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Located in the neighborhood of Olympus, Pretoria, Yachties4Yachties is a reputable travel agency that offers a range of services to cater to your travel needs. With their fast, friendly, and helpful staff, they are known for providing exceptional customer service. Whether you need assistance with visas or any other travel-related inquiries, Yachties4Yachties is the go-to place.

Natasha, the person in charge, has built a reputation for being pleasant, honest, and efficient. She goes above and beyond to ensure that her clients’ needs are met promptly. Her dedication and commitment to customer satisfaction have earned her rave reviews, with many customers recommending her services without hesitation.

The agency’s website provides all the necessary information about their services, making it convenient for clients to plan their trips. Yachties4Yachties also offers online appointments, making it even easier for clients to schedule consultations and receive personalized assistance.

The agency’s location on Midas Ave is easily accessible and offers wheelchair accessible parking, ensuring that all customers feel welcome and accommodated.

Yachties4Yachties is a trusted name in the travel industry, with a solid reputation for providing great service. Their professionalism, efficiency, and attention to detail have garnered them a loyal customer base. So, if you’re in need of travel assistance, look no further than Yachties4Yachties. They are committed to making your travel experience stress-free and enjoyable.

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Home Crew Tips The South African yachtie guide to visas

The South African yachtie guide to visas

Being a South African yachtie presents you with a few visa challenges that other countries don’t have. The pandemic has presented new challenges for yachties as travel isn’t as easy and seamless as before and our green passports don’t give us access to many countries without a visa. 

Every nation has its own system and set of standards, which causes crew members to stress and confusion as they attempt to make sense of it all. Paperwork and travel papers may cause prospective yachties and occasionally established yachties who are trying to relocate a lot of difficulty.  

Working on a superyacht is not working physically on international soil. It is working on a foreign-flagged vessel, and hence the process for applying for visas can be complicated and confusing.

We have gathered as much information as we could on passport and visa applications to help you understand the visa requirements for the region you’re interested in working in.

Why do you need a visa?

A visa is an official stamp or document stamped on/attached to your passport and grants you permission to enter, work, travel within, and remain in a country for the specified duration. You will be refused admission to a country without the proper visa. As South Africans, we require visas for the most popular super yachting destinations, and you need to have the correct tourist visa to allow you to remain and work on a superyacht overseas

The Mediterranean and the Caribbean

The 22 members of the European Union, as well as Iceland, Norway, and Switzerland signed the Schengen Agreement in 1985. Visas are required for entry into the Schengen Area for South Africans. A Schengen Visa entitles bearers to unrestricted travel between the 26 European nations that make up the Schengen States. 

Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland are among these nations. 

You will almost probably need to enter and travel inside the Schengen States if you work as a crew aboard a luxury yacht, therefore getting a Schengen Visa from the embassy of the nation you will be initially visiting is crucial.

The following is an explanation of the Schengen visa requirements for non-EU crew. 

As it stands, non-EU crew are eligible for one of three types of Schengen visas: 

1) Schengen transit (Type B) visa – This visa, often known as an “entrance visa” or “exit visa,” is required for crew who board or depart a yacht within the Schengen Zone. The transit visa is eligible for a transit across the Schengen Area lasting no longer than five days.

2) Schengen visa for temporary entry (Type C) – The entry type for short-stay (Type C) visas might be single, double, or numerous. The Seaman Short-Stay (Type C) visa is the most pertinent visa for yacht crew. To apply for this visa you often need documentation showing that the crew member will work on board a vessel, such as an employment letter, travel insurance, work contract, vessel registration documents, a port letter, an itinerary for the boat, etc.  Depending on the crew contract and other variables including the number of prior Schengen visas the applicant has in their passport, the Seaman Short-Stay (Type C) visa’s validity ranges from one to five years. Most yacht crew will get a visa with boat papers, valid for 1-2 years and will then need to renew accordingly. When you first enter any Schengen state to look for work, it will normally be on a short stay tourist visa, 2-4 months long. Only once you have secured a job onboard a yacht and have been issued with the necessary paperwork, can you then reapply for a longer tourist visa for up to 1-2 years.

