The ASA stuff and the STCW 95 Stuff are different.
I have a 100 ton master and an STCW 95 as well. I also have the sailing endorsement on the master.
you would be much better served to get that type of
license (like the oupv) if you are doing this professionally. ASA is kind of for recreational people and people trying to prove that they know how to sail a little bit for
charter boat rentals.
what type of positions are you looking for? Starting out, it’s usually
deckhand and stew. Then through experience you work your way up to mate and captain eventually. But it takes several years. You can certainly achieve these dreams. I don’t think you need to go through that much on the sailing end of things, you don’t need that ASA at all. It’s nice. It will look good on your résumé, but you don’t really need it. Just tell the crew agencies you are looking to work on sailboats. It’s really the experience you gain working on the boat that will make you more and more attractive to captains hiring that run sailing mega yachts.
You should be able to jump right on a boat as a
deckhand or stew right now. As long as you have the STCW 95. That’s typically very important for a boat to travel internationally. It might be mandated. I forget.
in any case it’s a wonderful course. You get to put out fires. Flash over fires. You have to find your way out of a ship with no visibility by feeling the walls as you go and remembering how to get out. You have to jump off high platforms into the
water and use liferafts. Is a matter of fact that course would be good for anyone reading this post. Even though it’s for professional mariners.
Your ASA teacher doesn’t have the slightest clue about how to get a job in the yachting industry. Don’t listen to them. They don’t know what they’re talking about.
in order to get a job on a megayacht, you need to contact accruing agencies in
Fort Lauderdale and Palma de Mallorca. if you are in the United States, just use Fort Lauderdale. You don’t even have to live there necessarily. Although it helps. Get your résumé together and get it to them now. you might be able to go from living wherever you do now, straight to working on a boat. And I don’t mean some little piece of junk. Like our
boats. I mean an actual mega yacht or a mega sailing yacht.
you don’t have to have experience on small boats to work on large boats. That’s not true. in fact, many megayacht captains prefer that you don’t have a lot of experience so they can train you properly.
I have worked in that industry for a few years in the past.
ask more questions. Happy to help.
By the way, there are also crew houses in Fort Lauderdale that you can use. Look those up. If you want to just go there for a few weeks to try to land a job you can always stay in a crew house.
these dreams are not at all hard to achieve. There are less barriers than you think and don’t listen to the ASA teacher they don’t know anything about the industry. All you have to do is a very, very good job when you get your first position. And do a good job for the rest of your career as well, but the more you shine in the more effort you put in from the very start, the more momentum your career will have..
you can move to other positions like mate,
engineer, etc. And often the boat will pay for your courses. So you don’t have to do all of that now. Just get on the boat and start working at the bottom. That’s the stew or the deckhand.