About Wilsonhalligan
Wilsonhalligan is a UK yacht recruitment consultancy established in 2000 and based in Fareham, Hampshire. It places across deck, interior, galley and engineering, and extends into shoreside roles and private household staffing for villas, chalets and estates. Its site says it caters to new crew starting out as well as experienced crew looking for their next step, which makes it approachable for people early in a career.
It is MLC certified and publishes MLC candidate guidance, along with department-by-department career advice, a CV template, a find-me-a-job feature and a referral scheme. Candidates register and apply through the site portal.
One honest note. Ownership and founder details are not published, and there is no explicit free-to-crew statement on the public pages, so check 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 Wilsonhalligan
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.
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