A tale of two men and a wooden boat: The final chapter
In the 1908 children’s novel “The Wind in the Willows,” a water vole named Ratty talks his new best friend, Mole, into pursuing a hobby of “messing about in boats.” That’s just what happened between then-Oceanside residents Robert “Ratty” Germann and Keith “Moley” Wilson, who met in 2010 and formed a close friendship over their shared passion for a very unusual all-wood boat named the Ragmeg, whose unlikely international travels have been the subject of two books. But Germa...
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