Below Deck fans were in for a treat when all five of the show’s captains got together to dish on what it’s really like filming on board.
Yup, Captain Lee, Captain Jason, Captain Glenn, Captain Sandy and Captain Kerry all sat down with Bravo’s At The Helm for a chat about what really happens behind the scenes on their charter yachts.
Captain Lee spoke about how confronting it is to go from being a regular captain to instantly becoming a reality star.
“We’ve all gone through the morph period, where we’ve all done our job as captains, then all of a sudden, here’s a reality there’s this reality TV show that we’re thrust into,” he said.
“All of [the other captains] went through a process of interviewing and taping, I was just a pure accident, I was that baby that wasn’t expected,” Lee explained, referring to the fact that he was the first Below Deck captain ever.
He added that turning a regular super yacht into a reality TV set is no small feat.
“As soon as the gangplank’s down, [the production team] are invading the boat. They’re ripping walls out, they’re ripping ceilings out, installing cameras, wiring, nobody really knew what we were doing or what to expect because no one had ever filmed on a boat that was going to be moving.”
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Captain Glenn admitted that he didn’t find having cameras on board “that big of a deal” adding that “you get use to them pretty quickly”, however he said there were other factors involved with filming that weren’t as easy to deal with.
“The logistics of getting all the production people on and off the boat safely multiple times a day adds an extra element. That’s something you wouldn’t deal with if you had no one there other than guests,” he said.
Lee added that Glenn’s boats, which are Sailing Yacht as opposed to Super Yachts, are especially hard to handle.
“You have it extremely tough because you don’t have the benefit of stabilisers, you’re just rolling and rocking all over the place,” he pointed out.
“Exactly,” Glenn agreed.
Stabilisers are fins or rotors that are mounted below the boat to reduce its roll due to wind or waves.
Watch the full interview with all five captains below:
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