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Captain Sandy Yawn has had quite a bit to take care of on this season of Below Deck after quickly stepping in for Captain Lee Rosbach as he recovered from well being points. However, she has no regrets about any of her selections. Especially selecting to fireplace stew, Camille Lamb.
“I stand by it,” Captain Sandy not too long ago advised E! News. “First and foremost, I don’t fire people unless I have the facts, and secondly, I don’t fire people out of favoritism or non-favoritism. I fire people because if they’re the one singular thing where everything else is evolving around them, that’s the problem I have to eliminate.”
Captain Sandy additionally defined that Camille seemingly remained unwilling to study as she constantly couldn’t take constructive criticism with out turning into defensive or disrespectful.
“Sometimes people just walk through life and think what they’re doing is OK just because they’ve never been properly taught,” Sandy mentioned. “I was that person until someone showed me, but I had to be willing to listen and to remain teachable.”
Still, Captain Sandy mentioned that her determination to fireplace Camille was a “last resort” and “firing people is never fun.”
“Remember I stepped on Captain Lee’s boat—the last thing I want to do is start firing his crew,” she said.
As for the place the 2 stand immediately, Sandy revealed that she had a “maritime fundraiser” not too long ago and Camille, in addition to different Below Deck stars, confirmed as much as present their help. However, Sandy was fast to keep up that she and Camille are “not buddies.”
“I’m not friends with Camille, we’re not buddies. She showed up, I love the support, and it’s like another colleague in the industry. So good terms? I don’t look at good terms. I have to say I’m very neutral when it comes to the crew,” she defined.
Camille just isn’t the one crewmember to have a showdown with Captain Sandy this season. In the newly dropped midseason trailer for the present, chief stew, Fraser Olender, is seen getting right into a heated spat with the Below Deck Mediterranean captain.
According to Captain Sandy, what viewers see within the trailer is a results of Fraser “joining in the gossip” on the boat. A transfer Sandy calls cancerous.
“When you lead a team, you have to shut it down. It becomes the cancer of the boat. It starts permeating the boat, and it takes the morale down, and if you’re not happy with your captain, well, that’s something you need to work through,” she defined.
Still, Captain Sandy says that Fraser is an efficient chief stew, however that he’s nonetheless studying, including that he’s a people-pleaser who’s “doing his very best.”
“Fraser wants to do a good job, he wants to be perfect, he wants to please everyone,” Sandy advised E!. “He’s doing his very best. Again, this is his first season as Chief Stew ever in his life. He’s figuring it out. I don’t take it personal, but what I had to do was shut it down. You will never gain the respect of your peers if there’s no fine line. People need to be led.”
Below Deck airs Monday nights at 8 p.m. EST on Bravo.
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