Underway With Mr. Bad Example

Best Crew Are People Who 'Maintain an Even Strain'

Finding crew in the Age of Sail was often difficult. Going to sea was like going to prison. Navies and merchant shipowners couldn't afford to be too fussy about whom they recruited and relied on punishment to control bad behavior.

Narcissist and bipolar are terms that get tossed around promiscuously nowadays by a population of amateur psychologists and p…