Photographer / Videographer

You are the person on board who records the trip. On large private yachts and busy charter programmes, owners want a record of the family on the tender, the children's first dive, the birthday dinner on the sundeck. You shoot stills and video, fly the drone for aerials of the yacht at anchor, and get a selection edited and shared with guests within a day. Most of the time you work alongside the interior and deck teams rather than apart from them.

Discretion matters as much as the camera. Many owners are private people and every image is covered by a confidentiality agreement. You learn who wants to be photographed and who never does, and you read the mood of a lunch before you lift a lens. Some yachts also use you for the vessel itself: marketing shots for charter brochures, refit records, crew training footage and the occasional social media post the management company has approved.

On smaller vessels the role is often combined, so you may also work as a stewardess, deckhand or watersports crew between shoots. Kit care is a real part of the job. Salt, sand and humidity ruin cameras, so you clean, dry and back up everything every evening. You handle storage drives, keep a tidy archive for the owner and make sure nothing leaves the yacht without the captain's sign off.