“You’ll never meet more beautiful people than Kathy and Ralph,” Buro said. “They were there for people when they needed it most, and I just, they’re my inspiration for everything, and I can’t express how much I love them, and I know everybody else who knows them feels the same way.”
The couple had been planning the trip down to Grenada — their first to the Caribbean island — for “years and years and years, training themselves, preparing the boat, preparing themselves … to make the trip,” Hendry said.
It was going to be a “very long trip, not to be taken lightly,” and the couple felt they had “prepared themselves adequately,” Hendry said.
They made the voyage down with the Salty Dawg Sailing Association, and everyone arrived safely, Buro said.
Bob Osborn, the association’s president, said the situation was upsetting and tragic.
“In all my years of cruising the Caribbean, I have never heard of anything like this,” he said in a statement.
Yacht ‘was their home’
Buro thinks his mother and stepfather could still be alive.
“We still think there’s a chance that they’re out there,” he said. Because the investigation continues and St. Vincent and the Grenadines police were “quick to apprehend the suspects and are searching,” there is hope.
“We still hope that they are OK and that we can bring them back,” Buro said.
He said that the entire situation “is something that is completely unexpected” and that they are trying to understand the “senseless act of violence against two people that were just living their lives in their home.”
Buro said the couple worked hard on their dream and had become seasoned sailors. Simplicity “was their home,” he said.
He said the couple’s top priorities were always safety and security, “to make sure everything they did was safe and was going to keep them safe.”
“To have that turn out in a way where something out of their control took that away from them is what’s so horrific about this and so sad, because they were just, this is just something that they’ve always wanted to do, and they didn’t it, and it’s just, it breaks our hearts,” said
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