{"id":1134,"date":"2026-08-21T10:05:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T14:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/westindiesregatta.com\/charpentiers\/baldwin-deroche\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T15:47:43","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T19:47:43","slug":"baldwin-deroche","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/westindiesregatta.com\/en\/charpentiers\/baldwin-deroche\/","title":{"rendered":"Baldwin DeRoche aka \u00abBalo\u00bb"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Baldwin DeRoche, known as "Balo," presenting a half-hull model \u2014 the only reference he had throughout the entire construction project.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Baldwin DeRoche, known as "Balo", is one of the major figures in traditional shipbuilding in the Grenadines. He worked in Petite Martinique, the neighboring island of Carriacou, where he built his sloops right on the beach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its materials<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

His boats combine woods sourced from far and wide: planking of silver balis from Guyana, a greenheart keel, white cedar frames, and floor timbers hewn from local wood. It's the classic Grenadines combination\u2014hard under the keel, flexible in the frames.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His boats<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Summer Cloud \u2014 1998, 39 feet<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Commissioned by Antiguan businessman Eddie Barreto to replace his previous sloop, Summer Wind, the boat was used for fishing and raced in numerous regattas in the Caribbean after its construction. It also served as a floating residence for filmmaker Charles Hambleton during the filming of Pirates of the Caribbean. Recently purchased, it now resides in Barbados, where it is being refitted before resuming its regatta tour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Savvy \u2014 2007, 43 feet <\/h3>\n\n\n\n

With its red hull, operated on a charter basis, it has become one of the images of Grenada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Beauty of Petite Martinique \u2014 2008, 48.5 feet <\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The last sloop built by him. Blue hull, made for Jeff Stevens, owner and captain of the schooner Jambalaya. Currently chartering between St. Vincent and Grenada, it boasts an interior layout of rare refinement for a Grenadines sloop, and will go down in history as Baldwin DeRoche's last boat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What remains<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

With the construction of Beauty of Petite Martinique in 2008, the traditional building of large sloops in Petite Martinique came to an end. The island's expertise, along with that of Carriacou, is now listed as part of the intangible cultural heritage of humanity, but shipbuilding on this island seems definitively to belong to the past.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Baldwin DeRoche, dit \u00ab Balo \u00bb, est l\u2019une des figures majeures de la construction navale traditionnelle des Grenadines. Il travaillait […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":942,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1134","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_hostinger_reach_plugin_has_subscription_block":false,"_hostinger_reach_plugin_is_elementor":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westindiesregatta.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/westindiesregatta.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/westindiesregatta.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westindiesregatta.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westindiesregatta.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1134"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/westindiesregatta.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1561,"href":"https:\/\/westindiesregatta.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1134\/revisions\/1561"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westindiesregatta.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westindiesregatta.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}