211′ / 67M Motor Yacht Loon: REAL Below Deck Crew Life with ‪@yachtingadventures-t4i‬ ‪@the_crewchef‬

– Let’s do this, finally!
Normally, nobody gets to see this.
(twangy adventurous music) Welcome aboard Motor Yacht Loon.
(twangy adventurous music) – [Rico] Oh, wait a minute. Wait a minute.
– I’m pretty sure most of you are already watching her channel.
– Fun, you should have seen the clients.
– We’ll never hear the end of it.
– Do you have the hardest job on this boat?
– Yes.
– Yeah. (laughs) (energizing music) – So follow me.
– How did this become his tour?
(energizing music) (bell tolling) You have to pay attention because you could get lost.
(twangy adventurous music) I don’t think I’ve ever seen this kind of a layout.
– You should go look at it.
Yeah, behind the scenes. (Victoria laughing) Behind the scenes. Show the real stuff!
– Nice.
– [Rico] Do you ever regret being on camera?
– I guess I’ll find out. (Victoria laughing) – Yeah. (all laughing) – Good but not so good.
Engineers are not gonna like us right now.
– Even if the boat is complete in a wreck, which it’s not, it’s not. (Rico laughing) – [Rico] So can anybody just go in there and pick something? – No.
– I figured. – Definitely.
– Yes? – 100%.
Yep, let’s do it. – Promise? Okay.
(logo splashing) (bird chirping) All right, let’s do this finally.
Let’s go find Captain Paul.
(distant fan whirring) – [Rico] I think I saw him on the aft deck.
– It’s the best spot. It’s not as windy.
It’s what I would be.
Hello, Captain!
– Hey.
– Where do we start? We’re ready.
– Let’s go to- – We just did the intros.
– You done the intros? – Yeah, ready to go.
– I think it’s best we go from the top.
We’ll work our way down.
– All the way up? – I’ll follow you guys.
– All the way to the top. – Okay, we’ll follow you.
– Four flights, let’s go.
– [Rico] Four flights?
– Four flights. – Four.
– [Rico] Aye Yai Yai.
(twangy adventurous music) – That’s one.
– It’s actually three from that deck.
– It’s three. (Captain Paul laughing) – Still gonna take a break though.
– Don’t overpromise! Two.
– [Rico] Two.
– Get out of breath by the time we get up.
– [Rico] Now watch out. I’m not losing my hat here.
It’s a little windy today. – I know, it’s super windy, you guys, super, super windy.
So it’s gonna be a really quick show slash tour.
Wow! (cheers) (Rico laughing) – [Rico] It is really windy.
– Like The Weather Channel, right?
– You’re holding on.
– Coming to you from the crow’s nest of Motor Yacht Loon.
No, I’m just kidding.
So how is this space used?
– So we’re up on the sun deck right now.
This is, if you want a little bit of privacy, get away, you come up here.
We’ve got the new captain’s chairs that we just installed.
Coming in and out of marinas, ports, when we’re pulling into Monaco, Saint-Tropez.
Come out here. – This is the VIP spot.
– That’s it, go on.
Try it, you gotta try it out.
– Yeah. – Okay, all right, all right.
Don’t have to ask me twice. – Yeah.
Hey, there are three, so might as well, huh?
– Yeah, come on in. (Victoria sighing) – Exactly, here. – Oh wow!
– Wow, look how windy it is, you guys?
– It’s really windy, so I’m gonna put the hat in front of the microphone.
Hopefully, you can hear me. But this is really cool.
I can see the bow and the forward mast.
Very cool. – Yeah, so we’re about 53 feet in the up right now.
So we’ve obviously got a great view from up here.
And I mean, this is such a great spot when, as I said, pulling in and out of marinas, watching the sunset while underway, so.
– How do the guests fight for this?
– The three most important people get it.
(Rico laughing) (Captain Paul laughing) – We already paid for the charter, right?
– That’s it, yep.
– All right, so how do we do the tour?
– So I’m gonna leave you guys alone.
You guys, free reign of the boat.
Go check it out. – What?
I like it. – Yep.
I’ve got some work to do in the bridge.
so have a have at it. – Okay, we’ll see you at the bridge though. – Yeah, come.
– We can’t do the bridge without you.
– Cool.
– Okay, awesome, we have permission to explore.
– I’ll see you there, go for it.
– Let’s do it. – Let’s do it.
– [Rico] Thanks, Paul.
Okay, so I’m wanna talk about this.
Look at that. How big is this Furuno radar?
That’s massive. – Is that 12 feet?
– [Rico] I don’t know, but I wanna say it’s at least 10 feet.
– [Victoria] It’s 10 feet. I think you’re right.
– [Rico] You know, maybe it’s eight feet actually.
– [Victoria] Yeah, maybe.
– [Rico] I think the one on top is a six footer.
– [Victoria] I think what we are getting is on top.
– [Rico] Okay, anyways, so two open-air radars.
– [Victoria] Their radar is bigger than your radar.
– [Rico] Of course, it’s way bigger.
I’m not surprised. (Victoria chuckling) And then we got all of our antennas, navigation light, search lights, all the fun stuff up there.
So let’s get out of the wind and go to the bridge deck.
And start there. – Yes, let’s do it.
(twangy adventurous music) – [Rico] Oh yeah, that is- – Welcome to the peace and quiet of this deck.
Oh, it’s beautiful.
All right, where do we start? Let’s start on this side.
This is a big boat, so we’re gonna go quickly, you guys.
I gotta say, I don’t know, we just did a quick, like, run-through, and it felt, like, some things about this layout is unique.
– Yes. – So we’ll show you around, which I, it took me a moment to actually understand it.
So pretty cool, so this is our- – [Rico] You look so little behind there.
– What?
– [Rico] You look so little behind there.
– I am little.
Ready? – So what do we have?
– Okay, so we have a deep sink here.
There’s a drink fridge and a bit of storage, which basically services our, not jacuzzi, what’s the word?
– Hot top. – Thank you, a hot tub.
Yes, this is a really deep hot tub as well. – Actually when we arrived, and we did a little snoop tour before, what was it called?
Peek, sneak peek. – Sneak peek.
– [Rico] Sneak peek before, there was no water actually in here.
And this is really, really deep.
– It’s huge, I mean, you can lay out with eight people here.
It’s super nice.
You have a little seating area right here as well, but it’s pretty minimalist deck here, but it’s nicely protected for sure.
When it’s windy like this, you can still have a really nice time out here.
– [Rico] So the way this yard is designed, there are no side decks on this level.
So it should just go all the way over to the starboard side here.
There is a little bit of a more cleaning area here where you can just step on, but it’s for the crew, it’s not for the guests.
– Yes.
– [Rico] From here, you can only go down the exterior stairs or- – On both sides. – On both sides.
Or we take this door behind you.
– Let’s do it.
(door clicking) – [Rico] Wow, this is a serious door.
– Yes, come on in.
Okay, so we’re coming into technically a crew area, like, not a crew area, but it’s not a guest space.
– [Rico] Well, this is still because you have- – This is a day head.
– Day head, yeah. – A really pretty one.
Check this out. It’s big.
– [Rico] A really pretty one. (chuckles) – It’s a pretty one.
Okay, and then right here, we do have some crew cabins, right?
– [Rico] Okay.
– So this is captain’s cabin, I believe.
Can, it’s open. He told us we can explore.
Okay, yes, check this out.
– [Rico] That’s a nice cabin.
– Yeah, so he’s got a really nice desk here and nice TV, check that out.
Yeah, like, nice movies, movies in bed.
Looks like he’s got an en suite right there.
Little, even like a little seating chair. – Chair.
– Yeah, that’s the word I’m looking for.
And that’s first mate’s cabin, I believe?
– [Rico] Yes.
– The doors are open, so I feel like we can just peek in.
I know you guys are super interested in behind the scenes because just in case you don’t know about Motor Yacht Loon, they have their own super cool successful YouTube channel, where they do behind the scenes of charter, and crew life, and just stuff that, you know, you don’t really get to see on YouTube, and they really take you guys there and do a really, really cool, just a deep dive into that whole world.
So if you’re interested in that, check out their channel.
I pop it in right here so you guys can see that.
But yes, it’s one of those rare occasions that you actually get to see behind the scenes.
– [Rico] And funny, always we’ve been following each other on social media for a long time.
– Yeah. – And actually now the first time meeting in real life.
– I know. – This is pretty exciting.
– Super excited to do that.
Okay, so as we’re walking forward, we do have this internal staircase going down.
– [Rico] So that’s a main staircase actually.
– Yeah, that’s beautiful.
Look at all this lighting they have.
– [Rico] I really like the spotlighting.
I gotta say. – I know, you like to, like, point them where you like. – Very cool.
– And then we walking into the bridge.
And there he is! That was really quick.
– Hey! Yeah. – Yeah, that wasn’t too long.
– Somehow I thought it was one more level down.
I don’t know why. – Nope, this is us.
Bridge is normally the highest out of the pilot house decks and yeah, didn’t get lost? – Yeah.
No! No, not yet.
– Okay. – But I have a feeling we might a little bit. (Captain Paul laughing) So show us around the bridge.
– Yeah, so typical big superyacht bridge.
We’ve got the five big Hatteland screens, all touch panels here in the middle.
I’ve got my Conning station.
This allowed when I’m driving the boat.
This is what it is.
Most superyachts don’t have a wheel, so I don’t have a standard wheel.
– Yeah. – This is all that it is.
You know, I wanna go, wanna turn to port, we turn it to port, straighten her out, turn it again.
And you might be like, “Well, how do you know what you’re doing?” You look up here, and I’ve got the rudder indicator, so.
– Yep. – Yep, that’s how I do it.
World’s smallest little fiddles, so.
– [Victoria] I know, it’s like (hums).
– That’s pretty cute actually.
(all chuckling) – Yeah. – But you don’t need more.
I mean, as long as it works, it doesn’t really matter.
You don’t need to have a huge.
– He’s very excited about his DATA. What is it?
– Yeah, DATA steering.
– [Victoria] Yeah.
– We’re gonna have on ours, so it’s the same thing.
I mean, not the same thing, but it’s also just a small wheel.
– His is bigger.
– Yeah, (laughs) come on.
– The wheel is bigger, yeah.
– Yeah, it’s whoever has the biggest wheel, right?
– Yeah, yeah, that’s what it is, that’s what, guys.
– [Victoria] Oh yeah, but not the boat, right?
But the bigger license.
– Yeah, then we’ll just have a little joystick as well for quick steering or something.
– Yeah, so yeah, we’ve got a jogless one, so.
