TRIBUTE has been paid to a popular former St Dogmaels resident who has died following an incident in Cornwall. Paul Welch was killed when a massive oak tree crashed down a steep embankment at Sailor’s Creek in the Fal estuary and onto a houseboat below in which Paul was staying on Saturday evening (January 2) at around 5pm. Paul was locally known as the owner/skipper of the Lowestoft beam sailing trawler, Keewaydin, built in 1913, which, for about eight years, became a 'celebrity' resident of St Dogmaels, moored up on the Teifi. He lived in St Dogmaels during the late 90s and until 2007, when he moved the boat down to Falmouth.