yacht crew

Budget Travel: Featured Caribbean Inn

by Jerri on July 24, 2007

The Pineapple House is quite popular in the Antigua yachtie scene, but it’s not just yachties that stay there. Built along the side of a hill amoungst beautiful landscaped trees and flowers, the open air cottages have a million dollar view of multi million dollar yachts docked in Falmouth Harbour. The cottages are open and [...]

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Working on a Yacht FAQs

by Jerri on July 24, 2007

Hi Jerri,I accidently stumbled upon your blogspot after I googled “yacht crew and antigua”….haha anyways…I graduate from the university of florida next saturday, and my plan is to head down to the caribbean and work in yachting like you did….and i’m also pretty much flat broke like you were when you went to barcelona ( [...]

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Life as a Chef Aboard a Private Yacht

by Jerri on April 23, 2007

I found another yachtie out there on the web. Niall’s site, The Life of a Private Chef has a lot of video footage of St. Martin, Antigua and other some places in the Med. Looks like he’s retired from yachting like me, but you can still follow his adventures in the archives!

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I’m in Beverly Hills, California right now. Tomorrow I’m heading for Houston then on to Florida and hopefully I can hop a boat to the Med, hopefully Antibes. I’ll update more later with pictures!

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easyCruise in the Caribbean

by Jerri on February 24, 2007

I get e-mails often from people wanting to know how to travel around the Caribbean. In the past, there really hasn’t been an easy and economical way to travel from island to island-until now! I just read a New York Times article that easyCruise now has a cruising itinerary for those looking for an affordable [...]

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I’m a travel writer…sort of!

by Jerri on January 18, 2007

I submitted an article entitled, So You Want to Work on a Yacht?, to eZine.com and it was accepted. If you are one of the three regular lurkers on my blog then you’ll recognize it as basically just an article I’ve posted on here. I’m just crossing over…to where I’m not sure. I am also [...]

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A new adventure

by Jerri on December 8, 2006

My move to St. Martin has been postponed. I have been interviewing with a few yachts. One very cool yacht I have my sight set on has no set itinerary other than worldwide. It’s an expedition yacht so it’s not actually used with owners on board. It’s commercial. Either way, if I get the job [...]

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005-Traveling Around the World

by Jerri on September 26, 2006

Episode #5 (30 mins) One Girl, Her Backpack and a Passion for Travel I’m talking about how I got started traveling and where it has taken me over the past three years. I’m discussing a little about how I got started working on yachts and answering some listener’s questions.

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Boston: We have arrived!

by Jerri on June 10, 2006

We got into Boston on May 29th after a week underway from Ft. Lauderdale. The trip up was incredibly smooth and actually pretty pleasant. My roommate and I are way into Scrabble these days so between our watches that we have every six hours we were down in the crew mess playing Scrabble which I [...]

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From Antigua to Ft. Lauderdale

by Jerri on April 2, 2006

From Antigua to Ft. LauderdaleWe left Antigua today for Ft. Lauderdale. Today was supposed to be our day off before we left for FLL on Monday. Big plans to go to the beach today (for the billionth time since we’ve been here). I’m crushed. Ok not really. I’m sick of Antigua. I’ve been sick of [...]

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