At the Monaco International Boat Show, SYSA received the PYA (Professional Yachting Association) Award for the Steward/ess school with the largest number of successfully issued certificates of any GUEST Steward/ess school in the world.  We have received this accolade every year since. A1 Offshore and African Excellence African Excellence Awards 2024 – Best Steward and…

ACrew hosted their first International Crew Awards ceremony in 2018. Best Stew Award 2018 and 2019 went to SYSA’s Carli Steenkamp and Michaela Letley.  SYSA’s Anna Steyn received the Best Purser Award 2019.  SYSA Steward/ess have been finalists and nominated across several categories. Every year since 2018, we have had numerous nominees, finalists and winners…

The SYSA Steward/ess training programme is the longest running super yacht Steward/ess course in South Africa! We have successfully trained almost 3 000 Steward/esses and Chief Steward/esses, most of whom found employment in the industry, many of our very first students are still actively working in the industry and have gone on to make a…

We have a nearly 100% success rate in past SYSA Steward/ess graduates finding employment on board yachts – a fact that we are very proud of!  We are often contacted directly by Captains and Chief Stews specifically requesting our school’s graduates and many of our former students employ newbies who are also SYSA trained, because…

Isobel Odendaal, co-owner of SYSA and Principal of the SYSA GUEST Steward/ess programme, is the Administrator and founder of a Facebook group for Yacht Steward/esses where 19 000 members ask for advice and share industry-related tips daily. It was chosen as “The Most Popular Group to Follow for Yachties”- by an internationally acclaimed yachting publication!…

SYSA’s co-owner, Isobel Odendaal, has been invited several times to serve as a Judge at the prestigious Monaco Boat Show Table Setting Competition. She is highly regarded as one of THE Steward/ess experts in the industry, and regularly forms part of a team of expert judges at the annual Monaco Boat Show’s Table Setting Competition,…

We annually attend the world’s largest Yacht Trade Show, the Monaco Boat Show, to keep up to date with new changes and regulations within the industry. Isobel Odendaal has spent the past 21 years in the super yacht industry. Some of our SYSA instructors still work actively in the yachting industry as freelance crew, regularly…