February 2021.
In the early years of Skua’s semi-abandonment she was variously used as a place for people to stay while in Luperon and a place to store hoarded boat things. In the last five years, the incoming rainwater and rats had taken a toll on the interior such that she was no longer really suitable for sleeping in, and most of the hoarded treasures were moldy or ruined. The result was that everyone’s first impression of the boat was of the dripping putrid interior and the heaps of trash rather than of the well-found hull still lurking beneath. As soon as we were settled in Luperon we dragged her over to the dock at Marina Tropical and began the enormous project of hauling out the mountains of trash and stripping out the rotten interior. We rented a container on land to save what wood and materials we could and, hauled loads of junk to the municipal dock and the dumpster.
Schooner Skua 