard.👇

23/08/2026

Some quiet but significant changes to yacht regulation are shaping 2026.

Malta, one of the most widely used flags in the industry, is now in its first full year under a revised Commercial Yacht Code, covering updated design, safety, manning and crew welfare standards.

The EU's new anti-money-laundering regulation is on a different timeline. It doesn't actually apply until July 2027, but 2025 and 2026 are the run-up window, brokers, managers and ownership structures are expected to have KYC and source-of-funds documentation ready well before enforcement lands.

Neither of these makes headlines the way a new build launch does, but they shape the operating environment crew and owners work within, particularly around compliance, documentation, and how ownership structures are reported.

Which of you are on Malta-flagged vessels? Curious how much of this has actually filtered down to crew level so far.

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20/08/2026

Yachts are going hybrid, and it's changing what "Engineer" actually means.

Hybrid and hydrogen propulsion, once concept-boat territory, are now genuinely on the water. Feadship's BREAKTHROUGH runs on a 3.2MW hydrogen fuel cell system. Lürssen's Nausicaä (built as Project COSMOS) carries a methanol fuel cell for extended range. Silent Yachts and GX Superyachts are proving solar-electric and hybrid explorer builds can hold their own against anything diesel.

AI is moving just as fast. Sirena Yachts has rolled out voice-controlled systems built with Garmin. Rossinavi's SEAWOLF X uses an onboard AI to manage energy and navigation in real time, enough to run some transatlantic crossings almost entirely on battery.

For engineering crew, that tends to mean less time on traditional mechanical troubleshooting and more time understanding complex integrated systems. For interior teams, it can mean smarter automation handling some of the repetitive tasks, freeing up more time for actual guest service.

It's not about certificates becoming less important. It's about which certificates, and which additional skills, are becoming more valuable.

Worth thinking about if you're planning where to specialise next.

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18/08/2026

If only every Tuesday looked like this...

Anchored off a reef barely marked on the charts, tender down, a sandbar that won’t look the same by next season’s tide.

This is the side of yachting that never quite makes it into a job description: remote anchorages, unimaginably clear waters, days that don’t feel like work even when they are.

Destinations like these are genuinely one of the best parts of the job.

📍Indonesia

Let us know your favourite off-the-beaten-track anchorages?

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16/08/2026

This is what's got the whole industry talking this summer.

Lürssen's Project Cosmos, an explorer-style superyacht designed by Marc Newson, has just launched, and it's unlike anything else currently on the market.
Bold, unconventional, built for genuine exploration rather than just cruising between anchorages.

Yachts like this are exactly why crew fall in love with this industry in the first place. Every generation of build pushes the definition of what a yacht can actually do, and the crew who get to work on board are part of that story too.

Keep an eye on this one. We think it's going to shape a lot of conversations about where explorer-style yachting goes next.

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