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 Dwight
is the youngest of Lennox and Noelina Taylor's seven children.
At 28 he has already seen more of the world than most can ever
hope to. He has been enjoying the sea all his life, using
anything from his windsurfing board to a 175 foot tug!
Dwight could always be seen crewing in the many Bequia
races and regattas which took place between the mid-80s and
mid-90s and even now he is crew on one boat or another in the
Bequia Easter Regatta each year. He skippered 'Jack's
Apprentice', a Swan 57, for a number of years and competed in
the Around Bequia races of '95 and '96, the only Bequian to do
so. He enjoyed sailing 'Jack's Apprentice all over the
Caribbean and is also a qualified Scuba diver.
Dwight now owns a Gulf Star 41, the 'Myrick' which lies just in
front of the Porthole restaurant and bar in Port Elizabeth,
Bequia, largest of the Grenadines in the Caribbean.
Living aboard 'Myrick' is very convenient for him since Dwight
can be found, most days when he is home in Bequia, helping his
parents out in the Porthole and their grocery store Shoreline
Mini Market next door.
 When
asked where he would like to return to most, out of the many
places he has visited in Europe, the USA and elsewhere, he says
St.Kilda in the Outer Hebrides, above Scotland, because it is
peaceful and life goes on there much as it must have done for
centuries.
Dwight has no intention of moving permanently to anywhere,
though, he says he will always come back to Bequia and if he
settles down it will only ever be in Bequia.
Two years ago,
Dwight worked with Greenpeace, aboard the 'Greenpeace',
otherwise known as 'The Black Pig', joining them in Bequia and
sailing to Europe on an eight month stint, during which he was
part of projects involving trawlers in the North Sea working for
fisheries in Norway, genetically engineered Soya beans in
Sweden, and seismic ships working with explosives near the Outer
Hebrides. He says it was a great experience and he was
particularly interested in whaling topics as Bequia is
traditionally a whaling island, although the annual quota is now
only two whales.
Dwight says he now agrees that it is wrong to
capture whale calves as a means of luring the mother whale. He
is not totally against whaling and it must be said that Bequians
do not manage to slaughter their quota every year and when they
do kill a whale, every last scrap is used, nothing is wasted.
 Last
year, Dwight crewed on the delivery from Antigua to Newport,
Rhode Island of a Littleharbour 75 designed and built for Tom
Watson. As part of a crew of three, he helped to bring her
out just after hurricane Lenny and they did a quick charter in
Bequia on the way! Dwight stayed in Newport for a while helping
to smarten the boat up and enjoyed being there.
Dwight enjoys
crewing on visiting boats, whether just day-sailing or racing.
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