a yacht in kneed

A Yacht in Kneed

Captain Sandy returns to Croatia at the helm of the mega-yacht Lady Michelle in hopes of guiding a new team through calmer waters along the stunning Dalmatian Coast. Previously a Chef to celebrities and the uber-wealthy, Mathew takes over the galley, where his ambitions quickly conflict with his on-board reality. An exceedingly accomplished yachtie, Katie joins as Captain Sandy’s first new Chief Stew in years. Meanwhile, the deck team discovers one of their deckhands is greener than they could imagine. By the time the first charter guests arrive, the team is left in an impossible situation that threatens to derail the season before it can even begin.

Season 6 - Episodes

It's Not Easy Being Green

It’s Like Rain On Your Wedding Day

Love At First Night

Ship Happens

The Morning After

Can’t Fight This Feeling

At Your Lack of Service

Brews, Stews & Management Blues

Burning Down the House

Should I Stay or Should I Go

Don't Go Chasing Waterfalls

A Hard Day’s Night

All I Need is a Miracle

Three's a Crowd

Sleepless in Croatia

Nothing Comes Over Easy

Below Deck Mediterranean After Show

Katie Flood: "I've Never Worked with or Had Anyone That Horrible"

Was Lexi Wilson Pulling Her Weight During Charter? Lexi and the Crew Speak Out

Captain Sandy Yawn: "We're Smoke and Mirrors, We Don't Show Them We're Failing"

Does Lloyd Spencer Regret Being so Vulnerable with His Crewmates?

Katie Flood: "I Was Fuming Inside"

Katie Flood Reacts to the Interior Crew Being Called out for Their "Lack of Attention"

The Below Deck Med Crew on Bringing on Another Stew: "It Definitely Caused Some Anxiety and Worry"

Lexi Wilson Shares Why She Didn't Want to Join the Oktoberfest Party

Katie Flood: "Why the F--- Is This Girl Here!?"

Chief Stew Katie Flood Reacts to New Stew Delaney Evans' Lack of Experience

The Crew Weigh In on the Chaotic Cabin-Switch Situation

Captain Sandy and Chef Mathew React to the Galley Fire

Lloyd Spencer: "I Think Captain Sandy Can Smell When Something Is Going Wrong"

Captain Sandy: "People Make Mistakes...Just Be Honest"

Mzi "Zee" Dempers and David Pascoe Reflect Back on Their Unforgettable Strip Tease

Katie Flood Was Glad Delaney Evans and Lexi Wilson Got Along

Delaney Evans: "It Didn't Seem Like I Got a Fair Shot"

The Below Deck Med Crew Reacts to Katie Flood's Decision to Let Delaney Evans Go

David Pascoe Reacts to Lexi Wilson Interrupting His Heartfelt Speech

The Below Deck Med Crew Reacts to David Pascoe's Shocking Fall

Courtney Veale: "Our Whole Crew Day Had Basically Been Ruined"

The Below Deck Crew Reacts to Chef Mat and Lexi's Tense Encounter During Dinner

Captain Sandy: "Everybody Is Replaceable, Even Me"

Katie Flood: "It's Always Nerve-Wracking Serving Your Captain"

The Below Deck Crew Reacts to Katie's Decision to Finish the Season with Only Two Stews

Chef Mat Reacts to Captain Sandy's Critiques on His Dinner

The Exterior Crew Is Amused by Delaney Evans' "Copy/Paste" Farewell Text Message

Lloyd Spencer: "I Felt Almost Disembodied From the Minute I Woke Up"

The Deck Crew Reacts to Being Called Out by Captain Sandy After a Chaotic Docking

The Below Deck Med Crew Shares Their Feelings on How the Tense Vineyard Dinner Unfolded

Lloyd Spencer Gets Candid about His Experience Getting Sick Before the Final Charter

Katie Flood: "We're Not Puppets!"

The Below Deck Med Crew Reacts to Lloyd Spencer's Health Scare

Katie Flood on the Charter's Talent Show: "Cringe! Cringe, Cringe, Cringe!"

