St Lucia is the desty for this Below Deck season, and we are welcoming back Captain Lee once again!
He’s lookin a little peaked.
Getting intro’d to the new crew. They seem kind of, all over the place. Quite the eclectic and lippy crew.
You already know you’re going to have a problem when you hear the female crew talking about how cute, pretty, flirty and twerky they are. We have one all tatted up that’s a self-proclaimed ‘hot mess.’
Predicting these girls all being in competition with one another. Looks no shortage of drama.
So this boat is a little retro, as in very Titanic and Victorian era. Which can be cute, if not over done. However this is over done. It’s tacky. It’s also much larger than we’re used to seeing.
Fraser is returning as Chief Stew, which is a little surprising to see. He was pretty green when he was under Heather last season. He did seem to have a good work ethic. He liked to mutter under his breath a lot complaints on Heather’s instructions. I really did like him, so I’m down with this! He’s got a pretty wild bunch of stews under him, and a smile on his face. For now. I feel a little bad for him. These bitches look like a lot.
Okay so we have a floater, so that’s new. Maybe because this ship is larger than usual. She is going to be both deckie and a stew., but primarily a stew. I can’t see this being successful, but we’ll see. That’s a lot of people to answer to. The bosun, chief stew, the second. And I can totally foresee them like fighting over her. “Well WE have more to do in the interior!” “Well WE need her on deck…”
I mean, was this purposeful just for the drama?? Never, right??
Rachelllll!!! Lee loves him some Rache!! I love me some Rache!! She gets her own cabin, so no complaints there I’m sure.
No Eddie this season, apparently, he’s been whining like a bitch about ‘Housewives’ getting paid more than the BD crews. Yes I am serious. What a fucking pussy. What a FUCKING pussy. I think it’s a good thing though, he was getting on my last nerve last season. And he and Captain Lee together were just not a good thing. It was like Mean Girl energy feeding off of each other, like Rinna and Erika on RHOBH for example. That’s totally what they reminded me of. They walked around scoffing at the rest of the crew, like ‘oohhhh will you look at the poor peasants, they want to be US!’ Eddie was supposedly in training to be an Officer, and Lee was just giving him way too much attention and praise, and was encouraging him to sit up in the wheelhouse with him, observe everyone working, and do nothing to contribute. To his credit, he did seem like he was a little uncomfortable with that, and was trying to contribute to the lowly deckhands, and Lee kept scolding him and encouraging him to sit around with his feet up. It was weird.
Which was leading to him getting a little too big for his little teeny britches. Remember when they were sitting up in the wheelhouse looking down on the crew, literally, and watching their every move, making a big fucking thing that Rayna rolled her eyes, when Eddie barked an order into the radio, at Lee’s encouragement.
“Did you see that, did you see that??” Eddie had said to Lee. Like really we’re going to reprimand someone for rolling their eyes?
Also, not stepping in when that Jake or Jack (Fraser’s special friend) was being a fucking douchebag after being promoted to Lead Deckhand, not taking Rayna’s complaint about that seriously, and blew off her issue with Heather, therefore making her more pissed off about it.
Maybe had he intervened, he would have realized Heather was merely singing a lyric in a song, with the word in it, and repeating after Rayna, and using that ‘n word’ slang term. Had he paid attention, and not blown her off, perhaps he would have been able to nip it in the bud before it kept imploding and getting worse, as she kept insisting Heather was racist because she sang that lyric along with Rayna.
I just don’t think last season was a good look for him. Maybe that’s really why we’re not seeing him this season. No complaints here. Let him whine about his pay.
Okay, so Ross is the Bosun, and Lee seems pretty impressed with him. We’ll see how long that lasts. He’s not the easiest to please. To say the Lee-st.
Alissa wants to “meet as many high end people as possible.” Okay can see this being an issue. She was doing that kidding, but not kidding, thing when she shared that.
Hayley: “the three things I like most about myself – ass tits, hair.” So everything. She’s Aussie or English, I can never tell. I’ll have to wait until she says.
Fraser sits down with Hayley and Alissa. Hayley is one of those chicks that never stops touching and rearranging her hair. It’s super annoying. Hopefully she’ll be putting that maroon rat’s nest up in a pony or bun while she’s working, unless these guests have an affinity for eating hair.
