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They sipped cocktails and dined on lobster pot pie.

Organisers of the Filey event, in its fifth year, used 140 lobster pots to build a huge tree near a slipway.

"It was going to be a storm-and-a-half - a horrendous gale - I would have lost at least two fleets of lobster pots," he said.

It works like a traditional crab or lobster pot, but it can be brought to the surface using a remote-controlled float, no rope required.

"I used to put out a lobster pot in the mornings and hope that I'd get a lobster crab for my tea," Pat says.