Chef Mathew Shea on Receiving Negative Feedback: "I Just Want to Cry"

Malia White: "Next Thing I Know I'm In a Bra, Stripping on a Lazy Susan"

Lloyd Spencer Shares His Thoughts on This Season: "Summed Up We Had Some Highs, We Had Some Lows"

The Below Deck Med Crew Dishes on Their "Wild" and "Messy" Final Night Out

The Season 6 Crew Makes Below Deck History By Keeping the Party Going After the Charter Season Ended

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'Below Deck Med' 6.01 Review: A Yacht In Kneed

Bravo's work-in-a-beautiful-place drama reality series sets sail for a new season, running into crew and guest drama almost immediately..

What to Watch Verdict

Even if the show's producers actively cultivate drama with demanding guests, the new season kicks off with plenty of obstacles no one could have anticipated.

⛴️ While personality conflicts are already on the horizon, everyone seems likable so far — among the crew, anyway.

⛴️ Watching Mathew express his anxieties (or not express them) and Sandy find solutions feels like a study in workplace conflict resolution.

⛴️ It remains unclear how much drama the producers cultivate by enlisting terrible guests, but the group on the first charter crew is kinda awful.

This post contains spoilers for Below Deck Mediterranean.

If viewers experience a love-hate relationship with virtually all reality television, Below Deck and its spinoffs, Below Deck Sailing Yacht and Below Deck Mediterranean at least offer enough different dynamics to make them easy to love. First, there’s the locales, which cover an indefatigable series of beautiful landscapes that audiences wish they were visiting; then there’s the luxury of the vessels, which even at their smallest are fancier than anything ordinary mortals will get to sail on; and then there’s the wish fulfillment of being waited on hand and foot by a crew that will do anything possible to meet your every need, from food to watersports to the most elaborate and idiotic party ideas imaginable. Oh, and then there’s the soapy melodrama, the (literal) upstairs-downstairs conflict between demanding guests and harried blue-collar staff, the juxtaposition between deck hands and galley stewards, and inevitably, the personality conflicts and copious amounts of alcohol that exacerbate weeks of isolation in too-cramped quarters.

Season 5 of Below Deck Mediterranean offered all of this and more, including a mercurial chef and several misguided boatmances (both of which there almost always are), even before the creeping threat of Covid scuttled the end of Below Deck Season 8. Season 6 of Below Deck Med opens with Captain Sandy trying to kickstart the yachting industry in the looming shadow of the pandemic, bringing back Malia as Bosun but without Tom, the cranky chef she had to manage both personally and professionally. In his place is Mathew, a Rhode Island native who initially seems easy to get along with but quickly becomes the problem child after ordering too many provisions for the first charter and then injuring his knee while climbing the many staircases of the Lady Michelle, a 180-foot yacht that the crew will call home for the next several weeks. While Mathew’s disposition is much kinder than many of his predecessors, he simultaneously faces a crippling bout of anxiety while trying to assess his injury, leading to some quick thinking from Sandy and the crew that unfortunately does not meet the guests’ needs.

Kiwi Katie is the season’s Chief Stew, and it remains to be seen if her clear-eyed assessment of her leadership style will prove accurate, though as she and her team prepare the interior for their first charter, everyone seems to be getting along. Nevertheless, her subordinate Lexi, a former beauty queen from the Bahamas, admits that she prefer to be the one receiving drinks than taking orders for them. Meanwhile, Courtney, from Wales, cheerfully calls herself “queen of laundry,” a designation that may earn her more time washing clothes and linens than she wants. Working beneath Malia, there’s David, Lloyd and Mzi, whom she declines to rank until she sees them in action; Mzi is the resident greenie, with limited experience on a boat as big as the Lady Michelle, but the fact that he carries a notebook in hand to learn process and routines endears him to Malia, who four years earlier was the inexperienced crew member, again working for Sandy, so she’s excited to pass along her knowledge of super-yachting.

Docking for the season in Sibenik, Croatia, Sandy and the crew adjust readily to Covid protocols, and make a fresh start obeying the Number One rule on all iterations of Below Deck : no drinking while on charter. But after Mathew spends a sleepless night nursing his knee and worrying about whether or not he’s prepared for the first charter, he approaches Sandy to request an MRI. Their exchange highlights one of the other interesting elements of this show, which is, it regularly prompts the question, how would you handle this sort of interpersonal conflict? It’s slightly too early in the season to know anyone well except for Sandy and Malia, but if you were injured while the rest of the crew was depending on you, what would you do? And if you truly felt like you couldn’t do your job, how would you articulate that to your captain (or boss) with just hours before guests were set to arrive? It sounds comical to suggest, but this show feels sorta uniquely instructional in watching these workplace issues and learning how to resolve them — and somewhat predictably, how not to resolve them. By comparison, it feels like other shows are driven by the engine of the cast’s personalities, and inevitably this one is as well, but so much of the drama is concentrated because the entire location in the “workplace,” so it becomes more important than whoever might be ailing, or just an asshole, in the moment.

