But Democrats are not the only party-skippers.
Paris was in the mood to party, and French skipper Fabien Pelous lead his team on a jubilant lap of honour while England's players trooped off disconsolately down the tunnel.
First the reefs attract mussels and barnacles, then smaller fish and later, to the delight of skippers of chartered fishing boats and party boats, sea bass, porgies, tautog, ling and some fluke, cod and pollock.
Urvalek, 47, has run his own boat for the last five or six years, but before that, for seven years, he was the skipper of the world's largest party boat, the 140-foot Viking Starship, whose slip is across the way from the Karen Sue.
His Munster colleague, the scrum-half Tomas O'Leary, broke his ankle three days after the party was announced and was subsequently replaced by Scotland skipper Mike Blair.
Then party with crew members -- you might spot the superstar skipper Jesper Bank of Germany -- at bars like Estrella Damm Lounge (Port Marina) and On the Rocks (Alameda, 45; 011-345963-8145330).
That is, unless your skipper leaves you behind on a small island, as the captain of the Virginia did with our party of seven.
Former England skipper Casey Stoney, who is in England's World Cup party and became a mother to twins last December with her partner Megan Harris, also says it will be hard to leave her children for up to six weeks this summer.
Former Lions skippers O'Connell and O'Driscoll will bring plenty of experience to the party, with Wales back-row Sam Warburton assuming the captaincy on this occasion.
Pernille Skipper, an MP and legal affairs spokesperson for the leftist party Enhedslisten, voted against the measure, and excoriated her colleagues after the bill passed. .
Pernille Skipper, a member of parliament and the legal affairs spokesperson for Enhedslisten, a leftwing Danish party, said: "Morally, it is a horrible way to treat people fleeing mass crimes, war, rapes.
