Good skipper, bad skipper

摘要

Many top skippers — I've worked with a dozen in the past 30 years — are hard-working professionals in atough industry. The others? Screamers, whiners, druggies, alkies or a deadly brew of all traits. And yet, what makes some skippers sociopaths and others big brothers? JP works on Kodiak Is-land. Golden boy, seiner, surfer, tennis champ with trophies to prove it, family man, and a vegetarian with energyto burn. Fun guy to work with, and I was fortunate to do so for several years. He was diplomatic rather than dictatorial, with crew retention rather than rotation. The best are blessed with crew retention. The worst go through crew like the Kardashians go through boyfriends. Beware the boat that has NO crew coming back. There is a very good reason why.