Get a hold of John D MacDonald’s Travis McGee thriller series. McGee lived aboard a houseboat docked at a boat slip in Southeast Florida and the stories are chock full of info on how it’s done from the maintenance all the way on up to the odd social connections this kind of lifestyle provides. Guess no one reads books anymore.
that was a great series. No longer in libraries. Those kinds of series were a motherlode of information on how life was in another time. That was back when Florida was a backwater.
Why would you guess that?
Because you know about a book that other people might not know about, does that give you a feeling of superiority?
Thanks for that posting!
Since I began reading this thread, I’ve been trying to recall the name of the Detective who lived on a houseboat in Florida. I was reading the Travis McGee paperbacks in 1960-61 when aboard ship in the Navy.
I believe there was also a TV series or movie about a Detective who lived on a houseboat, but probably in the ‘80s-’90s.