Callum Jones
A skipper for a super yacht that regularly welcomes the 'mega rich' onboard has revealed the famous person he liked the most.
The anonymous captain took to Reddit to detail some of the secrets that occur on the vessel, having met some of the 'biggest names' over the period of a decade.
Taking to the 'AMA' Reddit forum, the skipper penned: "For the last 10 years, I've worked all the way from deck to bridge, and have worked for the biggest names in movie, art, finance, politics and technology, each of these experiences had their very good and their very bad."
Many social media users flocked to the comments section of the post and asked the skipper a variety of different questions, which lead to the ship worker detailing one particular bizarre request they were asked in the past.
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While the 'mega rich' may board the super yacht, it seems their affluent nature doesn't always mean they are after fancy food and drink.
"We onboarded charter guests from the Bahamas with the most wonderful galley full of extravagant food and they literally wanted nuggets and chips and burgers for 10 days and nothing else... we were in a bit of trouble there," the skipper explained.
The Reddit user also detailed his favorite celebrity who boarded the super yacht, with that crown going to Tom Hanks, and the Hanks family more generally.
"The Hanks family. I love those guys," the captain said before adding: "Mr Hanks has one of the strongest moral compasses I've ever seen and I have nothing but praise for that man and his family."
Redditors were delighted to hear the Toy Story actor was a pleasure to work for, with one saying in response: "I love hearing this because I love Tom Hanks and would absolutely be devastated to learn that he was a terrible person without the cameras."
And another said: "This makes me so happy... even in his acting, you can see his kind soul."
It remains unclear what yacht this Reddit user works on, but Hanks once joined Oprah Winfrey, Bruce Springsteen, as well as Michelle and Barack Obama on a yacht off the coast of Tahiti.
While the adventure wasn't meant to be public knowledge, the press soon got wind of it.
Speaking on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert in 2017, Hanks said: "That made the news, it was really interesting. Both Oprah and I were really p***** off. Look, imagine what it could’ve been like it, triple it. It was off the scale, fantastic."
The actor apparently rented out bikes with the Obamas to explore on land, though that didn't go to plan as the 69-year-old was handed 'an undersized, girl’s bike'.
"It was rusted like all over, it only had one gear … all the others were like mountain bikes … it was so bad," he recalled.