1989

Designed as an off season port-of-call for the skipper and mate of the sloop ‘Good Hope’, this house is simply designed within the local Caribbean vernacular. The Main salon sits atop a 25,000 gallon cistern with two guest/extra rooms also below decks. Shuttered doors open the living room on all four sides to deck, porch, and patio. The bedroom and kitchen wings enclose a patio on the leeward side. Shaded outdoor dining and sitting verandahs connect the three main rooms. The fore deck and two verandaha face out to sea and into the prevailing breezes.

Accustomed to the self sufficiency of sailing life, the house will eventually incorporate wind power, stand-by generators, minimal septic requirements, rain water collection, and few domestic animals.

The fireplace stands alone as a (unlikely to be used) symbol of these seafarers’ ancestral homes.