{"id":1945,"date":"2013-09-08T15:49:29","date_gmt":"2013-09-08T20:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/woayv2.flywheelsites.com\/?p=1945"},"modified":"2013-09-08T15:54:33","modified_gmt":"2013-09-08T20:54:33","slug":"yacht-stewardess-confession-shopping-for-the-yacht","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.workonayacht.com\/index.php\/yacht-stewardess-confession-shopping-for-the-yacht\/","title":{"rendered":"Yacht Stewardess Confession: I LOVED shopping for the yacht."},"content":{"rendered":"

As a yacht steward\/ess<\/a>, part of managing the interior of a superyacht is guaranteeing that everything a guest would need is onboard\u2014from manicure sets to shoe horns to Pepto Bismol. The good news is the stews get to shop for it all. The bad news is this responsibility is a bit more stressful than you might think. After all, if the guests want to play poker, and you don\u2019t have a deck of cards, it\u2019s your fault. No hair rollers onboard? Well, what terrible service!<\/em><\/p>\n

Yes, when shopping for a yacht, you have to think of everything. <\/strong><\/p>\n

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Superyacht crew bringing provisions onboard after a shopping trip.
Photo Copyright: Suki Finnerty of YachtingToday.TV.<\/p><\/div>\n

<\/strong>Here’s an excerpt from The Insiders’ Guide to Becoming a Yacht Stewardess: Confessions from My Years Afloat with the Rich and Famous<\/a>:<\/em>
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I Must Confess\u2026<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n

I loved shopping for the yacht.<\/i><\/h2>\n

We (my chief stew at the time and I) managed to spend $18,000 in one day buying new items for the yacht\u2019s interior: crystal glassware replacements, chinaware breakfast sets with napkins and table linens to match, 100 new DVDs, 50 new CDs, new serving plates, two new vacuums (Dyson!), and an assortment of fine liquor\u2014top-shelf everything! We got to wear our interior-decorator hats, too, as we picked out candles galore, flower vases, breakfast napkins, and decorative throw pillows.<\/p>\n

Talk about a spree; we got to buy so much crap, it was awesome! And believe it or not, we came out under<\/i> budget.<\/p>\n

Another time, when our yacht was on the island of Malta in the Mediterranean, we didn\u2019t have a crew car, so I had to be taxied around all day by a local yacht agent in search of last-minute items for an upcoming charter.<\/p>\n

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View to Vittoriosa Harbor, Valletta, capital of Malta, with superyachts in port.
While it’s a beautiful and historic island, Malta is NOT the most ideal place to shop for hard-to-find items needed on a yacht charter.<\/p><\/div>\n

This guy thought I was a nut! Here I was with this shopping list of quite specific, yet not so common, things I needed to find on this tiny Mediterranean island:<\/p>\n