Amid the beautiful surroundings and 5-star service, we yacht crew can experience some “unusual” moments. And we need to decompress — sometimes with extra sleep, sometimes with fitness, and sometimes with games. Drinking games.
Enter the always fun and illuminating “Never Have I Ever,” Yacht Edition. Rules are easy: If you have experienced one of these items, you must perform the agreed upon task, whether it be pushups, dish duty, taking a swig or whatever other entertaining things you and your crew can come up with.
Let this be your starter guide and add on as stories emerge. It’s a fun way to get to know each other and have gratitude for wherever you are right now.
• Fallen off the dock coming back from a bar. • Sank the golf cart — drunk or sober. • Been naked in front of my crewmates. • Seen a charter guest naked. • Been on board when the captain crashed the boat because he was sexting. • Had a captain sleep through his night watch. • Been fired. |
• Walked off without notice. • Had to hide a guest’s cigarettes because she kept smoking in the cabin. • Been on a dead ship for more than 48 hours. • Brought a prostitute back to my cabin on board. • Found strangers enjoying themselves on board. • Swam with turtles. |
• Had a surprise coast guard or homeland security inspection on board.• Bought drugs from a marina worker. • Had guests refuse to leave when their charter ended. • Had a second engineer remove the wrong pump. • Gotten the date wrong for a guest’s birthday. • Had guests refuse to eat dinner because they were all in a drunken dispute and not speaking to each other. • Had to save another vessel at sea. |
• Had to shoot at pirates trying to board. • Bought restaurant food and served it to guests because the chef was passed out. • Snuck a hookup on board and gotten away with it. • Actually used my free time to learn a new language. • Flirted with an owner’s daughter/son. • Flirted with an owner. • Lied about equipment not working so you didn’t have to set it up. • Fired someone because you didn’t like them. |
• Been accused of being a drug runner. • Driven an inflatable tender 25 miles to rescue a guest. • Seen the captain run the boat aground. • Kicked charter guests off mid-charter. • Been kicked out of a marina in the middle of the night. • Taken the tender to have sex. • Had to clean dog poo off of teak. • Had to talk a guest out of keeping illegal seafood. • Found a gun under a pillow during turndown service. |
• Visited a guest at their home after the charter. • Left yachting and went to work for a guest after a charter. • Had to sue a yacht for nonpayment. • Done donuts in the tender around a waterspout. • Had an owner offer to buy me cosmetic surgery. • Gotten cosmetic surgery for a yacht job. |