Rocky the Cat

Rocky the Cat lives on Mike's houseboat at Oyster Point. He wears a leash because the few other boatowners who live full time at the marina don't welcome animals roaming around on their decks, though you'd think they'd welcome a well-groomed cat. Mike built the houseboat he lives on, and has it moored next to his other boat, on which he has his picture-framing workshop. He renovated the workshop boat from the hull of a WWII-era landing craft.

Mike and Kuniko used to live South of Market, in a fantastic loft filled with photographs and picture frames and canvas stretchers and paper cutters. From a couple of thousand square feet, they now live in perhaps 200 square feet. They've exchanged space for very low rent and a life on the water.

Rocky seems to be the only cat around. He sleeps in the sun on the houseboat deck, while Plotnik and Ducknik and Mike make their framing choices next door on the workshop boat. The sun couldn't be brighter, the bay bluer or the afternoon more promising of Spring.