Shoreline Miles is one of my best ever songs I've written.  It fired on more cylinders than usual, and just effortlessly came in to being that way.  Not much tweaking or rewriting at all to get to the finished product, and it didn't require many takes to record it.  My lovely wife Lenore played the awesome marimba solo for the instrumental break.  The story is self-explanatory, but isn't based on a real story.  I've just generally heard enough stories throughout my life about men getting boats, spending too much time on those boats, paying less attention to the woman in their lives because of the boat, and scaring the women on the boat and things like that which often lead to a breakup.  The moral is don't buy a sailboat if you also want to maintain a good relationship with your wife or girlfriend.