The seeds of my  mancave adventure
were sown somewhere in 2008
when my wife suggested I might consider
coming in off the briny ...
To inland waterways perhaps?
 after a lifetime messing with tides!

 She had put up with over ten years of my 'going down to the seas again and again'  , hearing tales of escapades in The Channel and fearing that, if this went on as reported, I might someday be brought home to her in a body bag ...  or maybe not at all ... 

So, I began to doodle up a Wish List for a floating man-cave, having been advised that if I searched enough for a suitable shed ... it would find ME ...

A 'shed' according to my dictionary is a one-storeyed shelter consisting of a roof, with some all or no sides open and used as storage or as a workshop etc.

 I like the idea of a 'shed' and its offspring 'mancave'.  Happy to define my boat as a one-storeyed shelter consisting of a roof, with some all or no sides open and ...

 "Mancave" was coined in 1992 and developed in "Men Are From Mars".  Its meanings and inferences are already under debate among internet pedants.  One could knock up a nice Venn diagram or even a PhD thesis connecting  'boaters', 'sheds', 'man caves' and 'canals' and maybe one already has.  I have not yet come across 'FemCave' in the wild ... but dozens, scores, hundreds even ... are known to exist in the "Longest Friendliest Village in England".

Pentargon in Bristol Harbour August 2017
after a solo descent the previous day
of the Bristol Channel
from Sharpness

This being me in 2008 near Carnsore Point

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