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You can already cook. That was never what stopped you.
Cooking is a small part of being a yacht chef. It's everything around it — the pref sheets, the provisioning, the watch, the handover, the contract you shouldn't have signed — that decides whether you get hired, and whether you get asked back.
I'm Dean Harrison. Fourteen years at sea, up to the 88-metre Project X. I filmed the whole job onboard the boats I actually worked — not a studio, not theory — so you can walk up the passerelle already knowing how it runs.
Yacht chef salaries generally run $48,000–$160,000 a year, plus tips on charter. General industry ranges, not guaranteed earnings. Pay varies by vessel, position, experience and season, and changes over time.
Have you got what it takes?
Why Most Chefs Fail to Break Into Yachting (and How to Do It Right)
Every year, hundreds of talented chefs try to trade the kitchen grind for a life at sea, and most never make it.
Not because they’re bad cooks.
But because they start blind.
They take expensive courses that teach unnecessary and useless things.
They send CVs to the wrong agencies.
They show up to the docks unprepared and get sent home.
Here is a secret, becoming a yacht chef isn’t about luck or connections.
It’s about knowing exactly how the industry works, what certifications matter, and how to make yourself the chef every yacht wants onboard.
That’s what this course gives you... the truth, the roadmap, and the shortcuts from someone who’s lived it for 14 years.
Becoming a Yacht Chef is the best thing that has ever happened to me.
The Route to Becoming a Yacht Chef
This program shows you how to turn your culinary career into a life of travel, growth, and financial independence with huge salaries and tips.
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Here is what you'll learn
35 videos across 6 modules with all the secrets to break into the yachting industry — 24 available now, and 11 more unlocking on 8 August. See my course outline below!
So You Want to Be a Yacht Chef?
How to Secure Your First Job
Joining the Yacht
Crew Cooking
Guests On Board
Your Future
PDF Downloads
You’ll get these amazing bonuses to make the whole process even easier!
CV Builder Guide:
 A strong CV tells your story clearly, highlights your certifications, and proves you’re ready for life at sea.
Use this guide to structure and polish your yachting CV so it stands out in a competitive industry.
Where to Find Work + Hiring Seasons:
Yachting runs on seasons and hiring hubs around the world, and understanding when and where to go can make or break your job search.
This guide gives you a clear roadmap for where to look, when to go, and how to prepare.
Where to Stay While Job Hunting:
Breaking into yachting is about timing, proximity, and people. Your base matters. Use this guide to choose the right accommodation, budget correctly, and turn your stay into job offers.
Finding Jobs Through Agencies
and Groups:
You get hired faster when the right people know you exist. This handout shows you how to use crew agencies and online groups the smart way, so your CV lands in front of captains quickly.
Prep Lists
Checklist for a crossing and the beginning of the season.
Provisioners
A global list of yacht provisioners.
Yacht Chef Salary Guide
Get the chart that shows a rough estimate of the salaries you can expect to see as a yacht chef.
When You Sign Up For Coaching You Will Receive These Additional ResourcesÂ
14 Day Guest Menus:
Exclusive menus you can use for your guests on board. Breakfast, dinner & lunch!
14 Day Crew Menus:
Exclusive menus for your crew you can use on board.
What're My Options?
Explore offersTake these 4 steps to become a Yacht Chef
Kitchen grease to salty air.
Step 1: Get Qualified the Right Way
Learn exactly which certifications matter and actually find out what it's like to be a yacht chef before you take the leap.
Step 2: Build Your Chef Profile
We’ll help you turn your land-based experience into a yacht-ready profile that recruiters and captains actually care about.
Step 3: Get on the Ground (and Onboard)
Learn how to choose the best yacht hubs, find short-term “day work,” and make real connections that lead to full-time roles.
Step 4: Master the Lifestyle
You’ll discover what life onboard is really like: managing tight spaces, long charters, crew relationships, and demanding guests.
With The Course Only Package You'll Get:
All this for only $499
Full Online Course Access
6 modules (35 videos) + lifetime updates. Learn everything you need to know about what it's like to be a yacht chef and how to become one.
