How is it Monday already? I woke up this morning thinking it was Sunday. Where did the weekend go? The best part of Monday writing the Below Deck Recap. This has certainly been an interesting season. Captain Lee is bound to jerk a knot in a few of the crew members tonight before the guest show up. There are rough waters ahead for everyone!
Captain Lee invite Kate up to the bridge for coffee. Shockingly, Captain Lee is not completely on Kate’s side either. I don’t get it. When I hate Kate everyone else loves her and now when I am on her side for a change, Captain Lee isn’t? Then at the preference sheet meeting, he gives a mild admonishment to everyone and then gets down to business. Ashton tries to get an apology out of Kate and the best she can do is “I’m sorry you feel that way..” Then Kate promotes Courtney to second stew. This probably means that Simone will be back on laundry duty.
Don’t Embarrass Yourselves And Don’t Embarrass The Boat!
Tanner continues to be a douchebag. Simone calls her mom to trash talk Kate. Chef Kevin has a broken extractor fan in the kitchen which means smoke will have no place to go.
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Captain calls everyone in for a staff meeting after getting a distressing email. The resort where the got drunk the day before suffered significant damage to their DJ equipment after Ashton did a cannonball in the pool. Ashton apologizes to Captain Lee and says he will cover the damages. There was a thousand dollars in damages. Then he apologizes to Kate for his behavior at the beach club. She’s kind of a smartass about it.
There Is A Hair In My Cheese!
Finally the guests arrive. They didn’t have the best charter last season, so everyone is trying really hard to make this cruise perfect. The galley is almost 90 degrees already due to the broken extraction fan. So Kevin serves a caprese salad. One of the guests finds a hair in her cheese. So far things are going from bad to worse. There are a ton of jelly fish in the water. So the crew has to figure out how to get the critter free pool together and in the water. The dick hands are fighting Rhylee at every turn.
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Kate and the stews set up the dinner area for a gorgeous Thai dinner. The guests were underwhelmed by the food but Master Pearson seemed to enjoy it. There was a beautiful female Thai dancer who was very good. The black rice pudding for dessert was not a huge hit either. But again, Master Pearson ate it and that is all that really matters.
It’s A New Day
The kids grandparents live in Thailand and they are coming to surprise the family at lunch. The kids are really excited! They were going to eat on the beach but Ashton calls it off mid trip do to the high winds and dangerous conditions. That’s just more disappointment for the guests.
Now it is a lot of work for the deck crew to quickly get all the toys out. And the kitchen is full of smoke causing the smoke alarm to go off. This charter is doomed.
Next week: Tanner is an even bigger douchebag. Ashton screams at Rhylee and at Kate. Smashton comes out at the bar and continues to berate Kate who “quits” as chief stew.
Kate and Rhylee were both on WWHL and it was awkward. Kate was pretty pissed about Ashton forcibly shoving his tongue down her throat.
Who can blame her? I’m tired of the fact that the reaction to her drunkenly throwing a pair of pants on the floor that she will eventually be responsible for seeing that it is clean and pressed (not the owner of said pants in any case) when the boys on this cruise have done shit like thrown up and then made out with a stew, or shoved their tongues down Kate’s unsuspecting throat (with NO PRIOR hint of an attraction), and demands of what they have to do to get their dick sucked. OH, and excuses of such asshole behaviors as being “Smashton, not Ashton. Hahahahaha”.
Exactly
Who want any man shoving his tongue down your throat? No one
100% Team Kate! Ashton forcibly kisses Kate not once, not twice, not three but four times and she’s the problem?! For those who are not counting….twice in the bar when Brian ‘encouraged him’ to go after Kate, once on her stomach at the beach club (it was in the promos for the season but cut out of the show) and next week in the van on the way home from the clubs. Kate said on WWHL that she wanted to handle it herself but I totally think she needed to bring it to Cap Lee. I hope I’m not wrong in my belief that he would have shut that down swiftly.
