Crew Boats
1 min readJun 29, 2016
Crew boats typically are crewed at any given time by two licensed captains who each stand 12-hour watches, a deckhand or ordinary seaman and an unlicensed engineer who also is responsible for some deck duties during his or her watch. Crew boats members live aboard the vessel during their assigned rotations of duty, called hitches in the marine transportation industry. Offshore crew boats are equipped with full galleys, dining areas, heads with showers and staterooms for the crew. Overnight accommodations for passengers usually are not provided aboard crew boats.
