I was fortunate in that it was Jack who was LSO the day (well - one of the days) that I elected to make a buffoon of myself alongside (well - in front of) the boat. I had been bantered about long deliberate decelerations and was determined to put matters right. Which I did with a fairly major over swing from sublime to ridiculous.
Jack offered the calm, sage words of 'Why don't you go around and have another go?" just as I lost sight of Mum over my right hand shoulder...which was a little embarrassing as you might imagine.
He came straight down to the briefing room at the behest of Wings (who I got on with infamously badly due to a previous 'small misunderstanding') and told me (laughing, eyes twinkling) that he had been ordered to give me a very serious talking to. With that lovely smile of his he simply asked "Shall we consider this a very serious talking to then?" And off he went, minging coffee in hand!