Captains & officers
Licensed masters for private and charter programmes, including Indonesian-licensed captains for locally flagged vessels and delivery skippers for repositioning legs.
Crew & Provisioning
Crew whose certificates survive inspection
Captains, engineers, chefs, stewardesses and deck — sourced from Indonesian maritime talent and international crew already in the region, vetted and visa-supported before they step on the passerelle.
In short
A certificate that cannot be verified with its issuer does not exist.
- Licences and STCW checked against issuing authorities, not inspected on paper.
- At least two spoken references from previous vessels, plus a desk interview.
- No fee to candidates, ever. An agency charging crew for jobs is one to walk away from.
Who the desk places
Five roles, one bench
Distinct from crew shore support, which handles the logistics of a crew change. This page is recruitment and placement.
Engineers
From day-work marine engineers to rotational chief engineers familiar with tropical-water systems loads.
Interior
Chief stewardesses and stewardesses to superyacht service standards, plus villa-trained candidates cross-trained for yacht interiors where owners want Balinese hospitality aboard.
Galley
Yacht chefs for permanent roles. For a chef embarked for a single cruise or event, the private chef desk is the faster route.
Deck
Deckhands and tender drivers, with STCW basic training verified rather than assumed.
The question owners arrive with
Local crew, international crew, or both
The honest answer is both, deliberately. Most well-run boats based here blend the two, and the desk builds the mix around your programme rather than pushing one pool.
Indonesian crew
Local seamanship, language and cost efficiency.
- Junior deck & interior
- USD 600–1,500 / month
- Licensed captains & engineers
- USD 1,500–4,000 / month, by tonnage
- Brings
- Local waters, language, supplier relationships
- Common structure
- Deck and interior team
International crew
Superyacht-programme experience at international rates.
- Junior deck & interior
- International rates
- Licensed captains & engineers
- International rates
- Brings
- Programme experience and service standards
- Common structure
- Chief officer or chief stew above them
Working figures, not quotations. The mix is built around the programme and budget.
The paper side
Visas and work authorisation
Crew joining a foreign-flagged yacht in Indonesian waters normally enter on a pathway matched to the vessel's status and the crew member's role, and sign on through the harbourmaster with the vessel's agent — a different track from working ashore.
The desk prepares the letter pack, coordinates sign-on with the clearance desk, and diarises renewals so a crew member's status never lapses mid-season. For Indonesian crew joining foreign vessels, seaman's book and manning-agency requirements are managed end to end.
Working figures
What placement costs
Fees follow crewing-industry convention and are quoted flat in USD before a search begins.
Permanent roles
- Fee
- % of first-year package
- Notes
- Quoted flat in USD before the search begins. Senior placements include a structured trial and a replacement guarantee.
Short-term & delivery
- Fee
- from USD 350 fixed
- Notes
- Extra stewardesses for an event night, a delivery engineer, relief deckhands for a busy leg.
Visa & document costs
- Fee
- At documented tariff
- Notes
- Government charges, billed through with receipts.
Fee to candidates
- Fee
- None, ever
- Notes
- A crew agency charging crew for jobs is one to walk away from.
Placement and documentation run from the Bali desk for vessels lying anywhere in the cruising ground — Benoa and Serangan, Lombok and the Gilis, Labuan Bajo and Komodo, and Raja Ampat through Sorong.
Joining logistics along the wayElsewhere on the crew desk
Offshore Medical Support
Readiness before the Banda Sea, not improvisation during it.
Superyacht Provisioning
One full load-out in Bali, then staged top-ups east.
Crew Shore Support
Crew changes, transport, laundry and a number answered at 03:00.
Private Chef
Galley-ready chefs, briefed on your preference sheets.
Brief the crew desk
Send the role, the programme and the start date. You get a shortlist of verified files — not CVs copied from a portal.