Ashton has sexually assaulted Kate at least three times. When Kate rebuffed his advances he poisoned the deck crew against her. After that scene in the van, Kate should be concerned for her safety around Ashton. What does it take for him to get fired?
Bravo doesn’t seem to care
That’s exactly what I was thinking. What is going on,?
I guess the Me too movement doesn’t apply in this country?
I also think the douche in the kitchen has stirred allot of this hate Kate campaign up
I am hating all the guys this season.
I am totally team Kate in this whole mess, I feel like Brian has no clue how this shit works. Simone is a double talker, and I’m not sure how much more of her I can take. Courtney at least has a clue to what she is doing, and she is willing to learn. I wouldn’t call her eager but willing. Tanner is now full on douche bag, slap him please. And Rhylee is very pretty but she style is more than half a bubble off, and I worked with a girl who grew up on an island in Alaska and her style was half a bubble off as well. I chalk that shit up to what is and isn’t available locally. However we are living in the age of Amazon and all things being purchased online so I don’t know. For Ashton to fuck up that dj stuff is really a smack in the face to the Captain because he was being all holier than this to Kate and he’s the one who caused actual damage. Perfect.
Again…therealdeb nailed it!!
Ashton should never be in a leadership position, he just doesn’t get it.
Watch What Happens Live was good and the preview for next Below Deck on the show was interesting.. Ashton continues to show his true colors next week.
Yes! Ashton’s true colors showing once again. “smashton”
I am loving Rhylee right now. These guys are the worst. I think they hate women and are all closeted. Or have mommy issues. Hence the asshole behavior. What kind of woman would put up with guys like this? Simone is a baby. Get over it. You can’t open a bottle of wine? Please.
Can’t even slice a lime! Girl no, you suck at service.
everything you said!
I SO FUCKING RELATED to Kate this episode. Once had a hard ass boss, a bit like Captain Lee. She called you on the carpet for screw ups, but as long as you made amends and worked on those things and took those constructive criticisms like an adult… it was all good.
Had a mentally fucked co worker who always had to hate at least one on our team. The one she was jealous of/hated left our agency. I was the one who identified flaws in the files she set up, etc. (and honestly the attitude was we are all human, doing an overwhelming amount of cases, so we all fuck up..) She did other things that were fuck ups, and every time she got called to the boss’s office, there was a tearful shitshow afterward for the staff. I got called on the carpet a few times too… but I used to be a teacher, and took it as it is all a learning process.
So mentally fucked up person lost her shit one day, and bitched to the boss that I NEVER got called out on mistakes and that the bosses played favorites with me. (Similar to what I’ve heard about Kate). My boss lady kind of lost her shit on this co worker at that point.. told her that I had been called out on errors, etc., but that I TOOK IT LIKE AN ADULT unlike HER who cried and made excuses every damn time, and then complained about it to all the support staff.. I know this, because we could all hear the boss through the door. It was liberating and embarrassing at the same time.
Watch Kate with her being called up by Lee. She knew absolutely that she fucked up. Brought him coffee, and when he mentioned it, she SINCERELY agreed it wasn’t her finest hour. Didn’t even attempt to make excuses. NOR DID SHE RAT OUT HER CO WORKERS ON LEGIT THINGS. She had the absolute opportunity to legit say “I know I shouldn’t have lost my shit that way, but these are the things that were said to me… and oh yeah, Ashton basically assaulted me with his tongue”.
I think Capt. Lee was reacting with faux outrage towards Kate. Traditionally when he is angry its cutting, concise & followed up with a smarmy platitude. Me thinks last years revelation at the reunion ( Kate & Josiah taunting Caroline mercilessly) changed his usual & predictable gung – ho stance in defending all things Kate.
Love Kate. I think Kate actually in charge of the entire staff. She is the Chief Stew over the yacht. Making guest service her priority. Even informing the line cook aka( chef.)When feeding time is for the guest.If it doesn’t involve cooking then he’s out of line.He has nothing to do with service. Unless he presents it.
