When final we left Below Deck Sailing Yacht, Chief Stew Daisy Kelliher was sobbing in her cabin. Daisy and Junior Stew Madison “Mads” Herrera had been doing their finest to care for the demanding constitution visitors, whereas the opposite junior stew, Lucy Edmunds, was doing “f*** all” on the seashore.
In reality, Lucy and Deckhand Alex Propson had been establishing a seashore picnic for the visitors. Hang in there, Daisy! You’ll have time to catch your breath as quickly as all of them go away on the tender and head to the seashore. You’ve handled far worse than these visitors.
“I am so f***ing frustrated right now that if I didn’t cry, honestly, I think I would set the boat on fire,” Daisy interviewed. I get it, lady! Been there. Guys get offended and punch one thing. Girls cry. It’s stress reduction.
Meanwhile, the visitors selected to delay their seashore journey by half an hour, whereas TJ and Lauren completed their breakfast. Having “f*** all” to do on the seashore whereas she was ready for them to reach, Lucy determined to do some yoga.
Life’s a seashore (picnic)
At final, the visitors had been prepared for First Mate Gary King to tender them over to the seashore. Primary visitor John determined to take a last-minute pee over the aspect of the boat, relatively than utilizing the day head which was simply steps away. His younger son Jacob chastised him, “Dad! That’s gross!” I’m stunned John didn’t inform him, “This is how real sailors do it, son.”
After dropping the visitors on the seashore, Gary headed again to the Parsifal III for the meals. In the galley, Chef Ileisha Dell was admitting, “Buffalo wings aren’t really my thing.” Really? I by no means actually thought of it, however I suppose buffalo wings are an American factor. What can be the Brit equal of a buffalo wing then? Beans on toast? A bacon butty? The latter sounds delish, by the way in which.
At the seashore, the visitors had been throwing an American soccer round. When John threw the ball to his son, visitor Lauren tried to dam him from catching it and bought smacked behind the top by the ball. Everybody laughed it off, as Lucy commented, “Please, no more [head injuries].”
After delivering the meals to the seashore, Gary requested Lucy, “Are you coming with me [back to the boat]?” When she shook her head no, Gary mentioned sadly, “No? Dammit. Thought we were gonna have a little romantic cruise in the tender.” He by no means stops making an attempt, does he?
The visitors loved Ileisha’s buffalo wings however had nowhere to eliminate the bones. John complained about having to place the stripped bones again into the bowl with the uneaten wings. Suddenly, Jacob toppled backward in his deck chair, taking the cocktail desk of meals with him into the sand. “I started falling, [and] by instinct, I put my hand on the table,” he defined.
“This is a f***ing sh** show,” Lucy muttered to herself. Back on the boat, Daisy gasped as she learn Lucy’s textual content, “John has been complaining a lot, and now Jake’s knocked all the food into the sand. It’s f***ing ruined! I don’t think they’re too happy.”
Working collectively within the galley, Chief Engineer Colin MacRae and Chef Ileisha seen Daisy’s dismay. “What’s going on?” the chef requested.
“All good?” Colin questioned. “Dais?” She simply shook her head.
“F***ing f*** my life!” Daisy texted again to Lucy, telling Colin and Ileisha, “I’m so over this. Oh my God.”
Up on the bridge, Daisy knowledgeable Captain Glenn, “Just so you’re prepared, [John]’s complaining a lot.”
“It is what it is,” Glenn mentioned philosophically, as Daisy walked away muttering, “I’m just over it.”
“It’s not that stressful,” Gary chimed from the banquette, the place he was comfortably reclining throughout work hours. “I really thought they were enjoying it. I’m having a good time with them.” How would you even know, Gary? The visitors are again on the seashore, and also you’re stress-free on the bridge sucking as much as the captain. Way to be supportive. This just isn’t gonna win you any factors with Daisy within the romance division. No surprise she selected Colin.
“I feel like Gary lives in his own world,” Daisy interviewed. “At the end of the day, if there are any complaints coming back, it’s gonna be about the interior [department]. But [Gary] doesn’t give a sh** how I feel.”
“I’m having dinner with them tonight,” Gary advised Glenn. “I’ll make it all happen.”
Ileisha cuts a bitch (herself)
Because the meals had been dumped within the sand, the visitors determined it was time to return to the boat. “You know when you go to a nice resort, and then you leave the resort and go into town, you’re like … uh, let’s get back to the resort,” John mentioned. I suppose that meant he was executed with the seashore. “I think we’re ready to head back if you guys are cool,” he advised Lucy.
