A franchise first! Captain Sandy Yawn stepped up to help Captain Lee amid his departure from Below Deck.“Capt Sandy came in an[d] bailed me out in a tough situation and I appreciate her efforts,” Lee, 73, tweeted on Tuesday, December 19, about his season 10 exit.
He originally joined the series during its debut on Bravo in 2013.During the new episode, viewers watched the captain say goodbye to his crew as he headed back to the U.S.
to deal with his health issues. Lee noted that he planned to come back to finish the charter season.“I’m gonna go back to the [United] States, get this straightened out — and as soon as I do — I’ll be on the first plane back here and tell whoever’s on board to get the f—k off my boat,” he quipped to his costars in Thursday’s episode, while referring to his plane ticket as “roundtrip.”Lee previously opened up about how his personal issues were affecting his time on St.
David. “My injury, it’s getting worse. The left side of my body, I don’t feel anything,” he explained in an episode earlier this month. “I expected a lot more progress than I’m experiencing, and the most frustrating part about it is, I can’t do a god goddamn thing about it, and it’s hard.”At the time, the Florida native admitted he wanted to do “right by” his fellow cast members by stepping aside. “One of my biggest problems now is I’m not able to observe.
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