{"id":1348,"date":"2026-08-25T13:05:54","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T17:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/westindiesregatta.com\/?page_id=1348"},"modified":"2026-09-23T17:11:04","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T21:11:04","slug":"summer-wind","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/westindiesregatta.com\/en\/charpentiers\/summer-wind\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer Wind"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Kind<\/strong> \u2014 Carriacou sloop, wooden hull, rigged for fishing<\/li><li><strong>Launching<\/strong> \u2014 1984, date confirmed by Alexis Andrews<\/li><li><strong>Length<\/strong> \u2014 37 feet 5 inches \u2014 11.4 m<\/li><li><strong>Width<\/strong> \u2014 9 feet \u2014 2.7 m<\/li><li><strong>Draft<\/strong> \u2014 3 feet 3 inches \u2014 1 m<\/li><li><strong>Shift<\/strong> \u2014 6.2 tonnes<\/li><li><strong>Sail area<\/strong> \u2014 764 square feet \u2014 71 m\u00b2<\/li><li><strong>Manufacturer<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"\/en\/charpentiers\/alwyn-enoe\/\">Alwyn Enoe<\/a><\/li><li><strong>Place<\/strong> \u2014 Windward beach, Carriacou<\/li><li><strong>Bordered<\/strong> \u2014 Greenheart keel \u00b7 West Indian white cedar frames<\/li><li><strong>Current base<\/strong> \u2014 Newport, Rhode Island (United States)<\/li><\/ul><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The boat that started it all<\/h2><p>Summer Wind was hand-carved on Windward Beach, using a method inherited from the Scottish shipwrights who settled in Carriacou: no plans, just a half-model in wood, and frames shaped with an adze. It&#039;s a working boat, built for fishing, not for pleasure.<\/p><p>Owned by Antiguan businessman Eddie Barreto, it eventually sank in English Harbour, Antigua. To replace it, Barreto commissioned a new sloop from Petite Martinique: <a href=\"\/en\/charpentiers\/summer-cloud\/\">Summer Cloud<\/a>.<\/p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">1997: Alexis Andrews&#039; pilgrimage<\/h2><p>In 1997, the wreck, recently salvaged from the bottom of the port, was bought by the photographer <a href=\"\/en\/alexis-andrews\/\">Alexis Andrews<\/a>. He sets about restoring it. Once the boat is seaworthy again, he decides to sail it back to the beach where it was built.<\/p><p>Upon arriving in Windward, he discovers that the island&#039;s carpenters are also disappearing. This journey triggers everything else: the photographic work on the last carpenters, the commission for <a href=\"\/en\/charpentiers\/genesis\/\">Genesis<\/a> to Alwyn Enoe, then the film <em>Vanishing Sail<\/em>, released in 2015. Summer Wind is its primary inspiration.<\/p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2014: From Antigua to New York, 2,500 miles in one go<\/h2><p>In 2014, the ship left Antigua to reach New York <strong>non-stop<\/strong> The voyage, spanning two thousand five hundred nautical miles, was led by Denis Dowling and Dubi Klein. The crossing exposed them to rough weather off the Carolinas as well as dead calms, all within a cramped cabin\u2014a Caribbean fishing sloop was never designed for the open sea. The two men would then return south under their own power.<\/p><p>It was this voyage that made the boat known outside the Caribbean, and which explains its current presence in New England.<\/p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Where is he today?<\/h2><p>Alexis Andrews kept the boat for eight years, until the mid-2000s. Summer Wind then went to New England, where its restoration was carried out by an enthusiast who had become interested in Carriacou sloops through Andrews&#039; books. Its home port is now Newport, Rhode Island.<\/p><p>In 2017, Andrews personally transported it to the Wooden Boat Show in Mystic Seaport, where the boat was displayed in excellent condition while he screened his film there twice a day.<\/p><p><strong>Since then, there has been no further public trace of it.<\/strong> No appearances in classic regattas, no sales announcements, no reports of damage or demolition in the records or specialist press. In all likelihood, Summer Wind is still afloat in New England, in the hands of a private individual who is not communicating.<\/p><p><strong>A cautious approach to documentation.<\/strong> The report from <em>Classic Boat<\/em> The book dedicated to this crossing names the boat &quot;Summer Breeze&quot; in its introductory text, but gives the dimensions of Summer Wind in its captions. One of the two entries is incorrect; we have been unable to determine which. The dimensions above are those published under the name Summer Wind.<\/p><p><em>Sources: Classic Boat, \u00abAntigua to New York in a Carriacou Sloop\u00bb, by Steffan Meyric-Hughes, May 6, 2014 (issue CB311, June 2014).<\/em><\/p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Contact<\/h2><p>No website, page, or public address is known for this boat. If you know of one, <a href=\"\/en\/sinscrire\/\">write to us<\/a> \u2014 this form will be completed.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Type \u2014 sloop de Carriacou, coque bois, gr\u00e9\u00e9 pour la p\u00eache Mise \u00e0 l\u2019eau \u2014 1984, date confirm\u00e9e par Alexis [&hellip;]<\/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-1348","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\/1348","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=1348"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/westindiesregatta.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1970,"href":"https:\/\/westindiesregatta.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1348\/revisions\/1970"}],"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=1348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}