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Mark Michael White, age 81, passed away on November 18, 2023, in his home in Nordland, WA, just one day shy of his 82nd birthday. He was born November 19, 1941, in Buffalo, New York. Mark was the son …
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 Germann passed away in 2018 at age 92. And Wilson, now 78, says without his skipper pal Ratty around anym...