– Oh, you got it, yeah.
– [Rico] Paul, what’s your license?
I’m a Master 3000, so 3,000 gross tons.
– [Victoria] Chew on that, 200 ton.
– I’m not even 10% of that.
(all laughing) Just 200.
– Yeah, hey, it’s all you guys need, so.
– Yeah, yeah. – All right, what else you guys got here?
– Yeah, and then we’ve got the Actus, so we’re a fully paperless bridge as we are a large commercial vessel, where we run Transcends.
So right now, let me come.
It’s in Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale.
So as you can see, all the canals of Fort Lauderdale.
You can see all the AIS targets of the hundreds of boats around us.
And then we also run TIMEZERO as well.
– Furuno. – Yeah, the Furuno one.
It’s just much more user-friendly, and we can get our weather updates and just play with it a lot more without disrupting the main navigational system.
X and S-band radars on either side.
Got the camera system right behind you here.
So we’re always watching.
– Yeah. – So you can see us everywhere we are. – Oh yeah.
That’s only a small fraction of the cameras.
I think there’s 30. – I’m pretty sure there are a lot more, yeah. – Yeah, there’s 37.
– [Victoria] What I’ve seen on your channel is, like, some footage of some other crew members is what I love. – Oh yeah.
– [Victoria] When they, then something happens, and you get to actually put into the video, I love that. – That’s the best.
That is the best. – Yeah.
– Absolutely the best. – I love those videos.
– Someone falls in the water. – Yeah, it’s like that.
– Yeah, it’s so good, so good.
– We saw that.
– [Victoria] What’s that on camera? Yes.
– Yeah. (Captain Paul laughing) – It’s always on camera.
– [Victoria] So behind you, I can see Steve, like, right there, huh?
– Yeah. – Say hi.
– Hi, ya. – So what’s your job here?
– Okay, so I’m the content creator on board Motor Yacht Loon.
It’s such a cool experience.
And what I get to do, I fly all the drones over there, as you can see, do all the editing and the Instagram.
– [Victoria] So this is your office?
– Exactly.
– [Victoria] Well, not a bad place to work.
– Not a bad place.
– Yeah. – So who monitors Loon’s Instagram account?
– Myself and… – Yourself?
Yeah? – It’s a team effort.
You know, usually, it’s between Steve, me, and Maxine. – So if, like, a hardcore fan or someone’s like, “Man, I would really like to communicate with Captain Paul,” would you be able, would you ever, like, reply?
– Yeah, it’s usually one of the two of us in the Comment section and the DMs.
– Yeah, that’s responsive. – Quite a good chance.
– So if you wanna flip that inbox, no, just kidding.
– [Victoria] This is their Instagram account.
– Yeah. – And this is their button.
– [Captain Paul] There it is, yeah.
– Boom. – Gold one coming soon.
– Ah, yes, yes. – Yes, yes.
– We’ll race you to it.
– We actually just got yesterday in the mail, our NautiGuys button.
– Correct. – So it just came in.
And we unboxed it today, so.
– Wow, what a great feeling. – Yeah, it’s exciting.
Second button, yeah. – Nice, well done.
– It’s just so hard just, like, because it’s a hundred thousand, okay, cool.
That was already an achievement, but now, we have to get another 900,000 for the next button.
– [Captain Paul] Yeah.
– It’s a big step.
– It’s a lot of pressure. – I wish there would be, like, a 500,000 button. – But that’s why they do it.
– I know, I know. – ‘Cause if it was easy, anybody could do it.
– That’s it. – That’s true.
– Yeah. – And it’s not easy.
All right, what else is here?
– Navigational station yet again.
This is, well, two completely independent systems.
So how it works with the paperless Actus bridge is you have to have two completely independent stations.
So if one goes down, you do have a backup.
– Yeah.
– So this is where we do most of our passage planning.
So at the moment, I’m actually doing a transatlantic passage.
So if you wanna look here, there we are in Florida.
And oh, sorry.
And that’s what we’re planning on doing.
Going all the way across the Atlantic next week into Gibraltar.
And you flick the Weather on.
And that’s what it’s looking like.
So I can actually hit Play. – Oh, all right. Not too bad.
– And you can watch us sail across the Atlantic.
– [Victoria] Ooh.
– That didn’t look like fun, did it? – Yeah, on the edge there.
– [Rico] That looked like some following seas right there.
– [Captain Paul] Right.
– Actually sideways following. – Very good.
So that’s 50 odd knots of wind at that point.
So we might actually have to come a little further south to stay out of the way of that one.
But at the moment, we’re still what 10 days away from departure.
Yeah. It might change though.
– So we’re just…
– Yeah, and so we’re just watching closely.
– [Victoria] I’m sure you’re filming this so people can follow. – Oh definitely.
– [Victoria] Nice.
– Yeah, we normally do it for an Atlantic crossing, maybe a three-part series, so.
– So how long does it take you to get across from here to Europe?
– This was 14 days. – 14 days.
– From Florida to Gibraltar is 14 days.
And then Gibraltar, we then go straight into south of France, and that’s about another 3 1/2 days.
– Yeah. – So Gibraltar’s got some of the cheapest fuel in the world.
So we always stop there and take on more fuel before we continue on into, you know, the Mediterranean.
– [Victoria] Makes sense. Okay, quick lightning route.
– Let’s do it. – What did you wanna be when you were a kid?
– A yacht captain, what else?
– [Victoria] Seriously?
– Or boats, anything to do with boats.
– Really? – Definitely.
– [Victoria] At what age did you get into the industry?
– 17.
– Oh wow. – Yeah, I was working in the shipyards in Perth, Western Australia, yep.
– Crazy, okay.
– Do you ever get tired of being filmed on board?
– No.
(all laughing) – [Victoria] That’s a no!
– Joking. (hands clapping) No, I mean, most of the time, it’s me actually being like, “Steve, grab the bloody camera.” (Victoria laughing) Yeah, this is cool, film this.
– Yeah, yeah. – So some of the other crew, I’m sure will say, “Absolutely yes.” – Yeah. – But you know, it’s part of it, we love it, and then we love bringing our stories to our viewers.
– So you were a big part behind actually getting this YouTube channel up and going, right?
– Yeah, so I started the Instagram account in 2017, and we always wanted to do YouTube, but it’s just the actual time, I’m sure you guys know this better than anyone.
I mean, every video is probably 30, 40, 50 man-hours to, you know, film, edit, produce, and then finally publish.
So to be able to do that and also do our jobs.
– Yeah.
– So now I have Steve.
It’s I can just yell at him all day.
(Victoria laughing) – [Victoria] I was like, “That’s his job.
He’s supposed to do it.” – Yeah, hit me. – Okay, last one.
Do you have the hardest job on the boat?
– No, I’ve got the best job on the boat.
– Yeah? Okay. – Yeah.
No, all the crew have some great jobs.
– [Victoria] I won’t be asking the rest of the crew this question, so.
– I got told off in an earlier video ’cause I said the chefs had the easiest job on board.
– [Victoria] Oh!
– And you should have seen the comments.
– Oh. – So I’m actually gonna say the chefs have the hardest job on board now.
So yeah, Nina, we love you.
(all laughing) – Okay, all right.
Anything else at the bridge that we need to see?
And then we’re gonna head out.
– No, nothing else particularly exciting.
Nav lights, fire control panel.
All the lightings.
Over here is second officer’s desk, which is always a mess.
And then we’ve got our AIS, our GPS Navtech.
– [Victoria] Call him out. What’s his name?
– Bjorn, come on, man. Clean this up.
– [Victoria] There you go, nice.
All right, so where do we go from here?
– Check out the wing stations.
– Yeah, let’s do it. – They’re actually really cool, so we come out here.
– [Victoria] We’ve watched you dock from here a bunch of times. – Yes, love seeing the light.
– This seems very familiar actually.
– So what we do, this boat to keep the lines nice and clean, we have foldaway wing stations.
Yeah, so they pop up, and it comes out.
So it gives me about three feet extra out the side of the boat so I can see the whole way down the side.
– [Rico] That is really cool.
– [Captain Paul] And you know, you see a lot of yachts, like Yamas over there, how its wing station is permanently far out, which is great in design, but when we’re side by side the water boats in the Mediterranean, I mean, wing stations often hit each other.
So it’s a- – Especially when you’re tied up in this heavy weather, and you start rolling a little bit.
– Exactly. – Wow, this comes out a lot.
– Yeah, there we go.
– So you trust us?
– Yeah, go for it. You first!
– I’m kidding. – So yeah, I’m often, I’m standing here.
It’s great ’cause I can lean out.
I can see all the way down to the back.
– [Rico] Does it hold both of us?
– Yeah, come on in. – Okay. Oh wow.
– [Captain Paul] Yeah.
– [Rico] I mean, yeah, you can almost see the swim stand.
– Exactly.
– [Rico] That’s a good spot.
– And then I just got throttles, rudder, bow thruster, and I can just see the engine RPMs.
You don’t need to get too fancy out on a wing station.
It’s all I need to tie it up.
– Very cool. – Nice.
All right, going forward?
– Yes.
– Okay, so we have a wraparound Portuguese bridge right here.
And then obviously, we’ll go forward when we can, but not quite there, but it’s a nice view from here.
– [Rico] So do you actually use that, the walk-around, really?
– Guests don’t really come here.
I often will run this way rather than going through the middle if I’m changing wing stations.
But it’s really just a crew area.
We have tons of storage up in the bow here.
It’s where we store a lot of our not-everyday-use stuff.
And so yeah, but otherwise, it’s just a crew hangout area.
Sometimes the girls will come hang out here between, you know, when they’ve got a little bit of downtime just to get a bit of outside time.
– Nice! All right, let’s keep going.
– Okay, should we go back?
(gentle music) – Okay, so then we’re going down the main staircase, right? – Main staircase.
– Yep. – Okay, let’s do it.
We’ll see you guys later.
– Perfect.
– Thank you. – In case we get lost.
– [Captain Paul] Good luck.
– If you don’t hear from us in 30 minutes.
– I got Paul’s number. – Yeah, come find us.
(Rico chuckling) All right, going down one deck.
(gentle music) All right, aft or forward.
– [Rico] I wanna say- – I wanna say forward.
– Okay. – Forward? Okay.
All right, so we did like a tiny sneak peek, you guys.
Some of you that know this channel so well already, and if we say something wrong, just call us out in the Comments.
We just did a quick little five-minute run-through first.
So this cabin, oh, this is kind of an interesting way to start a tour off the guest areas.
– [Rico] Oh, that’s really cute.