NO one has entered the boat wearing a skin tight short skirt and stilettos so far. Elena still holding that honor from Below Deck Med, that was there for ONE charter. Guess she really needed to make an impression.
Camille is the deck/stew, as they’re calling her. Original. This Ross dude seems like the Gary of regular Below Deck. He’s already planning on hitting on his two female deck hands, that he looks much older than.
I was going to complain about Lee demanding to be brought a coffee to the staff meeting, then I saw him hobbling around on a cane. (he does tend to sit up there on his throne and demand to be waited on, I think he still would have demanded a coffee) He definitely is looking a lot older suddenly. Fraser breaks to him there is no coffee nor cream on the boat. You would think there would be some coffee somewhere left from the last charter.
I think he’ll be okay. Seems like he just wanted to be waited on. He’s still got his pocket full of plane tickets. The cane is due to a nerve issue, and he claims the doctors have told him, post surgery, he’s going to “continue to get better.” I don’t know about that, at his age, (73) but we will see. I have a feeling he’s not going down without a fight though.
Fraser thinks his two stews are going to be a good fit, knock on wood. Well there’s plenty of it inside this dark primitive boat to knock on! Go to town Fras!!
So the arrival of the provisions, and with more levels to this boat, that’s more stairs to be carrying all of this shit. It’s too bad they don’t have a few big burly guys that can just help carry boxes of food and alcohol onto the boat while they’re at the dock. That shit is heavy, and that’s a very physical tiring job. And these people will need their energy. So the galley is not on the same level as the freezer, dry storage and walk in fridge.
Okay so THAT could be annoying. These Chefs need a sous chef! I kind of got of that kick with past season of BDM, since Dave didn’t really seem to need a hand, ever. Not that I don’t think Rachel knows her shit, but with all of the food storage being down a level, that’s going to get pretty old pretty fast.
How does maroon hair work with her hair all in her face like that??
First Preference Sheet meeting. Cap does NOT look like he’s getting around well at all. I guess technically, his job doesn’t involve having to run around the boat, but I do think it’s important that he be able to —- walk. I don’t know, I’ll shut up.
I feel like being responsible for a boat this size, he should be nearing retirement age. Sorry to say. Spoiler Alert – I did hear a rumor that he doesn’t finish the season. I think they elude to that on the previews too. I wonder who’s coming in? Sandy??
Guests want a ‘Playboy Mansion’ style party. I wonder if any of these stews happen to have two Bunny costumes packed int heir bag?
I wanna jump out of a cake! I’m so jealous! Who’s going to get to do that?
Ross is in his cabin sipping on something that doesn’t seem like tea. He seemed a bit too joyous and into it. We’ll see, I might have read that too.
Fraser seems overwhelmed. There seems to still be so much shit that needs put away, and guests are arriving the next day.
So they do have one very green deckie, Tony, but he seems enthusiastic. And admitting that he’s inexperienced is probably a good thing too, instead of acting like he knows it all.
Like does this boat seriously have a library? This boat seems more equipped for an more older subdued crowd, not a bunch of partiers.
Alissa has been deemed second stew. There is debate on social media, if appointing a second and third stew causes problems, or if the chain of command helps with the work flow. There were comments, that this could have been the issue with Kyle and Nat on Below Deck Med, however I do 4 4not believe so. I think it was more the fact that Tash favored Kyle and let him off easy, and Tash was not good at supervising and delegating, to make sure one wasn’t doing half the work of the other.
I see this being an issue with Alissa, just going from her childish comments, that I think she means as a joke, but also like I said, not a joke.
I think here would have been another situation to just keep everyone on even playing field, with Fraser doing the delegating and supervising, so there’s not the constant argument of “oh my God, she’s telling me what to do, like she’s the boss of me!!”
Camilla already is annoyed with the Alissa being appointed the second, because she seems to think she should know everything already. She’s literally annoyed she doesn’t know where napkins are. This turns into an all out debate/argument hostile whole big thing, because Camille can’t ask Fraser where they are.
