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You may’t preserve a great “boat daddy” anchored down.

Only in the near past, Below Deck followers witnessed Captain Lee Rosbach must make the heartbreaking determination to step down from his captain duties midway by way of the constitution season on season 10 of the franchise.

Way back to season 9, Captain Lee has battled nerve and mobility issues which have plagued him nicely into the present season of the franchise. These medical points in the end derailed his capacity to proceed to competently function the St. David’s captain, and he known as the ordeal a “humbling experience.’

Because of his real-life greatest pal and former chief stew, Kate Chastain, we have now an replace on how the OG Below Deck captain is doing.

“I was at Captain Lee’s home delivering a birthday current to his spouse when he determined [to do] that,” Kate instructed E! News. “I knew earlier than the crew knew. That was virtually a 12 months in the past and Captain Lee was at BravoCon, he’s healed, he’s feeling nice.”

Kate elaborated on how “tough” the choice to go away the boat early should have been on Captain Lee, saying that Lee will all the time “go down with the ship,” or till Bravo should forcibly make him stroll the plank.

“I do know that it was a really tough determination for him to make as a result of each captain goes down with the ship, and I’m positive that Captain Lee, for him to stroll away from a ship, was so exhausting,” the Bacardi ambassador mentioned. “Like I mentioned, I feel Captain Lee will go down with the Under Deck ship.”

And for those who wanted photographic proof that Captain Lee is on the up and up, TMZ just lately shared a photograph of Captain Lee hitting the fitness center and embodying his playful “Stud of the Sea” moniker to a tee.

‘Under Deck’ star Captain Lee Rosbach is on the highway to restoration after leaving the present because of well being points, and he is even lifting weights on the fitness center like a champ. https://t.co/uSNIhXXI1w

— TMZ (@TMZ) December 19, 2022

Based on sources on the outlet with “direct data” of Captain Lee’s well being state of affairs, Lee has been making nice strides in his restoration progress, and he’s working with a “group of consultants” to make sure that he’s getting again to full power and “hitting the fitness center every single day.”

Season 10 of Bravo’s Below Deck airs Monday nights at 8 P.M. EST.