We asked several yacht stews what their strangest, funniest, or most awkward experiences were while working on board. From bizarre interactions with fellow crewmembers to unexpected requests from guests, these stews told Triton their tales. “I once had a captain that didn’t sleep, watched Fox News on blast all night, every night, and survived off sugar packets during the day. What I mean by sugar packets is he’d rip them open and just slam them. Multiple at a time. He also yelled at one of our guests for help, aka the young teen on board eager to learn about boats, while they were all eating dinner because he, the captain, tied the tender wrong and it was floating away. ‘SCOTTYYYY!’ the captain yelled. Every guest stood up from their dinner, just served by the way, and thought we had a child overboard. Best part… his [guest] name wasn’t even Scotty. A trip I will never forget.” — Stew Erika “My very first boat trip had a chief stew who SWORE on her life that she didn’t drink. The night before guests arrived, the whole crew went for dinner, and she went on a ‘liquid diet’ and only had cocktails all night. We all woke up the next day ready for the guest’s arrival at 4 p.m., but I had to go provision fresh fruits and she came with me. She took a shot of Baileys and two shots of Patrón before we left — it was 10 a.m. She was stumbling everywhere in the produce section. We get back to the yacht at around noon, she downs a whole can of beer and she heads straight back to bed. Missed the guest’s arrival, missed her shift on watch that night, and was fired right in front of the guests the next day.” — Stew Jana “My owner asked the last stew to massage her whole body with a Theragun on the salon sofa and then forced her to go snorkeling with her.” — An anonymous stew “We had somebody on our boat ask us if we could open the windows…” — An anonymous stew