Why Below Deck’s Captain Lee Rosbach Wasn’t Originally Meant To Be On The Show – CinemaBlend

Actually, I became Captain of Below Deck quite by accident. The boat that I was running, it was a 50-meter Benetti, and my boss calls me up at the Miami Boat Show and he says, Some TV network to do a TV show on the boat, and they want to charter her for six weeks. And all you have to do is go down to Saint Martin and drop the boat off. Theyve got their own captain, theyve got their own crew. And you hang out on the beach and go check the boat out once every three days, and youll get paid double. I said yeah, I can live with that. But then for one reason or another, the captain that they had selected couldnt fulfill his obligations. So they had a conundrum, because were already late into the game and they needed a captain, so they said, Well, I guess well use the old guy.

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