The Motley Crew

Your Skipper- Clive Davies is originally from Gravesend England, Having emigrated to Rockingham in 1984. He comes from a long line of mariners including 7 uncles who were all Gravesend pilots and a father and mother who were both in the navy!

Since his early days navigating a plank of wood in the Gravesend canal Clive has always been on or in the water. With a career as a deep sea Diver starting off in copper helmet gear to running barges and tugs for Oil companies around the world he now enjoys his summers entertaining visitors with his wife Hazel at their Anchorage guest house in Rockingham and on board Champion.

Ships Mate- Eric ‘the knife’ Beckwith a well known local identity and raconteur, Eric spent his tender years riding a donkey and cart full of boat passengers into the sea at Blackpool UK for motor boat rides, An Ex Royal naval commando, (motto-first in- last out) Eric spent a considerable part of world war 2 behind enemy lines sharpening his knife and digging out shrapnel from himself (hence the nickname)

Having spent a number of years since then in the Merchant Navy as a deck officer and skipper of a once notorious floating bordello out of Fremantle.

Eric has now decided to focus his dubious talents on helping out on Champion.

Ladies-Be warned! Do not make eye contact with this man; his navigation skills are not to be underestimated!

The sea shanty 'Drunken Sailor'

Way, hay up she rises,
Way, hay, up she rises,
Way, hay, up she rises,
Earlye in the morning!

What will we do with the drunken sailor?
What will we do with the drunken sailor?
What will we do with the drunken sailor?
Earlye in the morning?

Put him in the scuppers with the hose pipe on him

Hoist him aboard with a running bowline

Put him in the brig until he's sober.

Make him turn to at shining bright work.