The Brief
This was a humorous column run on OnboardOnline about the lives of yacht crew. It went viral across the yachting industry, receiving about 20,000 hits upon publication in 2013.
Pet hates on a superyacht
He talks about his time on M/Y Idlewild in his autobiography, Humble Pie, in which he carries on in typical apoplectic rage about having to stock eight types of cereal on board. In the universe according to Gordon, yacht crew should just eat what they’re given. You can speculate how he felt about allergies, and pity any poor stewardess who might have crept fearfully into his galley to tell him about her special diet. “What, you’re a lacto-ovo-vego-coeliac with an oxygen allergy? Oh f@*k off, get out of my galley before I stab you and turn you into snail porridge that even that f%#@ker Blumenthal wouldn’t eat.” (Dear editor, this is hypothetical Gordon swearing, not me. Please let it stand.) Yachting has changed a lot since Ramsey’s days. As yachts, crews and budgets have become outrageously big, so too has the range of food and toiletries supplied for crew. Eight types of cereal would be pretty standard now, I’d say. Along with 7 different types of chilli sauce, 12 brands of biscuits, 16 types of herbal tea no-one drinks and an endless supply of chocolate, chewing gum and the sugary Haribos that all taste the same. It’s possible- just possible- that we’ve all become a bit fussy. Read full article here.