3) Long-stay (Type D) Schengen visa – This visa is instead issued for a specific amount of time and can be extended from inside the Schengen Area. The good news about this visa is that it places the crew member as a “national” of the Schengen area and grants them privileges and obligations that are not available to those on short-stay (Type C) visas. If non-EU crew members intend to live in Europe, this visa is the one to obtain. This visa is very hard to get and generally only issued to crew who can prove they have been physically living on land for a certain period of time and can financially do so for the foreseeable future with work contracts in place. The visa you will most likely get during your time working as a crew member onboard a yacht is the Type C visa above.

Popular super yachting spots in the Northern Hemisphere tend to attract yacht owners and, consequently, crew members during the summer season. This implies that a Schengen Visa must be obtained in order for any non-EU crew to operate aboard boats. The most important thing a non-EU citizen can do is to ensure that all of their documentation is in place so that they don’t miss out on opportunities due to cumbersome paperwork.

According to South African Yachties, when applying for a Schengen visa as a South African you need the following:

• At least two legitimate blank pages should be located on either side of a valid South African passport in acceptable shape. 
• If you haven’t already had your biometrics taken, you must show up in person for your visa appointment. 
• A bank statement showing that you have at least R90,000 in your account or that of a sponsor. 
• Flight confirmation
• A deposit for lodging (up to 450 euros) has been paid for the length of your reserved stay.

United States

Any potential crew member who wants to work on a luxury yacht that is either US-flagged or enters US waters must possess this special, non-immigration visa. 

B1 Visa = Business Travel

B2 Visa = Visitor for Pleasure

The current challenge crew face is the unforeseen delays in being able to make an appointment at a US embassy/consulate in South Africa. The delays in making an appointment nowadays can be as long as 6 months. Crew have to spend days looking at appointment options and grab any new opening the second it opens. 

Our advice to new crew considering entering our industry is to book their appointment and apply for the visa as early as possible. For parents who would like their sons or daughters to enter the industry after school, the beauty of the B1B2 is the fact that the visa is traditionally a ten year visa. This means potential crew can apply and get the visa in advance and its validity is not an issue at all.

If you’re planning to enjoy the almost 60,000 km of Australian coastline during your cruise season and explore the most famous Australian coastal cities from a different perspective, you may be wondering what documents you need to work on super yachts in Australia and whether you’ll need to apply for an Australian visa.

Australia has a special visa for yachties, Temporary Activity visa (subclass 408) Superyacht Crew stream. With this visa, you are able to work as a superyacht crew member in Australia. You may remain here for a maximum of one year. With this visa, you can visit and depart from Australia as often as you’d like while it’s still in effect while working as a crew member aboard a superyacht.

It is unusual for a visa stay period of more than 12 months to be granted. The maximum stay for this visa stream is 2 years. The visa is granted with multiple entry. You can leave and re-enter Australia as many times as you want while the visa is valid. If you are outside Australia when the visa is granted, the visa stay period starts on the day that you enter Australia. If you are in Australia, the visa starts on the day that it is granted. 

This visa cannot be extended to allow you to remain in Australia longer. If you need to stay longer to complete your superyacht season/remain in Australia for another season, you will need to submit a new application for this visa.

As a prospective yachtie, it is important to be informed. The important thing is to first research where you want to go and what the visa requirements are before you do anything else. 

The more you know about the requirements to enter different countries, the better you can plan in advance for the challenges you’ll be faced with. This is the best way to ensure success in your journey onboard. It is very important to make sure that you use a professional agency to help you obtain your visa, whether it be a tourist agency or a yacht crew agency. If you do it on your own and things go wrong, and you are either denied a visa or don’t get a long enough one, then you will not be able to find work overseas. Getting your visa is key to finding work.

