Sea-dog Tall Tales A Collection of True Sea-going Memories and Experiences. Edited by Paul Whittall

The Covid-9 pandemic of 2020 has affected everyone. UK small boat owners, sea anglers and professional charter boat skippers suddenly found in March of 2020 that they weren't allowed to go out to sea on their boats and participate in their passion for sea angling. To help brighten what was an unprecedented situation, a Facebook page was set up by Dorset Charter Skipper Jamie Pullin in response to the inspirational stories and ideas coming from two of the south coast's 'legendary' skippers, Geordie Dickson of the Plymouth based Artilleryman vessels and Roger Bayzand of Sundance fame. Roger has retired to Australia but maintains strong links with his UK based charter skipper colleagues and many past customers and friends. It was Roger's idea to encourage seafarers to submit stories of sea-going adventures and experiences to the new Facebook site which was called 'Sea-dog Tall Tales'. Within just two weeks, membership had rocketed to over 1000 boat owners and anglers with a whole range of wonderful stories and memories flooding in for others to read and enjoy. This is a selection of some of those stories with the various contributors kindly allowing them to be published in the hope that they will offer an uplifting respite in what looks like to be a difficult Autumn and Winter coming. Like the previous book to emerge from the Facebook page, 'From Army Brat to Seadog', any profits from book sales will be donated to the Royal National Lifeboat Institution. Here then is a collection of tales from people who share a deep camaraderie and fascination of the most powerful force of Nature that unites us...The Sea.