If you could sum up this genre and era, it would be this: a man in a suit, tied to a palm tree. The suit is necessary, because he is a man of propriety, meals, and honor.

The Kite: must be one of the early ships. Or is it Kitei? Of course not - but I've never seen that typgraphical mark before.

 

   
  So it begins: with every cliche in the book.
   
  Really makes one ache for Lester's comeuppance.