Not prepared to be outdone by NASA, India or China, the Skipper has followed up on his pioneering ‘Moonshot’ from Inishbofin with further lunar missions. We are pleased to be the first to announce that there are substantial oceans on the dark side of the moon, swarming with shoals of herring, a myriad times larger than those once to be landed across the Minch, undreamt of quantities of turbot, halibut, monkfish and other high-value catches (notably langoustine) in quantities never found in Earth’s oceans even at their most lavish, not even on the Porcupine Bank. There is also an abundance of ice with a turn-around time between Lunaport and Billingsgate faster than anything out of Killibegs or Peterhead. A chain of ‘Archipelago Seafood’ restaurants is due to open, up and down the islands of Britain and Ireland, before the year is out with the Skipper likely to become the first ever Fish Billionaire, thus transforming the finances of Archipelago beyond our wildest dreams.
We’d like to draw your attention to David Gange’s new book Afloat – published this month – material in which we’re proud to think underwent sea-trials in our pages.
Also, a belated find and most affecting story of his not untroubled and lyrical youth-time by Gerry Cambridge. May the alluring cover clutch your heart and lure you in.
