A Rio Retirement Alternative
By Mel Wood
Retirement. Some long for it, some fear it, but sooner or later, we're all going to be there. What do you plan to do? What is your reward? If you're a boater, chances are you've dreamed of giving up the rat race and moving aboard your boat; if not forever, maybe just for a while-long enough to live the dream.
I'd always cringed at the thought of retirement communities and yet that's exactly wher
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Butedale
By Robert M. Lane
Inside Passage boaters who follow Fraser Reach on their way north to Southeast Alaska know the sad story of Butedale continues. The picturesque old British Columbia fish cannery and its array of buildings someday soon either will slide into the bay or settle into the earth.
The one cheerful note at the isolated site in a bight of Princess Royal Island (roughly 350 miles north of Seattle and
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Water Heater Primer
By Steve D'Antonio
“It was pretty quiet, then all of a sudden there was this huge explosion.” Is this a report from a Baghdad street or perhaps the statement from a witness to a gas explosion? No, this is a quote from a story about a water heater that exploded in a Seattle suburb in 2001. The water heater began life located in a restaurant and ended its career more than 400 feet away in the parking lot
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PMM Updates
By PassageMaker Magazine
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