– Technically, this is an overflow additional crew cabin in terms of, like, the guests: a nanny, security.
– Staff cabin, staff cabin. – Staff cabin.
– Yep. – Yes.
Like, a guest or owner’s staff cabin.
– [Rico] Could also be dive instructor or yoga instructor.
– That’s why I said overflow, yeah.
But everybody on this boat, all the crew on this boat have some kind of another skill.
Like, they either a dive instructor, or a masseuse, or besides their, you know, job that they’re doing.
So I feel like they fulfill all the, you know, if you guys watch their channel, you’ll see they all have another job basically.
But yes, this would be something that comes with the guest usually.
Or like a kid. A kid could easily stay here.
You know, like a teenager? Great, right?
All right, so we have our head here.
Shower, let’s start with the first shower.
Wow, it’s a big shower really.
Two-person shower for sure.
– [Rico] Oh, that’s beautiful with the light.
– Check, and there’s even a little desk here.
Nice, a wardrobe. What’s here?
(Victoria knocking) (door creaking) – [Rico] Restricted area.
– Restricted area. Okay, and then- – [Rico] This is cool here.
It’s like this Venetian, what’s it called? Venetian plaster.
– I think so. Some kinda storage here.
And then we’re walking in forward all the way.
Technically, on this vessel, they have a two-story owner’s suite.
– [Rico] So this is the owner salon slash office.
– Correct, and the actual owner’s bedroom part is underneath.
– [Rico] That’s cool.
– Yes, that is unique.
And it’s something I didn’t quite understand before from their videos, and now I get it.
Super cool, right?
So you can use it as your, just your personal salon space.
You can use it as an office if you work, you know, underway.
Hopefully, when you come and charter with them, you’re not working.
But as we know, a lot of us are not working all the time.
So what’s here?
Oh, that’s just a piece of art.
– Yes. – I thought it was a door for a moment. – That is just a piece of art.
– Okay. – We’ve got a TV here, a nice lounge area with sofa.
And then, wow, look at this desk.
– I know, and you have two side doors here.
They actually can go out and go all the way forward.
– [Rico] Correct.
– Which I feel like we need to do.
Watch out, it’s windy. (engine buzzing) – Okay. – Hang on to your hat!
– So they are getting prepared to go across the Atlantic to go to Europe.
There is an outboard stored here, so just don’t pay attention to that.
This is pretty cool. Look at this overhang here.
This is awesome.
So you have a whole sitting area here.
We have two sun pads here by the side of the sitting area.
Sorry, I’m holding my hat because it’s really windy.
So follow me.
(wind whooshing) – How did this become his tour?
Whoa!
– All the way forward.
As you guys can see, forward mast.
So we are over 50 meters.
You’re required to have the forward mast.
Yeah, don’t get in trouble.
(bell tolling) And then look at this here.
This reminds me of a submarine actually, the way this looks.
So it goes all the way in there.
There’s lots of work going on.
– [Victoria] Whoa.
– Huge workshop down there on the bow area.
So this would be a non-guest area.
This is the working foredeck.
And then walking further forward, of course, we have our bollards here for the dock lines.
You see we have the bow lines on right now because we’re starboard too.
And then we have a cap stand here helping us to pull some of the lines and to pull, you know, to the dock.
So let’s go back because it’s too windy here.
(wind whooshing) Okay, let’s go.
– Okay.
(twangy adventurous music) – [Rico] Oh, wait a minute, wait a minute.
We didn’t even talk about this.
Did you see this horn?
– Oh! – Wow!
– Are you jealous right now?
– How do we not sound that horn on the bridge?
– [Victoria] I’m gonna have to end the video there.
– Yeah, I think we have to.
That’s five trumpets, wow!
Okay, let’s go back inside and continue on.
– Hi, what are you doing?
– I’m just actually about to open up the tender garage.
We’ve had some guys working in it today, so I just wanna have a quick squeeze to see what they’ve done, but yeah, this is- – This is a tender garage?
– [Rico] Oh, this whole thing?
– There’s two of them.
One on that side, one on this side.
So one tender there, one tender here.
They both open up, and we just launch them over the side.
– Wait, didn’t we just get lucky? Okay, do it.
Do it, do it. – Okay, let me get to the other side where it opens up actually.
– Wow. – Let me show you how this works.
– [Rico] So that’s all hydraulic, I assume?
– Yeah, yeah, there’s two massive hydraulic arms.
You’ll see them come up now.
This is nice and light.
It’s a fiberglass-made roof, so that’s nice and light.
But yeah, there’s our baby.
– Oh, wow. – Whoa!
– Our crown jewel.
– [Victoria] I did not see this coming.
– [Rico] This is huge.
– Okay, the Jet Ski’s there too.
– Yes. – How do you get this all out?
– Two Jet Skis, so we’ve got a big crane here, which operates so we can launch the tender, and then we pull the Jet Skis across.
And when we do that, pop them in the water there.
We do also have a standup Jet Ski on the other side along with our rescue tender, and then our bigger passenger-carrying tender.
– How long does this whole thing take for you to put ’em all out?
– We’re pretty competitive, so we like to time ourselves.
(all laughing) – [Rico] Safely, of course.
– Yeah, safely, of course. Yes, very much so.
So the quickest we can get everything in the water, all the toys, the pool in the back, all of that is 25 minutes.
– Wow. – Wow.
– Yeah, it’s really important for the guests, when you get to an anchorage, you want the guests to be able to get out and have fun as quickly as possible, so.
– That’s fast.
– We’re competitive, we get it done.
Yeah, and that way, the guests get to enjoy as much time as possible.
– All right, quick lightning round.
– Yeah. – What did you wanna be when you were growing up?
– A surfer. – A surfer?
– Surfer? – Yeah.
So this was the closest I could get to being in the water all the time.
– [Rico] It’s a very large surf boat, surfboard?
– Yeah. – Yes, very large.
Okay, what do you love the most about this job?
You kind of answered it, I guess, but- – Yeah, well, just being on the water.
Just being on the water, in the water, under the water.
That’s my vibe, so I love it.
That’s why I love this so much.
– Yeah. – So I can just put this in the water, go surfing behind it or teach a guest how to surf behind this, it’s super fun.
– Okay, do you have the hardest job on this boat?
– Yes.
– Yeah. (laughs) (Rico laughing) – [Rico] Nice.
– I guess I’m not gonna ask you who has the hardest job?
– Well, Paul would probably tell you I have the hardest job, but when he can’t fix something, he gives it to me.
So technically, then I have the hardest job.
– Then you’re stuck with it.
– [Rico] Good point, good point.
– Ask your question.
– [Rico] Do you ever get tired of being on a boat which is constantly getting filmed?
– Yes and no, it depends.
I mean, if you are physically tired and someone sticks a camera in your face, sometimes it’s not the best thing in the world.
But you know what?
It’s showing everyone else what we do.
– [Rico] Yeah.
– I sometimes get tired, and then I get a message from my dad saying, “Wow, the show this week was amazing!” And then it just makes me super stoked that they actually get to see what we’re doing.
– Like, that the real “Below Deck” without the drama.
– Exactly. – The fake drama, like the real life more so.
– Yeah, so. – I mean, there’s drama.
– Yeah. – But it’s like a controlled drama. – Not a fake drama.
Yeah. – You know, which obviously things break down.
There’s a lot of mechanical stuff, a lot of technical stuff.
– Oh, for sure.
– So it’s just the nature. – It’s a very dramatic job.
I mean, things go wrong all the time at sea.
There’s a lot of moving parts in this boat, and a lot of very skilled people to make sure that things don’t go wrong.
So yeah, there’s drama, but it’s just nice.
We work in a job that is isolated from the rest of the world a lot of times.
So to be able to show people what we do, showcase that, that does make me quite happy.
– Awesome, well, thank you so much.
I’m glad we got to see that. – That’s great, yeah.
– And we’ll see you later.
– [Rico] I just saw something else, which we didn’t see on the bow.
– What? – Because it’s actually covered in here and it’s hidden.
It’s the anchor chain and the windlass.
– Oh yeah, right there. – Yeah, yeah.
– That’s actually under deck, pretty much it’s covered.
– Yeah. – Yeah, it’s covered.
It’s great because it hides it from the guests, you know.
It’s quite a dirty business anchoring.
– Yeah.
– And this way, we can get it done without them even knowing, you know, besides maybe a bit of noise, which is great.
– [Rico] So you anchor with the hatch down?
– Yes, yeah, anchor with the hatch down.
– [Rico] Oh, I see there.
I see there’s hatches on the side actually.
So you can see where the anchor’s dropping.
– Yeah, pop your head out there, great feature.
And then we’ve got some cameras there, so the port can see what the anchoring guys are doing.
– Yeah. – You know, so even when we’re not on the YouTube channel, we’re still watching us on a camera.
(all chuckling) But yeah, so it works very well.
– [Rico] Very cool.
– All right, see you later. Thank you so much for that.
– Lovely to meet you guys.
Take care. – Yeah.
You guys have a good crossing.
– Thank you. – Thank you.
(gentle music) – All right, we’re back in.
It’s nice and quiet here.
So we will show you that owner’s suite a little bit later.
Just remember that there’s a staircase that directly connects this space.
Pretty special. – Yes.
– All right, let’s go.
Now, we’re going aft.
– [Rico] Going through the main staircase.
– So now we have another two state rooms, right?
Is that a state room? No, no, no, no.
That’s not a state room, this is a VIP, correct? – Correct.
– Okay, this is a VIP cabin.
It’s got a queen size bed.
Have a really cute little sitting makeup office spot here.
There’s a bunch of hanging lockers.
I don’t know what’s in, so I’m not gonna open anything, so.
– [Rico] Of course, a TV and a en suite.
– Oh, this is really pretty. Check this out.
Look at the window in this, whoa.
It’s beautiful. – That’s a shower spot.
Rain shower head, of course.
– Wow. – Oh.
And the stone work is beautiful.
– It’s really nicely done, I agree.
It’s absolutely gorgeous.
Okay, so that’s our VIP cabin.
– Correct. – So it’s on our…
– Starboard side. – Which deck are we on?
– [Rico] I don’t know what it’s called.
– It’s not the bridge deck.
It’s not the main deck. – No, one below the bridge deck. – It’s in between.
And on this side, we’ve got our stew’s pantry.
Check it out!
Immediately, our attention’s drawn to this short-cycle dishwasher that Nina, the chef, has totally made us put on our boat. (chuckles) So I can’t wait for you guys go and meet her.
We finally met in person, so okay, anyway, so what do we have here?
There’s dishwasher, there’s a sink, tons of storage.
It’s just pantry, look.
