I was an amateur boxer for two years in my early 20s. But I’ve always been in pretty good shape. It’s when you stop-the cleaning, the overhead stuff, the heavy lines and heavy fenders-that's what's tough. When you’re at sea there’s not a lot of physical work involved. When you started, was it physically demanding? On the show, it looks like being a deckhand takes some pretty hefty muscle. I got used to it, but it took a year-a long, miserable year. The only food he’ll never put in his body? Kale.ĭid you ever find a way to prevent seasickness? In an interview with GQ, he says he works out every day-even when he’s on the boat-and sticks to a high-protein diet governed by portion control. These days, Lee spends most of his time focused on the show-it films seven weeks per year, and then he spends six months dubbing his lines, followed by press tours.
A life-long gym rat, he’s kept up a rigorous workout and diet regime since his boxing days, modifying it based on what's available to him (in addition to his wife’s demands that he stop drinking raw eggs). It was there, at 35 years old, that he started studying to become a captain, relocating to Florida and logging over 720 days at sea to earn his license. He spent his early 20s boxing his way to the Michigan state finals, before getting into the food business, eventually managing a restaurant in Turks and Caicos with his wife Marianne. The only cast member who’s been on Below Deck since it premiered in 2013, Rosbach is a natural fit for the disciplinarian role, dating back to his days before reality TV.
He peppers his stern rebukes with old-school zingers that sound like a cross between briny sailor smack-talk and grumpy grandfather gripes, and he’s not above absolutely gutting the crew with extended takes on his superbly spicy personal blog. As he so poignantly put it earlier this season: “I’m responsible for every swinging dick on this boat.” He is stability embodied.Īnd yet, any Below Deck fan worth their sea salt will tell you the captain is by far the best personality on the show. For another, in an industry that thrives on meme-able moments where shit hits the fan, Rosbach actually aims for the opposite: he maintains a no-nonsense approach to managing his sometimes-rambunctious crew, with an steady emphasis on conflict resolution, all while keeping a mega-yacht afloat. For one thing, he never even auditioned for the Bravo show he stars on, Below Deck. Captain Lee Rosbach is, in theory, a strange fit for reality TV.
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