https://admintestingdomain.net/blog/ Craft, seasons and the honest side of superyacht crew life, from the team building U-Crew. en-gb Tue, 25 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT https://admintestingdomain.net/blog/monaco-yacht-show-2026-what-crews-and-managers-need-to-book-now-for-september/ https://admintestingdomain.net/blog/monaco-yacht-show-2026-what-crews-and-managers-need-to-book-now-for-september/ Tue, 25 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Event Desk show regatta rendezvous festival The Monaco Yacht Show returns to Port Hercule from Wednesday 23 to Saturday 26 September 2026 [1]. For captains, crew planners, charter managers and management companies, show week means the fleet, suppliers and buyers… https://admintestingdomain.net/blog/monaco-yacht-show-2026-what-crews-and-managers-need-to-book-now-for-september-2/ https://admintestingdomain.net/blog/monaco-yacht-show-2026-what-crews-and-managers-need-to-book-now-for-september-2/ Tue, 25 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Event Desk show regatta rendezvous festival The Monaco Yacht Show returns to Port Hercule from Wednesday 23 to Saturday 26 September 2026 [1]. For captains, crew planners, charter managers and management companies, show week means the fleet, suppliers and buyers… https://admintestingdomain.net/blog/genoa-boat-show-2026-five-weeks-out-heres-what-crew-and-captains-need-to-book-no/ https://admintestingdomain.net/blog/genoa-boat-show-2026-five-weeks-out-heres-what-crew-and-captains-need-to-book-no/ Mon, 24 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Event Desk show regatta rendezvous festival The 66th Genoa International Boat Show runs from 1 to 6 October 2026, back at its traditional autumn slot on Genoa's Levante waterfront [1]. Six days this time, not nine. https://admintestingdomain.net/blog/genoa-boat-show-2026-five-weeks-out-heres-what-crew-and-captains-need-to-book-no-2/ https://admintestingdomain.net/blog/genoa-boat-show-2026-five-weeks-out-heres-what-crew-and-captains-need-to-book-no-2/ Mon, 24 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Event Desk show regatta rendezvous festival The 66th Genoa International Boat Show runs from 1 to 6 October 2026, back at its traditional autumn slot on Genoa's Levante waterfront [1]. Six days this time, not nine. https://admintestingdomain.net/blog/panama-canal-slot-cuts-what-they-mean-for-your-transit-planning-and-watch-rotati/ https://admintestingdomain.net/blog/panama-canal-slot-cuts-what-they-mean-for-your-transit-planning-and-watch-rotati/ Mon, 24 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Crew Voices captains officers deck crew engineers interior crew If you're booking a Canal transit in the next few weeks, the numbers you planned around have changed. The ACP has confirmed cuts to daily transit capacity as watershed rainfall falls short of expectations, reversing an… https://admintestingdomain.net/blog/aqube-comes-aboard-what-the-dlr-research-vessel-order-means-for-your-next-hybrid/ https://admintestingdomain.net/blog/aqube-comes-aboard-what-the-dlr-research-vessel-order-means-for-your-next-hybrid/ Sun, 23 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Crew Voices captains officers deck crew engineers interior crew Lloyd Werft's Bremerhaven yard has selected the AQUBE liquid-cooled battery platform to power a new seagoing technology platform for the German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany's national research centre for aeronautics,… https://admintestingdomain.net/blog/fire-on-the-ore-carrier-what-bridge-and-engine-room-owe-each-other-before-it-hap/ https://admintestingdomain.net/blog/fire-on-the-ore-carrier-what-bridge-and-engine-room-owe-each-other-before-it-hap/ Sun, 23 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Crew Voices captains officers deck crew engineers interior crew On 21 August 2026, a fire broke out on an ore laden cargo ship docked at Romania's Port of Midia, north of Constanta. By the time shore firefighters arrived, the blaze had spread and engulfed the ship's stern, which was… https://admintestingdomain.net/blog/safe-harbor-bets-big-on-st-kitts-and-nevis-as-the-caribbeans-next-superyacht-hub/ https://admintestingdomain.net/blog/safe-harbor-bets-big-on-st-kitts-and-nevis-as-the-caribbeans-next-superyacht-hub/ Sun, 23 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Superyacht news desk For decades, the eastern Caribbean's biggest yachts have gravitated