Speaking of “assholes,” there are of course the guests, who it seems reasonable to believe that the show’s producers cast and possibly encourage to be demanding and unpleasant. It’s by far the most consistent thread throughout all of the different series and, of course, different crews are better than others at handling the attitude and entitlement of the invariably extremely wealthy people who can book a luxury yacht for several days in a foreign country and expect to have every need met. For Charter Number One, it’s two couples, co-First Charter Guests Terez and Lee and Clint and Karry, the latter of whom wants to hold a wedding ceremony with their closest friends after postponing due to the pandemic. They are understandably disappointed to learn that their first day of charter will be without a chef, forcing the crew to wrangle a surf and turf dinner that none know how to make, even with the help of a sous chef from a neighboring yacht; but the dressing down that they give to Sandy after their dinner is terrible seems excessive given that they know the circumstances under which the crew of the Lady Michelle labors.

With no signs of whether or not Mathew will return — and in fact, Sandy’s expectation that he won’t — the first charter looks to be a rough start to the season. But the one thing that the crew of this ship does better than virtually any other (no matter who’s a part of it) is pull it together and keep trying, for their tip if not for the drama that it delivers to the show. And with a wedding ceremony set for the final day of the guests’ charter, drama feels like an absolute and irresistible guarantee.

Todd Gilchrist is a Los Angeles-based film critic and entertainment journalist with more than 20 years’ experience for dozens of print and online outlets, including Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, Entertainment Weekly and Fangoria. An obsessive soundtrack collector, sneaker aficionado and member of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, Todd currently lives in Silverlake, California with his amazing wife Julie, two cats Beatrix and Biscuit, and several thousand books, vinyl records and Blu-rays.

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Below Deck: Mediterranean S6 E1; A Yacht in Kneed

Captain sandy returns to croatia at the helm of the mega-yacht lady michelle in hopes of guiding a new team through calmer waters along the stunning dalmatian coast..

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Watching rad tv, below deck mediterranean s6:e01 a yacht in kneed recap.

Well HELLO everyone, how has your few months been?? Mine’s been awesome but now I’m behind Below Deck Mediterranean so we’d better pitter patter get at ‘er! Can you believe it’s season 6 already?? I hope we get repeaters…and pics of Hannah Ferrier’s baby!! Rolling into Below Deck Med S6:E01 A Yacht In Kneed after the break!

Okay! Let’s meet everyone, we’ve got almost a whole new crew aboard. Captain Sandy Yawn is aship, COURSE, and first to arrive is chief steward Katie Flood who has a super wide smile, giant eyebrows and momjorts.

A super awkward greeting later, we learn that Katie is used to directing 7 girls under her which means: she’s not used to doing scut work maybe. We’ll see how she pans out, giving her sixty seconds break, y’all.

So Malia White is back as Bosun (also known as boatswain, apparently because that’s an actual word unlike bosun), interesting choice. Not for Bravo, they live for the drama her presence is sure to create. She was instrumental in getting rid of our last long time chief steward Hannah Ferrier. She was also wifed up to the whiniest chef I ever did see, looks like she and Tom Checketts have called it a day (as if I care).

She arrives at the same time as chef Mathew Shea, but doesn’t go say hi to Captain Sandy, instead staying below deck and introducing herself to Katie. Hmm.

How was this guy been a professional chef for the last 14 years?

When he’s only 12?

Although. I’ve been trying to figure out how old my favourite internet chef Matthew Broussard is and he’s probably around the same age. Maybe it’s just me that’s old?

It’s totally me.

He’s enthusiastic and outgoing yet somehow humble, I don’t hate him. Yet. He’s actually much older looking in the show, with a grizzled mostly bald pate, I buy he’s been in the biz for 14 years, I guess. He has a glorious knifebag but it’s shiny new so.

Everyone else arrives in a flurry of luggage and boobs as Malia makes her way to the bridge to kiss Captain Sandy’s ring. Hm. Malia’s been second officer in the Med recently, hm. They’re stiff and awkward with each other, which is weird because they’ve always been close. Are they pretending they don’t drink rosé all day and trash Hannah’s life choices?

