
Viewers are told, and immediately permitted to forget, their names as, one after another, each group of six to 10 high-rolling vacationers is welcomed aboard. The ultrawealthy guests are still more evanescent. Apart from captains and chief stewardesses, the majority of crew members arrive fresh each season, and are never seen again. Unlike Bravo’s ostensible tentpole franchise “The Real Housewives,” which depicts the lives of the same cabals of wealthy women year after year - and often underperforms “Below Deck” in ratings, according to Noah Samton, a senior vice president of current production for Bravo - the yacht shows feature few familiar faces. Typically, every incarnation is set in a new locale and follows what is presented generally as an eight to 10 trip “season” in the life of a luxury charter boat, from the perspective of the vessel’s crew. Those who have never seen “Below Deck,” “Below Deck Mediterranean” or “Below Deck Sailing Yacht,” and who do not wish to spend the rest of their lives glued to Bravo’s flotation-themed programming, must never, ever watch even one minute of either program, for the “Below Deck” franchise lures in viewers with the pitiless ease of sirens summoning sailors to hurl their ships against the sun-warmed Grecian coast.

White’s breezy protestations hours earlier.

White’s reaction: a newly-arrived boat was obstructing her path through the marina - exactly as her boss, Captain Sandy Yawn, had warned might happen, over Ms.
