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Asia upping its traininggame for superyacht crew

As the 1 January, 2017, deadline for refresher training approaches,crew are (hopefully) booking in their courses, to ensure all theirrelevant certificates are valid come the new year (for more informationon the requirements, don’t miss our Recruitment & Training Guide, atthis year’s Monaco Yacht Show and with issue 79 of The Crew Report).And, as we know, some of the most popular schools among crew arealready booked up until late this year – leave it another month or soand crew may well have to look elsewhere.

Practising anchoring techniques

One part of the world that is gaining more attention among those of usin the superyacht industry is Asia, which also happens to be the subjectof murmurings pertaining to the source of the next generation ofsuperyacht crew. In Thailand sits Galileo Maritime Academy, a trainingschool for superyacht crew, as well as commercial crew, recentlyaccredited by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA), and onethat has heavily invested in its facilities and infrastructure over the pastfew years.

The captain and crew of a 52m Amels trained at the school

In fact, its director, Anthony Gould, has stated that approximately 70per cent of its students come from outside Asia. Many of those, hesays, are European, strengthening the argument that the traditionallypopular training schools for yacht crew are getting booked up – or,perhaps crew simply want a break from the yachting hot spots, andfancy doing their training in an exotic location.

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Speaking with Gould, it seems the school is doing something that creware begging for. One of its missions: to ensure crew get value formoney. “If people from all around the world are going to pay to do theirtraining and get their certificates, they want to be sure of several things.One, that they’re going to be looked after, and two, that they’re going toget high quality training. At the end of the day, they want a job, that’swhy they’re coming to us. So we make it our mission to help themachieve that,” explains Gould. In fact, despite offering no generalrecruitment services, the team do their very best to get thecrewmembers who come through their doors a job at the end of it all.This past year has even seen a 90 per cent employment rate of itsstudents. “We look through their CVs and help develop the, and wehave nearly 200 superyachts who are very happy to hear from us whenit comes to hiring opportunities.”

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What’s particularly interesting is that classroom training here takes onanother form. They actually use superyachts (although some of the‘practise’ yachts fall just under that 30m mark). Superyachts are usedfor drills, for service practise, for as much as possible, so suddenly thenext step of applying classroom-learned skills on board is already takencare of.

Exterior deckhand training

The one thing I get from Gould is the pride he has in these facilities. Hehas invested in the area, in the knowledge that the yachting industrywill recognise its value – the charter updates in Thailand being just oneexample – and he’s hoping crew will do the same, in a region he calls“a huge marine playground”.

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