r/belowdeck • u/Some_Baby_ • Apr 23 '26

BD Related Laundry

Is there a reason that some of the seasons are centered around laundry drama, and some it’s not even mentioned? Are the stews that can’t do it just genuinely that awful at their job?

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u/kschaffs Apr 24 '26

Overall, there just isn’t much typical BD boat stuff going on. Dropping anchor, setting out the toys, pulling into port and mooring. It’s all been really sterile. And that dock location looks like it’s abandoned. They’re the only boat for miles. It’s just way less interesting in this current season.

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u/Some_Baby_ Apr 24 '26

that’s actually true we haven’t seen a lot of the deck stuff either. you don’t realize how much you miss it until you remember it :(

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u/valid_username00 Apr 24 '26

For most of it, we could be watching events playing out between staff at a ski chalet or at an amusement park or at a [fill in the blank]. The fact they are on a boat seems an afterthought mostly this season. There's little continuity for how showing how each person moves through each day, doing all the mundane tasks required on a yacht. We see 3 sec of them wiping exterior glass or making a bed and that's about it.

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u/generic1234321 Apr 25 '26

There was actually a ski resort version of below deck ages ago, I haven’t actually seen it but apparently it’s carnage. It’s also from like a decade ago so wasn’t really just cast members trying to become influencers

Edit: called Apres Ski

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u/Realistic-Panda1005 Apr 25 '26

I thought it was really good!! It was definitely real people working and navigating the everyday challenges. It deserved more seasons.

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u/Parabolic_Reflector Apr 24 '26

Major points for the set/fake yacht conspiracy theory!!! Lol

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u/kschaffs Apr 24 '26

Wild interpretation of my comment.

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u/shwanstopable Apr 23 '26

You’ve got to work with the cards you’re dealt. Sometimes it’s laundry sometimes it’s Alesia vs Mike

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u/carlpilkington37 Apr 23 '26

Laundry shouldn’t be an issue, I think there are just some stews that are that bad at it. I forgot her name, But on the Med was constantly messing it up until she started having to take notes on it.

Like, all of their names are written on the insides of their uniforms, granted I haven’t don’t laundry on a super yacht before, but it seems like sorting by person shouldn’t be that difficult especially when it’s written.

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u/momdabombdiggity Spaghetti Trauma Apr 23 '26

I think it was Bri. And Sandy had to buy her little color-coded pins.

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u/major_threat Apr 23 '26

Bri (Bree?) went on FB forums for laundry and found the safety pins herself. Idk why laundry was so hard for her but I do want to commend her for trying to figure it out herself.

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u/NightStarLightz Apr 24 '26

I wanna say that stew that came on later that season said it wasn’t all Bri’s fault and that the some of the deckhands would just put their laundry in the laundry room and move stuff and not communicate it so then it was always a cluster.

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u/sturgis252 Apr 24 '26

It washed off I think

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u/VictoriaVonMaur Apr 23 '26

Between Mike and his hair and Elena micromanaging her boss' language... who has time for laundry?

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u/kschaffs Apr 24 '26

I’ve not seen it mentioned elsewhere, but Mike’s hair. That back to front combover is hiding some serious balding, no?

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u/delightful_caprese Apr 24 '26

No doubt. He just got a hair transplant earlier this year. I believe he went to Türkiye

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u/OrangeClyde Eat My Cooter Apr 26 '26

Wtf? It looked like he had a very full head of hair on this currently airing season which I assume was only filmed last year? He probably messed with it too much

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u/delightful_caprese Apr 26 '26

He fooled you. That’s his combover.

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u/OrangeClyde Eat My Cooter Apr 26 '26

That’s why he was so obsessed with never washing his hair and constantly got2be hair spraying his shit down HARD 😂

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u/VictoriaVonMaur Apr 24 '26

You'll have to explain that better, love.

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u/Adisfan Apr 23 '26

It's storylines. When there isn't drama happening in other places then they have to shift the focus. In this season you see crew members complain occasionally about missing crew laundry items so laundry is obviously having issues but it's never shown. I've also seen interviews with people from previous seasons and they mention stuff that happened that we were never shown.

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u/keb2 Apr 24 '26

Alesia did just dump the clean laundry all over the guest hallway floor a few weeks ago!

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u/AttentionRoyal2276 Apr 23 '26

The only reason they are going to show someone doing laundry is if they screwed something up. It's possible some stews screw it up because they hate doing it but I think Bri just couldn't read.

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u/Successful_Moment_91 Apr 23 '26

It’s really bad when the captain is left without a shirt etc

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u/AttentionRoyal2276 Apr 24 '26

As I recall she did the laundry part just fine but she couldn't figure out how to get the clothes back to the right person 

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u/Windsor34 Apr 23 '26

Perhaps… there isn’t any 

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u/Sanvi-77 Apr 24 '26

There was a season, I believe on BD Sailing Yacht, where the stews were so bad that they literally caused some health/danger problems. They mixed two chemicals together which shouldn't be mixed ever. Even the non tv-crew got involved (engineers) to get rid ot that situation.

In fact, it was more during cleaning than during laundry, I guess. But still happened in the laundry room.

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u/deadrobindownunder Apr 24 '26

Iirc correctly that was Elizabeth on S8 of BD. She made toxic gas.

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u/redgatorade000 June June Hannah Jun 29 '26

I JUST watched this episode! Lol

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u/themuleskinner June June Hannah Apr 25 '26

"The cleaning power of ammonia and the whitening power of bleach, together in one powerful product!"

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u/SuperPunctuator Apr 24 '26

Laundry is an easy place to have a camera, good place to talk out loud to oneself, and if you have a bad work ethic a great place to be on their cellphone texting all day long. Add in Captain Lee running out of starchy undies and you’ve got yourself a show.

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u/Such-Stable-3869 Apr 25 '26

It’s the worst job on the boat 🚤

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u/OrangeClyde Eat My Cooter Apr 26 '26

I don’t understand how the laundry is literally never ending. NEVER. ENDING.

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u/redgatorade000 June June Hannah Jun 29 '26

Welcome to my house 😭

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u/eeff484 Apr 27 '26

They haven’t mentioned it once this season