Wildfires Threaten Below Deck Mediterranean’s Entire Charter Season: “We Gotta F-cking Go”
Wildfires Threaten Below Deck Mediterranean’s Entire Charter Season: “We Gotta F-cking Go”
“I have to figure out how to get out,” Captain Sandy Yawn said as she navigated a scary issue on Below Deck Mediterranean.
While a good crew can control almost every detail of a guest’s experience on a mega yacht, they can’t control the weather. And sometimes, that sets the course for an entire charter.
Captain Sandy Yawn reacts to weather challenges on charter
Earlier in the episode, Sandy foreshadowed the issues while discussing the weather.
“We may be delayed a little bit. It’s a little rough,” she told Aesha Scott about 30 minutes before guests were supposed to arrive. All over the boat, the crew was watching the wind pick up.
“I can’t have a lot of wind when I’m trying to maneuver out of the slip,” the captain added in a confessional. “I have to wait for a weather window. We have to get off the dock before the fires get closer and the smoke starts coming into the marina. So we have to be ready when it’s time.”
Captain Sandy explains the anchor issue on Mustique
Before the wildfire conundrum,Sandy had trouble even getting to the marina. At the end of Episode 6 and beginning of Episode 7, the crew was dealing with a “scary” and “f-cking expensive” anchor issue that made their guests miss their flights.
“The anchor shaft isn’t working, so we’re going to have to leave the anchor,” Sandy explained in the episode. “We put the buoy on it and get the divers, and then we get it transported back to the marina. And then we install it there, because we need our anchor.”