– [Rico] Kinda cool, you even have the CCTV feed of the side boarding area, so you see if a guest comes or leaves.
– So this is where we have to pay attention because you could get lost.
So this here goes up to our bridge. – Bridge.
– And then this here goes down to our galley.
– [Rico] So this is the second staircase, secondary staircase. – Crew’s staircase.
– This is the crew’s staircase, exactly. – Correct.
So now we’re gonna go down to the galley first, and then all our crew areas are actually even lower, they’re underneath us.
– [Rico] Yes.
– Okay, let’s go to the galley first.
So you have a side door here that you can come in with provisions and everything come this way.
– [Rico] So this is the main deck just in case you got lost already.
– Yes, and you come straight into the galley right here.
– [Rico] And this is kinda cool too, yeah.
We see who’s on board and who’s not on board.
– Hello!
Hello. – Oh, hello, hi.
– [Rico] Okay, another YouTuber.
– Another YouTuber.
♪ Another, another ♪ – I’m pretty sure most of you are already watching her channel, but we finally get to meet in person.
– We did, I walked into the galley, I was like, “Hang on.” – And I was like examining her dishwasher.
– She’s already in the spice cupboard.
– Spice, yeah, exactly, yes.
I feel like I’ve been here ’cause you’ve Zoomed with us. – Okay.
Yeah, I Zoomed from here. – From this galley.
– Yeah. – So we feel like we’ve been here. – I gotta say, in person, this galley seems actually bigger than in video.
– Yes. – Yes.
– So good.
– It smells, and in person, this smells a lot better than on video. (Victoria laughing) – What are you making?
– Scratch and smell. This is crew dinner.
So I’m making crew dinner.
They got like- – What are they having?
– Italian chicken with olives, capers, and peppers.
They’ve got a goats cheese and beetroot salad.
They have a couscous salad.
And I’m doing some collard greens.
– Wow. – Wow.
– And pepperoni. – See this is one of the reasons that people join the yachting lifestyle, the crew side, you don’t get to eat like this every day.
– And I think the crew take it for granted sometimes.
– Yeah, you join at the start, you’re like, “Oh my gosh.
I’m getting cool stuff. – Yeah, and then you get used to it.
– And then they get used to it.
– Yeah, and you’re like, “It’s just like, oh, it’s just this and that.” I’m like, “This looks like a really nice restaurant meal, so.” – [Rico] So who decides the crew menu?
– Usually the sous chef when we have a sous chef on board, but because we don’t have one right now, it’s me, I decide.
– Got it.
– And are you pairing more on the healthy side or do you want to cook some like- – Definitely, like, a standard fare, healthy.
But I love a burger day. I love a pizza day.
I made them poutine the other day, it’s chicken, fries, and gravy, you know?
– I know, she’s making us hungry.
– So yeah. – If you guys don’t know her channel, which is, like, means you live under a rock, I’ll put it right here, and you guys go, and follow, and check it out.
She’s got a really, really cool channel, TheCrewChef.
– TheCrewChef. – Which is not what she is anymore. – It’s kinda outdated now.
– Yeah, I know, everyone keeps saying I should rebrand, but I’m crew and I’m a chef.
– I know. – No, actually- – Yeah, just keep it.
Keep it. – Yes, I thought I should keep it. – Yeah, I agree.
It makes sense. – Yeah.
– So I feel like there’s videos out there of this galley on your channel, but just a quick rundown.
– A quick rundown.
– Yeah, real quick. – Let’s start this one.
These are my fridges. These are the galley fridges.
We have two fridges, two freezers down here.
– She’s talking about like it’s her pets, you know, these are my dogs.
– I love these. Please don’t break down on me.
– What are these?
– [Rico] Some commercial, huh?
– What’s the brand? – What’s the brand?
Oh no, I actually don’t know what the brand is.
It’s like sunken in. – What? Oh, okay.
– And it’s not even on any of the hinges.
Mystery brand. – Okay, how big are they?
– Yeah, how big are they?
– Big enough. – Yeah, yeah, okay.
– Yeah, I would say probably each side is, like, 900 liters.
900, 900. – Oh wow.
– What else is here?
– So we have- – Yeah. – This is very cool.
(lid rattling) – [Victoria] Oh!
– This is where our little thingies, but through there, this is the fire suppression system.
So, if the deep fat fryer goes on fire, there’s a special lid here. (shushing) And it just goes over the fat fryer.
– We don’t have that on our boat.
– [Rico] Nope.
– That’s cool. Two MKN ovens.
These girls are a bit older, but they still work great.
They’re combi, so you can see all the different functions up here.
So that’s normal heat, that’s steam and heat, and that’s just steam.
And they have a cleaning function. (hums) Fantastic. – Wow, so Nina actually helped us design our galley on our yacht.
And immediately, when we started talking equipment, she was like, “You gotta have this MKN.” – MKN.
– And I was like, “Girl, I think it’s…” Well, first of all, I think it’s a little overboard for what we have going on.
I think you are overestimating us.
We’re still just small, but yes, I had to be, like, tap the brakes, tap the brakes.
– [Rico] But we did get a steam oven.
– We did get a steam oven because of you.
– Perfect. – Yes.
– This is the hotline.
– Yeah. – So we have induction hubs, we have our deep fat fryer, and our extraction system up here.
And underneath is just all storage, like pots and pans and stuff, which is pretty handy.
This is the dishwasher.
– Ta-da.
– It’s very noisy, so yeah, it’s going right now.
We’ll stop that again. (dishwasher buzzing) Sorry, sorry. – Yeah, so we got one of these, I think the new model of this.
– That was the one that Nina said like, “You have to have a short-cycle dishwasher.” – Yeah, and it was a big splurge, but I feel like it’s gonna pay off this.
– This, yeah, it pays off big time because otherwise, you just spend tying your time washing dishes rather than cooking.
So yeah, any chef is gonna be like, “Yes.” Great, my favorite cupboard is this cupboard.
It is my herb and spice cupboard, which is good, I think. – Are you having spice cupboard? – Spice cupboard?
– I mean, I don’t know if I need the quantities at home, but at least- – I mean, yeah, that’s a lot of quantaties. – Yeah, yeah.
It seems like you like spices, like spicy stuff.
Chili, chili, Aleppo. – Chili, chili, chili, chili, there’s more chili under there.
– [Victoria] But one thing you told us, which is cool, that you have them like in rows.
– I do because I find that I’ll use typically cumin, coriander, and turmeric altogether.
I’ll typically use onion, garlic and onion powder together.
And then at the back, I’ve got, like, the paprikas together.
– [Victoria] It’s double deep. (laughs) – I’ve got, like, the Indian spices together.
– Tandoori, really?
– I’ve got all my Middle Eastern spices together.
– [Victoria] This is what a real chef does.
– And that makes total of sense, basil, oregano, rosemary. – All the herbs, yeah, all the herbs here together.
– Wow, look at that. – I’m very, yeah, I know.
We’re geeking out on that.
– Yeah. – She’s serious geeking out on herbs and spices.
– This is typically where I work, this station. – Yeah.
– And the sous chef usually works kind of on this corner just over here, so.
– Got it.
– We both close to, like, the hotline and stuff.
I like being close to the sink.
Yeah, that’s pretty much it.
We’ve got the KitchenAid and my Thermomix.
– Yeah, the must-haves.
– The must-haves, yeah. – She told us we gotta have that, we gotta have that, so yes, it’s all happening. – They definitely make sense.
– Well, thanks, girl. – We’ll catch up.
– [Rico] My God, it smells so good.
– Rico told me that we have to be fast on this tour, but so far I’ve been. (fingers snapping) – Well, you’ve got lots, so many, so much other stuff of the boat to see, so. – I know.
(both smooching) We gonna pop into the group quarters.
– [Rico] So wait a minute, what’s all this?
– So just down there is the main deck pantry.
So it’s very small sort of sink and stuff.
But we don’t really use that one because the guests always eat up there anyway.
– Yeah. – And they use that pantry.
– Makes sense.
– [Rico] And then this is a dumbwaiter?
– It is, so that dumbwaiter goes down to the crew mess.
Yeah, so it goes down two flights of stairs, which is really good because my walk-in fridges are down there, so I don’t have to carry anything up.
I just put in the dumbwaiter, so.
– [Rico] Shove that all in there.
– That’s and really cool. – And when this food is ready, I send it down the dumbwaiter.
Yeah. – Very cool!
So you never have to go and use the stairs.
– I don’t have to, like, carry with the food, yeah.
– Nice, so it goes down, but does it go up too?
– There is another dumbwaiter which goes up, but we don’t use that.
I’d rather the girls carry the plates.
– Got it. – Yeah.
– By the time you put them on your, and then like it’s the same.
– ‘Cause you can only put so many in there.
– Exactly.
– But this works for the people.
– And can you imagine if the dumbwaiter break down?
– Yeah. – And you’re like, “Sorry, your main courses are stuck in the dumbwaiter.” – You can pick it up in the galley.
– Oops! – Yeah.
All right, we’ll let you cook.
I mean, sorry, is it cooked?
Is it? We’ll let you cook. – Yeah, yeah.
– I don’t know if there’s another word.
– That is correct. – We’ll let the chef, we’ll let your chef.
– We’ll let your chef. We’ll let you carry on cooking.
We’re gonna go and pop into the crew quarters real quick.
There’s a lot going on there, but we got our permission. – I think it’s really good, you should go and look at it.
– Yeah. – Yeah, behind the scenes!
Behind the scenes, show the real stuff.
– Nice, okay, so as Nina mentioned, there’s a lot going on because they’re prepping for this huge passage.
They’re doing some service, some work.
I mean, this is real behind the scenes, you guys.
You don’t get to see this.
And as a guest, you never get to see this.
So Captain Paul was really cool to us ’cause he was like, “Hey, you guys know boats.
So if you’re cool with it, go down there.
Normally, nobody gets to see this.” – [Rico] Well, that’s what it is with boats.
There’s a lot of maintenance going on, and it has to be done at some point.
– So as you can tell, they’ve got, look, this protection covers everywhere ’cause they’re doing some work and maybe something can drip and stuff.
So everything is really nicely protected.
So keep going down.
– [Rico] Wow, this is huge here.
– Exactly, so we have two quarters there, which we’re gonna obviously leave alone, full-on work.
So just respect their privacy.
But let’s go down one more.
– Further down? – Yes.
(gentle music) So welcome to our crew area.
Like we said, there’s a bunch of work going on.
Let’s go straight into the crew mess.
All right, Sonja. – Hello.
– What is your position?
– I am third stew slash head of house on board here.
