The Mariners, with Captain Ian North and Stan Hugill. What was it like to sail on the last of the four-masted barques? Stan Hugill remembers life on board as hard and dangerous - "Being woken in the middle of the night to climb to the top rigging in a freezing gale to change the sails", Captain Ian North, master of a container ship, today feels too isolated from the sea in the comfort of his air-conditioned bridge, 100ft above the ocean; his biggest worry - "trying to keep up the speed to meet the schedules".