HOW TO DRIVE A SUPERYACHT TENDER | 5 Lessons That I Learnt The Hard Way !!!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 มี.ค. 2022
- Superyacht tenders are heavily relied upon by both guests and crew alike, and you can expect to drive them a lot if you're working out on deck. It's an exciting prospect, but there are plenty of things that can go wrong, so in this video I'm going to help you learn how to drive a tender boat by sharing some of the mistakes that I (and others) have made!
From running aground to stalling out in open water, I cover it all here in the hope that these stories will better prepare you for the moment when you're handed the keys!
This how to drive a superyacht tender video forms part of a bigger super yacht deckhand duties series. If you're planning to work on a yacht as a deckhand then I highly recommend that you check out the rest of the playlist here:
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I'd love to hear any similar stories that you might have. The more we share our mistakes, the more that others can learn from them!
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I really like your natural voice and your natural body movements in your current videos and I know that they are easier to make without worrying about getting everything 100% perfect. You are a human not a machine. Matthew, you’ve done it again, produced a video where in an entertaining way your advice about five different scenarios will help save your fellow yachies from making some common mistakes!
Couldn’t agree more with this feedback! Great to see you still making videos matthew!
Totally agree! Love it
You are way less robotic and therefore you are more enjoyable to watch...long time fan of your channel...you have been so helpful to me, you taught me some stuff that when i landed my first job as a deckhand i taught to my first officer some terminologies about the anchor that he didn't even know 😅 for the rest i have been an absolute disaster with the tender and I smashed the swim platform and the tender handles multiple times lol i learned the hard way to use the small fenders! Now it's gonna be my second season and I am still watching back all your videos to refresh my memory! Thank you! I wish I could have met you to offer you a beer while you were in sanremo! I live here
Fantastic stories. There is two types of boat folks, those who have run aground and those who are going to run aground.. I guess those boats needed some tender love....
When I was crewing a fishing boat we had a nice Chris Craft 'tender' that we used to ferry guests around on grass flats to fish for smaller fish, or to catch live bait fish. But we really loved this boat. We used it all the time for bait catching and fishing in the bay when the big boat was parked in the harbor. So we were out at anchor near an island and our guest wanted to take the tender out and take his son fishing in the bay. Just them. No crew. So the captain told him no and we would take him. The guy insisted, he had a boat exactly like it and he could drive it just fine because he took his out all the time....and he was friends with the owner's wife! So we were called and told to let him go take it, he just had to be in our sight. So the guy goes off and we are watching him on and off while cleaning the boat and prepping baits. Well it was getting dark and the guy wasn't answering the radio. We kept calling him over and over. The water was too shallow for us to get the big boat in there so we got as close as we could and we start hitting the boat with the searchlight to get the guys attention. This is a flats boat and you can see the guy and his son sitting I the boat and they are using their hats to scoop water out of the boat. We were a good 200 meters away, but you could see It clearly through the binoculars. So me and the other deckhand had to get off the boat after we were covered in fish guts, blood and slime and swim out to the boat that is just sitting there with these 2 idiots bailing water out with their ball caps. This was an area known for sharks. A tropical beach in Costa Rica. So him and I are both freaking out a little. And we finally get to water that we can actually stand in amd we walk the remaining 50 meters to the boat. We are pissed. So the guy acts like we just startled him even though we could hear the captain calling on the radio and he could hear us splashing around. So we get there and the water was only about 2 feet deep and the boat is sitting with the back half filled up with water, the boat is stuck in the water, the motor is stuck in the mud and buried halfway up. So we were very confused on what happened and then he told us. They wanted to get onto the beach and the water was too shallow and since it was a flat boat, they could just skim along the water. Well they didn't use the poles, they used the engine and didn't bothering trimming the motor up, just kept it down and plowed straight in until they got stuck. They mud and water from the engine and the wake came flooding in over the aft and dropped the back half of the motor an boat like an anchor, and the guy just kept trying over and over again to get it unstuck by turning on the motor. That just flung more water and dirt in there until the motor died and wouldn't start. And because they were already tilted down, every time he went to go look,at the motor, more water poured in over the back. Neither of them was smart enough to get out of the boat and walk around, or try tilting the boat and pouring water out. So instead they sat there for hours trying to scoop the water up with their hats. The bilge pump was clogged. It wasn't working. The scoop up front they didn't know about. So we had to make them get out, which freaked both of them out. It's dark as can be by now and we just had 2 small flashlights. They helped us dump some water out after we dug the engine out by hand. Then we used the scoop to get more water out. Then we used the pole and oars to get us back to the main boat. Guy never once apologized or thanked us. Instead he told the captain we yelled at him and his son to get out of the boat, which was true. Theynate dinner, showered and went to bed..but not before calling the owner's wife. So they canceled the rest of their trip. No tip. Took the tender in and it needed a new lower unti at $10,000 and a new bilge pump at $350.00. Then the owner came and told us that we needed to write him an apology letter for yelling at him in front of his son. Because they both refused to get out of the boat because they could hear things splashing in the water around them and we smelled like dead fish. They knew a shark was going to bite them. It was ridiculous. I refused. I told him he would have to fire me. I already had a job offer from a 30M yacht. They needed a deckhand that could take guests out fishing and drive the chase boat plus teach the other deckhands about fishing. So that's how I got into crewing on yachts. He fired me right there, then a month later tried to rehire me.
