During season 10 of the reality show, Captain Sandy – who briefly replaced Captain Lee Rosbach on the show as a result of his health issues – has butted heads with Fraser, with the pair rowing in front of other members of the crew.
The chief steward said that he felt ‘sickened’ by the way the captain spoke to him, and in a more recent altercation, their working relationship appears to have gone from bad to worse.
During a tense confrontation, Captain Sandy took aim at Fraser’s leadership skills, telling him: ‘When I see where we can change things, I expect you to go downstairs and shoulder what I just told you. That needs to be improved and not permeate the boat with cancer.
She continued, according to Us Weekly: ‘You have now infected my entire program. The fish stinks at the head and right now you are that head. What you have done is created the worst experience that I have ever experienced on a boat with a chief stew.’
Following Captain Sandy’s remarks, Fraser broke down in tears as he expressed how ‘upset’ she made him feel and how she ‘named me the cancer of the crew’.
‘If someone refers to cancer to me ever again – with what I went through with my father – it makes me disgusted. The fact that she thinks so negatively of me makes me feel utterly horrendous,’ he added.
Several people have expressed how ‘disgusted’ they felt after hearing Captain Sandy’s description of Fraser, with one pointing out that the captain has experience of cancer in her own life.
‘Knowing that Sandy’s partner has also recently battled cancer, makes it all the more disgusting that she would refer to Fraser as the cancer of the boat,’ one person tweeted.
‘Who calls one of their employees a cancer, what a terrible thing to say to anyone let alone sweet Fraser! Captain Sandy….that was disgusting!’ another stated.
Pointing out Fraser’s personal connection to cancer in his life, someone else wrote: ‘Oh no… Fraser crying right now is so so sad. I hope Sandy SEES that her calling HIM a cancer on the boat when he lost a relative to it makes her aware of how horrible she looks on the show right now.’
The remark was also described as ‘unforgivable’ and ‘the worst thing that could be said to someone’ by viewers.
Captain Sandy previously opened up about previously being diagnosed with kidney cancer in 2015, which she discovered was stage two at the time.
In an Instagram post shared in 2019, she wrote: ‘4 years ago Feb 21st I was riding my motorcycle to the Miami Boat show and was hit by a car. Due to that crash the doctors discovered a tumor on my kidney. It was cancer.
‘4 years ago today I had the tumor removed and I am alive and cancer free. The yachting industry was there for me and of course my family & friends. Today I want all of you to know how much I appreciate you and life! May I never forget and pay it forward. Never stop believing! I love you all!’
Metro.co.uk has contacted Captain Sandy Yawn and Bravo for comment.
Below Deck airs on Bravo on Mondays, and is available to stream on hayu the same day.
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