I'm a pilot. Several years ago I was flying an Amphibious Airplane (can land in both water and regular runways) and we got hired to assist a Mega Yacht. One day we flew 2 hours to deliver a box of oranges cause the owner likes freshly squeezed orange juice. That was about a $3600 orange juice. Lol

A viewer @yamahonkawazuki asked a brilliant question and I think it deserves a pin: “How does it work with two captains on the chaseboat?” The answer is that the two captains simply (respectfully) change roles and answer to each other. The one with the rudder is the captain and the other is the (senior) deckhand. They are professionals and with their level of confidence, they have no problems taking orders from the other (captain). The very moment captain Mortlock enters the chaseboat, he will be Mr. Mortlock, and he will answer to captain Dave. When they are about to depart from the dock, you will notice that Mr. (senior) deckhand Mortlock reports to the captain of the chaseboat. You will notice at 8:38 Mr. Mortlock says “Dave, can I show you...” Mr. Mortlock is not barking orders, because he’s not the captain on the chaseboat. If he want to share experience and knowledge, he respectfully asks “Dave, can I show you..”. You have just been watching a super professional crew, on a casual day. Even in relaxed moments, they have no doubt who’s captain and who’s (senior) deckhand. The very moment Mr. Mortlock enters his own ship, captain Dave will address him as Captain Mortlock. In the army, in the navy, everywhere when professionals need to cooperate flawlessly, we have rules for all these situations. And these two captains go by the book. When they do that, they keep the boat, the crew, and the passengers to maximum safety. At sea, safety is always priority no. 1. So they do all this change of roles (as captains) without thinking. Change of role becomes second nature to these professional captains. Ohoy!

Talk about stress.....not taking anything away from the captain...( Ultimate Responsibility) but being a chef on one of these. This guy has to be on his game every meal, every day....or some pompous butt is going to complain about his cream spinach. Or the salad isn't crisp enough....🙄 Hats off to the chef that keeps everyone fed....

Waitrose, Tesco, Sainsburys, weekly, daily sometimes twice!! And that's just for two adults. The dogs food is delivered frozen! Now I can recall working on the resupply of the old HMS Ark Royal (1978 ish)when we were loading frozen 25kg blocks of Argentinian Beef, that beef was good. Back to being a happy Captain which is good to see.

I can thoroughly appreciate the logistics and planning for provision. In my maritime career, starting as an unlicensed deckhand for a marine service company. One task was to deliver provisions, lubricants and items for the bosun locker for 1mm bbl oil tankers. My very first provisioning at anchor I was the designated hand to breakdown and pass 37 pallets of goods over a transverse deck pipe to be reloaded on the other side on another pallet on a pallet truck and wheeled to the house to be inventoried and stowed by the chief steward. After obtaining my USCG 100 ton masters license I was tasked many times with underway replenishment. This entailed my boat and the ship matching 5/7 knots while my deckhand attached the cargo nets pre loaded with 3-4 pallets to the ships crane There was great pressure because the pilot was on board the ship and two tug assist and the ship was ready to sail for sea. Once we had to do two loads of a total of 42 pallets in the Los Angeles river. Hmmm, two heads of lettuce overboard. How about 3 cartons of cherry tomatoes spilling on deck because the deckhand (I wonder who) neglected to attach one loop of the cargo net. We, the captain and I retrieved all of them. From then on I mentally counted each loop while attaching to the crane hook.

You asked how I provision. My wife is on vacation, so this morning I went to Walmart and bought tv dinners. But, I did taste your chef's cooking when I ate lunch just now. Thanks.

I like the fact that you are very much involved in different things. Good job!

That was nice, thanks again to you and your wonderful crew for making this for us.

Love how the channel shows the exciting and the mundane aspects of yacht life.

Your commands are fluid, making for a less stressful operation. Awesome 👍

The lettuce is now SEAsoned... OK, I'll just let myself out 🙄

Love all the interesting content you provide on your channel. Another great job Captain!