In the galley, Daisy was saying, “I hate people. I hate life.”
“Why are you always in a grumpy mood these days, Daisy?” Colin requested her. Maybe you are able to do one thing about that quickly, Colin?
Clearly, Daisy and Lucy weren’t the one ones on the boat feeling the stress. While chopping greens for dinner, Ileisha inadvertently sliced the tip of her fingernail off. Captain Glenn simply occurred to be there, and requested, “You okay? Want something to clean that out?”
“I should know better,” Ileisha interviewed. “I’m no stranger to injuries when I’m rushing. One time in the kitchen, I nearly cut my whole thumb off. I passed out, blood everywhere, white face. I needed to go to the hospital. But you have to suck it up, and shake it off.” Good story, Ileisha. Ewwwww.
Chase and Gary have extra drama
In the meantime, deckhand Chase Lemacks had overslept. Having labored the night time shift, he was presupposed to get up at 2:30, however he mistakenly thought it was 3:30. Gary went to examine on him at 3:15 and located him making his bunk.
“On the page, it’s there,” Gary advised him. “I can’t remind you all the time. Do you mind going and helping pack away the swim platform?”
“On my way,” Chase advised his boss — to his face. But in an interview, in fact he needed to push again, per traditional. “F***ing Gary. That’s not what he said yesterday … Even when I’m right, I’m f***ing wrong for it.” Even although Gary mistakenly advised him 3:30, 2:30 was the time written on the schedule. Check the schedule subsequent time, Chase. The written file all the time wins.
The Parsifal III goes for a sail
Finally, Glenn radioed the inside, “We’re gonna start putting sails up.” The wind was gusting as much as 25 knots (slightly below 29 mph), so it needs to be a wild trip. At the identical time, Ileisha was getting ready dinner within the galley. It should be a lot enjoyable to attempt to put together a sublime dinner whereas your kitchen is leaning at a 20° angle. I suppose that is the job she signed up for, although.
As the boat heeled over, issues went flying off the counter within the galley. “Not the beans!” the chef cried in dismay. “F*** me!” In the salon, Gary and Lucy had been having enjoyable physique sledding throughout the sloping picket flooring. Behind the bar, Mads joked, “You know what? I’m sick of being the only one that works here.” All three laughed since that they had all been goofing round.
Gary will get his flirt on
Coming throughout Mads on their own within the laundry, Gary wasted no time. “Hey, my fave!” he mentioned whereas closing the laundry room door. “Listen, I just want to hang out and get to know you. It’s not easy while we work though.”
When Mads agreed, he added, “You don’t really get the time [to get acquainted]. And then when we go out, everyone’s together.”
“And everyone loves me,” Mads joked.
“We’re just gonna have to stay up and wait in the jacuzzi until everyone goes to bed,” the First Mate continued. “I need affection, girlfriend.”
“I think you’ve got the wrong one,” Mads advised him. In an interview, she admitted, “I don’t think Gary gets me at all. I think the affection and love bombing is just so cringy to me. I’m not an affectionate person.”
“Well, we can change that,” Gary presents. I feel Mads is extra into Alex than Gary. We’ll see what occurs on their subsequent night time off.
Back within the galley, Daisy advised Gary that although the dinner was to have fun visitor John’s ebook launch, he was planning to current awards to every of his visitors. Gary volunteered to emcee the awards dinner, to which Glenn was additionally now invited.
Lucy melts the visitor’s dinner gown
Attempting to steam the wrinkles out of visitor Lauren’s dinner gown, Lucy unintentionally melted the fabric with an iron that was too scorching. “Mads!” she shouted for assist.
Hearing the cries for assist, Colin caught his head out of his cabin. “What happened?”
“I just burned her dress!” she defined. “Her dress just melted on me. I was steaming it … My mum’s going to be so disappointed in me.”
Waking Daisy from her nap, Mads broke the unhappy information, “Lucy may have ruined the guest’s dress.”
“We can reimburse her,” Daisy mentioned, as she examined the melted gown. “It says you can iron it, so steam shouldn’t have done that. Give me two minutes,” she was wrapped in a towel, “and I’ll come out and I’ll speak to her, apologize.”
Once once more Daisy was involved about getting detrimental critiques on the finish of the constitution. “Having to tell this guest that we have f***ed up so majorly bad and that probably we’re gonna get some more sh**ty feedback from Glenn, my anxiety is sky-high right now,” she mentioned in an interview.
But when she went to inform the visitor concerning the melted gown, regardless of a whole lot of OMGs, she actually wasn’t offended. Daisy assured her they might reimburse her for the injury, however Lauren was very gracious and mentioned it was okay. She didn’t make the fuss Daisy anticipated.
