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“Standing her ground”: Below Deck fans praise captain Sandy for not letting another captain “mansplain” a situation to her

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Mia Horton

Published Jan 28, 2026

Underneath Deck season 10 episode 9 circulated on tender loving care this Monday, January 23, at 8 pm ET.

In the episode, commander Sandy Yawn, who has 27 years of involvement on the oceans, was approached to move her yacht by the male skipper of another yacht, who was worried that assuming he dropped the achor of his yacht, it could land inside 10-20 meters of chief Sandy’s yacht.

In any case, skipper Sandy wouldn’t move, bringing up that they had group accessible to illuminate them about the circumstance assuming it worked out, which was at any rate impossible since there was no wind. The other chief was extremely “disheartened by the reaction,” however would not move his own yacht since there were “visitors ready.”

Skipper Sandy’s yacht likewise had numerous visitors, thus she denied his solicitation. The other commander then, at that point, told chief Sandy that he trusted he wouldn’t need to converse with her once more. Chief Sandy uncovered that the episode was a reasonable instance of “condescendingly explaining,” and it was one of the difficulties looked by female skippers.

Underneath Deck fans lauded skipper Sandy for declining to move her yacht. Underneath Deck fans cheer for skipper Sandy as she gives an impolite reaction to the next chief

While they could have needed to move according to the guidelines, taking into account the climate, seamanship, and “good judgment,” no yacht expected to change its situation. The commander additionally advised Ben to turn over the motors and start to move the yacht in the event of weighty breezes, which didn’t occur.

Underneath Deck fans felt that the other commander was attempting to compel his choice on skipper Sandy and applauded the last option for not moving. Tender loving care’s depiction of the episode, named Journal of a Deckie, read:

This week on Underneath Deck, commander Sandy Yawn terminated Camille to lay out agreement on the yacht, which could never have been conceivable with her ready, considering that she was battling with everybody and was drinking at work. After understanding that she was being terminated, Camille stood up to other office heads about them griping about her to the skipper.

Gourmet expert Rachel wouldn’t converse with her and requested that she “continue on” to the following head. The skipper believed Camille should move out before the new sanction visitors showed up, so she made her take the assistance of Katie to pack.


Ben, Camille’s old flame of 3 weeks, was extremely unglued about her leaving and cried while embracing the skipper. He was seen getting occupied over and over while working.

In the mean time, cook Rachel’s multi-mainland food disappointed the visitors as they felt that it was excessively zesty. Commander Sandy asked the gourmet specialist not to make the 8-course dinner again since it required a long investment to get ready, and nobody enjoyed it.

Stewart Hayley confronted some clinical issue with her foot being enlarged, yet the specialist illuminated her that it was anything but a reason to worry.