We’re back with the recap for Below Deck Sailing Yacht Season 5, Episode 3. Last week, Gary crashed the tender into the rocks while driving at night. After struggling with dinner the first night, Chef Cloyce knocked it out of the park on night two, even surprising the guests with a little rap. And Daisy made it crystal clear to Gary that she’s not putting up with any of his nonsense this season. Here’s exactly what went down in BDSY Season 5, Episode 3: “Let the Bottles Hit the Floor.”
What happened in Below Deck Sailing Yacht Season 5, Episode 3?
In this week’s episode, Gary gets frustrated with a deckhand whose inexperience is showing. Daisy discovers that Danni is hypersensitive and easily overwhelmed. A misunderstanding with the chef leaves Daisy steaming that he’s trying to “throw her under the bus.” And Cloyce’s decision to hang out with the guests results in an angry captain wondering if the chef understands that he’s here to work. Here are some of the highlights from BDSY Season 5, Episode 3.
Broken bottles are everywhere when the Parsifal III goes for a sail
Since Gary crashed the prop tender last charter, he pulls out the jet tender for this charter. The problem is that Gary’s the only one of the deck crew who knows how to drive it. So, he gives Emma and Keith a crash course in driving the jet boat. It maneuvers a little differently than the prop boat, so they need to practice with it.
The guests requested to arrive at anchor rather than at the dock. So while Gary goes to pick them up, the rest of the crew gathers in the cockpit to greet them. As soon as the guests settle in and Daisy gives them their tour, it’s time to sail.
Engineer Davide – who once accidentally married another dude – drives the boat while Captain Glenn supervises raising the sails. Once the boat starts to keel, everything below deck begins to slide around. With a crashing sound, several bottles of alcohol hit the floor (hence the name of the episode). Ugh. That must smell terrible, not to mention how much money just crashed to the floor. What happened to stowing everything away, like Daisy said?
Diana is upset about all the broken bottles. “I closed it!” she insists. “It’s a sailing yacht! Fix the f*cking cupboards!” Apparently, the alcohol cupboards slid open, even though they were closed.
Daisy agrees that the cupboards were closed. But now there’s broken glass and splattered alcohol everywhere.
“It’s a complete f*cking sh*t show,” Daisy interviews. There goes her plan to be “super zen about sailing” this season.
“I think I’m getting drunk just from the smell!” Diana says, as she helps sweep up the broken glass.
Emma has a lot to learn about being a deckhand
Chef Cloyce is preparing a paella for dinner. Yum. I’ve always wanted to try that.
“This charter, I’m really looking to prove I am all about being a team player,” he says. “I want to contribute to, hopefully, a big tip at the end of the charter. Someone’s got to pay the f*cking bills around here.”
The theme for the evening is Bohemian Chic, so Daisy tells Danni to just go for it with her table decorations. She’s not worried about it looking tacky. “The tackier, the better,” Daisy says.
As Emma sits on deck looking at her phone, there’s an odd banging sound. After a few thuds, Gary realizes what it is.
“Oh, my God,” he exclaims, running back out on deck. It seems as though Emma didn’t tie the tender up properly, and it’s slipping away. Fortunately, Gary tied the stern up, so it hasn’t gotten totally free. That would have been a hard one to explain to the captain.
“You can’t leave a tender banging into the boat,” Gary says in frustration as he jumps into the tender to check the hull of the yacht.
“Scratches all down the hull,” he complains to Emma, who can only apologize. He shows her how to tie up the tender so it won’t come loose again. Gary might be problematic, but he was right on this occasion.
Danni overthinks the table decorations
Danni is already having an anxiety attack about her table décor. She worries about having her name on something “tacky.”
But Daisy assures her, “I will never, ever let you look bad, okay? You’re doing amazing. I will make sure you’re doing great. You don’t have to stress.”
Daisy clarifies that she should have said, “over the top … like, popping.”
“Think of American Fourth of July,” she explains to Danni, “where they just go super all out. That’s what I meant.”
At least Danni’s meltdown teaches Daisy that “she cares, which is a huge plus. It also tells me that she’s hypersensitive, and I’m gonna have to watch my words.”
It doesn’t seem that’s going to last the entire season, however. Daisy has already been teasing stew drama to come.
Chef tries to blame Daisy for a miscommunication
The guests love their paella and seafood, but there’s a snag with dessert. Daisy asks Emma to tell Cloyce that they’ve cleared the table, so he can heat up the desserts. Emma’s in the galley washing dishes and passes Daisy’s message along.
But somehow, Cloyce doesn’t quite get the message. “[That’s] just not how things work,” Chef says in a confessional. “Deckhands should just be completely removed from the scenario. I need Daisy to come on the radio and say, ‘Hey, we’re cleared.’” He’s a little bit of a diva.
“Me and the chef are gonna fight,” Daisy whispers to Gary.
“A, where do you think all these big, giant plates came from?” Daisy says in a confessional. “And B, communication works both ways. You have a radio. Ask me.”
Don’t mess with Daisy, Chef. She’s the HBIC. You think you’re in charge, but you’re not. Plus, she’s already on edge without Colin.
“I’m on your side,” Daisy vents to Gary. “Don’t f*cking start throwing me under the bus. That was the second [time] he’s tried to throw me under the bus.”
“Cloyce,” Daisy interviews, “back the f*ck up. Do not think that I’m going to be taking this sh*t.”
Glenn loses his cool when he discovers Chef is out playing with the guests rather than prepping lunch
Following breakfast, the guests will be going to Floatopia. The deck crew has blown up all the floaty toys to create a floating island, and Gary located “the perfect location.”
Cloyce tells Daisy he’d really like to go with them.
“How will you make lunch?” she asks. He says he’ll just prep a salad and put some chicken and salmon in the oven while he’s gone. I have a bad feeling about this.
Cloyce interviews, “After quite a few days of hard work, getting some of that fresh Spanish sunshine is quite lovely.”
When Gary asks Cloyce if he needs to take him back to the boat so he can prep lunch, Chef says, “I’m good.”
Meanwhile, back on the boat, Glenn worries, “We’re a bit pressed for time now. Guests eat at four, but we are still leaving at five.”
And when Glenn takes a cruise through the galley, he comments, “I don’t see much prep in here.”
Glenn gets on the radio and asks, “Does anyone know where Chef is?”
When Gary answers that “he’s over here with us,” Glenn nearly loses his sh*t.
“What?! What the f*ck is going on?” Glenn mutters.
When Gary returns to the boat, Glenn tells him, “Chef’s gotta come back in time to prep … Get him back here, NOW!”
“He’s not here to have fun,” Glenn says in a confessional. “He needs to be ready to serve at four … What’s he thinking?”
Below Deck Sailing Yacht airs Mondays at 9/8c on Bravo.
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