Lovely to see you back to your usual happy smiley face. Rather a lot of lettuce Chef😀😁😁😁

every episode is amazing. thank you so much !! Greetings from Australia

Oh my gosh love your Axopar 37!!! I went on one yesterday!

You are a hands on "Captain"...your crew will follow you...good video.

Back in the day at the fuel dock in the Bronx, we had a half-sunk Bayliner that was a hotdog cart. Then we dine off the Riviera of the Bronx Orchard Beach.

Great to see the hands on work as well as the deference you paid to your captain when on 'his' vessel. Note: one blooper observed. Bowline goes under the rail. 😉

Was in Monaco once during F1 week, was interesting to see the chefs of the super yachts having a deal with some F1 teams for their left over produce, now that’s procurement!

Big shout out to the Chefs socks again🧦🧦🧦and the swimming lettuce..great blog guys keep it up..👍🏼

Man that's one nice grocery getter. Love watching you guys work and play together.

Just love the attention to detail and philosophy....really interesting themes you could tell in the corporate world...

Wow, it's so interesting to see these processes. Thank you very much!

Thank you sir. im envious that even the chaser boat is a classy vessel. maybe not on the level of AWOL but still a nice ride. will be looking at the merchandise as soon as funds permit. love this channel. subbed on the first video i saw. youre not arrogant and answer when possible our questions

Very interesting vlog, Captain. I viewed your channel originally, due to an interest in travel, but as I have watched a few of your vlogs, I have come to enjoy learning of a travel style I previously knew nothing about. Thank you for taking the time it takes to share your story with us. I am absolutely enjoying it. Stacy

Nice to see your a “hands on” skip. Lead from the front first!!!

I had always wondered about this! Thanks for interviewing the chef too

Finally caught up with your vlogs,I’ve really enjoyed it.Look forward to many more.

These insights are great Tristan.

I spent a week on a small boat in southern Chile this past January. Part way through the week the Captain bartered a bottle of motor oil with some local fishermen for a case of fresh fish. The heads of the fish went into a crab trap and we caught fresh crabs for another meal. Toward the end of the week we were getting low on fresh water and the Captain pulled up to a waterfall and attached a hose to a funnel and climbed up the side of the waterfall, held the funnel under the falling water and filled the tanks. It appeared this was standard procedure in the area as there were ropes in place to aid the process.

Man, I would give anything to be able to do this for a living! Thanks for the channel sir, I really enjoy it. We’re living thru you and your crew mates!

This was extremely interesting...Thank You!

And......you are "Captain" Tristan Mortlock. It's your title, you've earned it.

Very interesting Captain! .. Your content is always super informative! And as a time served chef,currently looking into a "career shift"(so to speak?) I'm always going to find any content relating to the galley extra fascinating,so thanks for that. That said, I enjoy all your content and am happy to have discovered your channel when I did. Thanks again and top work all around AWOL crew!🙂😎

Good to have you back Captain :)

Great to see some behind the scenes Tristan

Lifestyle of the rich and famous. I really like the vlogs. 👍

Awwww perfect lassoing! It would have been multiple mess ups and a soaking wet line with me!!!🤣

Great Vlog as always thanks Captain

Nice to see you back to your bouncy self, cheers Ty

I worked as a transport supervisor on that 007 movie The Spy Who Loved Me. My elder brother was with the Action Vehicle/ Special Effect department, he drove the motorcycle sidecar that blew up the Mattress truck. Part way through filming flew back to UK and headed up a convoy of trucks Pinewood to Dover, to Venice across the Alexandrea Egypt. Down to Cairo for filming in the city and at the Pyramids. The further South to the Valley of The Kings. Your provisioning reminded me, the Caterer was having problems getting supplies even though we had Movenpick Hotels contracted. So he jumped on a plane and flew back to UK and bought 100 kilo of steaks, salmon etc. packed in his checked luggage.

Love your videos .

Another enjoyable vlog capt. We aren't that posh on our Squadron. We shop ourselves.

