- CrewGrab is a mobile-first hiring platform that connects super yacht vessels with verified daywork crew – the short-term, casual labour that keeps multi-million-dollar yachts running but has historically been booked through WhatsApp groups, Facebook chaos and expensive agencies.
- Built around a swipe-to-hire interface for vessels, requirements-gated job distribution so crew only see roles they actually qualify for, and a captain-initiates-messaging rule that keeps inboxes clean on both sides.
- The first dedicated daywork hiring platform to combine mandatory post-job ratings with a structured two-way wage dispute resolution system turning an informal, trust-by-reputation market into something accountable.
Website: https://www.crewgrab.com/
Tell Us About CrewGrab
CrewGrab is a hiring platform for the super yacht industry’s daywork market – the short-term, on-demand crew that vessels bring on for a single day or a few weeks during busy periods, refits, charters and seasonal turnarounds.
It’s a market worth hundreds of millions globally, and until now it has run almost entirely on WhatsApp groups, Facebook posts, dockside word-of-mouth and traditional crew agencies that charge significant fees and rarely focus on short-term placements. Vessels waste hours filtering through unqualified applicants. Crew get ghosted, underpaid, or burned on bad jobs with no recourse.
CrewGrab fixes that. Vessels post a job with specific requirements including experience, certifications and location, and only crew who match see the listing. Vessels then swipe through verified candidates in a clean, Tinder-style interface and start the conversation when they find the right fit. Once the job is done, both sides rate each other, and vessels can’t post their next job until they’ve reviewed the last one. Wage disputes, which are the single biggest source of conflict in this market, are handled inside the platform through a two-way resolution flow.
It launched on 28 April 2026 and is free to use on both sides at launch.
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What Makes CrewGrab Unique?
Requirements-gated distribution: Most hiring platforms throw every listing at every user and let the noise sort itself out. CrewGrab does the opposite – if a job needs three years’ experience and an STCW certificate, only crew who meet that bar ever see it. Vessels get a shortlist of qualified people, not a flood of hopefuls. Crew don’t waste time applying for jobs they were never going to get.
Forced accountability through reviews: Vessels are required to rate crew after every job before they can list another one. That single rule turns reputation from a rumour into a record, and it cuts hard against the industry’s status quo where bad actors on both sides simply move on to the next port.
A wage dispute resolution system built into the platform: This is an industry first. When pay disagreements happen, and they happen often in daywork, there’s nowhere neutral to take them. CrewGrab gives both sides a structured way to surface, evidence and resolve disputes inside the app. It’s the kind of infrastructure this market has needed for decades and never had.
The competitive frame isn’t other apps. It’s the agencies and Facebook groups that currently run this market badly. CrewGrab is built to replace both.
Is There A Market For CrewGrab?
Yes and it’s structurally underserved.
The global super yacht fleet has grown to more than 6,100 vessels over 30 metres in operation, concentrated across a handful of hub ports: Antibes, Palma, Fort Lauderdale, Athens, Monaco. Every one of those vessels uses daywork crew. Charter yachts spike crew counts during the season. Refit yards need extra hands for weeks at a time. Owner trips, regatta weeks, and crossing-prep all create short windows of high demand.
The traditional crew agencies that dominate the industry are built for permanent placements with five-figure fees attached. They don’t service the daywork segment well, and most don’t service it at all. The gap has been filled by Facebook groups with thousands of unverified members and WhatsApp chains where the same job gets forwarded fifty times.
Wage disputes are a documented industry-wide issue. Most maritime lawyers won’t take a wage case unless the amount in dispute is large enough to justify the legal cost. For daywork rates, the maths never works. Crew either eat the loss or escalate to a seafarers’ union for help leveraging the captain or management company. There is no neutral, structured place to resolve it. CrewGrab is the first platform to build that infrastructure into the product itself.
That’s a market with real volume, real money, real frustration on both sides, and no professional infrastructure built for it. CrewGrab is the first platform built specifically for it.
Where Can We Find CrewGrab?
Web: app-crewgrab.com
Available on iOS and Android.
Free to sign up for both vessels and crew.
