On Wed, 05 Oct 2005 08:25:13 -0700, chuckgould.chuck wrote:

How many deck crew or cook/housekeeper hands did you interview to
arrive at your conclusion that these entry level jobs typically pay
$36,000 a year plus "huge tips"? It is my impression that would be on
the high side for a grunt, but in exchange for that or likely less the
crew person will be living aboard with one single bunk, maybe 2
drawers, and half a small locker to stow all their worldly posessions.
Large areas of the yacht will be "off limits" to the crewperson, unless
functioning in their capacity as a water-borne servant.

It's less on sailboats, but $3,000 is reasonable for a stewardess or
deckhand on a super yacht, say in South Florida or the Caribbean. Tips
can be huge when chartering. I didn't say it was paradise though.


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