For two seasons we have been cruising the Antilles, laying up and storing Mystic ashore in a location accepted as safe by insurers during the hurricane season.
As the Covid19 crisis developed last week (with port closures increasing by the day) we made our best progress towards Trinidad/Grenada, only to be denied entry while on route or in the case of Grenada actually after arrival. We are now doing quarantine at Union Island, St Vincent & the Grenadines.
We believe there is a significant group of UK cruising sailors who are now trapped with their boats in various parts of the Caribbean, in locations which will become unsafe (as in uninsurable) for our vessels after the end of May. Our travel/health insurance also appears to have been invalidated by the government's blanket FCO advice - no doubt an unintended consequence, but harsh nonetheless.
In these circumstances we will continue to use our best endeavours to safeguard our vessel and ourselves, but we want to ask the UK government for help. They could perhaps negotiate with the government of Trinidad, or Grenada, to enable us to enter the country (quarantined as necessary), have our vessels hauled out or otherwise made safe, and evacuated to the UK by special flight (as is being done for land based tourists).
We have no practical means to contact the FCO to put this to them. Would the OCC be prepared to help lobby the government on our behalf?
Other OCC members in a similar situation may wish to declare their interest.

Paul and Rachel Chandler  s/y Mystic of Holyhead