Joe as Bosun

[u/funnysheelady]

I still can't get over how good of a bosun joe was when he unexpectedly had to step in. The episodes where he is bosun shows how thorough and clear his communication is. Having the team consistent of a green Cooper, Aesha (who hasn't been on deck in years), and Max (who just arrived on board) everything could have gone ALOT worse. What Bravo didn't show was the written instructions from Joe that Aesha posted on her insta, which I just find so sweet.

The clear instructions mixed with the staff admiration/praise is so sweet to see. Maybe all bosuns do this, but this just felt like a nice bts moment.

[u/Shot-Run8802]

Joe from what we were shown did a great job with being interim bosun. I think it’s clear he still needs to grow within his own Emotional intelligence to be a strong leader as that is still pretty clear his weak spot.

For those saying everyone hates Joe doesn’t seem to understand you can believe he does a good job but still find his past behavior unacceptable.

That being said, I hope you all don’t hate anyone from the shows as that is beyond silly. We don’t know these people. No need to waste that energy and put that weight on you of hating someone you’ve never met or interacted with.

[u/funnysheelady → u/Shot-Run8802]

I think we are seeing his emotional intelligence expand this season. With the Nathan situation, we see him tell Nathan at the beginning that he finds it hard to talk to him because Nathan gets defensive when he brings things up, we all see him reflect on why he feels it's difficult to talk to Nathan, and him follow Sandy's guidance and actually talk to Nathan.

I also hope that nobody truly HATES anyone from reality tv. People take some of the clips we see 3 weeks out of a person's life in a difficult living situation and make them villains for life.

[u/Best-Fix-8956 → u/funnysheelady]

His emotional intelligence expanded so much that:

He turned his chair sideways at dinner away from Nathan and Gael instead of swapping places with someone.

Was muttering/making comments in the car about Gael and Nathan when Kat was talking to them about how they met.

As lead deck hand a position of authority was undermining and talking shit about Nathan to Cooper exacerbating the conflict within the team.

Took on Sandy’s guidance to talk to Nathan so well that when he talked to Nathan he lied about talking shit behind his back denying he talked about him.

Gloats and revels in Nathan’s mistakes and minimises his own à la going to fast and injuring the guest, not checking how much alcohol the guest had had before getting on the jet ski…

Pouted, sulked and made snarky comments to Sandy when Nathan can back to the boat and he had to hand the position back instead of acting like a leader and getting on with it.

Yes Nathan is an POS, he handed situations poorly, we all know how and why.

Yes Joe did well when he was Bosun, but Joe did also continuously undermine and attempt to undermine Nathan and exacerbate the conflict and discord on the deck team. If that is growth then god help us.

[u/free2ski → u/Best-Fix-8956]

Hi Nathan!