Wild bill

Yeah, there's a lot going on there obviously. I think if they just get everything out and discuss it (off camera of course) Zach could get past his issues with his dad, but Bill also needs to not be so defensive/passive aggressive about it either. I hope they're able to work it out. Zach's been doing this job for a while now, so he can obviously handle the life, but I think Bill might be right when he says that Zach's hesitant to become captain because he doesn't want to end up like his dad (being gone for so long). Maybe he's thinking of starting a family or something soon, and is taking that into consideration.

I just hope they work things out on a personal level, for Zach's sake. His dad's not getting any younger, and there's not many worse feelings than losing a parent and regretting not hashing things out.

We used to say on the crisis hotline that child-abuse/neglect is the gift that keeps on giving. Bill has basically bullied his son for all the years they have been on this show. Think about it, Bill himself admits that he was basically absent for 10-1/2 months a year. Kids want their dad, but the only way that Zach gets any contact is on the boat and under Bill's conditions. It was obvious from the beginning that Bill is a control freak. He doesn't have a relationship with his son, he has basically taken a hostage. Bill doesn't want Zach to advance, he wants to keep Zach exactly where he is, because it keeps him from ever really having to admit that he (Bill) did things horribly horribly wrong. Perhaps that is how he was raised and all that he knows and therefore is all that he can see, but it still doesn't make it right. And whenever he makes a step to not follow that path, poor Zach gets nothing but grief from his dad. I see Zach as heroically well adjusted given these conditions he was raised under. The best thing for Zach would be to leave the boat, because he is never going to be his own person with Bill anywhere in the vicinity. Every once in awhile bill throws out a "maybe I was wrong," but I assure you, it is a rhetorical question where he is simply fishing for someone to agree with him that he is right. Old Bill is staring to make the Great Santini look like the perfect family man. I think Dutch Harbor needs a 12-step program called Adult Children of Crab Fishermen, because the similarities that those kids face is no different than growing up with an angry drunk as a dad.

Now to see where Sig is on the denial-anger-bargaining-depression-acceptance continuum. Old wifey was clearly in the anger phase. ;-)

My Chimp DNA seems to have lost its password temporarily. Sluggr-2

I don't feel bad for him, but we don't know the whole story. Bill bullies Zack all the time and talks s*it behind his back, worst thing is that he insults Zack's mom straight to his face. That's one of the worst things you can say to your kid. Bill has a lot of issues and he makes it sound like he's the good guy and Zack's mom is the evil one, who raised Zack to be a pu**y. What a d*ck!!