Possible Clues:

• Lovers stripped with poet to embrace love in the water
• Man ..., is called when he has fallen off the boat
• Where chess players meet, heading for drink?
• Those in charge lifting six deliveries from the boat and into the water
• Where chairman presides in the main, unfortunately?
• Go (do more than necessary)
• Like company chairman in need of a lifeline?
• No longer with the directors, taken to drink?
• Chairman's position is too extreme
• Chair's position in need of rescuing?