Life, down the islands
Charter boat operator sees tourism benefits off the west coast
SEAN ROEBUCK readily acknowledges that being a charter boat captain won’t make anyone rich in a hurry, but there’s nothing else he’d rather be doing.
Roebuck, 51, skippers the Byte Me, a 39-foot Viking yacht that he rescued from below the depths, gutted her and rebuilt her according to his customised specifications, including removing the shaft and the rudders to make it easier to go into shallower water.
“You won’t find a boat this size that can go into three feet of water where people can just step off and walk to the shoreline. And maintenance is easier,” he told Business Day while anchored just off Chacachacare, one of the islands in the Dragon’s Mouth, off the north-western tip of Trinidad.
He had just delivered a small group of Trinidadian-Venezuelan volunteers who had come to do a beach clean-up of the Doctor’s House. (Chacachacare was famously once the location of Trinidad’s leper colony.)
Roebuck, 51, skippers the Byte Me, a 39-foot Viking yacht that he rescued from below the depths, gutted her and rebuilt her according to his customised specifications, including removing the shaft and the rudders to make it easier to go into shallower water.
“You won’t find a boat this size that can go into three feet of water where people can just step off and walk to the shoreline. And maintenance is easier,” he told Business Day while anchored just off Chacachacare, one of the islands in the Dragon’s Mouth, off the north-western tip of Trinidad.
He had just delivered a small group of Trinidadian-Venezuelan volunteers who had come to do a beach clean-up of the Doctor’s House. (Chacachacare was famously once the location of Trinidad’s leper colony.)
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