Lisa and Helena, the founders of Yachting Sweden, first discovered yachting when we went on a trip to Malta straight after high school in 2011. We had booked a one-way ticket and just wanted to get out of Sweden, travel and live abroad for a while. It was only the second evening in Malta when we bumped in to a group of people that told us that they worked on “super yachts”. We had never heard of this before and was of course very fascinated, especially after being invited onboard one of the yachts in the Maltese marina.
The yacht crew told us about how they lived onboard these beautiful yachts, travelled the world, and made great money at the same time. They told us it was hard work, and long days, but that the experiences and adventures made it all worth it. It wasn’t hard to convince us, and both Lisa and Helena decided that this was something we wanted to try.
Back in 2011 there was hardly any information at all about yachting to find online, as we started trying to google how to break into the industry. There was certainly no information in Swedish, but we managed to understand that we needed some sort of safety course and a few other things. It was a complicated process, with many detours and expensive unnecessary costs just because we didn’t have the right information. Lisa started looking for work right away and managed to find a job after 4 months, while Helena waited a year.
It was a bumpy and difficult road to find our first jobs, but eventually we did. Lisa started working on a 60 m explorer yacht in Spain, and Helena on a 50 m sailing yacht in Boston. We both ended up staying full time in the yachting industry for about 4-5 years. In 2016 we both came home to start studying, and started talking about our experiences onboard. Where were all the Swedes? Where were all the Scandinavians? Crew from other countries kept telling us how appreciated Scandinavians were – having a passport easy to travel with, people easy to get along with and hard workers. We usually answered that the yachting industry has no Scandinavias because the Scandinavians simply doesn’t know the industry exists!
It was in 2018 we decided to change this, and we started Yachting Sweden with the vision of being that source of information, that guidance and helping hand that we ourselves could have needed when we first joined the industry. We put together a physical yachting introduction course in Stockholm, where we cover the following things:
Today, 3 years later – almost 500 people have taken our course and many of them work as stewardesses and deckhands on superyachts all over the world. As more and more people from other Scandinavian countries are contacting us, interested in the yachting industry and to work onboard, we have since about a year back presented an online introduction course. This makes it easy from anyone from Norway, Finland or Denmark to get access to all the information and to the support and guidance from Yachting Sweden.
Lisa and Helena have worked as stewardesses on superyachts between 40-100 meters, Helena mainly in the Caribbean and the US, while Lisa has spent most her time in the Mediterranean.
We offer our online introduction course individually with Lisa or Helena (3200 SEK), or in a group of max 4 people (2600 SEK). The same material is included in both variants.
Do you want more information? Please do not hesitate to contact us at info@yachtingsweden.se or send us a DM at our Instagram @yachting_sweden – we are looking forward to hear from you and help you start your own yachting adventure! You can also read more about the online course here.
Yachting Sweden grundades 2018 med syftet att göra yachting-branschen mer tillgänglig i Skandinavien. Med våra kurser, trygg vägledning och guidning så hjälper vi skandinaver till sina drömjobb i branschen.
