Captain Lee Rosbach Offers Words of Wisdom to Anastasia Surmava as She Steps Down as Chef
The Below Deck Mediterranean stew has a message for those who label her "a failure."


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The Below Deck Crew Dishes on Anastasia Surmava's Increasingly Commanding Attitude
Anastasia Surmava explains exactly why she adopted that new attitude after becoming chef.
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2:48S4 - E18 | Part 5Captain Sandy Yawn Spills All the Juicy Details on "Smoking Hot" Girlfriend Leah Shafer
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2:08S4 - E18 | Part 3Hannah Ferrier Responds to Captain Sandy Yawn's Comment About Lacking Passion
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2:31S4 - E18 | Part 2Captain Sandy Yawn Thinks João Franco Made One Major Mistake This Season
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2:07S4 - E18 | Part 1João Franco Dishes on the Hookup Fail You Didn't See On-Air
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3:06S4 - E17 | Part 5Captain Sandy Yawn Reveals the One Quality That's Holding Travis Michalzik Back
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2:52S4 - E17 | Part 4João Franco Likely Caught That Virus from a Very Gross Source...
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1:49S4 - E17 | Part 3Why Travis Michalzik Describes Rooming with Ben Robinson as "F---ing Carnage"
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1:42S4 - E17 | Part 2Ben Robinson Has Some Management Advice for Hannah Ferrier
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1:20S4 - E17 | Part 1Were These Charter Guests the Most Boring in Below Deck Mediterranean History?
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2:38S4 - E16 | Part 6Aesha Scott's Most Outrageous Statements: A Retrospective
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2:38S4 - E16 | Part 5Aesha Scott on Jack Stirrup's Grand Proposal: "That's What a Woman Wants"
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2:00S4 - E16 | Part 4Jack Stirrup Thinks That First Hook Up with Aesha Scott Wasn't His "Best Performance"
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2:56S4 - E16 | Part 3Why Ben Robinson Terrified Aesha Scott and Anastasia Surmava
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1:57S4 - E16 | Part 2Captain Sandy Yawn Says João Franco Wouldn't Have Questioned Her If She Was a Man
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3:11S4 - E16 | Part 1Hannah Ferrier Reveals the Real Reason She Nixed White Glove Service
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3:28S4 - E15 | Part 5Captain Sandy Yawn Opens Up About Being Arrested for Drinking and Driving
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1:16S4 - E15 | Part 4Why Ben Robinson Believes the Sirocco Galley is Cursed
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1:32S4 - E15 | Part 3Captain Sandy Yawn Calls Out Anastasia Surmava for Being "Lazy"
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1:48S4 - E15 | Part 2There Was More of Jack Stirrup's Naughty Poem That You Didn't Hear On-Air
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2:01S4 - E15 | Part 1Was Anastasia Surmava's Slow Plating for the Cameras to Blame for Her Cold Food?
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2:04S4 - E14 | Part 7Was Travis Michalzik Actually Jealous of Jack Stirrup's Relationship with Aesha Scott?
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1:42S4 - E14 | Part 6Aesha Scott Reveals the Exact Moment She Realized Her Feelings for Jack Stirrup
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2:07S4 - E14 | Part 4Captain Sandy Yawn Has a Theory About Why Guests Are So Attracted to Her
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4:03S4 - E14 | Part 3Does Ben Robinson Think He Overreacted to Travis Michalzik's Wild Partying?
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2:42S4 - E14 | Part 2Ben Robinson Reveals the Major Mistake He Made with These Charter Guests
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1:03S4 - E14 | Part 1Why Captain Sandy Yawn Had to Laugh About Colin Macy-O'Toole's Mishap
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2:55S4 - E13 | Part 4Ben Robinson Was in a Strip Club When He Got the Call for Below Deck Mediterranean?!
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3:56S4 - E13 | Part 3Watch Ben Robinson React to Mila Kolomeitseva's Most Shocking Moments
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4:44S4 - E12 | Part 5Hannah Ferrier: "It Is Not Acceptable to Physically Touch Another Crew Member"
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3:16S4 - E12 | Part 4João Franco Breaks Down Explaining Why the "Love Tap" Triggered Him
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2:47S4 - E12 | Part 3Did Anastasia Surmava Want to Make Travis Michalzik Out to Be a Villain?
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4:18S4 - E11 | Part 5Is João Franco Secretly Attracted to Aesha Scott?
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3:08S4 - E11 | Part 4The Real Reason Hannah Ferrier and Travis Michalzik's Romance Was Doomed from the Start
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1:53S4 - E11 | Part 3Hannah Ferrier Dishes on João Franco's Awkward Romantic Hints
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1:55S4 - E11 | Part 2João Franco Admits to Being Jealous of Travis Michalzik's Pineapple Speedo
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1:55S4 - E11 | Part 1The Below Deck Crew Dishes on Anastasia Surmava's Increasingly Commanding Attitude
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2:58S4 - E10 | Part 5How Travis Michalzik and João Franco's Dive Could Have Easily Turned Deadly
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2:12S4 - E10 | Part 4What Did That Rowdy Guest Tell João Franco After Being Kicked Off the Yacht?
