June 8, 2009

Dear Sir,

Please allow me to respond to the building of a marina at Spanish Point Boat Club.

Although I live here in Boston, I still hold a resident address, in Spanish Point, Bermuda. So I am able to vote in Bermuda elections.

I do not disagree with building of a marina at SPBC. I think the members of the boat club should have somewhere to put their boats and be able to get to them easily. Now if the boat owners want something, they have to give something, everything comes with a price.

In return for a marina at Spanish point, here's what I would like the boat club to give up,and only if they give these things or give back to the non-members/people of Spanish Point.

{1} They, the members, give up all moorings in Stovell Bay/Peter Tucker Bay.

{2} Encourge and see to it that government dredge Stovell Bay to allow the people of Spanish Point somewhere to moor their boats, the black people of Spanish Point that used to moor their boats in Boss's Cove/Stovell Bay cannot moor their boats in either of these places any more, it's a terriblething to give up so white people can distance themselves from us. We own boats also. We would like somewhere to put our boats too.

{3} The boat ramp that is in the carpark of the SPBC ,should not be in the controlof SPBC. When I wanted to launch my boat, I was told that I would have to go to the Boat club to get permission to used the ramp. If Iam not mistaken, that ramp was built by Public Works Department,with Government funds when Governement stopped people from using Stovell Bay Beach from storing and launching their boats because it was an eye sore to white people of Spanish Point,we the people/boat owners agreed to move, and not to put our boats back there in exchange for a boat ramp to be built for us to launch our boats.

That ramp should be put back to the people of SpanishPoint, we are not saying that the members of the boat club cannot use the ramp, as they are Spanish Point people also.

{4} They the Boat Club should dismantle that horrible looking boat dock,and dredge Peter Tucker Bay.

Mr. Editor, I am not trying to play the race card here, all I'm saying is that there are Black and White people living in Spanish Point, why shouldn't we all be able to enjoy the same things in the same area, why should some of our Spanish Point resisdents, have to go to Dockyard to moor our boats, what we fail to realise most is that we are all Bermudians.

ROBERT SEAMAN

Boston, Massachusetts