I'm superyacht Captain Sandy Yawn. My life at sea involves croissants, daily meditations, and filming 'Below Deck Mediterranean.'

Filming "Below Deck" is a lot more intense than a typical yacht season. We are in it until it's done.

When you’re chartering, you usually have more time in between charters, so you get a longer break to recharge your batteries. Here, you’re back-to-back.

But listen, I’ve done back-to-back charters and 24-hour turnarounds in my career, too.

When I’m filming “Below Deck,” my wife Leah comes out to see me at the end.

Filming is six weeks, and I’m gone for eight weeks. I go early to adjust to the time zone. I’m taking on a boat for the first time, with a whole new crew — I need at least four days to prepare.

I prefer in-person and phone conversations to emails and texts

Being on deck is about speaking clearly. We learn in maritime school how to project our voices. We have to be crisp in our communication. Our enunciation and pronunciation have to be spot-on. We practice in a classroom how to talk on a radio and ask for help.

If you’re talking softly, people are not going to listen. If you’re talking too harshly, they’re not going to listen. But if you talk in a way that’s inviting and invigorating and direct, they’re going to listen because it’s almost like a respect of that. So your voice is everything. Your voice is your power.

I always say to my friend who runs a charity and works a lot on email, “Pick the phone up.” You’ve got to have conversations.

If I start seeing more than two, three, or four texts going back and forth, I pick the phone up. Otherwise, it gets escalated in your mind. You might think the tone’s different.

At home and off-charter, I like traveling and seeing live music with my wife

Recently, I said to Leah, “We’re not having fun. We work too much. We’re working all the time.” I’m like, “I want to see some live music, take some dance lessons with you. ” So we’ll do something.

I grew up with Southern rock and roll, but I like pop music. I like all of it. My playlist is very mixed.

I’ve got friends all over the place, and we’ll travel to really nice places. I’m an experiences person. I want some nice clothes, of course, but I would rather spend money on experiences. So we’ll go to the Monaco Boat Show. We’re going to the Hamptons for a week, then we’re going to go to Newport, and then we’re going to finish in Boston.

Leah and I have fun together. We laugh all the time. At home, our desks face each other in our office. We collaborate, we talk, and we have a whiteboard in there with all the things I have to do.

I’m the organized one in the family, and Leah’s the creative one. I’m very organized because I work on a boat. You have to know which manual to grab when you’re in trouble.

Season 11 of Below Deck Mediterranean premieres at 8 p.m. EST on Bravo.