It’s not something you see every day -- a 28-foot, 5,000-pound, barnacle-encrusted sailboat slowly rising out of a local creek, being pulled from its watery resting place by a massive, hydraulic arm.

I lived on a sailboat full time. After about a year and a half, I chose to get an apartment instead. Simple activities, such as showering and grocery shopping, were much more difficult on a boat.

In March 2021, my partner, greyhound, and I started living aboard a 42-foot sailboat. In the years leading up to moving aboard, I daydreamed about our nomadic lifestyle — but after a year of ...