CV Builder Guide:
Use this guide to structure and polish your yachting CV so it stands out in a competitive industry.
Where to Find Work + Hiring Seasons Guide:
This guide gives you a clear roadmap for where to look, when to go, and how to prepare.
Where to Stay While Job Hunting Guide:
Use this guide to choose the right accommodation, budget correctly, and turn your stay into job offers.
Finding Jobs Through Agencies
and Groups Guide:
This handout shows you how to use crew agencies and online groups the smart way, so your CV lands in front of captains quickly.
Prep Lists:
Checklists for a crossing and the beginning of the season.
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Provisioners:
A global list of yacht provisioners.Â
Yacht Chef Salary Guide:
Get the chart that shows a rough estimate of the salaries you can expect to see as a yacht chef.
Payment Plan Option:
Can't Swing it all up front? I got you, break it up into thirds with a payment option! Let's get you your dream job!
With The Course + Coaching Package You'll Get:
All this for only $749
1:1 Coaching Call with Dean:
Get one 1-hour 1:1 coaching session designed to help you map your career path, optimize your CV, and become fully job-ready. This will help Dean get to know you so he is able to recommend you for jobs in the future when you are ready to go!
Full Online Course Access
6 modules (35 videos) + lifetime updates. Learn everything you need to know to become a yacht chef.
Payment Plan Option:
Can't Swing it all up front? I got you, break it up into thirds with a payment option! Let's get you your dream job!
Private Mentorship + Direct Feedback:
Get your CV and portfolio reviewed by Dean himself
14 Day Guest Menus:
Exclusive menus you can use for your guests on board. Breakfast, dinner & lunch!
14 Day Crew Menus:
Exclusive menus for your crew you can use on board.
CV Builder Guide:
Use this guide to structure and polish your yachting CV so it stands out in a competitive industry.
Where to Find Work + Hiring Seasons Guide:
This guide gives you a clear roadmap for where to look, when to go, and how to prepare.
Where to Stay While Job Hunting Guide:
Use this guide to choose the right accommodation, budget correctly, and turn your stay into job offers.
Finding Jobs Through Agencies
and Groups Guide:
This handout shows you how to use crew agencies and online groups the smart way, so your CV lands in front of captains quickly.
Prep Lists:
Checklists for a crossing and the beginning of the season.
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Provisioners:
A global list of yacht provisioners.Â
Yacht Chef Salary Guide:
Get the chart that shows a rough estimate of the salaries you can expect to see as a yacht chef.
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What chefs who've worked with Dean say
Crew who ran galleys alongside him on Loon, Arience and Project X — and chefs he's coached one to one.
Judy
“In my 9 years cheffing he's the best head chef I've ever worked with. Calm, patient, and an amazing teacher. He genuinely wanted to teach me how to become a great head chef myself — crew menus, guest desserts, provisioning, even the accounts. He gave me the confidence to take charge of the galley. Not long after working with Dean, I landed my first head chef role and tackled it with ease. There's no one better equipped to teach others about becoming a yacht chef.”
Sous Chef, 68m M/Y Loon
Daniel
“I met with Dean for 1:1 coaching to look over my CV and talk through his tricks for staying organised during a heavy charter season. He gave me so much more solid advice and new techniques than I expected, and after a few weeks I landed a great job. He's a calm, level-headed chef who's worth meeting with if you want to take your career to the next level.”
Head Chef, 50m
Leandri Kersch
“Hands down the best head chef I ever had. He taught me so many foundational tricks of the trade and chef hacks that to this day I still use — as a sole chef on 50 metres. Definitely grateful to have him as a mentor. He's one of the goats!”
60m M/Y Arience
Sean Connolly
“Working under Dean I acquired new cooking techniques but also a new management style, and essential communication skills with both guests and crew. His cool demeanour allows for calmness in the most heated moments. All in all 10/10 — except his dance moves, 6/10.”
Sous Chef, 68m M/Y Loon
Max Hemming
“An exceptional chef and an even better leader. Calm under pressure, incredibly knowledgeable, and always willing to take the time to teach and support his team. I genuinely credit a lot of my development as a yacht chef to his guidance and mentorship.”
