Boat ownership

No one expected this!

A little boat bangs itself onto a beach at high tide in a winter storm. The authorities declare that it has been lost for over a decade and belongs to nobody.

Due to its battered state, it becomes unwanted several times over. People come to look and change their minds.

When I saw her, I knew.

This is how I became a boat owner. G was like the parent of a kid who found a cat in the alley. A firm no, but slowly (actually it happened pretty fast) he warmed up to her. Soon he was buying supplies, banging out dings and patching holes.

Now that I’ve completed the sanding and started priming, everyone is excited. We caught the attention of several neighbors earlier on, but now there’s a glimpse of where things are going. Soon there will be wooden board seats to replace the missing metal ones. There will be oars of course, there’s talk of motor…