He loved every creaking joint of the old bitch. — Episode 1: https://medium.com/microcosm/beast-below-decks-b7d73c1a05b9 Captain Norris lashed himself to the taffrail and swayed with the heaving Gustavia. The wind howled and the sea burst over the prow, sluicing over the holystoned planks of the deck, running into the cracks, and sometimes sloshing over the side back into the churning waves. He…