Another neighbour, Mrs. Robinson, said that she remembered Mr. Park being involved with sailing at Rowe Island and then Coniston. She had seen a boat at the house. She was unable to say when it was. There had been no more than one boat as far as she could recall, and she did not remember a trailer. Mr. Edis put to her that there had been no dinghy at Bluestones in July of 1976, and she said she would be unable to say whether that was right or wrong.
Jeremy Park talked about sailing with his father from a young age on boats moored on Windermere. He said first there were small dinghies and then there were the boats called luggers, also on Windermere. Those were heavy boats, said Jeremy Park, capable of carrying up to ten adults. He attributed all this to the period before his mother's disappearance when he was six. Afterwards in the late 1970's as Mr. Park Junior told you, his father had built a boat called the Big O. The boat was built there with the help of family and friends at Bluestones. He himself had helped. The project was as he put it "a village story." He put the date of that project as being about 1978 or 1979, when he was about eight or nine years old. That boat was intended, said Jeremy Park, for sea sailing. The trailer was also built, and the welding had been done at a garage in Leece. Jeremy told you his own interest in sailing continued until he was about 14. He told you himself could tie lots of knots, including bowlines, slip knots and figures of eight. He said the skills were common in the area, where climbing and sailing were popular.