Thank you for taking the time to share this, Clif. I was laughing all the way through, but I can imagine it was very frustrating at the time!
WHAT A GREAT EXPERIENCE. The idea that this situation could lead to a better future is awesome
Hi Matt. How are you? Glad to see you are still doing videos!
Absolutely love the new style, no pressure. You seem super relaxed and happy :-) looks like you are on a good wave 🌊
Hello, Matthew! Nice to see again with a new video on YT. :) Good lesson
Thank you. You are the reason I can dream of being OOW Unlimited
Your bit about deck fines and how ships are run that you briefly touched on wss interesting
I always make sure I secure any lines onboard the tender to ensure they don't become loose and get sucked into the jet drive but I once made the mistake of not lecturing a guest on doing the same when he took the tender out after insisting he knew what he was doing as he had (and produced) an RYA Level II Powerboat Qualification. Qualification does not equal experience as we learned that day. Fortunately I had insisted he take a hand held VHF despite him saying he didn't need one for such a short trip so once he radioed back we had to raise anchor and go rescue him.
Fantastic! I live on a tiny yacht and am learning everything from the bilge up ... all of your video's are quite direct and informative. Thank you abd may God bless you on your travels
Hello Matthew, I joined the Yachting industry last year and I discovered your channel a few months ago. Yesterday evening I had an interview for a 90m+ Yacht and I spent the whole day watching your channel, while taking notes. We then had a technical interview and it turned out that all of the answers of my interviewer’s technical questions were in these notes!
For that Matthew I wanna say thank you 🙏🏼
Take care man
Hope you got it. 👍 And are still enjoying it - 90M is dang good size.
Great stories 😁👍
Love the stories!
Great video!!!
nice video. i like how you explain all in detail even is not something that you really want to remember.
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Matthew,
Enjoyed your relaxed format and the stories used to provide lessons to learn from.
Its funny how we ignore the small things, that can potentially lead to big things. From fatigue to, I don't need to worry about...
This format works, regardless of were you are. I bet you have a lot of stories/lessons to share.
PS, I would never have done those mistakes. Because I never would have been on a boat on the water to start with.
👏👏👏 educational vid that also had me smiling and even a chuckle or or two. Well done
What a history… good lessons learned today)
REALLY like this reflections on past events video format. Better subject matter focus and more informative than something about tying ropes on a deck somewhere sunny.
Thanks for this video Matthew, both personal and observed errors, which hopefully will be remember by all operators of tenders, whether deck crew on yachts or owner operators of small craft. Of course there would be a deck fine for not getting any deck fines during a season, nobody can have a perfect record, so perfection is itself an imperfect act that needs to be 'punished' for the common good.
Hello Matthew, I love this kind of story, it reassures me about my stupidities :) :)😅😅😅😅
👍☑️ So many fun stories we collect from our time at sea, thankfully when we look back 95% ended well and we learned a valuable lesson from each.
Hey Matthew, loved the style of this video. You’re much more relaxed and your stories are exciting! I would love to hear more like this in the future 😊
Cheers for the video Matthew, always gives me a good laugh. Hoping to get started in yachting upon completing my SCTW course in August and your videos are very helpful.
Interesting vid. Enjoyed it. Thanks.
Another great video! Your voice is really calming. Segrasum weeds getting caught on my dinghy sailboat's rudder ughhhhh #somuchfun
Awesome job 👍🏻
Nice video!
