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...lives aboard a 41-year-old, 62-ft. former naval ferry that she bought for $4,500 in 1972 and has since spent some $50,000 to refurbish; it boasts a living room big enough for a central stove, bookshelves and a piano. At Seattle's Shilshole Bay Marina, John Polikowsky, 55, an art teacher, has spent six years building his 44-ft. live-aboard sloop, Panope. "This," he says, "is a good combination of having my cake and living...
...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 facilities, security, and free parking. Says Jim Cole, head of special services at bustling Marina del Rey in Southern California, where the owner of a 30-ft. boat pays...
...major discouragement for would-be water rats is the parlous shortage of dock space. There's a three-to four-year waiting list at Miami's city-maintained Dinner Key Marina. Southern California's spectacularly beautiful Long Beach Marina has been booked solidly since the day it opened in 1956. Many private marina owners will not accept live-aboards because of their demands on dockside services. As a result of berth control, there is a whole subsubculture of hide-aboards, who tie up what looks like a weekend cruiser and then surreptitiously move in, lock, schlock...
Some boat kids can swim before they can walk. Dorothea Johnston's ketch-reared kids have left Long Beach Marina, their home port, but Son Monte, 25, is an aspiring officer in the Merchant Marine, while Daughter Thea, 26, became Southern California's first woman deckhand on a commercial fishing boat. (She is studying for her captain's license...
...offspring learn to respect and cherish their neighbors, who may live only four feet away. In emergencies-a ruptured water line, a balky motor, a hidden leak, suspicious intruders-boat owners of necessity lean on one another. There are no class distinctions or keeping-up-with-yawl in a marina. Says Manhattan-based Les Torgensen, 45, a writer and boat dealer who ran away to sea when he was 15: "The beauty of boat dwelling here is that we've got small-town living in the heart of a big city...