The Friendship Rose
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The Friendship
Rose
    Everyone living on Bequia knows the
Friendship Rose, an eighty foot schooner weighing
eighty tons with a six cylinder CAT engine. Every adult brought up on the island
has a story to tell about her and so do many people on St Vincent. Three
brothers built her by hand from local wood on Friendship Bay between 1963 and
1967. When she was finished, one of the brothers - Calvin Lewis was her captain.
After she was launched, Friendship Rose was a mail boat for The Grenadines, a
cargo boat and then a ferry, running people and goods between Bequia and St
Vincent. She only stopped when steel Norwegian ferries were imported to service
the nine mile crossing. Her fate was uncertain until she was renovated and
restyled as a pleasure cruiser, running day trips for visitors around The
Grenadines. Although she was sold to an Englishman, she is still sailed
completely by hand and still skippered by the octogenarian Captain Lewis, the
only one of the three brothers still alive.
  Our
Cruise Itinerary
8:00am
 10:00am
  1:00pm
 2:30pm
 5:30pm
Arrive in Bequia ALL IN ALL A FABULOUS DAY
A STUNNING DAY, LOVELY TO SAIL ON A CLASSIC
SCHOONER
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