Hi Matthew, great to see you back. If you get a chance maybe tell a story about yourself by which I mean, how long you have been in the yacht industry, what's you favorite position and what you are apply to do such as chief officer 1st mate etc., if captain is your goal which I believe it would be how long before you would achieve this, as I have followed your every video and think they are all great. I'm sure others would like to know these things as well :)
This was really helpful! I recently completed my PB2, and was lucky to be able to use 2 separate ribs, equipped with 150bhp and 250bhp outboards, respectively, but have just returned from a weekend of vessel specific training on the boat I shall be working on the summer - transitioning down to a tender with a 9.9HP outboard was a bit of a deflation! It must be said though that the smaller engine size is more than ample for what it's needed for, its just the boy racer in me that was a tiny bit disappointed 😅
So in a case of the 2nd story on "knowing where you are going", what do you do when you know where you should be going but the owners wife decides to give you her directions and yet you know full well they are the wrong directions?
I was just driving the tender, approaching a bridge in Olbia and thought back to watching this video, then heard a scrape 😭
Just checked back and this is the exact same place as you, should’ve checked the depth!
Oh no! It happens to the best of us 😅. I hope the damage isn't too bad.
Very informative, I am trying to break into the industry from merchant service, I’ve been driving small craft for years in the military, which uses the sponson as a brake,when I did the powerboat level 2 the comment was you’ve got a few bad habits you need to lose. 😁
“The sponson as a brake” 😅. Yes, in the yachting industry it’s all about being smooth and controlled. Wishing you all the best with your move into yachting.
Hey Matthew! Love your content, tho I have no interest in going into this industry...it is just so fascinating watching you explain some stuff that can even be applied somewhere else. Keep on grinding, thanks for doing this:))
Hey Matt. Hope you are doing well. Any updates on what you are up against in the industry? It's been a while just checking on you.
Hi mate I'm really really interested in starting a new career in the yachting industry and im super hard worker currently doing over 80 to 90 hours per week in the civil engineering water utility sector. What would 1st steps need to be and how do I go about securing a position. Thanks for these videos and hope to hear back from you. Many thanks Steven Humphreys
Hello there ,
What channel or site would you recommend to get ahead of the possy and study the harder courses you experienced during your time ? Or have all the exams you took been easy ?
Thank you .
Dear Matthew good afternoon,
How many seasons (assuming the yacht will be operating in summer only) experience will be usually required of a captain on a 30m yacht so that he can move on to a bigger length?
When moving on to bigger yachts, does this usually happen in 10 m steps (i.e. from 30 to 40, 50 and so on) or could a category be skipped (i.e. going from 30 to 60 m) ?
Finally, since with increasing length the onboard team increases, would a captain on the 30 m yacht always be a captain on bigger yachts, or could he be required to serve as chief officer first (or even 2nd officer) and then become the captain ? If so, at which length of yacht would he be required to do that ?
Docking in the wind and surprise sandbars are the two biggies. Honestly a lot of new (non-professional) boaters get drunk, drive fast, hit an unexpected sandbar and get ejected right off the boat. It can lead to serious injuries or death I’m glad you were okay!!!
Edit: working with fiberglass is not fun lol
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If you been with Italiano pasta espagetti he would blame youuu
Why dont you make videos anymore
He did post one a few vids before this stating things would change.
But yes, I hope he’s doing swell as well.
Hello Luka. Thanks for checking in. I shall be posting an update video this Sunday, 30th April.
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Ok if you are in Montenegro or Croatia we could go on a drink cheers
It takes more of a man/woman to put there hand up and say IT WAS ME then to say nothing , yes you get a deck fine but gain peoples respect . More boat stories the dreaded night watch as sea
please add : lesson #6 ?
'when you drive the tender around St Lucia , Dominica, St Martin , Bonaire etc , please be mindfull of the other (non-super) yachts around you , please be aware that your wake *will* cause red wines glasses to fall , ruining the freshly cleaned teak decking of the seating area (see video about cleaning teak decking) causing upset (non-super) yacht owners"
the result will be , on ch16
"(enter super yacht name) x3 , this is (non-super) yacht x3"
"(non-super) yacht , this is (enter super yacht name)"
"zero six please"
"xero six"
- switching channels -
"Good afternoon (enter super yacht name) , your tender just passed us at around 30 meters , causing our red wine to fall on our freshly cleaned teak decking because his wake made our glasses fall over , would you mind sending someone over with part 1 & 2 , 2 clean buckets , some brown and white doodlebugs and fresh water to clean the red wine stains off our freshly cleaned teak deck ?"
"(non-super) yacht , (enter super yacht name) here , we'll look into it and send over the tender driver to care of it as soon as he is done with his chores , and some nice xxxx to make up for your troubles"
"(enter super yacht name) , this is (non-super) yacht , understood , we'll be here for the next few hours awaiting the cleaning crew, (non-super) yacht standing by one six"
;-) (true story btw , we received some great wine but would have appreciated not to go through this)