I can't even afford the boat they went to get the provisions in.

Who gives a thumbs down on a great explanation video like this? I don't understand why. There is so much content and education e.g. how to use the spring line for unmooring on heavy winds. Totally realistic video how it is to work on a yacht. Great job Captain please do many more of these. But in the end who was the hero? Yes, the guy who rescued the lettuce 😂

Awesome capt who gets out there himself

I know this video was released almost a year ago. But I was curious about how you handle the wood crates and cardboard boxes the provisions are delivered in from the provisioner. Space has got to be an issue onboard, especially for trash and recycle items. I would also imagine that many ports have expensive fees to off-load trash?

Perfect 👌 vlog, please keep the chase boat duties coming. Vlog idea could you show us an actual typical dining experience you offer your guest. Treat a crew member on their next birthday, from kitchen to serving don't have to show them eating it 😂

Right on. Being a retired chef I've always wondered how you provisioned your yacht. Now I know lol. Great info!

Provisioning company, now that's organized. I work at Newport shipyard, in Newport RI, and I always see the stewies and chef unloading a car with loads of bags into dock carts.

T you must do a dock cleat video, you do it as a refined gesture. Looking forward to the unmasking of the TT Capt. Cheers

very informative! Thanks

Fascinating Channel !

Great vid thank you

I'm definitely a fan of James' galley soundtrack.

I own and captain a 63ft M/Y and enjoy it. At a much smaller scale, and with family and friends as crew, yet with most of the amenities of a luxury super yacht (aircon, watermaker, washer and dryer, dishwasher, full galley and a barbecue unit on the fly, satellite TV, gyro stabilizer, en-suite cabins etc), except space of course. The downside is precisely those drudgeries like provisioning, cooking, cleaning, making the beds, washing the exterior after a trip, constantly fixing things, fitting shore lines, and worrying about sloppy fellow captains and how they can harm your boat. Had a few weeks in different occasions as a guest on super yachts, and yet I prefer the smaller private boat, for the freedom it gives you to access the smallest coves, in full privacy, and to enjoy floating at sea for several weeks at a time, at an affordable budget. So how we provision? Take the dinghy (no chase boats here), go to shore, go to a grocery store, load up a shopping cart with all the goods, pay, carry the goods back to the dinghy in hopefully 2-3 trips, go back to the anchored boat, unpack, put everything in the fridge or storage areas, and after roughly 2 hours you are hopefully done for the week. Phew.... Most difficult items are bottled water (super heavy and you need lots of water during summer), and paper products that are really bulky. Then it is beer (again heavy and highly consumed during summer) and wine (which comes in glass bottles that are naturally fragile)... those you normally buy in large quantities and in full cases before departure, hoping they will last so you don’t have to replenish. In a nutshell, a very different world, but probably equally rewarding.

Chase boat captain looks more like a pirate !! Love your videos...

The launch needs some bow thrusters! This was very interesting, thanks.

chase boat is sick!

Great video Thanks

Keep up the good work

Yous not afraid to get your hands dirty. In that I mean, you muck in with the crew. :-))

I would be suggesting the provisioner invests in a trolley dolly that way the food is moved from refrigerated van to chase boat pronto with time spent checking and stowing rather than what we saw with a retro check? Love your channel 🙏

The chase boat deckhand seems rather experienced 😎😜

You like the design on axopar 37ST? It's nice to see you guys have finnish boat there. I have to say axopar is the best looking boat that "we" have Created and im pretty sure every finn who is interested in boats will agree with me. Edit: first tought it was AXOPAR 28 T-TOP so corrected.

Can't beat fresh food

Looking nice....

Not quite the Effort of Provisioning At Sea with highline transfer from a supply ship but interesting to scale down from A crew of 144. Love it!

Enjoyed your vid....I noticed you had some flowers in the mix. How long can you keep cut flowers on the yacht? Do you put them in the regular refrigerator or do you have a special cooler just for flowers? I look forward to each of your vids. I only wish I could afford a week on AWOL.....I'd love to experience you and your crew as they make a trip an experience!

