**Video**
Set: Galley
Setup: Camera onn Tripod
Script:
Dean: More and more commonly, we are seeing deckhands and stewards and stewardesses, recognising that the Galley department is a pretty great place to be. Whilst you’ll probably put in more hours as a Chef, you get better pay, and more time off, as well as the ability to express creativity which certainly can’t be said about being a deckhand. There are only so many ways to wash a boat!
With that said, if you do decide you want to make a go of being a Chef on a yacht, you’re actually in a really great place to transition into it from another department.
Because you have the basics of yachting down, you can exclusively focus on the cuisine part, massively reducing all the concepts you need to learn. You’ll also quickly be able to pick up the kind of things you need to be focusing on, as being a Chef is such a broad concept, inevitably there is a bit that is not necessarily relevant to a yacht chef.
It’s not a bad strategy, to get a job as a stewardess or a deckie, and wait for your opportunity to present itself. It’s low risk, as you’ll be getting paid, not as much but still well, and you can potentially time it so you can spend an hour or two a day helping out the Galley team to get some experience.
Recognise that you may have to do this in your own time, you’ll have your own duties to accomplish like cleaning toilets and scrubbing teak, and also you won’t get to go straight to plate presentation, it’s likely to be cleaning seafood and peeling veg, but this is an under-utilised path to success if you don’t have the experience and qualifications straight out of the gate.