Lexi Wilson is one of Katie’s stews, she was Miss Bahamas, which she says she doesn’t tell people after she tells people like us and everyone she’s met so far, including Katie her boss.

I know what her talent was: remaining upright. Her boobs make my back hurt from here.

Malia’s whole deck crew has arrived, we’ve got Mzi ‘Zee’ Dempers, David Pascoe and Lloyd Spencer who can only be known as Pornstache, sorrynotsorry. If hapless was a person:

Zee is so young. SO YOUNG. He’s also so nervous that he can barely breathe, Malia is very excited that she gets to teach someone this green which is the exact opposite of every other bosun ever on Below Deck.

He introduces himself to the rest of the deck crew as our last steward Courtney Veale arrives. Huh. I didn’t think she’d be British, seeing as every single promo shot of her is twerking. Is twerking over in the US? It must be if the Brits are on it. She’s the palest person I’ve seen (except myself), so this pic of her as a “promo girl” is quite something. I smell hickory smoke…

Captain Sandy calls the whole gang to the salon for a team meeting, maybe tell them which wind they are now, hey? Heeeeey the actual crew actually working off camera this season are hella cute, aren’t they??

Maybe their life choices disqualify them from making asses of themselves on international TV.

We’re on a new boat called Lady Michelle okay. I didn’t even notice we were on a new boat so I’ll be waiting with bated breath for the first boat tour!

A semi truck pulls up with provisions wooooo! I bet you could stack a shittonne of caviar to lose in there! We’ve got three pallets of food, what did you order, Mathew????

Everyone helps unload then the different departments call separate team meetings because THAT’S how you turn a boat around in 24 hours: by sitting and talking about turning the boat around in 24 hours.

Lexi is dubbed second steward, edging out Courtney to the less-preferred laundry role. Malia’s not naming her lead deckhand (is that a thing?) until she sees what everyone can do, David’s eyes narrow in focus and I snort-laugh my water. Eye of the Tiger, David!!

Lexi has a lot of opinions and backstories about people that make no sense to me. Someone(s) treated her like Cinderella because she was in a pageant? Chief stews become lazy bitches when promoted and she just wants to do her own thing? What? People stereotype pageant girls as good cleaners? WHO

Oh no, this boat is gonna suuuuuuck, sorry Lady Michelle, whomever you are/were. The walkin fridge/cooler is two flights down from the galley, how is that going to work for one chef preparing all the food every day? That’s a nightmare. Mathew’s worried but at least Tom’s not here to screamcry in the corner about his reputation.

Pornstache, they lied to you. Your t-shirt is lying to you. You don’t look like Nicholas Cage.

Wooooo we’ve got our first Preference Sheet Meeting!! Hai successful marketing executive Terez Percenti as our Primary Charter Guest! Ah with co-Primary husband Lee Percenti, sure.

Hold up, we’ve got another couple of co-Primary guests and you know this is like having four best friends, right? It’s an absolute. If everybody is Primary, nobody is, Clint Yoder and Karry Stevens.

Oh wait, those last two are getting married, which makes Katie groan because planning someone else’s wedding and making it special in less than 24 hours is…FUN! Think Vegas, Katie! Plus there’s a birthday party, bachelor and bachelorette parties, oh yeah, this charter is gonna fly by!

(Not like the wedding. Probably)

Chef Mat has a story about weddings; his parents look much older and have married each other twice. He was birthed during the divorce so they call him their ‘bastard child.’ They legit sound like a lot of fun.

OH. OHHHH. Katie is Jack Stirrup ‘s ex girlfriend!!! You remember Jack, he was dating Aesha Scott and it ended weird because she said his psycho ex-girlfriend did some stuff…ooooh. Is that KATIE??

Everyone goes to bed, so I guess we’ll find out later FINE. Mat can’t sleep, he’s up at 3:30 am to get started for the day. He’s like me! Too much on the brain, so may as well work (or run) in the middle of the night. Totally normal.

Also like me, Mat’s shenanigans running up and down two twisty flights of stairs carrying heavy boxes of food has resulted in one very bad knee. He’s going to have to tape that and slam some ibuprofen FAST.

