Guys, these previews are nuts! Looks like Nat will be at odds with Kyle and Tumi, the chief stew. Which I get, Kyle is lazy, and Tumi we’ll see, not familiar with her.
I’m a little anxious with this new season, mainly because I’m eager to see if Bravo perhaps advised Creepy Captain Creepy to back down on some of her strange managerial tactics that she displayed last season, (she’s always been like this, it was just extra disgusting on BD when she stepped in for Lee) causing them to have to cancel the reunion, obviously so she wouldn’t have to be held accountable for her odd tyrannical behavior. What odd tyrannical behavior, you ask??
Oh I don’t know, shit talking crew members to other crew members. Such as convincing Rachel it was the stew’s fault for her untimely courses, bitching at Fraser for suggesting guests pack, so they can chill until time to leave, causing all of these hard feelings, hurt feelings, and conflict, then undoes at the very end, and acted as if she ‘fixed’ everyone, and saved the day.
And don’t even get me started on Alissa and how fucked up that all was. Poor girl got used as the scapegoat for why they weren’t doing the reunion supposedly for something she posted on Insta.
So my expectation is that we may be seeing less of that. I know they don’t want to let go of her since she’s a gay female captain and I’m sure they love that. I love the idea of a woman captain too, but not a creepy skeevy inappropriate one that’s hitting on the young straight girls. Sorry not sorry.
So I’m thinking if they have to forego another reunion in which she’s the captain, it’s going to start to raise eyebrows and make it more obvious they’re covering for her.
I believe she’s in a relationship now, so maybe if her needs are getting met, she can stop creeping on the girls.
What pisses me off about this, is that it would NOT be tolerated if this was a dude, a 60 year old guy predator captain hitting on the twenty-five year old female staff. It’s fucking ick this keeps getting tolerated.
She looks like she’s gotten a little bit of REfresh. Hmm maybe she read my recpas where I referred to her as an old hag a lot. But that was only because she was pissing me off. Or maybe she’s just getting laid.
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The new crew begins to arrive. We’re docking in Genoa, Italy and touring the Italian Riviera this season, with a fucking boat the size of a small state.
“The charters haven’t even started, and it’s already been a shit show” she says in her yap.
Well Sandy, I have every confidence in you that you’ll be turning it into more of a shit show.
Natalya is back from last Below Deck season. Tash is not. Worst chief stew in Below Deck and all of it’s spin off’s history. I would think Sandy is possibly refusing to work with her after watching the season, and saw her lack of work ethic, and constant preoccupation with chasing boys, instead of doing her fucking job. And the constant rage texting by that psycho boyfriend. She wasn’t smart enough to block his dumb ass.
Not sure Sandy appreciates her white capri’s joke. Sandy may try to act like she is, but she’s not really a laugh at yourself kind of person.
So the shit show Captain Creepo was referring (and I’m going to keep calling her that until she shows me otherwise.) is that the chief stew, Tumi, and Kyle, yep he’s returning too, unfortunately, are stuck in customs.
Tumi was on Down Under, I think, which I have not been able to get into, so I’m not familiar with her.
I wonder if this was manufactured drama, because being familiar with Nat, she’s a fucking work horse that never rests, and does an excellent job. She was more of a leader and better stew than Tash was, easily.
I’m sure they foresaw how she would have a hard time giving up the position when Tumi arrived.
The way Creepo says “I want you take command” seemed so purposely worded to entice her and make her feel special.
I’m surprised she’s under Kyle? I think they really should do away with the second and third rankings with the stews, especially if they have similar experience.
Sandy: “When the chief stew comes, you don’t have a problem stepping down —– doooooooo you ?”
Of course she will.
She falls right into introducing herself the ‘chief stew’ and assigning cabins as the crew starts to filter in.
The chef seems like a typical chef. He seems excited, for now. Nothing red flaggy, however, I don’t agree with him, if you like broccoli there has to be something wrong with you. He’s never had broccoli the way I make broccoli.
There are two girl deckies, so that’s different. LuKa is a New Zealand-er, from BD Down Under too, so I’m not familiar with him, but he got rave reviews from Captain Jason. He’s even an engineer, but would rather do deck duties. And he’s cute. I’ sure all the girls are going to like him,
Hayleigh, one of the deckhands has zero experience, and this is her first yacht experience. She’s a Philly girl. Love that. She seems kind of ditzy.
