Topic: Paul Deegan

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.

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.