If you need more information on the visa requirements for the regions you’re interested in working in, chat to our SuperYachting South Africa team who will happily assist you.

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VISA APPLICATIONS FOR CREW LOOKING FOR WORK IN FRANCE

Thank you for your interest in our visa services… below you will find some additional information. once you have confirmed that you would like to go ahead by filling out this form , we will send you an invoice link and legal documents to sign..

*Please note we do NOT guarantee visas and they are issued entirely at the discretion of the consulate.

What we offer:

• We will assist with the paperwork needed, you need to gather the documents on the list we send you.
• You will not have to lie about your intentions for going overseas.
• Info for accommodation in France – we will give you a list of crew houses to book with (availability may affect your trip dates so book this as soon as possible, but please not before you have had a chat with us first!).
• Flight deals from STA Travel corporate division, given exclusively to SA Yachties clients (see below).
• Included in our Sa Yachties service fee (R3250): – Is also a detailed webinar or skype roughly 45 min to explain the paperwork required for your visa application. A Q&A is held afterwards with one of our senior visa agents, to answer any questions you may have. This step of the process is essential and cannot be skipped.
• Sa Yachties service fee of R3420 ex VAT
• Capago fee – this fee is subject to change and will need to be paid directly to Capago on the day of your visa appointment by you in person. The Capago fee is +- R2000 (determined by Rand/Euro exchange rate) to be paid by card only.
• If I am submitting your application on your behalf, I will add the Capago fee to your initial invoice.
• Accommodation – you will need to book accommodation for the duration of your stay. If you decide to stay in a crew house, please remember that you will accept and pay ALL charges as the crew houses need full payment in their accounts. (You will also be required to pay a 50 Euro security deposit on arrival).

Extra costs you may incur:

• Postnet fees to courier documents to our JHB/CT office if you will not be present at your visa appointment.
• Printing of any outstanding documentation.
• Printing of passport photo’s if they arrive and they are wrong.
• We encourage you to collect your passport from our JHB/CT office in person however if you want your passport couriered back to you, you will be charged for the courier fee.
• Flights/transport to our offices should you need to appear in person. Sometimes even when biometrics have previously been captured they may not be found. In this case you will need to come to the visa centre to re capture. This is not included in the SA Yachties prices.

What you will need to get started:

• Valid South African passport in good condition, with at least 2 valid blank pages opposite each other. Passport expiry nothing before 2020.
• You need to be at your visa appointment in person (if you’ve not previously had your biometrics captured).
• Proof of at least R90 000 or more in your bank account or that of a sponsor (to be discussed in Skype call).
• Flights – we use STA Travel as they will supply a confirmed flight with a R1000 *refundable deposit.
• Accommodation deposit (+- 450 euro) paid for your booked duration of stay.

What we DO NOT include:

• We are a 3rd party visa agent dealing only with visa applications. We do NOT guarantee the outcome of a visa application in any way.
• We can only advise you on what standard documentation the embassy requires – should they require more for your particular case this will be handled on a case by case basis and we cannot pre-determine this.
• We do not include the Capago visa fee, flights, accommodation costs or any other cost relating to the visa application.
• The R3250 is our service fee alone.
• We do not guarantee that you will get a job once you arrive in France. This is up to YOU.
• We cannot guarantee how long your visa will be valid for – this is entirely at the discretion of the embassy. The usual validity issued is 90 days valid for 3 months / 4 months.
• We do not guarantee the availability of accommodation or flights. Once payment to SA Yachties has been made, we suggest you book these as soon as possible. Please chat to us FIRST about the requirements for flights and accommodation before booking and paying on your own accord. We recommend that you use our preferred suppliers however you don’t have to – if you’d prefer to use your own travel agent for flights and accommodation please be sure to check that the invoices or flights are correct BEFORE making payment.

*Refundable – please ask to see STA Travel’s terms and conditions. Please click here to fill in this form and send it to us online.

