Drengen Pinky og hans bedste veninde Veronica tager på eventyr sammen med piraten Kaptajn Sabeltand. De tre vil finde en sagnomspundet magisk diamant, der kan opfylde ønsker. Men den onde troldmand Maga Khan, en vampyr med kraftige solskoldninger, en manipulerende dronning og en rasende abehær er også på jagt efter diamanten - så det bliver ikke en let mission.
Captain Crowther's lot is not a happy one! Five of his crew have to be replaced and at such short notice before the voyage begins there isn't much to choose from. Not only does he get the five most incompetent shipmates ever to sail the seven seas, but the passengers turn out to be a rather strange bunch too. The SS Happy Wanderer will never be the same.
The crew of a bankrupt Scottish trawler turn to smuggling illegal immigrants over the stormy waters of the North Sea.