File this…

under They Don’t Make ‘Em Like This Any More.   John Fairfax was a bit of an anachronism even in his youth,  but he was  forever an adventurer  and a daring,  even reckless rascal.   But no matter what,  he was the first to row across each of the two oceans he tackled,  and it doesn’t matter that he rowed only 3 or 4 hours a day,  being smart enough to benefit from prevailing winds and currents.

Can you imagine any of today’s feminized metrosexuals apprenticing themselves to a pirate?   You might find the odd SEAL or Green Beret or Ranger who might do it,  but not the ordinary folk who are most of the population.