I started watching this because i'm sick and have a dwindling number of healthy preoccupations. As a younger man i spent a few years sailing the caribbean - chartering, delivering and teaching (off-shore sailing). I am absolutely dumbfounded at the lack of professionalism on these mega-yachts. I get that it's tv and that drama and dysfunction sells, but having deckhands that are being paid (what) $6k / mo. Tax free that cannot tie a bowline is utterly mind-boggling to me. That there stewardesses who do not know how to open a bottle of wine properly ? Ok so no-one is going to die from a poorly opened bottle of wine but that these deckhands know so little just completely blows me away. The water and alcohol abuse has always been prevalent but it seems like standards on the champagne waterways is one domino way from deadly. I'm kind of amazed there haven't been more serious injuries or even fatalities on these boats. I suppose i should stay tuned.
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Deckhands who can't tie bowlines!!!!!
Adam-11323 March 2024
Warning: Spoilers
Please tell me that the standard of these deckhands is unusual for luxury yacht crew. How can half the deck crew not be proficient in tying one of the basic knots, taught at the lowest levels of crew training. And then object to being asked to practice it until they can do it without thinking.
Admittedly, it's not used as often a hitch, but surely any paid crew should have that knot committed to muscle memory? It's the sailing equivalent of being able to tie your shoelaces, isn't it?
And don't get me started on the engineer who decided it wasn't worth the bother of fixing the extraction fan. Surely that was encouraged by the TV crew to create some drama?
Admittedly, it's not used as often a hitch, but surely any paid crew should have that knot committed to muscle memory? It's the sailing equivalent of being able to tie your shoelaces, isn't it?
And don't get me started on the engineer who decided it wasn't worth the bother of fixing the extraction fan. Surely that was encouraged by the TV crew to create some drama?
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