I’m Team Nobody at this point. Usually like Kate, but she’s out of line. Rhylee has too short of a fuse. She is not the boss, so she should stop acting like she is. It’s pathetic that Ashton has such a thing as Smashton–just an excuse for immaturity. Simone is not good at service and is a whiner. Tanner is turning into a jerk in how he’s treating Simone. The one who has surprised me the most is Courtney. At the beginning of the season, I thought she was going to be a spoiled brat, but she has revealed herself to have common sense, self-control, and a level head.
You summed it up perfectly!
I agree with you. Tanner’s family especially his mother should be really embarrassed by his behavior.
I love the show but I think Kate needs to chill out and she needs to smile more. It seems like she’s very hard to talk to. Who knows I’m not on the boat
My TV didn’t start recording until halfway through– thank you for putting recap up TT! Love knowing that Kate handled the reprimand dike a pro. She’s a BOSS! The boys gas-lighting of Rhylee is so stale. Agree on all the Courtney sentiments I assumed i wouldn’t like her when she initially complained about the outdoor picnic (I know blame Tanner on his comments teehee) but I fell in love with her by the second episode. Her facial expressions and wit are everything!! Simone has such potential but maybe the long hours in the laundry room getting to her and she’s lost sight of how terrible she is at service? I’m hoping that Ashton/Brian/Tanner watch this season and grow. Thank heavens my 20’s weren’t televised. That being said Bosun Ashton needs to get his act together ASAP.
I’m not feeling Captain Lee at all this season. I guess he’s working but all we see is him sitting around eating a bowl of cereal and gaining weight. He’s reminding me of Jaba the hut. As far as the damaged DJ equipment, maybe it shouldn’t have been so close to the pool. Cannonballs are swimming pool fun.
Have you never been to a place with a swim-up bar? They always say absolutely no splashing for that reason.
There was another huge pool where I’m sure canon balls are tolerated, but that’s not where his bros were.
Exactly, this was a swim up bar with performance platforms for dancers (that they also violated) not the kiddie pool for cannon balls.
I haven’t noticed Captain Lee eating or gaining weight. WTF is wrong with you?
um…pot? The kettle is calling.
This season has been a disappointment for the most part. I’m not a fan of Kate’s behavior but I certainly understand it and I’m still Team Kate.
Each episode I’m more impressed with Courtney. She’s definitely Chief Stew material!
Her twitter game is pretty good too. I mean, she’s no Kate, but very few are!
Very true!
100% Team Kate! Ashton forcibly kisses Kate not one, not two, not three but four times and she’s the problem?! For those who are not counting….twice in the bar when Brian ‘encouraged him’ to go after Kate, once on her stomach at the beach club (it was in the promos for the season but cut out of the show) and next week in the van on the way home from the clubs. Kate said on WWHL that she wanted to handle it herself but I totally think she needed to bring it to Cap Lee. I hope I’m not wrong in my belief that he would have shut that down swiftly.
I think Ashton would have been handed a ticket or at least thrown overboard level of having his ass handed to him.
There IS a soft spot for Kate, but I think one she has earned and developed over 5 years together and being friends off camera. More than even some of the HW who live in the same town!
Just got done with WWHL, WTF! Like Kate or not; what Asston keeps doing to Kate is straight up assault!
I am thinking to the preview for next week and when Ashton’s drunken “ego” comes out (just a poor excuse to try and blame it on “someone” and not taking accountability for ANY of his actions) and it shows him turned around in the van, screaming at Kate, then violently punching the side, of the inside, of the van!
And THEN, I remember back to the beginning previews of the whole season of Captain Lee screaming at, and firing someone, telling them to “Leave now!” (Or something similar)
And Capt Lee ALSO said that “the pond Ashton is skating on is Very thin ice” after the cannonball fiasco, sooooo…
Is it Ashton he fires??? I don’t know who else it would be and I can’t imagine Anyone doing something worse to piss off Capt!
