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Yacht purser CV.

The business of the boat. Accounts, port clearances, the itinerary and the owner's guests, run at a senior level and set out the way a captain and a management company read them.

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Which job are you going for?

WHAT A CAPTAIN LOOKS FOR

  • THE MONEY, IN NUMBERS

    A purser is hired on the size of the operation they have run. Crew paid, budget held and charter accounts closed go on every vessel line, not into a summary.

  • CLEARANCES AND THE ITINERARY

    Port clearances, customs and immigration, and the files an inspection asks for. Name the cruising grounds you cleared and the audits that closed. A boat that waits on paperwork is waiting on the purser.

  • GUESTS, AT A SENIOR LEVEL

    Guest relations run at a senior level. Charter briefs, preferences held, problems settled before they reached the bridge. The accounts line never shows this half of the job, so the CV must.

Yacht purser CV example

The CV on the sheet above, written out in full. Elise Marchand is an example crew member, not a real person.

Elise Marchand

Purser

Page one

Nationality
French
Date of birth
30 Nov 1989
Based in
Antibes, France
Available
15 Oct 2026
Seeking
Rotational
Visas
B1/B2 to Jan 2032; Schengen: Not required
Languages
French (native), English (fluent), Italian (conversational)
Driving licence
Full clean EU licence, category B
Smoker
Non-smoker
Tattoos
None visible
Phone
+33 6 12 88 40 55
Email
elise.marchand@example.com

Profile

Purser, eleven years on 60 to 90 metre charter programmes, four of them running the accounts and the crew administration on a full ISM yacht.

Certificates

  • STCW Basic Safety TrainingValid to Jul 2029
  • ENG1 medicalValid to Nov 2027
  • GUEST Yacht Purser Programme (Units 18 to 21)Issued Feb 2022
  • Accounting / Finance CredentialsIssued Sep 2016
  • HR and Crew AdministrationIssued Jun 2021
  • Crew-Management SoftwareIssued Apr 2020
  • ISPS AdministrationIssued Mar 2023
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Yacht experience

  1. Purser, M/Y Perpetua, 88m

    May 2022 – Present · Charter · 12 guests · 26 crew · Western Mediterranean, Caribbean

    • Holds the operating accounts, the charter APA and the monthly return to management
    • Runs contracts, visas, flights and hours of rest for twenty six crew
    • Owns the ISPS and MLC files the yacht is inspected on at Port State Control

  2. Purser and Chief Stewardess, M/Y Bellatrix, 72m

    Mar 2019 – Apr 2022 · Private / charter · 12 guests · 18 crew · Eastern Mediterranean, Adriatic

    • Carried the interior and the yacht's administration on a dual private and charter programme
    • Set up the provisioning ledger and the crew rota the yacht still runs

  3. Chief Stewardess, M/Y Gaviota, 60m

    Apr 2016 – Feb 2019 · Charter · 10 guests · 14 crew · Balearics, Corsica

    • Led an interior team of four across a sixteen week charter season

Work ashore

  1. Accounts assistant, Nice

    Sep 2013 – Feb 2016

    Ledgers, VAT returns and payroll for thirty small commercial clients.

Education

  • Licence, Comptabilite et Gestion

    Nice, Sep 2010 – Jun 2013

Skills and interests

Skills
Voly and Crew Planner, Charter accounts and VAT

References

  • Andrew Pellett, Captain, M/Y Perpetua

    +377 97 70 44 18 · a.pellett@example.com

  • Sofia Rinaldi, Fleet manager, M/Y Bellatrix

    +39 335 774 2091 · s.rinaldi@example.com

THE TICKETS THAT MATTER

Picked from the real ladder, dated, and set where agents look.

GUEST Yacht Purser Programme, accounting and bookkeeping, crew and HR administration, ISPS.

What a purser actually needs: the certificates, the sea time and how long each one lasts.

What a captain looks for in a purser CV

What does a captain look for on a purser CV?

A purser is hired on the size of the operation they have run. Crew paid, budget held and charter accounts closed go on every vessel line, not into a summary.

Do port clearances belong on a purser CV?

Port clearances, customs and immigration, and the files an inspection asks for. Name the cruising grounds you cleared and the audits that closed. A boat that waits on paperwork is waiting on the purser.

How does a purser CV show the guest side of the job?

Guest relations run at a senior level. Charter briefs, preferences held, problems settled before they reached the bridge. The accounts line never shows this half of the job, so the CV must.

Which qualifications go on a purser CV?

GUEST Yacht Purser Programme, accounting and bookkeeping, crew and HR administration, ISPS. Everything that has an expiry gets both dates. Everything that does not gets the year it was issued. What certificates go on a yacht CV.

How should each boat be written on a purser CV?

Name the rank you held, the boat, its length or tonnage, and the dates. Vessel facts are the first thing a captain reads.

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