I’ve been admiring your subjects and writing for years. No offense, but I have a quibble I very frequently find in your articles. A good example is near the end of this article: “’It could go to a marina now the way it looks,’ Chesney said.” I usually skim over the names the first time around, so when it pops up again some distance away, I gotta go back to find out, for example, who Chesney is. One of Allerton’s friends? Let’s see…………………………….oh, the judge.
Suggestion: After the first time around, as with this example, please include a reference word, e.g., “Judge Chesney”, “Harbormaster Malcolm”, “evil ex-president Donald”, etc.
Thanks for this feel-good story. As a result of some of your other stories, I’ve visited the last two homeless locations over the last few months. I used to know some of the harbor rats at Gate 5 in the 70s and 80s, so I have a sense of the history of the area, but hadn’t kept up.