The chase boat captain has clearly been playing too much Call of Duty.

I would have named the chase boat AWOL Absent With Out Leave. I like the videos. :)

Provisioner outfits charge exorbitant prices and don’t always have the nicest stuff. If we have time we chefs prefer local markets. Time and local currency not withstanding. Nice Vlog Captain M.

That driver better save those autographs they might be worth a lot some day!

In one of your videos you described how you have 2 fuel tanks on AWOL and than pump fuel as needed through filters into a central tank to ensure clean contamination free fuel goes into the engines. How do you insure clean contamination free fuel for the chase boat?

By the way you guys should trade in the axopar for the new 37 cabin or 37SC in the Brabus version. Personally I would go for lighter colors for the interior rather than red and black of the demo units you see. Would be seriously phat!

Looks like Captain Dave must have a side gig as a pirate :)

Suprised to see that chef doesn't receive his product in person. Must be some trust in that vendor!

My provisioning is the opposite 24m I do all shopping before and during charter sprinting around asking people where fish market is and pushing trolley through the street back to the boat before guest are up, thinking of doing carre four free delivery for dry stores etc and shopping only for fresh produce before charter, any thoughts on this? Thinking it would save time

I expect using a provision company is more expensive than doing the shopping yourself. Hope the quality is good. Glad you are happier today.

Informative video as always Tristan. However that's a small order even if there's only crew on board. Your charter page says the AWOL can accommodate 12 guests and 8 crew. That order would only last a day with all those people on board. For a full charter with several days at sea you'd need far more food. Are those fridges and freezers (10:25) the only cold storage available or do you have walk-in fridges and freezers?

The chase boat episode I’m looking forward to. Do you tow it between ports. What sort of boat is it. Do your passengers say I would like to go for a look along the coast or snorkeling and it’s part of the charter price. Does Dave live on it and eat on the main boat

Where does the chase boat go when you’re underway. Does it chase even when on a long cruise?

Never saw how a ground line is set on a super yacht. Doesn't seem glamorous, but probably interesting to see. -Patricia

Beats the working parties when on loading food for a Navy ship. There would be a chain of us loading cases of food to where your forearms would be bleeding from cases hitting them.

@super yacht captain What is the regulations when the ship/yacht not are in port, ex anchor like this episode and the captain are at dry land like you? Is the chief officer (barbara) the commander of the vessel or can someone else have the command, like deckhand?

How much manual driving do you do with awol? What are your primary roles as captain?

have you had to park in extreme winds before. recently saw a video of wind turning a small yacht around helplessly. share some stories

.......that moment when you realize you forgot where you parked your super yacht......

I would have asked fora credit on two heads of lettuce!!! lol

Hi Tristan, are those Diesel outboards on the chase boat? If so, excellent decision for many reasons including being able to use the yacht's fuel, and the fact diesel is far less likely to ignite compared to gasoline that is in the vast majority of outboard motors.

Was that enough food for crew and the guests on board? Or was it just for a couple days, or to buy what was low. My family would eat that in a week it's just me and my wife a 2 year old and a 12 year old.

Delivery of food goes to the pier same has fuel. But cruise line purchase food by the ton.

Captain Tristan, where do you secure or store the chase boat on AWOL? How long is it? Thanks in advance for your reply. Love the videos even though you're no longer captain of AWOL. Keep them coming. Cheers

The fish comes in frozen: ghastly!

so how does the chase boat work? does he follow you all over the world or does it fit on the yacht? forgive my ignorance on the subject

When I was in saint-tropez in a (huge) supermarket, I saw the crew of Planet Nine doing the groceries, is this unusual?

Very interesting, thank You Captain. Sardegna?

Was that Dilbar I noticed in one of the many yatchs in the background?

Do you still have the provisioning done by others when leaving your home port ??

That chase boat is it a tender for awol? It's a nice peice