Electrical pleasures. There’s something satisfying about making sparks flow the right direction. Cockpit panels cut and painted, switches installed, plugs soldered, lights tested. We even got our running lights lit so we can legally (and safely) be dumb enough to float after dark.
Every switch was a chance to dream—Mood Stabilizer, Rat Deter, Eel Mode. Because even serious wiring deserves a sense of wimsy.
Over a mid-century social science tome about houseboat dwellers, the sound of W.C. Handy and Dotty coming to life, one circuit at a time.
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