The crew is feverishly scrubbing, cleaning and organizing. Since this boat is gargantuan (989 tons) and is a commercial vessel, the regulations are a lot more strict. This dude comes on board to review the crew’s documents and certs.
As inspector gadget is reviewing the docs, Ruan gets called in, and is asked where his originals are. Apparently that’s a big big deal to have your actual certs, not copies when you are on board.
He says due to his lifestyle of not really having a home or parents, his stuff is at a friend’s and he didn’t know he would need the original docs. He claims he made ‘certified copies’ at at police station. The inspector reveals that they are copies of certified copies.
He does look a little deer in the headlights. How is he supposed to have these docs mailed to the boat exactly?? They need to arrive in five days, or has to leave. So this friend has to locoate his docs, Fed Ex or UPS, or whatever, them to Italy to this port, from Africa?
He cries to the deck crew about not having his originals, as he’s always used the certified copies. The others are like, ‘yeah I always have my originals.’ I’m guessing he was okay in the past, But there are more regulations on this particular boat and port. He calls the friend. I’m not holding my breath
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The food and alcohol, provisions, as they call them arrive. This seems so overwhelming for the chef. He has to put all of this stuff away himself. I’ll be boring and repetitive, and voice my thoughts again, that these chefs needs sous chefs!
He looks overwhelmed as there are boxes of food everywhere! Sandy tells him “take your time.” Well, he can’t really take his time, when there are guests arriving the next day. I hate when people tell you take your time at something that clearly has a deadline.
Yet another stew arrives. Brooke, an American. So this is five? Including Tumi and Kyle who are ‘held up in immigration.’ Her experience is being a deckhand on smaller boats. Hopefully they’re not doing the half and half thing when the other two stews arrive, since that worked out so well last time,
Sandy gives the deckies a little skill test, and already Ruan who looks like he may not be legit, mistakes a 100 meter distance for 50. This is kind of important. Where the hell does Sandy get her bosuns? Craig’s List? Remember that chick from last year that also wasn’t good at distances? Like this is bosunning 101 isn’t it? It’ kind of like a doctor not knowing where your heart is.
Sandy calls a meeting, and she seriously says all of the women on board for her is ‘a highlight.’ Okay settle down Captain Creepo. This shit got you in trouble on Lee’s boat. No creeping after the girls. No picking favorites, based on who you find cuter. (Camille vs Alissa) I think she regrets putting it that way, as soon as it came out of her mouth. That sort of proves me right, in my analysis.
Very first preference sheet meeting with so much enthusiasm. Then on like the sixth or seventh one, they’re rolling their eyes, “blahhhhh these stupid greedy mother fuckers and all of their stupid demands!”
Just so happens it’s Creepo’s doctor and personal friend. He turned forty over the scamdemic and never got to properly celebrate.
The bosun who’s not really a bosun, gets a call that his best friend was killed in a car crash. Luka does a good job of comforting and consoling him, given he’s a guy, and with a dude he just met.
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Rise and shine ! It’s charter day! The alarms go off.
The guests – a group of guys – arrive. They joke with Jack, by warning him how many great dinners they’ve had since in Italy, so the bar is high!
Way to freak the poor guy out! I read Bravo is having trouble getting people for these charters that want to film. I wouldn’t be surprised if these dudes are getting a free or really cheap trip to agree to be on the show. We might be seeing more ‘friends of Sandy’s.
There’s a very large guy that is the brunt of wisecracking by the other guys about his size. Can you see this in a group of women? The skinny chicks making fun of the fat chick??
Sandy gets a call about Ruan’s docs. She’s saying his name wrong but guess it doesn’t really matter. Remember she kept saying Fraser’s name wrong? She was calling him ‘Frazer’ with a hard ‘z’ sound. Fucking dumb ass. Didn’t she watch Cheers?
There is another dude’s photo on Ruan’s Yacht Master certificate, that gets discovered when Sandy scans the bar code on one of his documents. Captain Creepo claims that the entire vessel could be arrested due to this. I really doubt if she or the crew would be ‘arrested’ over one crew member having a forged document. She just likes to say ‘arrested. ’
This reminds me of the drama when Hannah had the CBD pen, and valium for her anxiety. She claimed that she could lose her license, and the boat would have to be turned around and yadda yadda, because she hadn’t declared it nor brought her script. I’m pretty sure since it’s not illegal narcotics, none of this would happen.
