Man Overboard
A lot of years ago, at Amble, some of the commercial boats used to take anglers wrecking. One of these boats had a party out one day. Now the boat had a very low gunwale and the nets were piled all along one side and the top of the nets were a bit higher than the side of the boat.
The skipper decided to try another wreck and we were all told to pull our lines in. When we asked how long it would take to the other wreck the skipper said “about half an hour”. One of the lads lay down on top of the nets at the side of the boat and fell asleep.
About 15 minutes later another one of the charter boats crossed our bows and the swell that this created made our boat roll around. This caused “sleeping beauty” to fall overboard into the sea!
After we managed to get him back on board, the skipper put it out on the radio what had happened – with the suggestion the he had, “had a wet dream.”
