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Sailing Community Loses a Legend

by Yvonne Cameron, sailing vessel Usquaebach and Marcia Quinn.  Picture courtesy of Roatan.ws.

Robert E. Lee (Bob), a prominent island legend, died of a heart attack on January 7, 2012.  As owner of the rustic, laid-back Hole in the Wall, a tiny over-the-water restaurant in Blue Rock, Bob warmly greeted thousands of visitors over the last 14 years.

Bob was well-known and loved in the Jonesville area for his kind, caring and generous spirit.  He had a fiery wit and wisdom and a heart of gold.  Bob joyfully greeted everyone who arrived at the Hole and was easily recognized by his signature outfit:  blue denim shorts, white sleeveless shirt, cigar and bare feet.

His bit of a paunch, snow white hair and beard made him a perfect Santa Claus for the east end children for many years.  But, he was far more than “Santa for a Day” - - he was Pied Piper to the young and old alike in the Blue Rock community.   If you needed a few lemps, a little help with your children’s uniforms, a family meal, or money for your electric bill, all you had to do was ask.

According to son Alan there was another side to his dad’s personality.  “Dad was akin to Tom Sawyer,” Alan explains.  “He was of a hippie mind-set and always a free-spirit.  He taught me and others to make an adventure out of life.”  

For example, Alan says in 1974 the family moved on a 40-foot trimaran in Redundo Beach, California. With the boat moored, the kids rowed to the shoreline and attended an alternative “free" school where they could develop their sense of adventure and free-thinking.

It was that longing for adventure that landed Bob and his wife Rhonda in Roatan.  The odyssey began in November 1990 when they set sail in their sailboat Jim Dandy from California seeking "utopia."  He ditched his career as a hospital administrator, bid friends and family adieu and headed south with no particular destination.  Although the couple docked in Roatan one year later, they had never heard of the island.  MORE...