Camille Lamb is the first official deck/stew to join below deck, which, according to her, essentially made “everyone” on the ship her boss. It’s not a fun role to have.
“It was him first cover/stew who has ever been in below deck and I don’t know if my department heads had ever handled a mallet/stew. So it was a bit confusing for me,” she told Showbiz Cheat Sheet. “I didn’t really know where I was standing most of the time. And when I was done on the inside, I was like, OK, well, did I just see myself on the outside? How does this work? So yeah, it was definitely pretty confusing.”
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Lamb also felt like everyone on the ship was his boss, which added to not only the confusion but also the frustration. Lamb and second stew Alissa Humber faced when Humber delegated tasks to him, which Lamb agreed was a second stew duty. She just didn’t love his delivery.
“I come from the small boat world, so I’m usually the only flight attendant and I work for myself,” Lamb explained. “And I’m the type of person who doesn’t like it when people tell me what to do when I was going to do it anyway. That gets on my nerves a lot. So I think it’s quite normal for the second group to delegate, but with a proper leadership style.”
Tensions rose between Lamb and Humber during the first episode when Humber did not think that Lamb had fully stocked the coolers with enough water. Humber and Lamb’s relationship continued to be strained when the stews launched passive-aggressive attacks on each other after the letter ended.
Camille observed that Fraser was “a bit in over his head”.
Working for chief stew Fraser Olender in below deck It was a different story for Lamb. She liked working for him, but realized she might have bitten off more than she could chew.
“Fraser is hilarious,” he recalled. “We definitely share the same sense of humor, and I find him extremely easy-going and entertaining. Although I realized that he was perhaps a a little above your head. I’m not sure what was going on in the situation, but I felt like when I was around him he was a little nervous and I wasn’t exactly sure what it was all about.”
Olender agreed that his stress level was high, especially at first. “There was just too much to think about knowing that the next morning there would be guests coming down the catwalk,” she said. decision maker. “At the time, I said to myself, ‘Just take the punches. We have done the best we could. However, I can’t tell you how anxious I was because I’m so hard on myself. I want to be successful and make other people happy. It was crushing to think that it could fail. I was my own worst enemy, but I got over it somehow.”
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Unlike inside, Lamb said working on deck was a more relaxed environment. “It is so relaxing. It’s much more relaxed on the outside because there are more men than women and I think that helps,” she said.
But it didn’t seem like he had that much interaction with Bosun Ross McHarg, or does he clash with him? “Working with Ross was…good,” she said, but hesitated. “I don’t think he was really that practical with me. Ross knows what he’s doing. I will say that. It’s not like he’s telling you what to do and has no idea what he’s telling you to do. He knows what he’s doing and he’s definitely well versed in yachting.”
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