SEAMANS VISA’S (CREW WITH A JOB)

Visas for crew in europe needing to extend their visas:.

If you are employed on a yacht and need a new Schengen visa, we can assist you with all your paperwork before you leave, so that on arrival in South Africa you will have the shortest possible turnaround time. You can visit friends or family, do a short course or simply relax for a few days while we take care of it for you.

*Please note we do not guarantee visas, only the French and Italian Consulates in South Africa can issue a visa and it is entirely at their discretion. Please see our terms and conditions page for more information.

Visas for crew in South Africa needing assistance with seaman’s visa applications with boat papers:

Found a job on a yacht while still in South Africa? We are able to assist you in South Africa with your seaman’s visa application. South African Yachties knows the seaman’s visa process inside and out for France and Italy – we can assist you in making sure you have everything for your visa application in order to avoid delays. We are able to communicate directly to your Captain, Chief Officer or Purser what exactly you need from them, and check all your documentation is correct. We are also able to submit on your behalf should you previously have had your biometrics taken. This service costs R3420 ex VAT (price excludes your visa fees at Capago and any additional costs for travel insurance, flights, etc.)

*Please note we do not guarantee visas, only the issuing country’s consulate in South Africa can issue a visa and it is entirely at their discretion. Please see our terms and conditions page for more information.

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‘RHONY’ Alum Jill Zarin Strikes Fear Into Yachties Everywhere In The ‘Below Deck’ Mid-Season Trailer: “Make It Better!”

Below Deck fans know that there is always a point in the season when all hell breaks loose…and it looks like, predictably, the yachties of Season 11 are about to experience some of that pure chaos. In the gripping mid-season trailer for Bravo’s flagship Below Deck series, the crew of the motor yacht St. David is straight-up losing it as it appears that everything is going wrong. Captain Kerry Titheradge encourages his crew to embrace the “ups and downs” of the charters so far, and he reminds his team that they “don’t do [yachting] because it’s easy.” Titheradge’s wise words seem to fall on deaf ears, however. Chef Anthony Iracane breaks down in the very next scene. “I’m so tired,” he says weakly.  Next, we see the distraught chef in his cabin. “I’m not good enough to be on this boat,” he cries as he rubs his head with his hands in despair.

Next to break down is Stew Barbie Pascual, who bemoans the state of her strained working relationship with Chief Stew Fraser Olender. “Everybody here knows there’s shit going between me and Fraser,” Pascual confides as scenes of her stressed-out, crying and scowling at Olender play out. When Olender glares at her during an excursion, Pascual asks him point-blank, “Do you want me to go?” The camera than cuts to Olender’s confessional as he states, “I’d rather have no sleep than have to look at your face every morning.” Way harsh!

After Titheradge is shown raging at Bosun Ben Willoughby for his “blatant disrespect” and Stew Xandi Oliver is seen throwing a fit in the back of a van during a late night out, fans are treated to a montage of the yachties falling down as dramatic music plays. Suddenly, a familiar face appears: the notoriously picky Real Housewives of New York alum Jill Zarin. When Zarin critiques the service (“This is a buffet meal. This shouldn’t be a 3-hour meal”) and urges the staff to “make it better,” the yachties continue scrambling. The trailer also teases the arrival of a mysterious new Stew who catches the eye of both Willoughby and Deckhand Kyle Stillie. “Bloody hell, I’m in trouble,” Willoughby says to the camera as his “shipuationship,” Sunny Marquis, watches his every move.

To add to the mayhem, Pascual’s and Stillie’s relationship seems to be heating up as the two are shown flirting and making out. The trailer ends with a stern looking Titheradge addressing an unseen crew member. “The issue is you’re not thriving,” says Titheradge. “If you’re not all encompassing and adding value to the rest of the crew, I can’t have you here.” So, who is Titheradge addressing? Tune in to the rest of Below Deck Season 11 to find out!