![]() ![]() On this trip, the boat will also be crewed by Bugsy Moran, David Sullivan (Sully), Dale Murphy (Murph), and Alfred Pierre. ![]() The Andrea Gail is owned by Bob Brown and captained by Billy Tyne. Bobby started fishing on the Andrea Gail recently to help pay off a child-support debt, in hopes of soon marrying Chris. Though fisherman on sword boats are sometimes considered the “high rollers of the fishing world”-these boats can bring in big money-some have more pragmatic goals. While in port for brief periods, fishermen like Bobby tend to indulge, drinking heavily and partying late into the night. Bobby has been home for less than a week, and this morning he’s hung over. In a few hours, he’s due aboard the Andrea Gail, a swordfishing boat, for a month-long trip to the Grand Banks, a North Atlantic fishing ground. In Gloucester in September 1991, a man named Bobby Shatford is waking up next to his girlfriend, Chris Cotter, in a room over the Crow’s Nest bar. The writer had probably assumed it would never be found. The enclosed message was written by the crew of a Gloucester, Massachusetts, fishing boat, the Falcon, just before it sank in a storm. ![]() In the winter of 1896, a fishing crew discovered a message in a bottle. ![]()
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