Our project to designed for Pat and the part of her life living on a boat in Florida. Pat lived on a egg harbor boat in Florida for 13 years. Because Pat was born in 1939 and lived on the boat from approximately when she was 30, we can deduce that she lived on the boat from circa 1969-1982. An important political event would be Watergate and Nixon's impeachment; however, Pat says she does not recall this event and was certainly not affected by this. Therefore, I researched a few other historical context that might have affected Pat. I learned that 1960-1970 was is a period that Florida government passed a number of laws regarding the preservation of historic sites. For example, in 1966 National Historic Preservation Act passed, also in that year the first State Historic Preservation Officer hired. And in 1971, Museum of Florida History chartered. This movement might have affected Pat because a number of ports were selected as historic sites so she will definitely be more circumspect while using them. Another historical context is the United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea. This conference eventually decided the UN Law of the Sea. The boat she lived in is also noteworthy. Egg harbor boats are on average more than 100,000 dollars, which approximately equal to one third of the price of a house in rural area. This definitely would not be a small amount of investment at that time. Although egg harbor boats are at the lower end of spectrum of yachts. If we speculate the trend of boat price over time, even though boat price has been increasing continuously since the Great Depression, it was indeed unwise to invest in a boat instead of a rel estate which has significant higher growth rate over the last decades.
https://www.nmma.org/statistics
https://www.boattrader.com/boats/make-egg-harbor/
http://info.flheritage.com/comprehensive-plan/chap7.cfm#1950