The log
Craft, seasons and the honest side of superyacht crew life, from the team building U-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…
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…
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…
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.
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.
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.
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