Nautical Storyteller Gifts

A Tale of the Sea

"As I was only saying the other day..."

Ink floating in a paper boat

For his next book, he would write an epic novel of the sea.

"Hey grandpa, tell us more about the time you were in that Steven Spielberg movie."

The one that got away

'Are we there yet?'

'So Captain Ahab, I put it to you that you were deliberately stalking my client!'

Naval Veterans Drinking at Greenwich Pub

Fishing with God

'I wonder why scuba divers always fall backwards off their boats.'

'It's true what they say: People often look like their pets...'

'Well, it wasn't my lucky day... first there was that shark and then I bimped into a bunch of beaver!'

"This is a great school but it wasn't my first choice."

'Son, I told you before: If you circle your prey for too long, you get dizzy...'

'Look Reg, a ship...we're saved!'

Frontispiece to 'Dombey and Son'

"You're on a low sodium diet so watch the salty talk."

Pirates: "To absent Limbs."

Scuba: 'You call that a knot, now this is a knot.'

'It was this big. I swear'

"Will thee not sayeth uncle?!"

Octopus Puppet Show (colour)

Two Men Angler's In A Storm.

"He's a keeper!"

"Call me, Ishmael."

'Ships plumber reporting for duty.'

"Now you're just being a jerk!"

'Fear of getting caught is understandable but fear of water, I think, requires counselling.'

'I win!'

Angler poses with mermaid catch.

'I've told you time and again, if you didn't east so fast, you wouldn't swallow so much flotsam.'

A mermaid is on a rock at the sea: A mermaid falls in lover with her upper half and a shark falls in lover with her lower half.

'It's grossed over a billion dollars. Let's go see the Titanic wreck.'

'To think we used to complain about a little flotsam and jetsam.'