It meant she was devilish hard to find, and that she was being driven by a master with a brilliantly competent crew.
He had a competent crew; it was time, Bashir had said, to trust them with the details, and to sleep.
"Cobble together a competent crew in a hurry."
D3 Have been in charge, but need competent crew.
But I am confident we can put together a competent crew to run a Barracuda submarine.
"The ship was very well-equipped, fulfilling all national and international rules with a very competent crew," he said.
"What would you give to bring a competent crew here, in the real world?"
It would be a hell of a transit without a competent crew.
Start with competent crew and then day skipper.
An officer there said that Oswald was a "very competent" crew chief.