Meet the Cotton Crews Team

Lauren CottonFounder/President
Growing up on the water in South Florida, Lauren fell in love with salt water at a young age. Boating, sailing, and water sports played a huge role in her adolescence. After graduating from Palm Beach Atlantic University with a degree in communications and marketing, she combined those degrees with her passion for the water and joined Rybovich Superyacht Marina in early 2006. At Rybovich, Lauren was highly involved in marketing, guest services, and events. In 2011, Lauren joined Worth Avenue Yachts as part of their marketing and brokerage team. Over time, after consistently connecting friends to yacht jobs, Lauren realized there was a high demand for quality crew placement. Lauren started Cotton Crews in 2013 and has since been committed to providing the highest level of service and dedication to her clients. More recently, Lauren saw a need for safe, clean crew housing. Cotton Crews now houses over 200 crew members between West Palm Beach and Fort Lauderdale. In September 2018, Cotton Crews launched two apps, Cotton Crew HIRE and Cotton Crew JOBS. Lauren was recently featured in the Palm Beach Post, Talk of the Palm Beaches Radio Show, interviewed on The Crew Coach and selected as one of Palm Beach Atlantic University’s 50 Notable Alumni.
Dawn WilliamsonCrew Placement
As we continue to grow, we added Dawn Williamson to our team in 2021. You may have received an email from Jobs@CottonCrews.com that was straight from her! Dawn was born and raised in Stuart, FL, and grew up spending time in the Bahamas. Recently, she’s moved back to Stuart with her two daughters. Dawn has a background in customer service and staffing. This combined with her love of the
Matt WoodburyHousing Manager
Matt has spent numerous years connecting yacht chefs with high end provisions in South Florida. Now we use him to help crew and boats find accommodations in West Palm Beach. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics and a Master’s in Business Administration. Matt would rather be fishing, but most of his time is spent organizing crew housing and trying to facilitate work for the crew staying in our houses.
Crew Dog
Crew DogMascot
Crew Dog is Cotton’s Crew’s mascot and can often be found hanging with crew in a crew mess or walking the docks. Crew is a Coton du Tulear and born March 28, 2015. He is very friendly and loves people, be sure to say HI if you see him!

Some of our happily placed candidates, by vessel size:

Captain 28m
Captain and Stew/Deck Couple 28m
Captain 28m
Captain 24m
Mate 30m
Mate/Deck 31m
Mate 27m
Mate 34m
Deckhand 34m
Chef/Mate 34m
Chef 34m
Chef 29m
Chef 24m
Cook/Stew 26m
Stew/Cook 27m
Stew/Cook 33m
Solo Stew/Chef 29m
Stew/Deck 28m
Solo Stew 36m
Solo Stew 29m
Solo Stew 34m

Captain 45m
Chief Officer 50m
Chief Officer 45m
Mate 48m
Mate 46m
Mate 56m
Bosun 45m
Chief Engineer 45m
Sole Engineer 46m
Deckhand 45m
Deckhand 56m
Chief Stew 48m
Chief Stew 45m
Purser 45m
Chef 45m
Chef 46m
Chef 44m
2nd Stew 50m
2nd Stew 50m
3rd Stew 48m
3rd Stew 48m
3rd Stew 45m
Jr Stew 50m
Stew/Cook 45m
Stew/Crew Chef 45m
Stew/Massage 44m
Stew/Massage 46m
Bartender 45m

Chief Officer 64m
2nd Engineer 60m
Sous Chef 80m
Sous Chef 85m
Crew Chef 60m
2nd Engineer 73m
Jr Engineer 85m
Deckhand/DJ 85m
2nd Stew 64m