Jaysus, Mat’s ready to quit over that knee. He’s all nerves, he didn’t sleep and his knee hurts and he’s ready to go because he can’t ‘do this properly.’ I thought we got rid of Tom already???!!

Captain Sandy stays calm while Mat tries not to cry, he’s super freaked out. A good night’s sleep would have helped a bunch but he is adamant he needs an X-Ray and an MRI. He’s not wrong, good for him! The guests are almost here, but this is his livelihood, I 100% back this choice.

David is helping teach Zee up on deck; David seems nice and competent but so far he’s super generic and I couldn’t pick him out of a lineup.

Malia and Katie will be helping sous chef in the kitchen, boy this really is deja vu all over again. Captain Sandy explains to us the protocol for injuries on board; this is absolutely foreshadowing to her freaking out all over Malia later in the season for one of the deck crew getting hurt. Got it: tell Captain Sandy first if anyone gets hurt even a little, she will send peeps out for medical checks, etc.

Captain Sandy explains the chef situation to the crew as everyone listens in disbelief.

Let’s do this!! First guest arrival of Below Deck Med season 6 woooo!

FIRST BOAT TOUR WOOOOOOO!!

And then Captain Sandy breaks the bad news to the guests: no chef right now. Good thing they’re already into bottle four of champers; Primary Terez says that’s fine, the crew can tip THEM!

This is how rich people stay rich, y’all, they even say stuff like that out loud.

I’m just going to say: I’m not impressed with how Katie interacts with the guests. As a chief stew, she shouldn’t look that scared and lost when they ask for stuff.

LOOK AT THE SIZE OF THE LAUNDRY ROOM!!??

It’s usually half a closet, this is MASSIVE! You’re not going to be able to punish anyone by sticking them in laundry, look how airy it is!

The guests eat their lunch as the deck crew does their first smooth de-docking. It goes like buttah; as does lunch and look where they are?

It’s a weird blue boat that looks small but apparently is huge (two bath tubs for guests) so I dunno?

Courtney accidentally washed the clothes Primary Terez only wanted steamed, so we’re on all the wrong feet today. All of them. Maybe all that air in the laundry room went to Courtney’s melon.

She frantically steams some things then hauls them up two flights of stairs in that heat to hang them up for Primary Terez as the rest of the guests get busy on the slide.

Everyone on the crew hates that slide.

Why does everyone drink espresso martinis?? Who wants to be wide awake while schwasted and making unfortunate life choices on international TV??

Captain Sandy has rounded up a sous chef from a neighboring boat to help with supper prep, still no word from Mat. All hands previously on deck are now in the kitchen, frantically Googling how to cook live lobsters.

The sous chef shows up, no idea how to cook the lobsters David has just murdered. Another deckie hits his head on the low ceiling of the swim platform deck, that’s going to have to be a drinking game.

Supper is finally served and it is gross. Hella gross and the guests aren’t shy about expressing their displeasure. I mean, Courtney tried as hard as she could but that sous chef was no chef at all. I can’t believe a dozen lobsters died for this.

Lexi talks with Zee about pursuing an Only Fans career; that’s a valid path taken by other other notable Below Deck alumni, so why not? She does seem super impressed with herself. That’s important, probably.

We’re almost out but then Primary Terez wants to talk to Captain Sandy NOW. Dun dun DUN. I don’t know what they think Captain Sandy can do in a global pandemic? The days of freewheeling pulling a chef out of your arse at the last second from the laundry room or Ben Robinson’s house are ovah.

I do admire Primary Terez’s ability to draw out a syllable for effect, however.

Captain Sandy takes full responsibility but Primary Terez isn’t listening, she’s too busy screaming on about being on a MEGAYACHT, SANDY. A MEGAYACHT.

And we’re oot! See you next time, cheers.

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• Captain Sandy returns to Croatia at the helm of the mega-yacht Lady Michelle in hopes of guiding a new team through calmer waters along the stunning Dalmatian Coast. Previously a Chef to celebrities and the uber-wealthy, Mathew takes over the galley, where his ambitions quickly conflict with his on-board reality. An exceedingly accomplished yachtie, Katie joins as Captain Sandy's first new Chief Stew in years. Meanwhile, the deck team discovers one of their deckhands is greener than they could imagine. By the time the first charter guests arrive, the team is left in an impossible situation that threatens to derail the season before it can even begin. — Anonymous

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