Ole Skaarup was the first to do it. Robert Bugbee was the most recent, and hasn’t given it back.

Angeliki Frangou was the first woman to do it, and paired it with pearls. Only Teekay has managed to do it twice.

They have all put on the hat — the shabby $10 hat from a local costume store — that symbolises the Commodore Award from the Connecticut Maritime Association (CMA).

So