it's a good question actually - in the recent space of Youtubers superyachts losing their jobs
super yacht captain, the crew chef etc linked to them having youtube channels in is is it linked
to them having youtube channels in your opinion and should they have been more discreet like you
so um what - the question is talking about is obviously Tristan Mortlock - the captain
left Awol recently and there's another youtuber called the supe the crew chef i think she's called
she left her i didn't know this and i looked it up but she she left her job recently and
apparently they requested that she'd take all the videos down that she'd posted
of that had the yacht's name in it and the yacht in the background or something and and should
they be more discreet like me so i i don't think there's really a right answer to this question
when i started youtubing it wasn't it wasn't a business decision it wasn't like hey i'm going
to be a youtuber i i had a youtube channel which i used to post car videos on and it was just for fun
and i kind of discovered by accident really that there was an interest in the superyacht industry
or in superyachts in general but when i was working on a boat and i posted a video
and it was really well received and that's how i got started but at the time there
was nobody else really doing it there was just me and there was um yachts for sale
and we were i actually bumped into him at the Monaco Yacht Show and he said to me at the time
he said you realize there's nobody else in this sector on youtube it's just you and me and um
and it was true that there was nobody else doing what what i was doing so i was really nervous that
it was going to affect my position my job because in general when you join a boat you sign a
you sign a non-disclosure agreement and you're not allowed to post on social media you know where you
are where you're going to be anything about the boat anything about the owners and stuff like that
and and i still adhere by that NDA that any any boat i work on and do not post where i am
i do not post who i work for i do not post the name of the boat and i've done that because i
wanted to make sure that if even when anybody i worked for or worked with found out that i was
making youtube videos because at the beginning i was able to keep it quiet because it was such a
small channel it wasn't really anybody on board who knew i was doing it but i wanted to make sure
that if it was discovered by an employer that they could see that i wasn't posting about their yacht
and i've always kept to that now whether that's the right answer or not i don't know if that's the
right way to do it in for me it's the right way to do it because that because in actual fact in the
last few years it has come to light on a boat i worked on that i was filming and they were almost
fired me on the spot uh because they found out that i was youtubing but then
when they looked at the channel they could see there was nothing on there
about the yacht i worked on so i was able to keep my job now the other people tristan
obviously had permission to film on board awol when it was owned by the previous owner
i don't know the deal with the the yacht chef i don't know anything about her um but she
clearly well i would say that she must have got permission for her to film at the time but and
then when she left her job for whatever reasons they decided that it didn't want to her to have
that footage of their boat on her channel i would imagine in the future when she makes future videos
she will she will probably hide the name of the future boat that she works on for the
same reason because she won't want to have that happen again right so down so the question of
is it better to stay anonymous it's tricky really there are some other youtubers now
out there that are filming from superyachts and they are obviously doing it with the permission of
the yacht owner or the or the yacht company but as you saw with the yacht chef or the crew chef and
it can get tricky if you do it because then all of a sudden they're asking her well we don't want our
stuff on your channel anymore so it's tricky and that's i mean i would love nothing more to work
on a yacht where they actively wanted me to film stuff about the boat but as you can see that even
when they give you permission initially they can at any moment take that permission away and it can
be tricky for your channel i think the crew chef she had to take down like 15 videos or something
i think she's reposting them edited with the with the names blurred out and stuff like that
but yeah it's tricky it's a it's a very secretive industry you know i'm a pioneer really i was a
pioneer really and in in the sense that i didn't know i was figuring it out as i
went along and i just thought initially if you go back to the beginning of my youtube channel
my yachting channel though i wasn't even in the videos and that's the way i liked it i didn't feel
comfortable in the camera on camera and i just wanted to film what i saw and so there was a lot
of videos of me walking around a marina talking about what i could see and uh and you know but you
don't know you don't know who i am you don't know where i work and that was the way i decided to go
forward whether that's the right way i don't know but uh like i said that i would love to
work on a yacht that allowed me to film but as you've seen from the crew chef it's tricky
if you are uh thinking about if you're working in the yachting industry and you're thinking about
youtube um let me know what you think if you've had any conversations with any yacht management
companies about this i know there was a chap a while ago i saw some comments when he said
he was trying to get a job and he he was telling them in the interview stage that he was a youtuber
and they were all telling them that they didn't want to employ him and so yeah that is a very
out of all the yachts that are out there the amount of yachts that would want
actively want you to be filming on board and posting on the internet i think it's probably
less than one percent of all the super yachts that are out there and unfortunately for me i
i've you know over the years i've i've not found many boats that allowed me to film on board so uh
i you know i would like nothing more to be able to bring you that kind of content where i'm on board
a yacht and i'm filming and stuff but it just doesn't really happen so i've had to navigate it
the way i have i've kept my name from my channel because i don't want um i don't want it to impact
a future job applications where my name would be known by people you know so without even seeing
my channel they say oh that name oh that guy's a youtuber so i didn't want to have that
in my you know blocking potentially me from getting jobs in the industry
so yeah it's a tricky one i don't think there's a right answer
um i think that the youtubers that have done it are finding out that it can be complicated
but yeah hopefully they'll both you know move to boats where they're able to film or they'll
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