Below Deck
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Tonight, the gang is gallivanting off the yacht, the charter seasons first opportunity for extracurricular activity.
Over dinner, we learn more about all of them.
(Where do I, as an adult woman, find a hair nanny?)
Jared has a beloved little daughter in Alaska who hes only met via twice-weekly FaceTimes.
Fraser has a unicorn tramp stamp.
Also endearing: Jared, dancing solo by a bonfire and chanting dance, monkey to himself.
I dont want to miss any of it.
That said, I dont think she hated it.
These guests seem goofy and nice (or, per Fraser, a bit tacky, but fun).
Fraser assigns her to housekeeping duty but reverses his call when he discovers her work is wanting.
He puts Xandi back on housekeeping and has Cat shadow her instead.
All this to say: Its not a great day for Cat.
Not that yesterday was much better.
Hey, Cat, how are you doing?
Fraser calls out to her while shes folding clothes in the laundry room.
Im okay, she answers, obvious tears in her voice.
Hmm, he says, declining to engage any further.
But our chief stew isnt giving up on her.
He remembers his rough early days yachting, when hed wished there was someone to look after him.
He asks Cat to meet with him and lends a sympathetic ear.
Having heard all of this, Fraser asks that Barbie be extra sensitive with Cat on this next character.
Barbie doesnottake that request well.
Sorry Im so terrible, she retorts.
She insists that it needs a splash of orange because thats how its made.
That is, for the record, not how its made.
(I repeat: She is not correct.)
Now its a full-on cold war.
She responds to Frasers directives with a frosty yes, sir, if she responds to them at all.
When he confronts her about her attitude, she complains, Youre treating me like Im this bitch.
Youre a bitch to me, he cooly responds.
She finds she cant really argue with that.
Fortunately, the easy-to-yo guests seem delighted enough just by Fraser wearing a referee shirt and blowing a whistle.
I just dont like her.
At leastsomebodylikes her, and very much so.
), icily ignores him as they set up deckchairs together.
Has their boatmance already sprung a leak?
This isnt the only tale that will be tattled to Kerry.
as grave a situation as he apparently believes it is.
In fact, he says, hes done with this.
Guess hes not willing to be Barbies emotions nanny.
