We’re back with the recap for Below Deck Sailing Yacht Season 5, Episode 12. Last time, the crew performed a skit depicting Ronnie’s jellyfish attack in a humorous light, and the ladies LOVED it. The guests went clubbing on their last night in Ibiza, and they were welcomed back with an early morning pizza breakfast. And deciding that alcohol is not his friend, Gary had a shockingly sober crew night out. Here’s exactly what went down on BDSY Season 5, Episode 12: “Fraught Mess.”
What happened in Below Deck Sailing Yacht Season 5, Episode 12?
In this week’s episode, Gary and Daisy go for a little drink to celebrate Gary’s sober crew night out (yeah, I didn’t get that either). The guests on this charter are very difficult, to say the least. They don’t like sailing, they don’t like the food, they aren’t happy with the drinks or anything else. At the end of the cruise, they pull Captain Glenn aside to download their overnight experience. Here are some of the highlights from BDSY Season 5, Episode 12.
Gary wants to be more than friends with Daisy
The morning following Gary’s sober night out, he wakes up and tells Daisy, “You know what we should do to celebrate? We should go for a drink, you and I, off the boat.” Oh, yeah. That’s a great idea, Gary. Let’s celebrate your sobriety by going for a drink.
When they go out together, Gary has a glass of wine. He also wants to know if Daisy ever sees them being together. Gary has a serious crush on Daisy, but I don’t think she’s interested. She says she’s “having too much fun.”
“You just like the idea of me,” Daisy tells him. “You need to be honest with yourself.” She thinks Gary needs to do a lot of work on himself before he gets into a relationship or it won’t be healthy.
“To be in a secure relationship, you need to be with a secure person,” Daisy adds. “We’re not secure people.”
Gary wants someone who’ll “fix his problems.” Daisy hasn’t forgotten how he didn’t respect her relationship with Colin last year, and it made her “take a step back.”
“Unless Gary did some serious growing up very fast,” she concludes, “us having a future? Just no f*cking way.” I hope she sticks to her guns.
Why charter a sailboat if you don’t like to sail?
When the guests arrive, they settle into their cabins, but guest Sharie has a lot to complain about: the boat’s not big enough, the drinks aren’t strong enough, etc. She doesn’t seem like she’s really enjoying herself.
The ladies think they should have a button to push when they want Daisy for something. (OMG, I’m having flashbacks of Jill Zarin going, “Ding dong! Ding dong!”)
But when the sails go up and the boat keels, the women aren’t happy that “the boat’s leaning.”
One of the ladies says, “I’m gonna throw up.” Did they not know this was a sailing yacht, and that’s what sailboats do? I’m not a fan of sailing either, but if I was paying for it, I wouldn’t complain so much.
“Is this normal?” Sharie says. “This is not what I expected. I’m about to throw up.” Chase scrambles to find a bucket for her.
When Captain Glenn asks if she’s uncomfortable and wants to stop sailing, she says yes.
“This is the first time I’ve ever been asked to stop sailing,” Glenn interviews. “I hope to God it’s the last.”
These guests paid too much money to be unhappy
But it doesn’t stop with the hate of sailing. When Gary shows the ladies how to use the Seabobs, one of them comments, “Like, you’re literally about to act like a fish in the water with a motor. So you can float right into a shark’s mouth?!
Guest Treasa seems to enjoy herself, but her friend Tonya doesn’t like it at all and quickly returns to the boat. “I just didn’t know what the hell I was doing,” she says. “But I think it’s supposed to be fun.”
“I have no idea if these guests are having a good time,” Gary interviews. “I don’t like that one bit.”
Treasa’s having the time of her life, but Sharie is not so happy. When someone asks if she’s scared, she responds, “I’m not scared. I just think I’m done.”
When she climbs back onto the boat, she cries, “Hallelujah! Thank you, Lord. I made it!”
The mixology class Daisy had planned doesn’t go over so well either. She’d planned to teach them how to make three different drinks: a mojito, a mango martini, and one other that they didn’t get to, because the guests lost interest. Sharie’s not happy with anything, though her husband Marcelle is enjoying the different drinks.
“This feels super f*cking weird,” Daisy says in a confessional. “It is pulsating how uncomfortable everybody feels.”
One of the ladies ask the group, “Would you guys do something like this again?” And her friend says no. Very sad. They’re paying a lot of money for this trip.
When Cloyce asks Chase how it’s going, he says, “I get weird vibes from the guests. Like, I can’t tell if they’re having fun.”
Something tells me Captain Glenn has a new winner for worst charter guests ever.
Chef Cloyce goes all out with the seven-course meal
Chef Cloyce may be young, but he has more experience in the kitchen than his age reveals.
“You can pack a lot of good stuff into a seven-course menu,” Chef interview. “Keep your forks ready, motherf*ckers.”
Daisy serves the first cocktail, an Aperol spritz, with the salad. “It’s an acquired taste,” Lakesha comments.
The second course is Oysters Rockefeller, which Cloyce calls “Cloycesters Rockefeller,” accompanied by a peach Bellini. Unfortunately, Daisy knocks over a glass as she’s serving them. “One of the worst moments of my life,” she interviews. “Thank God, this is just a one-night charter.”
Sharie says she doesn’t eat oysters, so Cloyce offers to make her something else. But when he returns to the galley and checks the preference sheet, she has oysters listed.
“Bro, you’re f*cking literally joking,” Cloyce complains. That’s crazy.
Back at the table, Sharie holds up her Aperol spritz and says, “I have to be honest. This right here tastes like cough syrup.” She’s just determined to be unhappy.
“These drinks are strong,” another of the guests comments. “How are we going to have seven drinks?” Somebody didn’t think that through when you put it on your preference sheet.
Everyone’s starting to get full. “I don’t think I’ve eaten this much in a day,” one of them says. “We are full.” They’re also are slowing down on the drinks.
“I know the cocktails aren’t small,” Daisy says. “Don’t feel like you have to drink them.”
This dinner is a disaster. In the galley, the crew starts talking about the guests being odd and rude, but Glenn cautions them to be careful. They wouldn’t want to be overheard.
“Worst service ever!” Daisy says when the meal finally ends. That was excruciating.
The most awkward charter ever comes to an end
The next morning, Daisy finds a plastic bag outside the door of one of the guests cabins. “What the f*ck is that?” she mutters.
“There’s a bag in the guest corridor,” she radios Chase. “I’m worried it’s vomit.” Luckily, he volunteers to open it for her.
He opens the bag and takes a sniff, “Yep. It’s vomit.” Daisy and I both simultaneously gag.
The next scene is of Cloyce putting something in the oven that unfortunately looks like a vomit pie. Not cool, BDSY producers. That was just gross.
Danni’s finally got the boatmance that she’s wanted from day one with Chase. When Daisy comes across Chase and Danni canoodling, she loses her sh*t. “Do neither of you have something to do?” she asks. “Can you go find something to do, please?” Daisy’s just not in the mood for Danni’s nonsense.
“Bitch, excuse me?” Danni mutters. “As if you’ve been f*cking doing anything, bro.”
Actually, she has. Daisy’s been running her ass off trying to make these guests happy.
As the guests are leaving, Glenn foolishly asks, “Everything okay? Is there anything you guys want to talk to me about?”
“When you come to this level of luxury,” Jillian responds, “you do want what you pay for. That was just a few hiccups.”
Out on the dock, the crew is waiting to say their goodbyes. “Are they discussing with Glenn that they’re not going to tip us?” Gary wants to know. I think that’s exactly what they’re doing. Sadly, we won’t find out until next week.
Below Deck Sailing Yacht airs Mondays at 9/8c on Bravo.
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