Bender wrote that Crane "emphasizes that Billie's steady, simple labor is the tangible basis for his role here as a savior," and that the oiler's portrayal as a "simple, working seaman, clearly expresses his sympathy with the democratic ideal of the sailor before the mast that figures so crucially in the tradition of American sea fiction".
In the process, the 25 hard-luck Poles working on the project are wrestling with the notion of building a dream boat away from the hulking megayachts of the technology mogul Larry Ellison and the Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich, but closer to the ideal of another snakebit sailor who had to rough it: Odysseus.
It was an ideal location for the sailors who came regularly to use the facilities.
Ask most cruising sailors about their ideal sailing destination and tales will be told of tradewind passages, white-sand beaches and tropical sunsets taken in from the protected anchorage of a low-lying atoll.
Eneas is an innocent abroad in the 20th century who, through a muddle of ideals and ignorance, becomes first a sailor in the British merchant navy, then a policeman, marking him for life as a traitor to his people.
It was not an ideal time for one of the Sailors' top players to be under the weather.
The three-day event didn't begin with the ideal result, a loss, but the Sailors went on to win the next five matches.
But he remembered stories he heard as a child from his father, a sailor, who called Genoa "the ideal city".
This situation is less than ideal and will become expensive in that every sailor who decides the sacrifice is too hard and leaves the Navy will result in a requirement for a new recruit that must be found and trained.
"Fancy Free," an ideal choice for Fleet Week with its tale of three sailors on shore leave in New York, looked positively contemporary in its sailor suits, and perfectly of its time with the women's snappy dresses and hairdos.
The film's theme is the nature of authority, and Aubrey functions as a kind of ideal executive: charismatic, tactically astute and able to instill in his sailors a sense of discipline and respect.
