 Which of these best describes the captain?
Food, on the other hand, is a challenge shipmen face three times a day, so central to their thoughts that a history of sea-faring can be read from a commissary list. Should any groundsman dispute the importance of belly-furniture in history—whether it be exterminating whales, or introducing syphilis to the Fiji Islanders, or settling the Australian littoral with cross-coves from Middlesex and Hampshire—he is referred to the hundred-and-first chapter of Moby Dick , a book spooled in the amusement tanks of all but the smallest spacers. The Triton made her underwater periplus of Earth with a galley stocked with frozen pizza and concentrated apple-juice. The Ship's Cook, the man who accomplishes the daily miracle of turning offal into eatables, is in many ways the most vital man aboard a spacer. He can make morale or foment a mutiny. Four officers and twenty-one Other Ranks were rescued from the Ajax in deep space, half dead from deuterium poisoning. And for a third footnote to the ancient observation, "God sends food, and the Devil sends cooks," Marsmen will recall what happened aboard my ship the Charles Partlow Sale . Ship's Surgeon was myself, Paul Vilanova. Cooking aboard a spacer is a job combining the more frustrating tensions of biochemistry, applied mycology, high-speed farming, dietetics and sewage engineering. It's the Cook's responsibility to see that each man aboard gets each day no less than five pounds of water, two pounds of oxygen, and one-and-a-half pounds of dry food. This isn't just a paragraph from the Spacer Union Contract. Though I'm signed aboard as Ship's Surgeon, I seldom lift a knife in space. My duties are to serve as wailing-wall, morale officer, guardian of the medicinal whiskey and frustrator of mutual murder. Generally the man aboard who'd serve as the most popular murder-victim is the Cook. This trip, the-man-you-love-to-hate was our Captain. If the Prussians had a Marine Corps, Winkelmann would have done splendidly as Drill Instructor for their boot camp. It was Winkelmann who saw humorous possibilities in the entry, "Bailey, Robert," on Ship's Articles. And it was Captain Willy Winkelmann who never referred to the ship's head by any other name than The Kitchen Cabinet. Captain Winkelmann blotted his chin with his napkin, heaved his bulk up from the table, and climbed up the ladder from the dining-cubby.
 He is a pushy person who gets on people's bad sides but thinks he has good intentions
 He is a tempermental man who wants everyone to stay out of his way  He has good intentions but always has a bad effect on those around him  He is a sly but fair man who pushes his crew to do their best  He is a pushy person who gets on people's bad sides but thinks he has good intentions