Tom Cunliffe

I am, at the time of writing, working on an interim edition of The Shell Channel Pilot. Because of the Covid situation, I’ve been unable to research the usual full-blown new publication. Fortunately, the current volume was produced relatively recently after exhaustive efforts, so we’re running through this and making sure the plans, together with any major changes in navigation and marina berthing, are in order. So far, so good, but what about the useful restaurant and pub recommendations on which readers rely for recreation after a stiff beat upwind against the tide? While pondering on how to deal with this, my mind wandered obscurely to the work of George Gershwin whose character Jake offers us this pearl of wisdom in ‘Porgy and Bess’:

‘Woman may born you, love you and mourn you, but a woman is a sometime thing.’

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