About Burgess Crew
Burgess Crew is the crew placement arm of Burgess, one of the largest names in superyacht brokerage, founded in 1975 and in Monaco since 1979. Crew sits alongside brokerage, charter, new build, management and insurance, so registering here connects you to a business that works across the whole yacht rather than recruitment alone. The team is described on its own site as former superyacht professionals with firsthand onboard experience.
For crew, the site runs a vacancies portal and a Crew Resources hub offering, in its words, tools, updates and insights to support life and work on board, plus an FAQs page. MLC compliance is handled as part of its crew management service.
One honest note. Burgess is a full-service group rather than a crew-only agency, and the public pages set out no explicit free-to-crew statement, so confirm terms when you register.
No agency should ever ask you to pay to register. They are paid by the yacht that hires through them, never by you. If anyone asks for money upfront to join their books or guarantee a placement, treat it as a red flag. See yacht crew job scams and red flags.
Registering well with Burgess Crew
Having the link is the easy part. Turning up with a clean CV and your certificates ready in one folder is what gets you remembered. Register with a handful of agencies rather than just one, since each works with a different set of yachts. Our guide on how to register with yacht crew agencies walks through it, and pairs well with dockwalking in Antibes and Palma so you are working both channels at once.
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