At the end of November, he gave up living on his boat to sleep in his car. William Strickland has lived on his boat in the Ala Wai Harbor for the last 18 years. Now he says he really can’t afford to live on his boat but also can’t access the federal aid that has helped so many renters on land who found themselves in a similar predicament. That fear heightened the following year when he lost his job due to the Covid-19 pandemic that devastated the economy beginning in March 2020. When the state harbors division increased its monthly mooring fees in 2019, he worried that he would be priced out of the harbor.
William Strickland has lived in cramped quarters in his Catalina 30 sailboat in the Ala Wai Boat Harbor for the last 18 years while working at the USS Arizona Memorial to support himself and his family on the mainland.
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