Not helping matters, it was tequila night at that evening's moorage in Moore Bay.
After buying out Mr. Robinson's half of the boat in 1995, and then moving the boat up river to Vauxhall, where he pays 500 pounds ($800) in moorage fees, he is living on the St. Michael with his dog, a Collie-Lurcher mix, named Bod.
He found a moorage spot in Greenwich in Southeast London.
The task of coordinating this football navy falls to Jessica Veris, once a member of the Huskies' 2005 national championship volleyball team, now an athletic department employee with perhaps the strangest title in college sports: boat moorage manager.
Each of the 24 floating homes in the community pays $720 monthly dues for moorage, water, sewer and garbage collection.
HOW MUCH: $799,950 SIZE: 1,000 square feet PER SQUARE FOOT: $799.95 SETTING: Built in 1991, this is one of 14 floating houses at this moorage in Fremont, a neighborhood with a welcome sign that proclaims it "Center of the Universe" (and encourages visitors to set their watches back five minutes).
"We regret that we lost moorage for who we were as a country.
People from the arts community tried to make the point that cities lose their culture bit by bit, never by a single blow, and a father asked the commissioners to help him explain to his daughter why the fishermen were losing their only exclusive moorage site in a city of boats.
Long Harbour is the only year-round moorage in the Gulf Islands.
His tall house had scrolled dormers and fluted chimneys, which ships seeking New York moorage sought out as landmarks.
OUTDOOR SPACE: Moorage for a 24-foot boat, and a west-facing outdoor patio.
