Sailing Magazine, The Tradition Continues

Click on the picture to read the article! Famous for his yellow Bahamian wooden racing sloops, Hughrie Lloyd builds each boat by hand from designs drawn in sand.

In his yellow house up the hill in the tiny settlement in Exuma, Bahamas, 80-year-old Hughrie Lloyd rises each day and heads out back to his shop. On a sand floor, with no plans, he builds Bahamian wooden racing sloops by hand. If he needs more boatbuilding materials, he cuts buttonwood tree roots and other local hardwoods from the nearby swamps. He was born in this yellow house that overlooks Barraterre Bay where he still races his yellow sloops in sailing regattas on weekends.