Below Deck’s Captain Sandy, Leah Shafer’s Relationship Timeline

Beneath Deck Mediterranean‘s Captain Sandy Yawn has been open about her love story with girlfriend Leah Shafer.

The couple met in 2018 when the gospel singer reached out to the truth star on social media about her hit Bravo sequence.

“She despatched me a pleasant message that mentioned, ‘I got here throughout your present, congratulations, many blessings,’” the captain recalled in an interview with The Cheat Sheet in 2019, noting that the time period “many blessings” shortly caught her consideration.

Forward of her romance with the Beneath Deck star, Shafer was married to entertainer Ross Shafer for 20 years. They welcomed daughter Lauren earlier than their break up.

For Leah, making her relationship with Sandy public in 2019 felt like the proper subsequent step of their romance. “It was positively sudden,” she shared with the outlet on the time. “It simply occurred, while you meet one other soul that you simply join with at such a deep degree, it’s unexplainable and so stunning.”

The pair continued to supply glimpses of their blossoming connection over time. In honor of their anniversary, Sandy gushed about her accomplice, writing through Instagram in November 2020, “2 years in the past I met this unimaginable soul, my real love. It’s so true {couples} that play collectively keep collectively. Yep that is Leah’s thought of enjoyable, detoxing the pores and skin with a charcoal masks!”

The Bravo star later hinted that she and Leah weren’t ruling out a stroll down the aisle, telling Bravo in July 2021, “Yeah, you realize, truthfully, gradual and regular wins the race. So, I do. I do [see marriage in the future]. I imply, who is aware of? Like, it’s solely been two years. Slightly below two years, so let’s see.”

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