Camille doesn’t like that she is going to be beneath Alissa. She did make a face when Fraser announced the appointment at the meeting. With her being this ‘floater’ did she really think she would be named second? Or was she just hoping she didn’t have someone else to answer to? She does have now Fraser, Alissa, and Ross as people telling her what to do. So she better suck it up and learn to deal, or find another job. No one cares here that she’s pretty, and the “life of the party.”
Okay maybe the guys do. But like job-wise it doesn’t matter. If you don’t like being told what to do, this isn’t the job for you. That was one of the (many) issues with Trashley on Sailing Yacht.
The guests arrive, so the crew fake smiles commence. A guest has to use the restroom, and there’s no soap in the bathroom, and there are apparently piss stains on the toilet. That’s nice Fras.
Apparently Alissa who was all to happy to be in charge of the other two stews, is already pissed at getting asked questions. The where are the napkins argument, has now turned into, do we need side plates argument.
There’s this weird sky light thing in one of the colonial bedrooms that I guess is cool but, also weird.
So we’re heading out, and as Lee very dryly puts it, “new crew, new boat, new location” andsomethingabout toothpaste. He seems to be not as on point with his one liners like he usually is.
Now I want a spicy margarita!! (I need tequila) And we’re off!!
The Titanic simulation seems to be fitting on this boat.
Chicken for lunch?? Rachel does not know chicken is for poor people apparently. So lunch is running late, and Rachel seems to be all over the place. Guests are bitching. Take them some cheese and crackers.
Fraser during service: “why have I got a pillow?” Good question.
I feel like Rachel should have gone up and apologized for lunch being hour and a half late. Fraser wasn’t really offering any apologies when they kept bitching.
Who’s going to be jumping out of the cake?? I forget who’s birthday it is ? If it’s he gay dude, then it should def be Fras.
Katie flirts with Ross, and talks about how teeny she is. He plays along.
There we go with The Leeisms. “The guests are drunker than a buncha four peckered goats.”
The guests school Fras on Mormonism. He doesn’t want to know. He needs to watch RHOSLC.
It seems like Rachel has no sense of urgency to me. She’s just like ‘yeah whatever I’ll get to it when I get to it, they’re drunk anyway.’ Now dishes broke in the galley and Rachel has to deal with that, after lunch was already over an hour late. Dinner is now an hour late. I really do think it has a lot to do with all of the food storage being on another floor. I’m just thinking about me cooking in my own kitchen (not for twelve people) and having to run down to my basement every time I needed an item from the fridge or freezer. Can you imagine?? Is there not even a small fridge/freezer near the galley? A dude designed this boat, a woman wold have known better.
The guests are wasted. She could have served chicken mcnuggets and they wouldn’t have known the difference. The birthday guest of honor is puking at the table.
So there is this lag between courses, and there should so NOT be. Rachel knows this. Guests are walking around the dining area complaining they’re bored. Rachel is still really nonchalant about it, and doesn’t seem to care. Is this because it’s firsts charter? Is this because she knows Captain Lee is obsessed with her? Good thing he can’t walk, and he’s confined to his quarters, or else he’d be seeing this shit show and bitching. Sandy would fer sure be lurking in the kitchen and bitching.
It’s been half an hour since last course. That’s just unacceptable. Courses are supposed to be in direct succession of each other. Why doesn’t she have someone help her? RHSLC shout-out “Hi Baby Gorgeous” one of the guests say. Who would have thunk that would have caught on like it did? I wonder if she even said that by mistake?
Guests are no longer interested in eating the main course. The rave party is getting underway.
So the dude jumping out of the cake, one of the Saint Lucian performers, was kind of — uneventful. I just don’t think it has the same effect when it’s not a hot girl. Sorry dude. Also this ‘cake’ is kind of small and lame, and looks like a child’s craft project. I think it would have been cuter if Fraser jumped out of it!
Again with the sparklers lit INSIDE the boat, when Sandy went ape shit on Hannah doing the same exact thing. So clearly it wasn’t that big of a deal. Yes the smoke alarms went off, but it took two minutes for the engineer to turn them off. Sandy just liked to bitch at Hannah.
Fraser cries in his yap, that he’s bitten off more than he can chew and he doesn’t feel prepared or capable. Maybe he should consult one of the books in the library.
Now there’s a water and vacuum fight between Alissa and Camille that was pretty ridiculous.
