It kept Scorpio’s Robert Bugbee in check when it came to remarks about the Tsakos group, whose patriarch, Captain Panagiotis Tsakos, was the official recipient of the annual commodore’s award even as his eponymous grandson stepped in as proxy to wear the hat.

It also kept master of ceremonies Richard du Moulin’s usually “R”-rated act to a “PG” standard — not that the former Intertanko chairman seemed entirely pleased about that.