A stewardess on a 112-foot sailing yacht said there's a lot of things she'd like to tell guests — like that it's hard to accomplish everything, so a lot of the job is "fake-it-till-you-make-it," she said.
"Sometimes, if you don't have a certain thing, you have to fake it with something else," she said. "For example, a certain brand liquor that you can get away with convincing them that a bottom shelf thing is the real deal."
She continued: "It's pretty easy to convince people with smoke and mirrors. A lot of times you also have to pretend there aren't problems when, in fact, there are major problems."
For example, she said, "things break on boats all the time." There have been a few times when an engineering problem prevented the yacht from leaving an anchorage, so they lied to their guests and told them there was inclement weather where they wanted to go and that's why they couldn't leave. "It's all in how you sell the lie," she added.