The Tender to the U.S. Sailing Vessel Black Eternity

She was Big and black........ A Sloop Rig......... Easy to Sail a Big Puppy.........

Her hull was gel coated in a glossy black she had flat black sails with Silver Stars painted upon the fabric in the pattern after the constellations........ a facsimile of what was above her to scale.

She was jointly owned... by Forrest, Cryners, Vandyke, Guy and Cadbury.... of  the Motley family.

Her Name was Black Eternity.

She also had a Tender or what some call a Dinghy........   T.T.  The (Tender to)  the mother ship Eternal Darkness...

She used to slip the Waters......... on moonless nights in tow............ how she startled  raring up   in the bright Sunlight of morning like  a spooked horse with  the  lulling sounds of water lapping on her chines.

When the winds would howl  out of the North..  it would blow things from the Southern shore of the Island  to the Northern Shore of the next Island going up South on a free downwind sail wing on wing  in a following sea.... viewed from the rear  reminiscent of a bit of a lopsided Bat.

She was a very expensive  Trinka once...........  While Eternal Darkness was under way ... she broke loose while in tow.... and in making a large circle within it we found her alone and bobbing ... as if for apples in a barrel at a land locked County Fair.

She  had been found a few years earlier  by Guy  Lost way up under the mangroves going out towards North light,  with the oars even sitting thru the oar locks still..... Waiting patiently.... for someday.

Perhaps it had been sitting there a couple of years hidden...  when Guy found her.. and ran the hull  #  then returned her to the rightful owner...

Subsequent to that a couple of years  later the grateful owner gifted her to Guy and the gang, that was how the little Tender to Eternal Darkness the Mother ship was gained... out of a good gesture came good will  that was created later.. She was  a free little Spirit.

And beyond that ?       Well in the last known finality that Guy knows of  she was stolen.... by a suspected Dirt Bag whilst anchored in Coupon Bight, Boat napped.


Where the hell is the Trinka?..... Damned if I know.... but I bet she is still out there somewhere.... Trinkas do not generally die... they just go on to serve somebody else......... the little soldier girl... marches on...

only to  get stolen or blown way up under the mangroves again and after some storm she is found some years later once again  perhaps by the lucky one or the Good Samaritan and returned to the rightful owner...  then perhaps to be stolen again etc....
Repeat cyclical:
A giant circle.... round and round The Tender to the U.S. Sailing Vessel Black Eternity......... Is Lost for the time being, But on a bright note,  She Is Somewhere........ that is Somewhere and  now have it known  she did   serve a period of time  as  the The Tender to the U.S. Sailing Vessel Black Eternity....