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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Does anyone know if they're really deck crew/stews or if they're sort of crew but more wanna-be actors?  I've heard both.  I've heard that you audition to be on the show (actor) and that if they accept you, you have to take a course about doing the job/yachting before going (actor - and how ben and that stew met before the show actually aired).  but then I heard that some of these folks have been crew/stews for years and years.  Some of it just doesn't seem right.  Like - the crazy nut-jobs.  Without the cameras going, how did they even get their jobs done.  [/quote]
I think some of them, especially the more senior deck hands and stewards, are definitely for real. They are taking on real guests and you can't have it run by a bunch of amateurs.

However, there are some other crew on the boat who don't show up on camera. There's a deputy captain and/or some kind of senior deckand. They showed him very briefly 2 episodes ago when the jacuzzi overflowed or it started raining, and the 3 deck crew were all off the boat on the tender.[/quote]
Kate really was a Chief Stew through the first couple of seasons. She now owns a boutique and just does the show for extra money. Her book is pretty funny and describes what it really is like on a yacht.

Other cast members have also been real yachties like Eddie, Kelly, Amy, Ben etc. Generally it is the third stew and junior deckhands that are the people auditioning as actors. And of course Captain Lee really does work as a boat Captain throughout most of the year.

Captain Lee, his wife, and Kate are very close in real life. That is why he gives her so much freedom over the last few seasons. Remember her intro to this show was making a blanket into a dick on a guests bed and then lying to Captain Lee about it. They’ve come a long way.[/quote]

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