MAN AT THE TOP – CPT. HERB MAGNEY
RIGHT: OCEAN CLUB
of www.SuperyachtCaptains.com and the involvement of what,
the industry learn more about how to help and fine tune that
1450 plus active working Captains, it has created an open
family, that home environment on board the boat, this is what
dialogue for its members to go back and forth and share and
we need to define more as there is no other model like it, not
compare ideas, that did not happen just a few years ago, you
even the military.
have a problem you put it to the members and the answers are almost instantaneous. The formation of the Triton changed
What do you think about a future business. How about the Herb
how magazines are formatted today and how these magazines
Magney Method of Yacht Crew Viability and Leadership?
have become informational tools with information that crew
I have been trying really hard, I have handed out more copies of
can use. How we get the crew reading more and studying their
the MCA White Paper ‘Leading for Safety’ I believe than anyone
environment more – that is probably the challenge.
else. I personally printed 1000 copies to hand out at one of the
Professional yachting is now a well defined career and not
symposiums a few years back and now it is a hand out at the
just a hobby, we need to make sure we are protecting the crews
HELM courses as well, ‘Leading for Safety’ is one of the top 10
interest and not burning them out, it breaks my heart when I hear
leading tools for the industry,I have been handing it out like it
about crew that are just going to do it for two to five years and
was candy.
I am like ‘no, no do this for 20 years and then retire from it and then only retire to work in a different aspect of it’ That is how great industries have been formed. Look at
This would be a really good thing to publish on Colin’s www. SuperyachtCaptains.com forum. Do you know even I am not
aviation it was a hobby for rich people and then they started to
allowed access to it?
take people who would pay for a seat and now brokerages exist
I should hope not! I think I should tease Colin that it should be
that sell seats on private jets, there is the model right there, the
mandatory when joining the forum that you have to read it.
planes just go a lot faster and the air crew do not have to live onboard with each other.
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I don’t think I am wrong in thinking that SuperyachtCaptains.com
The biggest challenge in yachting is that we live with
is likely the largest communication tool for Captains that there
each other for months on end, it creates a very special dynamic
is, with more members than the PYA has at the moment by a
and very special challenge. When we as Captains and leaders in
long shot.
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