Topic: Fair Weather schooner

Shipwrights from the UK has been scouting possible locations in Cayman where work on restoring the historic Fair Weather wooden schooner can be completed.

Efforts are under way to find a local location and Caymanian apprentices to complete work on the historic Fair Weather schooner.

Four young Caymanian apprentices who are helping to repair Fair Weather, one of the last Cayman wooden schooners, have been making their mark on the UK shipyard where the ship is being rebuilt.

Four young Caymanians, all with seafaring blood in their veins, will be spending six months in the United Kingdom next year following in the footsteps of their ancestors as they train to be shipbuilders.

Shipwrights in Gloucester in the United Kingdom are working daily to make the Cayman schooner Fair Weather seaworthy again.

Sir Anthony Jenkinson, the original owner of the Fair Weather schooner, led an adventurous life, as a war correspondent, photojournalist, wartime intelligence agent, shipbuilder, sailor and entrepreneur.

The Fair Weather, a 72-year-old wooden schooner with a storied history connected with famous film stars and authors, including Errol Flynn and Ian Fleming, is preparing to return to the Cayman Islands.

The late Ira Walton, a seafarer from Cayman Brac who worked on board the Fair Weather schooner, which is undergoing repairs before being brought to Cayman, tells in an oral history recorded in 1991 of a run-in with actor Errol Flynn on the boat.