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Wales Online
Lifestyle
Joanne Ridout

'I could never live on land again, my boat was the best place I could have been in my life to recover from illness'

One day you think you are on a set life path going in a certain direction and the next day there is a pivotal point where everything changes and you have a choice to make.

Gerald, age 56 and from Cardiff, hit a low point in his life and changed it into something incredible to mark this change in life direction - he bought a boat as his permanent, forever home, having never even driven one before.

And, unknown to him, saying goodbye to the land and hello to living on the water was going to help him through an even harder future chapter, recovering from a very serious illness, where his boat and the boating community were a "godsend".

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