Daisy’s a stress case
While setting the desk for dinner with Gary and Lucy, Daisy requested them, “What would you do if I walked off [the boat] today?”
“I think we would handle it pretty well,” Gary quipped. “You just create a stress environment, Daisy.”
Daisy thought he was fairly imply, whereas Lucy interviewed, “All the tension between Daisy and Gary could go one way or the other. And obviously, negative energy can affect crew, so I definitely hope they sort out their sh**.”
“You don’t stress me out at all,” Gary added. “I don’t stress.”
“But I just stress everyone else out,” Daisy responded.
“Everyone else, yeah,” Gary admitted.
When Gary, Glenn and the visitors had been seated on the desk, Daisy complained, “I hate that we have to serve Gary.” This is the second time Gary was invited to eat with the visitors since he returned from quarantine. Isn’t this solely his second constitution again?
One of the visitors requested Glenn the that means behind the boat’s identify, Parsifal. “It’s from King Arthur,” he answered. “A German composer wrote an opera about Parsifal. They’ve named the Parsifal after the opera, which is after the knight.”
While making an attempt to distract the visitors with small discuss, Glenn seen that there was a very long time between programs. The major’s son Jacob was rubbing his eyes with sleepiness. That’s what occurs once you begin dinner at 9:00 pm. Who can eat that late? Normally, I’m interested by mattress at that hour.
Dessert and the awards ceremony had been to happen upstairs on the flybridge deck. While the crew was ready to begin the presentation, Daisy was irritated that Gary took a cigarette break earlier than coming upstairs and gave him a tough time about it. Even Colin mentioned he’d been waving at Gary to return up.
Though he apologized and mentioned he didn’t hear the radio name, he was aggravated at being referred to as out. “I don’t give a f*** what you say, I’m the chief officer here,” he mentioned in a manufacturing interview. “If I want to have a f***ing cigarette, I’m gonna have a cigarette. F***, Colin. I thought you were on my side. What the f*** is going on?” Struck a nerve there, I suppose. I assumed you by no means misplaced your cool, Gary. Not so cool now, huh?
Colin’s a very good listener
Looking for a sympathetic shoulder to cry on, Daisy knocked on Colin’s door whereas Gary was nonetheless upstairs emceeing the awards ceremony. Is this the starting of their relationship?
“I’m just f***ing tired,” she advised him. “Like, it’s [been] a long day. I’m having to manage a lot. To have a girl do service when the guests are off the boat, no matter what they’re doing or drinking. I just feel so much pressure, and … anything that goes wrong, it looks bad on me.”
“I feel like Gary’s so unapproachable,” she continued. “Like, he’s just sick of me saying stuff. I just don’t want to have another conversation about it.”
At least Colin was supportive of Daisy’s emotions and didn’t simply brush her off like Gary had. Daisy actually appreciated having him see her aspect. “If it weren’t for Colin, I would feel so alone,” she admitted.
“You’re doing a good job,” Colin mentioned, giving her a giant hug. “You’re a great chief stew. I notice how much you do.”
Daisy was feeling a little bit betrayed by Gary’s perspective about her frustration, particularly since she thought they’d gotten shut working collectively. “I feel like I can speak for the entire crew,” she mentioned. “Gary, go f*** yourself.”
As everybody else was off to mattress, Chase was as soon as once more complaining about having to do the anchor watch. “Cleaning the boat all night, it’s a f***ing sh** job … [but] I’m crushing it.”
As a good looking purple and orange dawn rose above the Mediterranean, Chase stood on the finish of the swim deck and mentioned, in a Mario voice, “That’s-a very pretty.”
The visitors say goodbye and Daisy has a meltdown
I’m going to overlook these visitors. Though they might be demanding at occasions, they had been really pretty, type folks, which is uncommon on this present.
While Ileisha was getting ready breakfast within the galley, John was making an attempt to evoke at the least one member of his household off the bed to maintain him firm up on deck. It was their final morning on the Parsifal, and he wished to savor each minute remaining.
As the boat motored towards the marina, Glenn requested Gary to provide the marina a name and allow them to know they’d be returning to their berth in only a few minutes. The visitors completed their packing simply as Glenn pulled the boat into her slip. But as he was maneuvering the previous couple of ft, John got here as much as chat, bless his coronary heart. Not a good suggestion to distract the captain whereas he’s making an attempt to securely dock a multi-million greenback vessel.