Yeah. – Okay, awesome.
So show us around.
I know you guys have a lot going on here.
– We do. – Like, we told everyone, we warned them, there’s a lot happening.
– We do, yeah, in the middle of a shipyard here.
– Still looks really good though.
– We tried, it’s like this is our home at the end of the day.
Like, this is where everyone comes together.
So we wanna make sure it’s nice for everybody.
– It’s really big. – It’s very big.
– Yeah, agreed. So you have, like, two areas.
So how do you use that space?
– That’s, like, our movie space.
That’s, like, you’ve had a hard day.
– [Rico] Let me go that side.
– You’ve just had, like, your nice dinner made for you by your private chef on board and, like, all life is- – Okay, she appreciates it.
Okay? – Yeah, life is hard.
You’ve got the dishes done for you.
And then everyone just goes in there, they get their, like, comfy clothes on.
And everyone just snuggles up. We watch a movie.
– Nice. – Sometimes the boys play video games.
– Okay. – So it’s really nice.
You dim the lights. – So it’s nice to be able to have, like, two spaces, like, people hang out here. – It is.
– And then it’s kind of a secondary space.
– We have people, like, doing work in here sometimes on their laptops, or, like, some people that just don’t wanna watch the movie.
So it’s nice to have the separation for sure. – Yeah, I agree.
Especially, how big is the crew?
– I think there’s 19 of us total.
– Yeah, that’s a lot.
– There’s a lot people. – That’s a lot of people.
You have to be able to split up.
– Exactly, yeah, it’s either cabins, here, or here.
That’s it. – Yeah, got it.
So with the cabins, right, on this deck, what do we have?
– So we just have these two here.
– Yep. – Down below, those are, like, our little cave ones.
They’re quite spacious.
I think the two forward ones near the bow are the smallest cabins just ’cause it tapers. – Got it.
– So we have two down here.
You just have to have people that don’t mind the noise.
Like, you gotta have people that don’t mind hearing a movie. – Well, because yeah, there’s a lot going on here, for sure.
– Yeah, so, like, it’s not the quietest, but it’s honestly, it’s pretty great.
So you have two down here.
And then I believe you have eight up on the main level.
And then you have, up one more, you have the captain’s and the chief officer’s cabin.
– Yes, those, we got to see.
– Yeah. – Yeah.
– So and that, that’s your laundry here?
– This is our laundry, yeah.
It’s also a bit of a situation at the moment.
– It’s all right, you’re doing laundry.
– But laundry always is. – Hi!
– How are you? – Hi.
– This is Jade. – Hey, you guys, just keep an open mind, a lot going on here, okay?
– There’s a lot. It never stops in here.
– How many washers and dryers do you have?
– So we have four washing machines, four dryers, and then we have our industrial washing machine and industrial dryer.
Those are for, like, all the big towel loads that the boys use for the guests. – Wow.
– It’s very handy. This comes, it’s so handy here.
– I mean, this is what you have to have, you know, like, even if one breaks, you’re still functioning.
And you’re still able to, yeah, this just happens. – This seems broken, yeah.
– Yeah, it just happens.
– But you still have three.
– Yeah, I mean, on our boat, we have two sets just for that reason ’cause I’d wanna be able to do that, yeah – Could you imagine in the middle of a trip?
– It’s the charter. It’s, like, it could just ruin.
– Yeah. – You can’t wash the towels.
I mean, it’s important. – Done.
– Wow, really cool. – It’s good, spacious.
Yeah, we have, like, all our cupboard space up here as well.
Bunch of little hiding spaces around as well.
Does everything we needed to do.
– Nice. Okay, what else?
So that way, right? – Yes!
– Bye, nice to meet you. – Bye!
– So this way, we kind of just had, this is our dumbwaiter here.
So this brings the food up from the galley down to us.
– [Rico] We skipped over the most important part.
– [Victoria] The coffee machine!
– [Rico] The coffee machine.
– I know. – Oh, sorry, yeah.
– [Sonja] On its altar right there.
– [Victoria] Yes.
– A shrine to the coffee machine.
Honestly, if that thing is not full, like, seven times a day, every time we come in here, we’re like, “Is there beans? Is it good?” – It makes sense.
– Good to go, the last thing you want is someone to, like, have to empty that themselves.
Oh, you’ll never hear the end of it.
We’ve got the drinks fridge here.
We’ve got, like, a bunch of good stuff for the guys to grab if they need some energy.
We always have, like, leftovers from lunch and dinner.
We usually only keep those for, like, a day.
– Okay, you guys continue on with this.
– I am so hungry. – I’ll all stay down here.
– Hungry! – Get a break. (chuckles) – So that’s the dumbwaiter.
That’s also from the galley. – This is our dumbwaiter.
– Okay. – It only comes to here and galley. – Yep.
– This is, like, our little uniform cupboard in here.
– Oh wow! – So it’s a bit of a mess at the moment, but- – This is so big!
– It is, yeah, it’s quite a…
We’ve got lots of space.
– Yeah. – And then here, we’ve got our garbage locker.
So it’s like a refrigerated room so it doesn’t- – [Victoria] Oh, you have it down here.
– Yeah, so that’s ours.
And then we have our glass crusher here so that we don’t take up a lot of space with glass.
No one cuts themselves. It’s quite handy.
That’s a good one. – Glass crusher.
– Wow, glass crusher. – And then this is, like, our little kind of dry store. – That’s the pantry.
– [Sonja] So we’ve got, like, chef stuff on one side.
– Okay, you guys, this isn’t little, like, when she says little, this isn’t little.
And if you watch Nina’s channel that you’ve seen her do videos and stuff with organizing. – If you watch Nina’s channel, you know that she really, really cherishes this shelf here.
– Yes, really important.
Wow, this is big. – Hot sauces.
– It’s a big, yeah, it’s a great space.
I don’t know what we’ll do if we didn’t have that.
– It’s like a cabin.
– And then we’ve got the walk-in here.
– So that’s what she was saying.
You can just put stuff into the dumbwaiter, and it goes up to the- – Yeah, so you’ve got another fridge in here.
– Wow! – Wow.
– That opens up. – Ah, that’s cold.
– I know on your feet.
And then you’ve got the freezer on this side.
– [Rico] Yeah, I’m not gonna go in there.
– So we’ve got everything in there.
Ice cream, all the good stuff.
– Oh. – Yeah.
– Wow. – Wow.
– We’re very lucky.
– [Rico] So can anybody just go in there and pick something?
– No. – I figured.
– That’s for interior only. (Rico laughing) And then you’ve got the ETO’s office.
He has a bunch of computers in there.
And then you have the engine room through there.
– Okay, very cool. – So we’ve got quite a bit of stuff back here. – So all the people watching don’t know what an ETO is.
– So he’s our, like, our computer technician on board.
So he does kind of all of the TVs, all of the, like, Wi-Fi, everything that has to do with that.
It’s a big job.
– Separate person doing it? – Yeah.
I can’t even hook up to Wi-Fi half the time.
I don’t know how he does it.
He’s got the best job.
– All right, quick lightning round.
– Yes.
– What did you wanna be when you were a kid?
What profession?
– Ooh, I wanted to be a veterinarian.
– Wow. – Yeah.
But I’m allergic to all animals.
– Oh my God! (Rico laughing) – That did not go very well with me.
So this is good. – What age did you started, like, got into yachting?
– I think I was 23.
– Okay. – I’m 29 now.
So it’s been quite some time.
– Yeah. – Yeah.
– What’s your favorite thing about this job?
– Oh, that’s a tough one.
– Most favorite. – I think just meeting, like, meeting all the different people, like guests and crew.
It’s like you just get a family for life, it’s amazing.
And you get to travel the world with them.
– Yeah. – Quite nice.
– Like, how good?
– [Rico] Do you ever regret being on camera?
– I guess I’ll find out.
(all laughing) I guess I’ll find out.
– Okay, and do you have the hardest job on board?
– No.
– No, who do you think does?
– I have to say, like, it’s a mix between, like, the deck guys sometimes and the chef ’cause the chef never stops.
– Never stops. – Like, never ever stops.
I feel like they have it.
– I feel like it’s also is you really gotta love it because you’re in that space, and it’s nonstop.
You just get one out, it’s the next, like, it just never break.
– And, like, the requests that people have sometimes, you’re like, “Oh my goodness, okay.
I guess I’ll figure it out.” – Agreed.
Cool, well, thank you so much, we appreciate it. – Thank you.
– And we’re gonna go and check out a whole other beach club insane area that we haven’t seen yet.
Appreciate it, see you later.
– Yeah, thank you. – Bye!
(gentle music) Gonna have some good leg workouts here.
– [Rico] Yeah, right.
– Wow, oh, we forgot to do the lightning round with Nina.
Real quick, real quick. – Okay, so let’s pop in.
– Chef. – Hi.
– Okay, real quick. – Hit me.
– What’d you wanna be when you were a child?
– I wanted to be a spy.
– A spy?
– Yeah. – Me too!
– I read “Harriet the Spy,” and I wanna be a spy.
– Oh, okay, favorite thing about this job?
– I get to cook every day.
– That’s your favorite thing about this job?
– I’m a creative person and I love food.
– Wow. – So I wake up, and I’m like, “Oh, I get to cook.” – Do you think you have the hardest job on this boat?
(Nina chuckling) (Rico chuckling) We ask everybody this question.
– I think the engineers have the hardest job on this boat.
– Yeah? – Yeah.
– Okay. – When the literal and metaphorical shit hits the fan, yeah, they gotta deal with it. – Yeah.
– Okay.
– [Rico] But if no shit hits the fan, you’re actually working all the time because you’re cooking, you have to always- – Yeah, that’s true, yeah, yeah.
– But apparently, it’s what she loves about the job.
– But you enjoyed it. – Well, I like that.
I would much rather have consistently busy than be like, “Oh my God, I need internet now!” Or like the pool’s broken.
Or that’ll be awful to not know what was wrong with something, so yeah.
– And then it’s broken. – I didn’t need that stress.
– [Rico] So being on Motor Yacht Loon, and it being on social media all over the place, and YouTube, and so on, you ever getting tired of being on camera?
– Nah, not me.
(Victoria laughing) (Rico laughing) – See you later. – Bye!
– Bye.
(gentle music) – [Rico] We’re gonna continue on with our tour here.
– So we’re back in our upper salon area.
Wow. – This is beautiful.
Honestly, I love the furniture.
– The interior does have that lush but minimalistic vibe, right?
Like, it’s very comfy, but minimal.
So you don’t feel overwhelmed by furniture.