Crew Chef, 88m M/Y Project X
A fellow course creator
“What you find online is free for a reason. Creating a course with THIS much information takes years in the industry, making the mistakes, and understanding things most others don't. As an online course creator myself, people would be surprised how little profit we make compared to what we can make onboard a superyacht — and just not help anyone at all. If you're 10 months into your research and still not on a superyacht, ask yourself why you're not willing to invest a very small amount in the person who can solve all the problems you've mentioned. No $200 call with a yacht chef compares to hours and hours of a course like this.”
From a public comment thread
Meet Your Instructor – Dean Harrison
I did everything you're supposed to do. Got my STCW. Rewrote my CV. Then I stayed in my hometown and barely tried.
It took me three years to land my first offer. That was my own fault, and it's half the reason this course exists — because nobody had told me the one thing that mattered: the jobs don't come to you. You go where the boats are.
Here's the other half. There's one yacht I never talk about, because I was ashamed of it.
I was working a 35-metre dive boat back home in Australia when the offer came — three weeks on a 40-metre as a temp, with a shot at going full time. I'd never set foot on a superyacht. I walked onboard completely blindsided, and not just by the day-to-day. By what the job actually was. I had no idea how to provision — the captain had to show me. I didn't know what was expected for breakfast, lunch and dinner, or how you cook for twelve guests and ten crew at the same time. Nobody was guiding me, and there was no information out there to go and find.
I wanted to quit three times in three weeks. I finished the trip, and I was done. I decided superyachting wasn't for me.
So I went back to the dive boat. Comfortable, slower, about $150 a day — and I stayed there another year and a half. That's the part that still stings. Not that I failed on the 40-metre, but that I spent eighteen months hiding from it. Not because I couldn't cook. Because nobody had shown me the job.
Eventually I made the jump to a 30-metre, and it went one boat at a time after that — three years through the South Pacific as sole chef and sole deckhand, eighteen months on a 37-metre sailing yacht in remote Southeast Asia. Then my first head chef role on a 60-metre, the 68-metre Loon, and the 88-metre Project X.
I started in 2004, a rebellious 15-year-old who couldn't stand school but loved being in a kitchen. First job was dishwasher and prep cook, chopping parsley for hours while the chefs laughed from the back steps. Twenty-one years later I'm still doing it, and I still love it.
Nobody walks straight onto an 88-metre. But nobody should lose eighteen months to a boat that blindsided them either — and you won't, if someone shows you the job before you walk on.
That's the whole course. Everything I wish someone had handed me on that 40-metre, filmed onboard the boats I actually worked.
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You’ve Mastered the Kitchen.
Now Master Your Freedom.
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You’ve got the skill. You’ve got the drive.
But restaurant life? It’s a grind, long hours, low pay, no freedom.
You’ve seen chefs cooking on yachts and thought, “How do I even start?”
And honestly, no one explains it clearly. Most end up wasting time and money chasing bad info and doing courses you don’t even need.
It’s time to get the real game plan and knowledge on exactly what you need to do with actual footage of me on the yachts showing you what it's like and how it's done.
Enroll nowWhy This Course Works:
Saves you money before you even start.
BAYC is equivalent to the cost of just 2-3 days work on a yacht. See what its actually like to work on a yacht before spending upward of $10,000+ on flying to another country, all your yachting courses, accommodation and daily expenses to try and land a job. Find out if you are actually the right fit to be a yacht chef, which courses and certifications actually matter, get insights in to what yachting is exactly like to prepare yourself better and excel your career.
Global reach.Â
Whether you're in London, Cape Town, Sydney, or Miami, you'll know exactly how to find work in top yacht hubs around the world.
Real prep for real life at sea.Â
From understanding your contract, what watches are, cabin inspections, prepping for charters, accounting, how to setup your galley, cook for guests and crew in tight galleys, this course gets you ready for the job and the lifestyle.
Made for working chefs.Â
The lessons fit around your schedule and focus on results you can act on right away.
A better way to build your career.Â
Earn way more, travel farther, and take your craft somewhere most chefs never get to go.
