Mikel Williams and Mustafa Abdul-Hadee were so dedicated to their wooden boat Tern, Mustafa’s wife last night joked it was something of a love rival.“That boat was the second wife,” Ameenah Abdul-Hadee told The Royal Gazette.“My mother-in-law and I would often say, ‘Get some gasoline and set it on fire!’“I was very jealous of his boat. Not just that boat but any boat they had. They were high maintenance and they spent a lot of time on them. Fixing it, fixing it again.“But they had some good times. They were very talented carpenters and talented boat refurbishers and shipwrights.“It’s a loss. At first, I thought it was just a loss to me and my immediate family, but now I see it’s a loss to Bermuda. I drive round and see the houses he built, the roofs he put on houses, all the different things they constructed.”The brothers’ tireless attending to the Tern’s every need was the continuation of a family tradition dating back five decades.Chesleigh Foggo Sr built the vessel out of old Bermuda cedar as a labour of love in the 1950s, using it for family picnics and Cup Match trips.When he died in the mid 1980s, he left the boat to his son Carl Foggo; when Mr Foggo lost his leg to diabetes around eight years ago, he passed it on to his nephews Mr Williams and Mr Abdul-Hadee.They rebuilt it completely, replacing the rotten cabin with Bermuda cedar and restoring it to its 1950s glory.Yesterday, Chesleigh Foggo’s son, also called Chesleigh, recalled Tern’s interesting history.“It took him two and a half years to build because he’d only work on it when the weather was bad,” said Mr Foggo of his father.“He used it for pleasure and it was very important to him. Then when he died he left it for my brother Carl, because he had worked very hard on it.“Carl had it for a long time but, when he lost his leg, he gave it to our nephews. They did a lot of good work on it, building it with old Bermuda cedar just like the original boat. It was nice.“They used to go fishing all the time, those two. It’s so sad, what has happened, and I’m just numb at the moment.”Chesleigh Foggo Jr’s daughter Ann Williams said: “They were such gifted carpenters. They would take something old and reconstruct it so well you couldn’t believe it.“Carl was going to sink it, but they said they could to something with it. He said okay, then when we saw it after they had finished it was like, wow. They were just phenomenal with their hands.”Mrs Williams said the brothers were known for their teamwork, with one never being spotted without the other.“If one would have drowned, the other wouldn’t have wanted to be anywhere else but trying to help him,” she said.