And what made it extra hard to swallow that she got fired over this, is that one of the other stews had a weed pen too. She was like, ‘guess I better get rid of it!! I didn’t know they weren’t allowed!’ And don’t even get me started on fucking Malia snitching on her, which is how it got discovered. I don’t even know how she was able to show her face on anther season after that. She did take a break in between.
Guess she thought viewers forgot about it. We didn’t. She started banging an engineer on that charter. So to put this fucking tattle-tale piece of shit in perspective, she was banging the chef AND her bosun simultaneously on her first season, banging a different chef, on her next season, and then banging the engineer on a subsequent season, when she returned after the snitching.
All while she was humoring Sandy’s love bombing and advances. Talk about sleeping your way to the top. Not sure what she’s doing now, and I don’t care. Maybe she should just be an escort.
I read something Hannah had said in an interview that Creepazoid seemed like she had it in for her immediately, upon their first time filming and working together. The producer even told Captain Freako, that she can’t speak to her like that.
Hannah is totally Creepy’s type, looks-wise. My speculation is maybe Hannah picked up on her creepiness, and grooming tactics immediately, and unlike Malia or Rachel, rejected her, and didn’t play along. (Rachel did being to see, towards the end of their season, I believe, and began to pull away) So then she had this vendetta against her. If you are somehow a Captain Creepo fan, I’m not sure how you can’t agree that she treated Hannah horribly, most of the time uncalled for and completely undeserved.
Okay I’m back. A little digression there, it happens. Ruan has to leave the boat, “or the entire boat could be detained” she’s told by a dude on the phone.
Sandy repeats what he said, possibly not knowing his side of the convo, is going to be aired, except she says – What?? the entire boat could be ARRESTED? Which sounds SO much more dramatic.
No creepo, he said ‘detained’ which means delayed for more questioning. Arrested means hauled off to jail. It’s different
Just boot the kid off. This isn’t hard. It’s not the end of the world. I get it you’re a down a bosun, but this isn’t a third world country. the whole crew isn’t getting thrown in prison, because one guy has a sketchy document. I love how they take us for idiots.
She calls Ruan into the office and right away he looks – concerned.
Sandy points out that the photo on of the certs does not appear to be him. He at first denies it with, “yeah yeah yeah – 100%” – as he touches his face (HUGE LIE DETECTOR.)
She presses him on where he went to school. He stammers, “On one of the boats, we needed to get a ticket, the tickets expired we needed one done quickly and ‘the guy’ issued us our tickets.”
She again wants to know where he got his training.
“Pardon?” he says to buy some time. Touches his face again.
I really think Sandy is picking up on all of this, but is at least trying to be nice about it, so as not to humiliate him. I don’t think she’s a total asshole. I just thinks she has some weird issues which keeps her from managing in a normal way.
He comes up with “on a boat in Monaco.” Sandy quickly shoots that down. She ultimately tells him to pack his shit and get off of the boat. But nicely. If his shit gets verified, he can come back. I feel like she knows she’s never going to see him again.
This kid is clearly shook, and knows he’s busted and fucked. I feel like this is something you would at least get fined for. Not thrown in jail, as Sandy keeps trying to portray, for the added drama.
You would think this kid wouldn’t be dumb enough to audition to be on a flipping TV show with counterfeit certs. Maybe he was reassured by whomever helped him with this fraud, that they wouldn’t take the time to scrutinize his documentation.
Well I guess he’s not in Kansas anymore, He’s on a commercial yacht in a much larger and regulated port in Europe. Oh well, live and learn.
Sandy summons Luka to the bridge, and asks him to step in as bosun since Ruan needs to go, and to keep it on the down low for the time being.
This lunch these guys are having looks more like a huge dinner, than a lunch. The food doesn’t stop coming. Seems like Jack understands the assignment.
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Is it not so ridiculous that these guests expect the stews to unpack their suitcases and press several items, when they’re on the boat for 48 hours. I can see wanting stuff taken out that needs hung, but why are they fiddling with the dude’s socks? I don’t care how rich I was, and what kind of bougee vacay I was on, I would not want strangers digging through my suitcases. I don’t even like having maids come into my room clean, when I’m in a hotel. Maybe I’m just weird like that.
