: While we would like to think his credibility has been shot....

: Old Joe might be a great navigator, for all we know. He was a lousy captain.
: After leaving the watch with an inexperienced crew, he went below decks to
: sleep off a few drinks---that was his greatest error. The navigation
: mistake was someone else's (but he shouldn't have let that happen).

: Shawn

Nothing like getting under way with a snoot full eh? Especially when you know navigating those waters is difficult at best. Not to mention having an inexperienced man at the wheel. What the heck was he thinking about? Obviously not the fact that he was transporting oil on one of the most beautiful bodies of water on the planet!
Some things are forgivable, this was not one of those things. IMHO.
Elliott