– Correct. – If there’s a lot of people on board, you still feel like you have lots of space.
– [Rico] And some of the furniture seems a little like mid-century, modern.
Really, I really like that. I like the wood.
It’s beautiful. – Yeah, it’s gorgeous.
– Really well done. – Looking at this table, right, I feel like this yacht must be very stable in the heavy seas because this table scares me.
But obviously, it’s living here, and it’s surviving, so it’s great.
Big couch here, can easily hang out with 10 people.
A bit of storage here. Like I said, very minimal.
And now we go into our aft deck.
So we have our alfresco dining right here, which if you guys have been watching their videos, a lot happens here.
This is where I feel like it’s main dining.
That’s where they do most of the guest meals here.
And they do really pretty gorgeous table settings and table decor.
It’s a whole art out there, which I’m not very good at, and I guess need to get better at for the charter.
But it’s kind of a thing in the superyacht industry.
– [Rico] And then when you’re done with your meal, you just move a little bit further out.
– You just roll over.
– [Rico] You just roll over when you’re stuffed. – And ended up on this, like, 20 people couch?
20 people. – Yeah, at least.
– Wow!
– [Rico] Which is such a cool spot.
Like, you know, say you have your breakfast right there, you’re gonna enjoy a second coffee right here.
And then everybody who’s already up earlier than you because you were the last one out of your bed, you can watch ’em actually swim in the pool or behind in the beach club doing any kind of water activities behind.
Pretty cool spot. – Do you have a flagpole envy right now?
– [Rico] Wow. That’s yeah, that’s a pole.
– And it’s nicely shaded here. And did you mention the TV?
– [Rico] I have not.
– There’s a pop-up TV right here.
So depending on where you’re sitting, you can also watch some TV if you’re not participating in what’s going on there in the beach club area.
– [Rico] So going to the main deck, how do you wanna do this?
You wanna go take the exterior staircase or you wanna go back inside?
– I think we take the exterior staircase and then we go in and show you the owner’s suite.
– Fantastic. – All right, let’s do it.
– [Rico] So you take the port side, I take the starboard side.
– [Victoria] But why?
– [Rico] Why not?
– Okay, let’s split up.
Bye. – Okay, look who’s first?
One, two, three.
– First! – Okay, I know, I know.
I didn’t really try, I didn’t really try.
– I think you let me win. – Okay, so welcome to the main deck aft.
– So where do you wanna start?
I mean, kind of like the elephant in the room.
– [Rico] Well, is that a real question or was it a trick question? – Yeah, I feel like it was not really a question, wow!
– [Rico] Okay, my question is now is it warm or cold?
– What do you think?
– [Rico] Put your foot in. (chuckles) – It’s warm, it’s like warmish.
– [Rico] Perfect temperature to jump in.
– Yeah, it’s like a perfect temperature for hot weather. – So really cool.
I mean, look, this pool is massive.
– And you’ve got layouts on the side right here to hang out.
I mean, the real fun is happening down there in the beach club, which we’re gonna go to.
– [Rico] For me right now, I’m already picturing in my head, “Okay, where’s the DJ setup?
Where the speakers are gonna go?” I mean, pool party on Loon, right?
– Where would you do it though?
– [Rico] I would probably wanna be, like, right in the middle here somehow.
– You don’t think you’ll do it in the beach club?
– [Rico] Both.
– Okay, we’re gonna go and check out the beach club in a little bit, and you guys are gonna put it in the Comments if you would throw a party with Rico DJing on this superyacht, where would you do it?
Put in the Comments.
– [Rico] Gotta wait until the end of the tour so you actually know what’s all here.
– That’s what I’m saying.
Once we’re in the beach club, you guys can decide.
I’m rooting for the beach club.
– [Rico] Little sneak peek.
Gonna check that out in a moment.
– All right, let’s do it.
(twangy adventurous music) Takes a long time to walk from that side.
– [Rico] I know.
She’s beamy. – Get used to it.
We gonna have a hard time running around.
– [Rico] So this is Loon’s new tender, an HCB 53.
That’s a big tender.
– Wow. – That’s a huge center console for a tender. – That is very comfortable for quite a few people.
This is a very nice primary boat.
So to have this as a tender, and you know, you’re on a big superyacht.
– [Rico] So now here on the main deck, the side decks are really, really wide.
There’s a way to get to the galley.
And then you have staircases on both sides.
– Yeah. – Which will lead us one deck up to where we just were to go to the bow.
Yes. – Exactly, all right, so there’s some people on board checking out the boat, some charter brokers and stuff, so we’re gonna shoot around it, but you guys are used to it with us doing all the boat shows, so let’s go back into the interior.
(gentle music) Come on in, so this is our…
– [Rico] Main deck formal dining.
– Exactly, which we were just chatting with the crew.
We said, “Do you guys use this often?” They said, “No, primarily guests are preferring to dine outside.” – [Rico] Yeah, I could see that.
– So you have it.
In case you ended up in this bad week of just crappy weather, you have a really nice dining area.
But I could definitely see that if I was chartering this, I would wanna be outside.
– [Rico] So another cool thing, like sadly, it’s a little bit flickering in the camera, but this is a TV, which is also an art display at the same time.
It looks so, so cool.
And you can change it all the time.
– So right here, that this here. Oh, wait a minute.
Oh, I expected something completely different.
– Oh, it’s a salon. – Okay, you go this way and I go that way. – Okay.
– Ta-da, welcome to the main salon.
I mean, that salon was pretty awesome.
And you still have this space. This is huge.
You think about, you know, 12 people charter here, it’ll feel like nothing.
I mean, it’s really, there’s so much space to spread out.
You’ll be looking for each other.
– [Rico] And then you have another very large TV there for movie nights if you wanna do some.
And one thing which a camera and a video sadly cannot translate and bring you over that information.
It smells really, really nice in here.
– It does smell very, very good.
So anyway, it’s all self-explanatory.
I’m not gonna explain couches to you guys.
There’s storage right here, which is, I’m sure it has tons of their, like, entertainment stuff stored.
So I’m not gonna open anything.
Behind this door is our galley, which you guys already seen and had a really nice sneak peek in.
Actually no, had a tour of.
– [Rico] Yeah.
– And now we’re gonna go all the way forward.
What’s here?
Do you see all, like, little pocket door?
I mean, yeah, there were pocket doors everywhere that would pass by on both sides.
– Day head? – Day head!
Another really beautiful day head, nicely done.
So this would be used by the main salon space. – Well, in general, main deck.
– And this is something I find very cool about this yacht is you actually have, like, a real foyer, right?
So when you come in, right there from the dock, you come up this really nice grand passerelle, right?
And you come right in here.
They bring the suitcases and stuff.
And you have a real foyer.
– [Rico] I like that a lot too.
A lot of times on other yachts we have been on, that area is usually maybe half the size.
– Yeah, this is very big and very spacious, yeah. – Right?
This feels like- – You’re like, “Welcome, you are on board.” Okay, so let’s keep going forward.
So this staircase leads us to the owner’s office slash salon, that kind of a private space.
– [Rico] So the whole owner’s suite can be, no, this is a bulkhead here.
– Correct.
– [Rico] But it can be closed up there.
– Correct.
– [Rico] Okay, got it.
– But this is a door. How cool is that?
– Oh wow. – Check it out.
It’s completely hidden.
– [Rico] And they incorporated the wall art into it.
– Yeah. – But what’s in there?
Restricted area. – Another restricted area.
– [Rico] Off-limits for us.
– Off-limits. Okay, so another watertight bulkhead here.
And now, we walking into our- – [Rico] Plus the privacy door.
– Yes, we’re walking into our owner’s suite space.
So basically, yeah, this whole space is whole owner’s suite.
Wow, it’s massive.
Wow, we don’t even have to fight for a closet.
Go, go to yours.
– [Rico] Oh, I see.
– [Victoria] Yeah.
– [Rico] This will be your side though, because you always like to have more hanging space.
– You’re right, you’re right, switch.
– So this will be my side here.
– Look how big this is. – Yes, shelves.
That’s all I need in hanging space.
– Yeah, this is mine, this is his. – Perfect.
– Okay, keep going.
So now we going to our port side, and this is our owner’s suite.
– [Rico] That’s pretty sweet.
– I don’t think I’ve ever seen this kind of a layout.
– [Rico] For the owner’s quarters, this is definitely a little overkill.
– Yeah, I mean, it’s great size.
Why would you want this room to be any bigger?
Like, it’s huge, look how much space.
You can dance around here.
So you’ll have a really nice desk here, which clearly you don’t need an office because you have a whole office there.
This is just a nice makeup, jewelry spot. – Makeup.
– A door there, what’s that go?
Emergency exit. – Oh, okay.
– So this is just your, you know, how on the smaller boats, we have escape hatch, this is your escape door.
– [Rico] Pretty big door.
– Yes, all right.
And of course, storage.
Of course, we have hanging lockers.
I mean, goes without saying.
Now, we’re going on our starboard side and walking into our owner’s en suite.
– Wow. – It is beautiful.
Look at these windows. – Can you stand next to the top?
People understand how big this actually is.
– Look at the windows!
I can’t get over these windows.
Wow, I don’t think I would ever close these blinds unless it was in the marina maybe.
– [Rico] Right?
– Wow, and there still looks like hanging lockers, or storage, or something there.
Can I open one up?
– Yeah, sure. – Please, I haven’t opened anything this tour, you know hard it is?
Okay, check this out.
– I love that. – Yes, very nice.
– [Rico] Branded Loon everywhere.
– Oh, that smells good.
– [Rico] Smells so good everywhere here.
– Oh, it smells so good. Small TV, hello.
Okay, I’m not gonna mess with that ’cause somebody will definitely answer on the other side.
– [Rico] But there is the whole phone book here of who you can call.
– Yeah, who should we call?
– [Rico] Each guest cabin, you can call anybody.
– That’s so cool.
– Interior service. – All right, here we have a head.
So we have our toilet, separate room for it.
And this is our shower, ready?
Wow, look at this.
Look at this right here. – Wow.
– Wow.
– [Rico] So how do we rate this shower?
– You guys, put it in the Comments, but I, okay, I mean, on one, two, three, we say it together, okay?
One, two, three.
Six-person shower. – Six.
Okay, we agreed on it, six-person shower.
– Yes, for sure.
I mean, look, four, five, yes.
Party in the shower.
This is cool, it’s very pretty.
– Yeah, I’ve never seen that before actually, like, in these positions for sure.
Very cool. – Yeah, unique.
Very nice design. Okay, where are we going next?
– [Rico] Going aft.
– You guys, the best is yet to come, the beach club.
