The marina waterfront had excellent shelter from all but off shore northerly winds, being at the entrance to the Careening Hole, a short deep water arm off the main bay behind the thick hurricane protecting mangrove covered coral reef, and where I tied subsequently fitted out the Westerleys tied up alongside an old half submerged fishing craft, and near Robin’s steel hulled Parkwood 28 called ‘Summer Cloud’.
This was the boat in which he and Jill and their three boys arrived in Tortola after travelling by Geest cargo boat to St Lucia and then sailing up through the islands to take up his appointment as Surgeon to the Virgin Islands in 1965. Some time before our arrival, while on loan to a friend, it had been wrecked on rocks near the West End, and having been abandoned half full of water awaiting an insurance settlement, was by now in a poor state, the engine seized up and quite a bit of gear missing.
I think Robin hoped I might be able to resurrect her to add to the fleet, but with the other boats to deal with it was a task I never fulfilled
This is a picture of a similar boat.
Lee Family History 