Living the Dream Get Job on a Yacht.

If you like boats and the sea try to have a job on a yacht as a crew even if you don’t have any experience! You can make good money doing this. As a start you can get a deckhand or a stewardess job with no experience on some yachts if you’re willing to listen and learn, take some courses and training such as STCW95, silver service or attend the Chapman school of seamanship etc.

This can help you get a job faster and as you gain experience while working hard you can advance even to a captain one day if you will take the necessary training and courses in due time. So if you are a young guy or gal starting early in the mega yacht industry and with any luck and know how you will run a mega yacht, or be engineer, first mate, purser, chef, or chief stewardess one day.

Crew earn great salaries and get perks like full board and food, annual paid leave, insurance, tips and bonuses. In 2008 there were 25 km or 15 miles of new yacht over 80 ft under construction throughout the world. It’s estimated that 5,000 new crew will be required to fill these positions. If you like to earn good money travel the world and have fun while you doing this look for a crew job on a mega yacht. I have many friends that did that. To find jobs on yachts for beginner or experience crew with no fees click here http://www.yachtinginsider.com/nav15.html

Nautical Saying and Rhymes.

We all heard these nautical saying that help us remember weather warnings,the rules of the road and superstitious, sailors, seaman's, fisherman's, and boaters, all use them, here are the first 10 more to come... Brought to you by:http://www.yachtinginsider.com/insider1.html

1. Red Sky at night... Sailors delight.

2.Red Sky in the morning... Sailors take warning.

3.Red over green... Sailing machine.

4.Red over white... Fishing at night.

5.Red right return...navigational aids

6.White over red... Pilot ahead.

7.Be true to me... Find compass variation.

8.West is best...Find compass variation.

9.East is least...Find compass variation.

10.Friday sail always fail.... ?
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Trip To Bimini Images.

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Our 2008 Trips Images.

2008 was a very busy year for us.
We visited the Bahamas six times and we also visited Israel.
Here are some of the images we took and we are sharing them with you.

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Piracy On The High Seas

Piracy is back in a big way off the coast of Somalia and in the Gulf of Aden as you see in the news almost everyday.

Most of the attacks are on big cargo ships and oil tankers
However Recently there was an attack on the PONANT: an 850 ton three masted French yacht that was sailing back to the Med from the Seychelles with a crew of 30.
French commandos Finlay freed the yacht and its crew by a raid on the pirate's village in Somalia.

For years there were pirate attacks in the South China Sea but nothing like the lawless Somalia piracy in recent years,they are using AK-47 and RPGs to captured ships and demanding multimillion dollar ransoms from the ship owners.

The 20,000 annual shipping voyages across the Gulf to get to and from Suez Canal reduce the voyage by almost half, thus saving the ships owners huge amount of money compared to sailing around the Cape of Good Hope.

There are some sailing yachts traveling these waters on their way to the Indian Ocean the Red Sea and the Med, most of these small yachts are sailing in convoy in this area for better security but this is far from a guaranty of not being attacked.

At this time 24 nations have their navy patrolling and escorting their merchant shipping but it is impossible to patrol all 2.5 million sq miles of dangerous waters in this area.
That is why some nations have called on their ship owners to use private security contractors to protect their vessels from being attacked.

The largest ship to be ever captured by pirates was a Saudi VLCC 1,080 foot oil tanker the Sirius Star, with 100 million dollars worth of oil on board for a total of 250 million dollars in ship and cargo value and a crew of 25. the Somalian pirates demand $25 millions in ransom and they are still negotiating.

This situation demand immediate and dramatic solution either by serious private security or by international naval coalition.

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Crew Phone Cards.

Working on a yacht as a crew is one of the best job out there, but it comes with a little price - being away from friends and family for a along period of time.

Most yachts have a satellite phone system on board for the boss to use for his business calls and such, and for the captain to use for the day to day operating of the yacht and for emergencies.
It is still expensive to use a sat phone, the lowest rate are .75 cents per minute and most yacht owner's not allowed the use of the sat phone for personal calls.

Almost every mega yacht has international crew on board that need to make (in most cases) international calls, and that can be very expensive from a cell phone or any other land line.

The best solution is: International Phone Cards that are getting very cheap these days or PC to phone calls It's cheap,It's fast,It's convenient.
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