In October of 2007 after our youngest had left for her sophomore year of college, my husband told me he was getting a boat. Not just any boat, a 29 ft, single engine Cabin Cruiser, its official classification is Motor Yacht. We are going to call her (all boats are female) Far Niente, he stated. Far Niente means “doing nothing” or “idleness” in Italian, he further explained. And so began our journey in boating. That first winter, we kept the Far Niente in a marina on the north