Forum: Lost Stories

Single parent kid goes to work in a gulf coast boat factory. The owner unofficially adopts him and leaves MC half ownership with estranged daughter. She forces him out and he moves to Latin America.

It might be 'If I Had A Boat" by Catman

https://storiesonline.net/s/10555/if-i-had-a-boat-fiction-story

https://storiesonline.net/a/Catman

Thank you. I had thought it was a Howard Faxon tale and was going nuts scanning through over 100 stories repeatedly. At least I wasn't skipping over it thinking it was some other story.