Four cata­ma­rans are ex­pect­ed to leave Trinidad with re­lief sup­plies for St Vin­cent and the Grenadines and Grena­da af­ter the is­lands were rav­aged by Hur­ri­cane Beryl.

They are sched­uled to de­part by to­mor­row.

On Sun­day, over 100 yachts flee­ing the hur­ri­cane made their way to Trinidad to seek shel­ter. Grate­ful to T&T for al­low­ing them shel­ter dur­ing Hur­ri­cane Beryl, yachts­men from Grena­da, and St Vin­cent and the Grenadines have of­fered to take re­lief sup­plies back to their is­lands bat­tered by the hur­ri­cane.

Steven Fair­broth­er, own­er of a char­ter tour op­er­a­tor in St Vin­cent and the Grenadines, said, “So what we’re look­ing to try and do now is build up a stock­pile of sup­plies, first aid equip­ment, gen­er­a­tors, any­thing that we can get hold of that’s go­ing to be use­ful back up in Canouan, and load the boats up with as much as pos­si­ble for when we head back up north.

“Where we’re based, it looks like 92 per cent of build­ings have been se­vere­ly dam­aged by the hur­ri­cane.”

Fair­broth­er said Union Is­land and parts of Grena­da were in a bad state. “The in­for­ma­tion we’re get­ting is that there are boats that have bro­ken moor­ings and are drift­ing out to sea. We’ve got peo­ple with­out pow­er, with­out com­mu­ni­ca­tions, with­out first aid and food sup­plies, so we’re look­ing to get as much of what they need.”

One lo­cal boat owned by Pe­ter Peake is al­so sched­uled to leave at the end of this week for Grena­da.

Al­so prepar­ing to take sup­plies to the is­lands is Christo­pher Peake of Peake Mariner in Ch­aguara­mas. Speak­ing to Guardian Me­dia while his ves­sel was be­ing pre­pared for the 16-hour jour­ney to Grena­da, he said they would take as much as they could to Grena­da.

Peake said they were col­lect­ing sup­plies from var­i­ous or­gan­i­sa­tions.

Vice Pres­i­dent of the Ma­rine Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go, Jesse James, said, “The com­mu­ni­ty is com­ing to­geth­er in Ch­aguara­mas via MSAT, the Ma­rine Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion, and we will try our best to work to­geth­er again with the vis­i­tors who were giv­en that cour­tesy over here, and they now want to re­turn the help to the peo­ple in need and even to To­ba­go if To­ba­go needs any as­sis­tance.”

He said the as­so­ci­a­tion was col­lab­o­rat­ing with oth­er groups to gath­er re­lief sup­plies.