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I would like to hear more stories like this one, please.
Were there sea monsters, , swashbuckling and shanties 'neath a swaying gimballed hurricane lamp.
Or was it all just sea sickness and hypothermia.
Thanks in advance.
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She once got into her soft-top car, only to discover he'd left four very large, very alive spider crabs in the footwell of it.
She told off one of the local pub landlords after she ordered a whiskey and he put a dash of water in it, saying "why would you ruin good whiskey?"
She also got near-missed by a submarine in the Channel one night.
The pair of them helped me catch my first mackerel when I was 6.
TooTallTim
What's really ironic is it was very traditional to give boats a female name, but was considered unlucky to have an actual female aboard.
Source; my mum ran away to sea at 18, got a job on a trawler boat as chef from the particularly pioneering (in his community) male captain.