The Good Crewmember Quiz...

Once you've seen a couple of professional or even highly experienced amateur deckies doing their thing on a game boat, you start to appreciate what years of experience, and an eye for a myriad of details can do for a smooth-running and highly productive game boat. Things happen without even talking, let alone yelling . . . stuff gets done before you have to ask . . . adjustments are made the minute the need for them arises . . . and it's all like a seamless piece of highly choreographed activity that appears to be directed more by telepathy than spoken commands. This culminates in perfectly co-ordinated activity that works like a Swiss watch when the chips are down and there's a big marlin going mental on the end of a leader just a few metres off the transom of a boat.
Of course, after you read this, any deckie who feels like contributing a guide to skippers something along the lines of "How well do you look after your crew...?" can do so, and I'll get it up next to this just to balance things out a bit.