Possible Clues:

• Stout deliveries with crew
• One carrying spare tyre may be finished with boat crew
• Finished week taking on number too heavy
• Chubby
• Fat maiden, maybe, needing rest by the sound of it?
• Too heavy
• Accomplished women's crew on the hefty side?
• Failing to give wife her stout
• Like nine-year-old with extra width near middle?
• Fat V. wore eight more