About YPI Crew
YPI Crew has recruited from its Antibes base since 2002 and is part of the Schulte Group, a ship management company with more than 135 years in shipping. It places deck, engineering, interior and senior officer crew on both private and charter superyachts worldwide.
For anyone new to yachting, the standout is the Essential Guides section, which covers positions, certificates, visas, CV templates, interview preparation and salary information. The agency is fully compliant with MLC 2006 and undergoes regular independent audits by Lloyd's Register, which matters when you are trusting a company with your career. Registering is straightforward. You submit your CV and documents through the site, including its PEARL chat tool.
In our founder's own experience registering across the market, YPI Crew was one of two agencies that stood out for how it treats new crew. Worth putting on your list early.
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 YPI 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.
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