(gentle music) So let’s go down to our guest cabins.
It’s the way the guests would come in.
– [Rico] Main staircase down.
– Wow, look, there’s actually, like, a little foyer here as well.
– Yes. – Like a landing spot here.
Beautiful. – What is this?
– What? Spa. – Loon Spa Menu.
– Wow, see this is what I told you.
Everybody’s got kinda like a double job on this yacht. – Wow, so forward? – Let’s go forward first.
Yes, let’s start all the way forward.
We’ll go port.
– [Rico] So just since we’re always standing in front, it says, “Restricted Area.” This goes straight into the crew area actually.
– Yeah, okay. – Yes, we’re not gonna go through there, but that’s what the crew would do. – Yeah, we’ve been there.
Right, so coming down into port.
So the way they did this cabin is this is your sort of daytime setup, and on the other side, we have turndown service.
You’ll see it, yeah. – Oh yeah, okay.
– So welcome. – So king size bed.
– Really? – Yep.
– Wow. – King size beds.
– I thought it’s queen but okay.
– Nice size TV. – You guys tell us what you think.
We have a little makeup area here, very cute.
Coming into the head.
Toilet right here, sink.
I mean, same decor, of course.
Huge window here as well. The showers are amazing.
So all of them you notice, right?
Most of ’em don’t have a door in the guest cabins, but they’re really spacious.
So not really needed, really nice.
– So now look at the starboard side, which, like you said, is prepped for the evening setup.
– Yeah, yeah, turndown service with the lights. – Lights are dimmed.
– Yeah, so this is how you would arrive into your cabin some time in the evening, and it’s identical, matching.
You guys believe us, matching cabin.
Exactly the same. – Yeah, just the choice of the stone’s slightly different.
The color is slightly different.
Other than that, it’s the same layout.
– It’s very nice.
Okay, and then what’s here?
(Victoria knocking) Oh, storage, (chuckles) storage.
Keep going.
Two more cabins.
Okay, we’ll go in the twin on our port side.
So the only difference is this is twin cabin and the other one is, looks like a twin cabin, which I’m wondering if it also could be a twin.
We’re gonna look when we’re there, we’ll investigate.
Wow, all the cabins are very large, you guys, like, a lot of space, a lot of floor space.
– Same setup like the other cabins?
– Yeah, very, very similar.
– Again, just slightly different color choices.
– Rain showers everywhere.
Nice. – Off to the starboard side.
– Let’s see if this cabin can or cannot.
Yes, I was right.
So it could be set up as a twin cabin for two separate beds right here or they’re making one big bed. – Oh, I see.
– This is so generous. It’s really big.
Love it!
Wow. – All equal.
Equal footprint of the cabin, actually.
So there’s nobody who should be mad having a smaller cabin because they’re all the same.
– How do we get on board as guests?
– I know, right?
– Okay, I want to try Nina’s cooking.
– [Rico] I think we should do an Atlantic crossing with Loon.
– Oh, I don’t know. I don’t know if I’m made for that.
– [Rico] What do you guys think?
Victoria, Rico joining Loon for an Atlantic crossing. – Atlantic crossing?
– [Rico] Put it in Comments below.
– I mean, it could be.
– This is beautiful here.
Look, all these shots of Loon One, or Loon Two, or Loon Three in different anchorages in the world.
– Is this, like, our tech area behind these walls?
– [Rico] I assume yes.
– Yeah, because all of this is just the walls, right?
– [Rico] Correct.
– So let’s go check out the beach club, which is massive, which is one of the big features of this charter superyacht.
– [Rico] Oh, look at this. I know where that is.
– Okay, let’s do this.
So we’ll kinda start a little bit backwards.
So okay, I don’t even know what everything is.
We’re just gonna explore.
Restricted area, so I’m- – We’re not gonna open that. – I’m not gonna open it.
– [Rico] Anyways, beautiful features here on the walls, which is a live feature but also an art feature on the left and the right side, port and starboard side.
– Look at the size of this beach club.
– [Rico] Pop-up TV.
– Oh, nice! All right, let’s go this way first.
– This is massive. – So we are now port side, a little bit turned around, but we have a gym, whoa!
– [Rico] Whoa.
– [Victoria] Oh, it’s bigger than I thought.
– [Rico] You are not kidding.
– Haven’t seen it yet. Wow, it’s big!
– [Rico] That is amazing.
– Pretty cool.
– [Rico] Dumbbells there. You got a rowing machine here.
You got a multi-function machine right there.
– Multi-function machine?
I don’t think it’s called that tech in gym.
– [Rico] You got a Peloton here, running. Wow, it’s amazing.
– Okay, now we’re gonna go across to our starboard side.
Let’s open up some doors, yeah?
– [Rico] Sure.
– Huge storage area.
Like I said, guys are prepping for a big crossing.
So all the toys, everything has been put away, and what?
– [Rico] Got a day head there?
– Hello? No, I’m just kidding.
(both laughing) May I come in?
Look at the size of this day, it’s not really a day head actually.
It’s actually, you have like a- – [Rico] Proper bathroom.
– A full-person shower here.
So if you’re using the gym and stuff, you can also shower off here.
You can shower off if you’re salty and you wanna come back up.
So pretty nice to have that.
– [Rico] So the best feature down here, period, are these two Bluetooth speakers.
– What do you mean period?
No, the best feature is here! (Rico laughing) And a lot of our friends are gonna appreciate the sauna.
– Oh. – Once again, they’ve been storing stuff away, prepping for passage.
It’s a big passage.
I don’t know how long it takes them.
Let’s ask the captain how long it takes to prep for a crossing like that.
Just to put everything away, but they have a really nice sauna.
I know for a lot of you, it’s a must, must-have.
What are these things anyway?
Wing foil, something?
– [Rico] Foiling boards? Yeah.
– That must be fun. – So further aft, we have a center bar, – Check this out!
Oh, I mean, I think this is where most of the days are spent.
People out there swimming.
I know they have this.
You guys haven’t seen, check out their channel, but they have this massive blow-up platform setup.
– [Rico] A whole toy garden behind.
– With, like, a pool, you know, a safe pool for kids and like, just Jet Ski platforms and ah, crazy.
All right, so on this side, we have our dive center.
– Oh. – It’s a little bit loud in here. – I missed that.
– Yes, it’s loud, so we’re gonna have to speak up.
But they do have a proper dive center on board.
– Wow. – What’s that?
Oh, storage, yeah, storage right here.
– [Rico] Life jackets, et cetera.
– Exactly.
– [Rico] Going further aft, as you guys can see, these huge mechanisms or actually these big holes here, that’s where this massive platform, when it’s, like, folded up for it to be underway, gets locked into place.
– It is crazy cool beach club.
– This is amazing, absolutely amazing.
– [Victoria] You have a quick connect shower right here. – Quick connect shower here.
Easy tender access on the side of the boat.
Really, really cool. You got the SEABOBs?
Of course, you gotta have them, all the toys.
– [Victoria] Pretty epic.
– It’s pretty epic. – Imagine yourself in the Bahamas somewhere, how cool.
All right, you know what else is left?
– Yes, and now looking up to this, I mean, look at this.
Somebody could hang out right in the pool there.
Look down here, you can communicate, so cool.
– All right. – Yeah.
– What do we have left? – Okay, left, we do have left the engine room and the technical space.
– Okay, let’s do it.
I know that engineers are not gonna like us right now because they’re doing all the services, the work, everything prepping for this journey.
So we’ll show you what we can, but if you guys are interested in seeing more, just go and check out their channel, and subscribe, and all that.
(twangy adventurous music) All right, Captain Paul said that Alex is gonna show us around.
Alex. Victoria. – Hey, guys.
– Alex. – Rico.
– Nice to meet you. – Welcome.
– What’s your position? – I’m chief engineer on board.
– Oh, I’m so sorry.
– That’s what most people say, yeah.
You know, it’s the best.
– You knew the risks.
– It’s the best position.
– Really? – It’s no fun if it’s easy.
– That’s true. Then anybody could do it.
– That’s it, if everybody could do it, it wouldn’t be worth doing.
– All right, show us what you can.
I know you have a lot going on with this crossing.
I’m sorry we’re doing this to you.
– We do, we’ve got a bit of maintenance going on, but this is, it’s our way down to the ECR.
– Yeah, just show us what you can, and we’ll go from there.
(gentle music) Wow, the AC is great in this space.
– Right, there’s two places the AC will work perfectly: in here and in my cabin.
– [Victoria] Nice.
– It’s kind of cooler in the ECR.
– I wonder who’s in charge of that.
– Exactly, yeah.
– All right. – And it certainly doesn’t smell like a mechanical space here.
– No. – You have some air fresheners going on or something? – Smells so nice in here.
He’s got AC. He’s on coffee machine.
– Oh, that’s the most important machine on the boat.
That one is, that is important, yeah.
– No, life is good down here. I wouldn’t come up either.
– [Rico] So who’s usually coming here to hang out with you?
– Oh, everyone.
– Yeah. – Yeah, yeah.
These morning meetings I have with the captain in here do go on, yeah.
– Oh, funny. All right, so just a quick show us around.
We don’t wanna take too much of your time.
I know you’re also busy. – No, of course.
I mean, we’ll talk about in here since this, we’ve got a lot of our manuals in here.
– Yeah, wow!
– So this is really nice ECR in here.
And then we’ve got a switchboard room just here.
As you see, we’re stocking up for the summer season here.
So it’s lots of parcels come through.
So main engine’s a little bit noisier.
So we’ll talk about those.
We’ve got the MTU 4000 M71 series.
– Okay. – They’re fantastic.
About 2 1/2 thousand horsepower per engine.
– [Rico] They’re V16s, right?
– Yeah. – Yeah.
– They’re really good. They’re nice engines I thought.
I enjoy working with them, and they give me very small problems sometimes.
– Sometimes. – What’s this?
– Oh, this is my choice. This is a 3D printer.
– Oh. – That’s what I thought.
– Yeah, I know, it’s a great addition, new addition.
This really is, like, a modern piece of technology. – I’ve never seen one on board.
– So I’ve got this to my house so I can learn how to use all the software while I was off last time.
Fully geeked-out on it.
I mean, I would stop- – Have you used it for anything yet?
– Constantly, yeah.
– What? Like what have you made last?
– So the last thing I made, for the stern door, I made some bush bearings and that.
So designed with these, and then we- – I feel like you need to be on camera, not me!
– This is a first. I mean, we’ve been on a lot of boats.
– I’ve never seen that. – But I’ve never seen a 3D printer on a boat. – No, this is great.
