About Viking Crew
Viking Crew places yacht crew as part of the wider Viking Maritime Group, which crews cruise, commercial and shore-based maritime alongside superyachts. Its headquarters are in Dover, with further offices including Portsmouth, Guernsey, Fort Lauderdale, Manila and Auckland, and it has worked in superyachts since 2000.
The reassurance here is process and accreditation. Viking Crew is ISO 9001 certified and MCA approved, references MLC-compliant employment and payroll, and holds PYA and Superyacht UK memberships. You register by creating a Viking Crew account online with your details, rank, location, CV and preferences, which then allows one-click applications.
Sitting inside a large maritime group means solid systems and links to training through its Maritime Skills Academy. It also means yachting is one part of a broader business, so if you want a purely superyacht specialist, weigh that up. Its wellbeing and Women in Maritime initiatives are a genuine plus.
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 Viking 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.
Register with everything ready to go.
Agencies ask for your CV and certificates as one tidy folder. YachtSync keeps your STCW, ENG1 and the rest on your phone and exports them as a clean PDF you can email in seconds. Free for crew.
Download YachtSync, freeFree for crew. Unlimited certificates, 10 AI scans a month, renewal reminders. No card required.
See the full list of yacht crew recruitment agencies → · How to register → · How to write a yacht CV →