toward familiar anchorages: St. Barths, the BVI, Antigua. Now Safe Harbor, the world's largest marina operator, is working to add St. Kitts and Nevis t… https://admintestingdomain.net/blog/two-bows-one-embankment-the-ghent-terneuzen-groundings-of-august-2025/ https://admintestingdomain.net/blog/two-bows-one-embankment-the-ghent-terneuzen-groundings-of-august-2025/ Sun, 23 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Crew Voices captains officers deck crew engineers interior crew Twice in August, ships ran their bows into the mud embankment of the Ghent-Terneuzen canal in the Netherlands. Same stretch of water, same failure mode, three weeks apart. Both crews reported losing control of the rudde… https://admintestingdomain.net/blog/the-season-after-the-season/ https://admintestingdomain.net/blog/the-season-after-the-season/ Tue, 18 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Amelia Hart crew life seasons wellbeing Charter season ends in a day, but crew do not. Decompression after months of double watches is a skill nobody teaches, and the habits you keep in the first fortnight ashore decide how you arrive at the next boat. Here is what experienced crew actually do differently. https://admintestingdomain.net/blog/reading-a-crew-before-you-join/ https://admintestingdomain.net/blog/reading-a-crew-before-you-join/ Wed, 05 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Marcus Oduya crew life careers the eight A contract is an agreement with a crew, not a boat. Before signing, experienced crew assess the energy mix on board: who holds the galley at 3am, who reads the guests, who breaks the tension. Here are the questions that reveal a crew's real shape in one dock walk. https://admintestingdomain.net/blog/the-3am-galley-truth/ https://admintestingdomain.net/blog/the-3am-galley-truth/ Wed, 22 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMT Amelia Hart wellbeing the vent crew life Superyacht crew genuinely love this life and are quietly struggling inside it, and both facts are true at once. The industry talks about the first number and was built to ignore the second. This piece looks at why honest channels matter more than resilience talks. https://admintestingdomain.net/blog/why-good-crew-leave-good-boats/ https://admintestingdomain.net/blog/why-good-crew-leave-good-boats/ Fri, 03 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMT Tom Whitaker careers wellbeing crew life Crew turnover is the industry's most expensive open secret, and the exits that hurt most are the unforced ones: good crew leaving good boats. The reasons are rarely salary and rarely sudden. This piece traces the slow leak that precedes almost every resignation letter. https://admintestingdomain.net/blog/a-field-guide-to-the-eight/ https://admintestingdomain.net/blog/a-field-guide-to-the-eight/ Wed, 17 Jun 2026 09:00:00 GMT U-Crew Team the eight the u-factor Every good crew runs on eight kinds of energy, and most crews could not name a single one of them. This field guide walks the eight, what each looks like mid-season, and why the mix matters more than any individual brilliance. Which one are you? https://admintestingdomain.net/blog/quiet-authority/ https://admintestingdomain.net/blog/quiet-authority/ Thu, 21 May 2026 09:00:00 GMT Marcus Oduya leadership crew life the eight On every good boat there is someone the crew goes quiet for, and it is not always the person with the stripes. Quiet authority is a craft skill: earned in small moments, spent carefully, and almost never taught. Here is how it works and how to build it. https://admintestingdomain.net/blog/ten-seconds-of-honesty/ https://admintestingdomain.net/blog/ten-seconds-of-honesty/ Thu, 09 Apr 2026 09:00:00 GMT Amelia Hart wellbeing check-in A daily check-in sounds too small to matter: one tap, ten seconds, how are you really. But small and daily beats deep and never. This piece looks at what a check-in habit actually measures on a working boat, and why the trend line matters more than any single day. https://admintestingdomain.net/blog/your-first-season-a-field-manual/ https://admintestingdomain.net/blog/your-first-season-a-field-manual/ Sat, 14 Mar 2026 09:00:00 GMT Sofia Marchetti careers crew life Your first season decides whether yachting becomes a career or a story you tell later. It is rarely the work that breaks new crew, it is the pace of living where you work. Here is what experienced crew wish someone had told them before their first crossing.