Rob repairs boats at the Granville Island Boat Yard.

In earlier days, Rob worked and drank with Bill, who was a landscape painter, bush pilot, and many other things before he came to work at the boatyard.

When Bill's knees and other parts failed him and forced him to quit the boatyard, Rob reconsidered his life. He gave up drinking and smoking.

Now Rob is trying to sell his Catalina 22 sailboat. He can't stand up in it and can't get enough time off work to go away in it. He says his girlfriend wants a boat with a real galley. He says he has his eye on a Catalina 27. He says he loves Catalinas.

I have tried to interest Rob in sharing his Catalina with other owners, but he refuses. He doesn't like the idea of anyone else using his berth.