Possible Clues:

• *One has no crew
• Left craft area, group's outside finished with it
• Where the only ones left may be rats
• Hurriedly left an organisation or enterprise
• Spooky thing on the water
• Wor____er
• Dissolute son with joint left failing organisation
• Desperately left a strap around one of Ed's joints?
• Left vessel in no bad shape at sea — daughter stayed
• Took to the lifeboats