In 1994, Jennifer Pender-Brookes completed studies in business management and marketing with first class honours and she has steadfastly avoided a ‘real job’ ever since.
Instead, she has been a sailing, windsurfing and waterski instructor, a compere, an underwater videographer, the  director of an adventure racing company, a small ship’s captain, a hopeless bartender (for a short time while at uni), an even worse waitress (for an even shorter time), a dive instructor, an events coordinator, a fitness instructor, a maritime trainer, a boot camp owner and the brave person who walked around a party cruise with a backpack and a super-soaker water pistol firing shots of purposely diluted cocktail down the throats of three hundred drunken partygoers.
 Between these adventures and misadventures she spent seven years working for multimillionaires on multi-million dollar superyachts, circumnavigating the world twice and visiting over fifty-five countries. Oh, and she loves to write.
In fact, Jennifer has had numerous works published in national newspapers and magazines, her first novel won the prestigious QLD Arts Council’s ‘New Writers Scholarship’ in 2006 and she has been awarded a highly sought after fellowship and residency at Varuna House: Australia’s most esteemed writing retreat.
Her latest book is:
A note from the Author
 Ever since I left the yachting industry I have been bombarded with questions about it from friends and relatives, relatives’ friends, and even friends of friends’ relatives, many of whom are now happily cruising exotic ports of the world and absolutely loving it. However, in helping each of these adventurous souls to realise their dream of crewing a luxury yacht, I was shocked by the vast amount of misinformation that has come to plague the industry of late.
Poorly written guidebooks that provide inaccurate and outdated information; training companies that charge  thousands of dollars for completely unnecessary courses; marinas that purport to be superyacht havens when, in reality, they haven’t even got the capacity to accommodate a superyacht, let alone a megayacht, and so many new crew houses and crew agencies popping up to capitalise on this fast-growing industry that it is near impossible for a novice crewmember to distinguish the good from the bad, let alone figure out exactly what they must do to get a job.
 That is precisely why I have written this guidebook: to provide potential crewmembers with all the information they need to know to get a job on a luxury yacht, and to dispel many of the myths and misconceptions. I have loaded this guidebook with all the information I wish had been available when I began yachting and I have endeavoured to make it as user-friendly as possible, packed full of handy tips, useful contact details and practical ‘how to’ steps for everything from applying for visas to becoming a non-resident for tax purposes.
So if you have ever dreamt about travelling the world and enjoying expense-free living while getting paid great money to do it all I can say is ‘just do it’. Now is the perfect time. With more jobs available than ever before the opportunities are there for the taking. A world of adventure awaits you. Now it’s entirely up to you to grasp it.
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