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...house with a Florida room, have 2.7 kids, a dog, a cat, a smiling wife, two cars, a viable retirement and profit-sharing plan, a seven handicap and shortness of breath." McGee, of course, is the swashbuckling hero of 18 John D. MacDonald mystery novels who lives on a houseboat, The Busted Flush, that he won in a poker game. His aversion to structured, land-based predictability is shared by an ever growing number of Americans who live year-round on their boats...
Though it is not suited for offshore cruising, a houseboat built to be just that generally offers more living space for less money than any other craft. (Houseboat sales came to $17.5 million in 1978, an increase of nearly 23% over the year before.) A modest 38-ft. houseboat with sleeping space for six may be bought new for $38,000. Major costs thereafter will be about $1,200 a year for insurance and perhaps $2,700 for marina rental. In northern climes, electricity and heating fuel may add another $1,000 a year. Many marinas provide shower rooms, laundry...
Some waterfront residents feel that official claims about the cleanliness of the Thames are somewhat overblown, but even they acknowledge that the river is less polluted than at any time within memory. Betty Potts, who lives aboard a houseboat, notes that when a workman fell into the river three years ago, he was quickly rushed to a hospital to have his stomach pumped out. Now, she says, "I don't think the water could...
...missing person and a backchatting investigator also dominate Cocaine and Blue Eyes. Fred Zackel's sprightly first novel, set mostly in the San Francisco Bay Area, combines the story of a Pacific Heights dynasty, corporate shenanigans, Chinatown gangs, a spectrum of sex, aging flower children, Mafia money and the houseboat life in Sausalito. The result is as nerve-rattling as a full-throttle auto chase from Grant Avenue to Fisherman's Wharf...
...undiscovered paradise," says a California real estate man named Karel van Haefton. "There is only a paradise that someone has found and wants to sell." He should know. At 29, Van Haefton is founder and owner of a most unusual realty company. Operating out of a handsome houseboat on Sausalito's waterfront, it is called Rare Earth Realty, and it sells the kind of land that some people consider, well, paradise...