During the summer, when the weather tends to be calmer, ships are loaded to a deeper draft and a greater height, and handle differently.
I am terrified of planes, but calm on ships.
Twice on Saturday the captain calmed the ship, taking vital lineout balls when the French forward giants were threatening mayhem.
But Hussey calmed the ship, clattering two sixes in his knock only to fall with his side three runs short of the target when bowled by Kemar Roach.
For the first time since the search focused on the south Indian Ocean 10 days ago, the skies were clear enough and the waves calm, allowing ships to retrieve the "suspicious items" spotted by planes and on satellite imagery.
Some of the advice sounds prosaic: "Be patient – be aware that the ransom payment process is very stressful for the pirates and they may be more agitated than normal," and "Remain calm: if your ship is pirated, a calm, co-operative approach to the pirates will assist in reducing the level of violence".
Ovechkin, 27, is in his fourth season as the team's captain, but he does not embrace the role in the nautical sense, smoothly steering the ship with calm, subtle adjustments to the wheel.
Despite triumphing in the short term, the real world will come crashing in soon enough and Blatter's hackneyed vow to return Fifa's sinking ship to calm waters will ring as hollow as all the others that have echoed down his 40 years there.
When dark descends, the starless night seems blacker than the night before, and the seas diminish to a strange near calm, as if the ship had entered empty regions beyond all known boundaries, those voids marked 'Here Be Dragons' on the ancient charts".
You have to be the calm captain of the ship.
