Most boats in my marina rarely if ever leave berth. This includes a couple of sloops where the mainsails are left uncovered on the boom. carelessly, as if left in a hurry. There are boats with what could be a decade's accumulation of bird droppings. Some boats are in disrepair and are slowly "dissolving."
My next-door berth neighbor has a 43-foot motorboat, and I have only known him to take the boat out once in two years. His wife is wheelchair-bound, and she moaned in pain getting off the boat. I see him every few months when he visits/washes his boat. Yeah, age, health, etcetera issues keeps people away from their boats, and the dream is hard to abandon.
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Kar-KEEN-ez Koot
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