Fair Play!
Recently, there has been an attempt to improve Captain Bligh's tainted image.
Historian maintain that there was no turpitude in Bligh's actions aboard 
H.M.S. bounty. Perhaps Bligh was imprudent in failing to keep his temper under
control. Which an infraction aboard ship was quickly criticized, Bligh never
carried out those callous actions the movie dramatized in order to depict an
evil men, say his defenders. After the mutiny, Bligh astutely navigated the
lifeboat with the other 17 men for over 3,000 miles for safety. The prodigious
feat alone, say those who would restore Bligh's good name, should be enough to 
allow a full of redress of the wrongs that have been blamed on him for 150 years.
While the coterie defending Captain Bligh do not ask public to praise him, they
do request a more benevolent attitude towards the traditionally reprehensible
figure, and an end to vituperation heaped upon him for those many years.



to be in fine fettle--to be in high spirits, or feeling well.
He did a lot of woolgathering and was in fine fettle during the whole 
of the India summer.