And you know, it’s once, it does take a bit of getting to learn all the materials, and all the softwares, and design things, and what to do. – Well, when you’re out there in the middle of nowhere, and you really need something. – Exactly right, that’s it.
– [Victoria] That knowledge, wow.
Something to consider, Rico. Something to consider.
– Okay, cool. – Okay, what else can you show us? – Okay, let’s have a look in the engine room.
– Yeah. – Yeah, let’s do it. Hop in.
– I mean, this is our switchboard room, but as you can see, it’s full of- – Oh wow, and you can feel it, right?
It’s definitely a lot warmer here.
You have all- – This is the real reason the AC has to work really well in this space to keep this whole- – Oh, it gets warm in here.
– So you got all your main distribution here, huh?
– Yes! – I have a lot of flickering, so don’t spend too much time here.
– Yeah, it’s the lights. – Yeah, it’s the lights.
– [Victoria] Yeah, it’s okay, normal. All right, let’s go.
Ooh, it is loud! (fans whirring) Dang, it’s loud! – Wow, this is big.
Sorry. (Alex chuckling) – Round down. Yeah. – Round down?
(gentle music) Got a lot of work going on right now.
We’ve got fuel tanks being cleaned and fuel being polished.
This is our fuel system here, our bunkering system.
We have 13 tanks on board, which is 197,000 liters we hold on board.
Yeah, it’s a lot of fuel.
We can get across the Atlantic and back across the Atlantic without filling.
– [Rico] So what’s making so much noise right now?
– Right now, ’cause I’m on the generators again, I’ve got to generator supply fans on.
That’s why it’s…
– Wow. – So on this one, we do try to, you know, on the ops, they do try to fill the space as much as they can, which is great because they’re squeezing everything in.
This is roof-raising plants for both our walk-in plants and the ones in the galley.
Also, my AC in there. Always important.
– [Rico] So these are the engine room fans making so much noise right now.
– These are the engine room fans, yeah.
Unluckily out here as well, we actually have chilled water going through these.
We have engine room AC, which is lovely.
We have chiller water system here.
That circulate around the whole boat.
And so this is our refrigeration and small AC.
Have fire pumps, bildge pumps spots here.
– [Rico] Sea chest?
– Sea chest here.
And then in here, we have our stabilizing rooms, so.
– [Rico] What’s that?
– [Alex] This is our stabilizers in here.
One of them sort of pushing over.
– [Rico] Of course, it’s closing again.
– It’s tricky, well, to get into.
– [Rico] Yeah.
– Right in the center here, almost the size of the main engines is our AC pump with four compressors and it’s definitely our highest load that we take on board.
But it, you know, it’s good.
It’s a lot of redundancy, works fantastic.
– [Rico] So are these individual chiller systems, or is it all one big one?
– So it’s one big one.
– [Rico] One big one, yeah.
– This system here is cooling down that chilled water system, which is pumped from here.
That goes around the system too.
And air-handling units for each deck, for each place, for the crew area, for every guest area.
– [Rico] Love it, wow.
– Yeah, it’s quite far out.
Other than the bow first, it’s our biggest consumer.
– [Rico] Yep.
(fans whirring continues) – This power pack for the stabilizers, which is, I mean, I love it’s been a kit.
It works great.
With this stuff, you really do notice a difference.
And on here, we do have a zero-speed capacity as well.
And it works great.
Turn them on, guests are happy, smooth sailing, ideal.
– [Rico] Big main engines, they’re massive.
So is that the muffler of the exhaust system?
– Yeah, this is the silencer and then behind me, big valves going overboard.
One on the water line and one below.
And then fresh water system.
So we make our fresh water when we’re not in port.
This is capable of what?
They’re 30 liters, so something like 24,000 liters a day on these, so that’s- – Wow.
– It keeps our pumps up.
Well, we’re using fresh water for our pool on the aft.
We are using it for the washdown.
So when we’re out, these are always on, at least one at a time.
We have a capacity of water nearly 40,000 liters of fresh water, so.
And I like to keep it full.
Keeps us a bit heavier as well.
Keeps us steady on the water.
– [Rico] Yeah, makes sense.
– And then we keep it treated, water heaters.
And then water treatment.
We’re using silver ion to sterilize the water as well as UV.
We’re keeping that on flow meters, so that’s keeping it constantly good water.
(gentle music) I’m probably saving credit there because generator rooms in bits.
– Now, let’s go. – Yeah.
– [Rico] Oh wow, that goes far in there.
– So our treatment plant’s in there.
Hydraulic system below the stern door.
The two side boarding ladders, that’s all in there.
And our Shore converters, where at the moment, because of the higher load, they’re off.
And further back, steering gear and lots of crawling space.
It’s a serious boat!
– And then the people working far harder than I am.
– [Rico] Oh, definitely feels nice when you come back in here. (sighs) – It’s warm in there?
– [Rico] Yeah, well, it’s very different than on a small boat where you have generators with the sound shields on or whatever.
This is actually loud.
– Yeah. – It’s loud!
– Yeah. – In there.
This is a sound-shielded room.
But it’s yeah. – Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Lightning round?
– Oh, we wanna…
– What did you wanna be when you were a kid?
– I wanted to be a seafarer.
– Really? – Really?
– I always wanted to work as sea.
I grew up in an island, fond of the sea. – Where?
– Well, it’s place called Portland in the UK.
– Okay, okay. – Yeah, as opposed to the State you guys have over here.
– Yeah, yeah. – Yeah.
And like, my family was seafarers, my parents were Royal Navy, grandparents merchant navy, so I have to work at sea.
– What age did you get into yachting?
– At yachting? I was 23, I think.
– Okay. – I was at sea since I was 17 working.
– Wow. – Wow, crazy.
Okay, favorite thing about this job?
– About this job?
The places and the people.
Actually yeah, the people. That’s a good crew.
– Okay. – And as always, it’s a nice environment.
Even if the boat was complete in a wreck, which it’s not, it’s not. (Rico laughing) They always say it’s always better have a good crew and a bad boat than a bad boat and a good crew.
– Okay, great. – The other way around, sorry.
– Your question.
– [Rico] Ever get tired of being on camera?
Since it’s a social media boat.
– It’s different, as an engineer, we tend to, like, try and hide away.
So we did, we tend, you know, we tend to keep it.
– So the answer is no because he’s not on camera.
Not nearly as much, he hides here.
– We try to stay out.
Imagine if I said something wrong and that goes onto YouTube, and that would just…
– Imagine that. – Be there forever.
– It never happens to us.
You just call the garbage disposal a trash compactor. – A trash compactor, yeah.
– So yeah, just, you know. – It happens all the time.
– Yeah, got destroyed for that.
Okay, last one, do you have the hardest job on board?
– [Rico] No, who has the hardest job on board?
– Hey, it’s my question!
Do you have the hardest job on board?
– For some things, yes. – Yeah?
– Who do you think has the hardest job?
– It depends on the day.
I’d say when things go wrong, yeah, my job is hard.
It’s a lot of pressure. – It’s you.
You’re on the line. – But I would say the hardest job, the one that’s one of those you have to be on form every day, I would say is actually TheCrewChef.
– The chef. Oh, TheCrewChef. – TheCrewChef.
– Crew chef. – Honestly, I think they’re the ones you have to make, you know, food for 19 people three meals a day. – Nonstop.
– And then if you have a bad day as a chef, you people are gonna say something.
If I have a bad day, I’m gonna hide down there somewhere.
– [Rico] That’s a good point.
– But otherwise, when things go wrong, then yeah, then bang my head right here, and that’s it. – Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, well, thank you so much.
– Very well. – Thanks for showing us around, and we’re gonna go find the captain and finish up the tour.
– Yeah, enjoy the nice things up there, yeah.
– Appreciate it.
– [Rico] Thanks for showing me around.
I know it was kinda loud there, so I don’t know how the sound is gonna turn out, but we’ll see. – We’ll see.
Well, that was fun.
We’re finished! – There we are, done!
– I don’t know how long it took, but I feel like it’s gonna be a two-parter.
– You’ve been a while.
– Yeah, I think it was an hour and a half or something or maybe two hours of footage. – It took us a long time.
– Yeah, you guys got lost?
You went down the engine room?
– No, we just toured and toured, and I only feel like we only met just a few crew.
So if you guys wanna meet the rest of the team, please check out their channel because I feel like we barely scratched the surface when it comes to the crew. – Yeah, there’s almost 30 of us, so I mean- – You guys have literally my favorite Instagram in this niche, like, funniest Instagram.
Shit they do on Instagram, nobody does.
So if you’re not subscribed to Instagram, check it out.
It’s literally like one of the channels I always look forward to. – Thank you.
We love doing it. – That’s a great job.
– Especially like the themes, like, we did a fun St. Patrick’s Day.
– Exactly. – And Christmas, Easter.
We love doing all of them.
– Yeah. – So we all gotta come, join Lee, like, watch the comments underneath this video because Victoria’s always like, “Oh man, I would love to stay in one of the state rooms at some point.” I was like, “Well, maybe we should just be part of an Atlantic crossing at some point.” – Oh, next week, let’s go.
Yeah, pack your bags! (Rico laughing) – I imagine we need to prepare, like- – Yeah, fourth. – Question.
– Yes. – How long does it take you to prep for such crossings?
Prep the boat. – Takes us about a week.
By the time we tie everything down, fuel it, got divers to clean the bottom, make sure she’s efficient.
– How many Atlantic crossings have you done?
– Around 30, I sort of lost count, yeah.
So it’s somewhere around there.
– [Rico] We have not done one.
– Not yet. Not yet.
This would be a better boat, I feel like, than ours, size-wise.
I would feel a little bit more inclined.
– Yeah. – Well, thanks for having us.
– Of course. – This was so much fun.
And it’s been long in the making.
I hope all of you that have been putting that in the Comments that we need to tour Loon are happy.
Put in the Comments.
– Yes. – Do the like, share, all the good stuff, subscribe to them, check out all their social media.
And I hope we see you guys soon.
And hopefully, we get to maybe do a little…
– Let’s do it, rafter?
– Yes. – Rafter party.
– But now a little slow.
– Yes. – Next Caribbean season.
– Yes. – Next, definitely.
– Yes? Honest? – 100%. Yep, let’s do it.
– Okay. – Yep, we’ll do Jet Ski races.
– Yes, see you guys later, (smooches) ciao!
– Thanks, Paul. – Thank you.
(scene beeping) (clapboard clacking) – [Victoria] Okay, do it. (Nina clapping) Okay, wow, four, okay.
Get low, get low.
– Get low? – It’s really windy, get low.