This cautionary tale was recently reported by The Local, a Swedish English-language newspaper, and repeated on some boating sites. A possible warning to sailing couples!
A drunken Swedish sailor sparked a major sea-rescue alert when he sounded the alarm as he sailed near Kalmar, off the southern coast of Sweden, believing that his wife had fallen overboard and drowned. When rescuers arrived, they found him drifting with a broken tiller, and no sign of his wife.
After a brief search, they discovered that the woman was never on the boat during the trip and was safe on shore throughout the whole ordeal.
The man was towed back to the dock, where he failed a breathalyzer test, and was promptly charged with boating while intoxicated.
Couldn't happen at the RCPYC, could it!?