Tanner is a dickhead and Simone is dumber than a box of hair, I’m curious as to why Kate picked her to be second stew? She cannot handle breakfast, let alone dinner! She needs to quit crying!
I like Brian although he called Kate a bitch, I wish he was alittle nicer to her and even though his apology was short, I believe it was sincere…
Rhylee always has a short fuse and the guys have to walk on eggshells around her, but GOOD! They need to RESPECT WOMEN a hell of alot more than they do! Especially Ashton and his”ego” thinking he can come on sexually to ANY girl he wants! I absolutely HATE his Dancing and it is Sooo Embarrassing! I really liked him last year but his head sure Blew up between last season and this season! He needs checked!
I will Always be Team Kate!
And Courtney, I’m also really liking her, now that her personality has come out.. I didn’t think I was going to care for her but she did a 180° for me! And I really enjoyed watching Kate and Rhylee on WWHL last night! I highly recommend watching it if you haven’t yet. I need to go watch the After Show since I cannot watch it Live on my phone Ugh
Anywho, after a loooong comment, those are my thoughts! I think Ashton will soon be going Bye-bye in the next one or two episodes…
Makes me think back as to why he hasn’t been on WWHL yet but the 2 other guys have 🤔
Holy Shit! 😲 Sorry TT, I honestly didn’t mean to make my comment longer than your recap!
No worries. I didn’t have much to say this week.
HF! I was trying to remember if Ashton has been on WWHL. His best moment last season was almost dying. That brought him lots of attention and sympathy. I really can’t buy Capt. Lee thinking he was bosun material. Production? I find Ashton in the realm of not fine enough to look hot if he’s an asshole and not hot AT ALL if he WERE an asshole, which he is. His little tweaks dance move is so NOT HOT.
I looked back at ashton’s Instagram and he was on wwhl at the very beginning of the season this fall. Kevin though…… I wonder how production gets cast members to do their talking heads after they’ve been fired.
Love your thoughts. The boys are misogynistic and I do understand Kate not wanting to involve Captain Lee. However things have gone too far and I haven’t even seen next week’s episode! And I kind had of love Rhylee.
Captain Lee pretends like he doesn’t know what is going on, and I am sure he misses a lot. But I can’t believe that Kate would not tell him about Ashton! I predict someone will.
I just watched WWHL and it annoys me when Captain Lee’s negative tweets about Rhylee are read. Andy just loves to be mean to the women on this show.
Perhaps Captain Lee is somewhat influencing the guys’ behavior thru his actions
They should all drag their dicks through a mile of broken whiskey bottles. Yo ho ho, many bottles of rum.The he man woman haters club is eating away the hull of the finest ship of the bravado armada. Worm eaten as the rest.
Remember when he referred to her mouth and ass as a trashcan (paraphrasing)? He’s as bad as the rest of the pigs/boys. She may not be sweet as pie, but she takes no prisoners!
Previously on below dick , weak men fear strong woman. Encourage don’t discourage. When you lead with your behind there’s nothing admiral about your Ashtons.
As time and tide wait for no man Ashton’s codpiece shriveled to bacalla in the presence of someone who slays fish for a living and the halibut.
TT- great recap! I agree with you and I am Team Kate also. I think below the hard shell we see is someone that started at the bottom of the industry and worked her way to the position she is in now. She expects the crew to do their job and do it well. I read her book “Lucky Charming” and her experiences in yachting are hilarious, heart felt and entertaining. She has done every stewardess job on a yacht and asks none of the stews to do anything she hasn’t done. Kate can be straight forward and sarcastic. She is not for everyone and if you are the type of person that needs someone to hold your hand and join your pity party she is not the one. Of course my opinion is based only on what is shown on Below Deck and what I read in her book.
