The thing about Sharky Fester (that people forget)was his comely good looks and and generally sexually obliging nature, when he was a slip of a lad. There was some talk that he was the original Handsome Cabin Boy - a depraved fantasy that beset fisherfolk, particularly when they were pissing over the side, and thinking 'there must be something else I can do with this bugger'.

Far be it from me to hypothesize, but I reckon Sharky had his front teeth removed to further his career as the ships tart. I daresay it supplemented his meagre wages as a fish gutter - though they do say, he had a way with whitebait that was bordering on the inspired.

When you hear a reallly bad impersonation of Martin Carthy singing three score and ten boys and men set sail from Grimsby town and the the motor cruisers and two man kayaks and they all were drowned - its just like Old Sharkey Fester is in the room, only its in key, sort of.