As he was saying goodbye to the crew, John couldn’t have been extra gracious. “You guys are the Greatest of All Time Yacht Crew! Thank you so much!” After handing Glenn a fats tip envelope, he waved goodbye and walked down the dock to hitch his family and friends.
Back within the galley, Daisy vented to Ileisha about Gary saying it was “one of the best charters ever,” when she had been struggling. She questioned if he mentioned it simply to piss her off. “Honestly, I couldn’t tell if he was being sarcastic or trying to wind me up.”
Ileisha referred to as it a “dick move” for Gary to make that remark when he knew Daisy was having such a tough time. “F***ing Gary. Such a f***ing wanker.” I like that phrase “wanker.” It’s so British and so correct, whereas nonetheless being a bit cheeky. I would like so as to add that one to my vocabulary.
When he gathered the crew within the “saloon” for the tip assembly, even Glenn admitted, “It wasn’t our easiest charter, but we got through it.” After addressing the protection points with the water toys, Glenn requested Daisy to deal with what they will do to enhance service. Revealing her stress round this challenge, the chief stew requested if they may transfer on and tackle it later in non-public, and Glenn agreed. As the dialog moved on, Daisy was clearly nonetheless upset and tearfully excused herself from the assembly.
“Let’s just pause for a minute,” Glenn mentioned, noticing Daisy’s misery as Gary adopted her from the room.
“Hey, Dais,” the primary mate referred to as after her.
“I’m gonna be fine, I just need five minutes,” she advised him. “Honestly, I’m fine. I’m f***ing trying.”
“I know you are,” Gary soothed. “You’re trying your hardest. Don’t let it affect you … The girls are so f***ing grateful for all your help.” And he grabbed her in a bear hug. Finally! She simply wanted a little bit understanding, and he confirmed up for his good friend ultimately.
This time it was Colin who didn’t perceive what Daisy was so upset about. Even although she’d had that dialog with him the night time earlier than and expressed her frustration, he mentioned, “I don’t know what she’s crying about.” Come on, Colin. Don’t be a dick.
In a manufacturing interview, Gary confessed, “Don’t get me wrong, Daisy annoys the f*** out of me, but I feel very protective over Daisy, and I don’t like seeing her break down like this.”
Glenn adopted them all the way down to the crew quarters and advised Daisy to “take a moment,” however she assured him she was fantastic. He advised her, “I don’t want you to think I’m picking on you.”
“It’s not you I’m upset with,” Daisy advised the captain. “Even though it’s not a personal attack, I’m gonna feel personally responsible.” The strain simply bought to her, however she mentioned she was fantastic now and will return to the assembly. It’s like a strain cooker. The strain simply builds till it must be launched as steam. Daisy let off some steam, and now she felt higher, though a little bit embarrassed at dropping management of her feelings.
“I’m doing the best that I can,” she mentioned, “but I’m human. And there’s only so much f***ing crap I can take.”
Colin stepped in to defend Glenn. “I think it’s important to note that everyone is doing a fantastic job … When [Glenn] gives us constructive criticism, it’s for all of us to improve. He’s not attacking anyone or putting anyone down.” Thank you for that sanctimonious assertion, Colin. I feel you’re lacking the purpose right here.
“You want to talk about frantic?” Colin mentioned in a aspect interview. “You talk about my first charter [when the engine wasn’t working]. Quite a stressful situation, [but] you didn’t see me crying.” Colin simply didn’t perceive the strain Daisy was below.
But what everybody actually wished to listen to about was the tip. It was $23,000 US, $2,240 Euros every. (Why does Glenn all the time say “US dollars” after which swap to Euros? It’s complicated.) A really good tip. That ought to flip these frowns the other way up.
Following the tip assembly, the fellows all went out on deck to hash over what simply came about within the tip assembly. Colin didn’t perceive why Daisy was being “so defensive.” But then he reopened the difficulty of Gary going for a cigarette break when the remainder of the crew was ready for him on the flybridge the night time earlier than. He referred to as Gary’s making them wait a “bit of a dick move.”
Gary was pissed at Colin chiding him to “lead by example.” And similar to that, Gary stalked off muttering, “F*** Colin.” Uh oh. Is their bromance on the rocks? It’s solely gonna worsen within the coming weeks.
Below Deck Sailing Yacht continues Mondays at 8/7c on Bravo.
TELL US – DID YOU UNDERSTAND DAISY’S MELTDOWN IN THE TIP MEETING? DO YOU AGREE WITH COLIN THAT DAISY WAS BEING DEFENSIVE? OR DO YOU THINK HE JUST DIDN’T UNDERSTAND HOW MUCH STRESS SHE WAS UNDER?