It does kind of suck that they’re delayed in proceeding from the dock because of this loser. Whatever.
Some reject goes nuts when his phone falls in the hot tub and practically drowns trying to retrieve it. Hopefully this wasn’t the doctor.
Ruan seems like he can’t get out of there fast enough. I think he was maybe worried there would be repercussions for presenting false certification documents.
I wish Nat would brush her hair for crissakes. They press several shirts that belong to ONE guy. So he’s clearly using these girls for his traveling pressing needs, not just for what he needs on charter. And isn’t everything just going to get wrinkled again anyway when they pack to leave?
And before you say, ‘they pay thousands for these charters, they can ask for whatever they want.’ Please keep in mind that there is usually one person paying for the charter, and the rest are guests of that person. Since you know, it’s no fun to charter a yacht by yourself. These people are getting free vacays, whilst taking advantage of the crew, using them as their personal assistants. And even if they are all splitting it, it’s a fucking shitty thing to do. “Here, iron 16 shirts for me.” No asshole. Iron your own fucking shirts, or pay someone to do it.
If any of you watch RHONY, I immediately thought of Jessel, when they were on their day charter, and she called the captain a pilot. And who knew, there IS such thing as a boat pilot!
This ‘marina pilot’ needed when they come and go, since it’s a much larger marina. If Jessel watches Below Deck, she probably feels validated.
The dudes are bitching about not yet departing. Let me get my violin.
So they do get help from one of the officers and the engineer for pulling out of the port. I think even with Ruan on board, they still would have needed that help, who didn’t know 50 meters from 100. I wouldn’t either, but it’s also not my job to know that. (And I’m American, and don’t use the metric system – hahaha)
Sure hope Sandy can handle this boat. She may not have the time to creep on the stews and female deckies. Maybe that’s why they gave her this monstrosity.
Producers were like – “I have an idea! Let’s give her the biggest heaviest boat we can find, to keep her distracted from fucking with people.”
Genius. I love it. It also might be harder for her to lurk around and eavesdrop on everyone since it’s so flipping huge.
Luka seems to be stepping right in as bosun, scheduling the ladies down time and responsibilities.
Who trusts someone who eats their steak well done? Shut up Creepo. Don’t you have a thousand ton boat to tend to? Stop stalking the chef.
Sandy sits down to dinner. “None of us know your whole story.” Well tell them to stream the episodes. We know! and we’re sick of hearing her bragging about what a great leader and mentor she is. She’s not!! And here it comes!
Since she was given chances in life, it is now her job is to mentor people.
If by ‘mentor’ you mean prey on girls and love bomb them, then sure, you’re a mentor. If by ‘mentor’ you mean pin crew against each by praising and comparing one department to another,thus creating chaos and dissension, then sure, you’re a ‘mentor.’
If you mean by mentor, convincing people they suck, by bitching for the slightest things, humiliating them in front of the crew, and even making issues up. Then proceeding to build them back up, after you have them crying in the corner, by issuing overcompensating compliments, then take credit for newfound confidence, then sure you’re a ‘mentor.’
I can’t with the fakery and dillusion of this woman. They tell her she’s admirable. They need to watch last Below Deck season, when she came on to fill in for Captain Lee if they think this hag is ‘admirable.’ She’s a fucking wreck.
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Sandy gets a call from Ruan, and as predicted, his certs and what-not were fake, so he’s not returning and heading back to Africa to ‘sort it out.’
Jessika complains to Nat that she’s taking it too easy on Brooke, since they’re splitting the same tip, and she’s sick of ‘guiding’ her. I know Nat doesn’t have this authority, but she should be made third stew and stuck in laundry the rest of the season for that stupidity. It’s not hard to ‘guide’ someone when doing tasks that a ten year old could do.
You’re also getting the same tip as the chef that’s planning, and preparing three – five star restaurant style meals every fucking day with NO help, and you’re making cocktails and beds. So sweetheart, I would take a step back, and suck it up.
As credits start to roll, Sandy gets the call – and no one is available for a bosun for two more weeks. I think it’s Jaoa that steps in, right? I also heard a rumor that Ruan comes back. I’m not sure I’m buying it though. This was his insta post a few days ago, explaining the situation. Do you believe him?