Also, bitchy resting face is a real thing. I knew a woman who was the sweetest, kindest person – and also very passive not a person to pop off with the funny sarcastic stuff like Kate, but just one to say sweet things to someone. But she always got asked what was wrong, what has you upset, asked why she was mad, or told to smile more when all she was doing was concentrating on her job (when you are filing or stocking shelves or making sure your tray of drinks doesn’t spill on a moving ship or trying to think of what to write…. you aren’t inanely smiling constantly)
I am very fond of Captain Lee and consider him a personal friend who I communicate with without regard to the show. That said, he tends to only hold grudges against the female fuckups on the show. He particularly doesn’t seem to care for female deckhands. I admit that is a bit concerning.
This season is one where quite clearly the deck hands are all assholes. The Ashton stuff is particularly concerning. The reunion should be interesting.
But now that Captain Lee knows all about this, I question his tweets, even the last “kind” one where he compliments what she wore on the show (Where Andy kept worrying about a nip slip.)
That said, Captain Lee is of a certain age (sssh some say he turned 70 this year, I don’t know if that is true or not) and has been sailing the seas for years.
This is just my opinion, but when some of us turn a certain age, their belief system is set in stone. Female deckhands haven’t been a thing for a while and that is all new to him. And he has liked some of the female deckhands. And hey, he still likes mouthy old broads like me. 🙂 Women are still struggling and finding our voices and well, he is still the boss. I think the reunion may open his eyes a little bit. But in my experience, either Captain Lee likes you or he doesn’t. Off the show he is a great guy who does a lot of charity work and his love for his wife MaryAnne is…. that relationship he has is totally #goals.
But I learned by having parents two decades older than me that, there is really no point in even trying to move them toward more acceptance. They were much older than Captain Lee obviously and were very set in their ways. I think Captain Lee is a great guy and actually one of my favorite people. But I also understand he views the world through a different lens than some of us. The reunion should be very interesting.
I liked Leon, I liked Rocky, I like Rhylee. I’ve never been a Kate fan until this season. And yet we remain friends.
I agree with this 100% and as much as like Rhylee (I do and always have) she has a short fuse and can be a difficult personality. Do I think if she wasn’t female would she get less hate in the deck, even with the same personality? Probably. But it is what it is.
I’m hoping Capt Lee didn’t know all of what happened especially when drinking, but maybe he did…
I still think he’s a cool guy and probably a good boss and even though not perfect a good boss. I would work for him and i’m a loudmouth, strong, tough chick with resting bitch face. I also wouldn’t put up with shit from misogynistic deck hands either.
Looking forward to the reunion..
My folks are nearing 80, and this is true. Now, I’ve gotten them to be open about not misgendering people, etc. but they were already accepting of people (rented space to an AIDS charity group back in the 80s, when previous landlords had treated them horribly. One of the guys was a drag queen – now that I think about it, probably was someone who was trans. When dressed as female, she wasn’t over the top all the time. Sometimes waitressed at a nightclub I’d also go to, and there were guys there that had no clue.)
I think that he writes his blog and tweets telling us what he thought and knew THEN, and his reactions to seeing the episode we just saw. I think he his better than some of the housewives even in NOT spoiling future episodes at all.
Guys… I’ve never been directly assaulted to the degree that Kate has now been assaulted by Ashton. Maybe a rando trying to cop a feel at a night club, but who knows with the mash pit those were. Have I dealt with work place misogyny? Sure, what female hasn’t? But not to the degree these assholes have taken it under Ashton’s leadership.
But watching Kate and Rylee’s WWHL last night? I could not get that sneak peak out of my head nor her “I didn’t want to tell Captain Lee because he already gets accused of playing favorites”. Literally thinking she could handle it, and then the van thing happens. It is on film that he did it FOUR TIMES. I hate using the word “trigger” but it did trigger something. If he will do this shit knowing he is BEING FILMED, what would he do if she had been alone with him and no cameras?
