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Throwback Thursday: Fair Weather Foundation
Welcome to Throwback Thursday. This week, we are setting sail with the Fair Weather Foundation.
I am joined by Paul Deegan, co-founder and director of the Fair Weather Foundation, and one of his apprentices, Matthew Hydes.
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Cayman Compass
The Fair Weather Foundation
The Fair Weather Foundation was founded by Christopher Rowland and Paul Deegan in 2023.
As a Cayman not for profit organisation, the Fair Weather Foundation’s main goal, is to save one of the last tangible links to Cayman’s maritime heritage, by preserving Fair Weather, the last Caymanian built wooden sailing schooner still floating in the world, and to use Fair Weather as a floating educational classroom, to teach all our school children and Cayman residents, about Caymans rich seafaring and ship building history.
Currently, Fair Weather is being restored at the boatyard of T. Nielsen & Co., in Gloucester in the UK.
As part of our fund raising initiatives, we are offering a ‘Buy a Plank/Five Year Corporate/Family Membership‘ package for CI$1000 for up to 2000 members. Payable in one lump sum of CI$1000 or 10 monthly instalments of CI$100 payable by standing order. Essentially this is a ‘crowd fund me’ initiative to raise the necessary capital, to bring Fair Weather home and to set up the educational programs.