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3:27S4 - E10 | Part 3Captain Sandy Yawn's Story of Escaping Pirates Will Leave You Speechless
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2:45S4 - E10 | Part 2Anastasia Surmava Claps Back at Johnny Damon's Complaints About Her Food
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2:27S4 - E10 | Part 1João Franco Explains How the Yacht Was "Half a Meter" from Disaster During That Docking
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3:35S4 - E9 | Part 1Jack Stirrup Responds to His Insensitive Rape Comment
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3:12S4 - E9 | Part 2Captain Sandy Yawn Explains Why Jack Stirrup and Travis Michalzik Endangered the Crew
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1:43S4 - E9 | Part 3Captain Sandy Yawn Was "Always in Her Cabin Crying" During Her First Season?!
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3:45S4 - E9 | Part 4The Real Reason Hannah Ferrier Cancelled the Date with Travis Michalzik
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3:56S4 - E9 | Part 5Aesha Scott Reveals Why She Wouldn't Let Jack Stirrup Kiss Her at First
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1:08S4 - E9 | Part 6Aesha Scott Explains Why Her Mom Imagined Jack Stirrup Had a "Snake Penis"
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3:29S4 - Sneak PeekJoão Franco Reveals How Jezabob Has Gotten Him into a "Lot of Trouble" in the Past
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3:46S4 - E3Why Travis Michalzik Regrets How He Confronted Mila Kolomeitseva About Her Homophobia
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1:02S4 - E1Your First Look at the Below Deck Mediterranean After Show
If Captain Sandy Yawn is the matriarch of the Below Deck franchise, that would make Captain Lee Rosbach the dad. So it's no surprise that he would be doling out some fatherly advice to Anastasia Surmava at a time when she could use it most.
Anastasia stepped down as chef in Monday night's episode of Below Deck Mediterranean, which seemed to inspire some criticism among fans. "Thanks to all the people out there calling me a failure," Anastasia tweeted during the episode. "I’ll take your hate and use it to fuel my success."
When Captain Lee saw that, he wanted to share some words of wisdom with the yachtie. "Hope this helps a bit @nastiasurmava. Remember that Success is not final, and failure is not fatal," he tweeted. "It is the courage to continue that counts the most."
Thanks to all the people out there calling me a failure. I’ll take your hate and use it to fuel my success 🙏🏼💘#belowdeckmed
— Anastasia Surmava (@nastiasurmava) August 20, 2019
Anastasia showed her appreciation for Captain Lee's kindness on Twitter. "Thank you for the words @capthlr I really appreciate it," Anastasia said. "Keeping my chin up. Learning and growing everyday. It’s a journey!"
Thank you for the words @capthlr I really appreciate it 🙏🏼💘 keeping my chin up. Learning and growing everyday. It’s a journey!
— Anastasia Surmava (@nastiasurmava) August 20, 2019
João Franco, who had previously been skeptical of Anastasia's culinary skills, also praised the chef for her hard work this season. "You certainly did not fail @nastiasurmava! ‘Bad food’ was wrong for me to say but I never knew what was going on. Just an assumption and I was wrong. Just a lot of pressure on you," he tweeted. "You did what you could and that’s all anyone could ask for and more than I could offer!!"
Thanks Joao, means a lot 💘🙏🏼💘
— Anastasia Surmava (@nastiasurmava) August 20, 2019
Anastasia tweeted in response, "Thanks João, means a lot."
Of course, Captain Sandy was there to help support Anastasia in person during Monday night's episode of Below Deck Med, as well as later on Twitter. "@nastiasurmava stepped up when the crew needed her most," Captain Sandy tweeted. "That’s what this industry is all about!"
.@nastiasurmava stepped up when the crew needed her most. That’s what this industry is all about! #BelowDeckMed pic.twitter.com/H8vn0MfRDS
— Captain Sandy Yawn (@CaptSandyYawn) August 20, 2019
Anastasia tweeted that she is "happy and thankful to have a captain I can speak so openly with."
Happy and thankful to have a captain I can speak so openly with 💘🙏🏼 @CaptSandyYawn
— Anastasia Surmava (@nastiasurmava) August 20, 2019
Captain Sandy also offered up some advice to Anastasia as she moves forward with her career. "My suggestion for her would be take the ego, check it at the door, this is not about you, this is about the client, and give them what they want," she said during a recent interview with The Feast. "We're in the service business."
However, Anastasia already has many admirable qualities, according to Captain Sandy. "She was great. She gave 1000 percent," she said. "That girl, whatever she tackles — I like her, very much. And I love that she is focused."
The Sirocco crew dishes more on Anastasia's time in the galley in the Below Deck Mediterranean Season 4 After Show, above.
See more of Anastasia at work in her chef's jacket, below.


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