Renowned for his aggressive race tactics and his physicality, Ainslie courted controversy throughout his career, notably when diving off his boat at the end of a race in the 2011 ISAF world championships and confronting the driver of a media boat face-to-face.
As "Pastime" began, the boat faced offstage, but Childs maneuvered it around to face us, though it was not clear how.
Another survivor said: "Working on a boat faced with violence and abuse, in the middle of the ocean where you couldn't even see the shore … it seemed like there was no future at all".
It's the question that major trading nations, navies and shipping companies are all battling to answer as luxury yachts, large freighters and even competitive race boats face unprecedented levels of piracy.
During the Sri Lankan civil war, Indian fishing boats faced risks and, occasionally, live fire from Sri Lankan gunboats.
"That gives them the M.S.C. logo and puts them on the same footing in the market as us," he said, even though the Russian fishery was in worse shape, and Russian boats faced vastly lower labor and regulatory costs.
Third, and most important, they worry that others, especially Ireland, Portugal and Spain, are in uncomfortably similar boats, facing a future of economic stagnation and spiralling debt.The first worry is exaggerated at least in the short term.
"He was a speed freak and an action addict, and the auto provided him the same exhilaration as standing on the bow of a boat, his face in the wind".
But boat owners face a problem when trying to book berths as there is no global database of berths.
Starboard: Starboard is the right side of the boat when facing the bow.