I can’t wait to see if Lee hands Ashton his own ass, but I’m also kind of dreading the episode.
TT- I agree with you 100%. I think expecting or asking someone raised in a different generation with different beliefs is like asking us to change the beliefs we strongly stick to. My problem is when people that don’t see eye to eye can not at least open their mind to new ideas. People don’t realize when you’re so quick to shut out new or different ways of thinking you’re only limiting yourself from expanding the beauty of diversity and uniqueness in your life.
An old man I used to know (ahem racist) who was a church deacon and an otherwise great guy once told me that interracial dating was not a good idea because HEAVEN IS SEGREGATED and that the couple would not be together in Heaven. I realized at that point not to argue with my elders.
Definitely! Know your opponent, pick your battles and let your win be an internal peace!
OMG, Leslie Jones of SNL live video’d herself talking to the screen of her TV while watching Below Deck. She did this last night. Fucking hilarious, and now she and Kate are having a Twitter convo. I really need to leave and run errands, but I’m enjoying it too much.
There is nothing about kate that I like or would defend. I remember how she acted when Jen was the victim of a charter guest sexually harassing her.
This was Kate’s response.
“In response, Jen’s manager, First Stewardess Kate Chastain, said in a confessional interview, “Unfortunately, a guest will be served too much [alcohol], so they think, maybe, Hey, I can sexually harass the yacht crew. However, as an experienced yachtie, you learn how to deal with these kind of charter guests. And, unfortunately, Jen is not a yachtie.”
Every season it is Kate that always picks out one person of the crew to degrade. She loves throwing her rank around, but a professional leader does not run between employees gossiping about their conversations with the others. She loves to gather the others on her team against her seasonal target. Last season was a perfect example of that. She involved her new gay BFF (who would make a much better chief stew then Kate ) in the nonstop bullying and outright torture of that one chick, not even letting up after the girl decided to leave the boat ! For the first time, the crew has finally had enough and called the btch out, giving her a taste of of own medicine and Kate is riding the victim train all the way into the station.
I will admit, Ashton has no business drinking, but he did nothing Kate has not done herself in the past. Kate and Rhylee both not only sit and make sexual comments about the male crew, both have sexually harassed male crew members in the past. Equal rights mean equal expectations & treatment. Not double standards in reverse.
Lee loves attacking the crew on Twitter with his disapproving comments. His defending of Kate is not going unnoticed. That is the only reason he had his little BS talk with Kate . He defends her like she is the only piece of ass he can count on.
He accused Ashton of trying to cause division amongst the crew because he and his deck crew decided to watch what they say around Rhylee. But he totally ignores year after year Kate’s actions putting her crew in the position to side with her against her chosen target. Kate bitches about someone not being trained…well take that out and up with the people doing the hiring, do not abuse the person they hired for ratings. If Kate can not train new folks, then I suggest she stop patting herself on the back , before she breaks her arm.
And Kate loves the attention she gets from the show. She loves giving interviews where she never misses a chance to put someone down. For months she has been throwing shade at Hannah on Twitter & interviews claiming Hannah talks about her behind her back Thank god Hannah has ignored her dis not take the bait, but Kate has not given up. I call Kate
” Trump of the Sea”. Her nonstop use if Twitter to attack people reminds me of Trump.
Thank you Tamera for allowing me to voice my opinion on this issue. I’ve always respected you for being brave enough to speak yours.
I feel better now. 😎
What about Kate’s behavior made it OK for Ashton to sexually assault her?
I was beginning to think I was the only one who sees Kate as the bullying prima Donna she is. She is condescending to the paying guests who don’t meet her standards. She insists she knows cuisine better than the chefs. Kate demands the staff do any sexually humiliating stunt to earn a tip, yet I ‘be yet to see do anything. extra.
She is, worst of all, vindictive and jealous, e.g. punishing Simone for hooking up with Tanner, who was initially interested in the “cougar.”