Make the McKenzie Connection!
Make the McKenzie Connection!
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Alaskan paddlewheeler By Finn J.D. John Paddlewheel riverboats are, of course, not designed to be used on the open sea. Their scant freeboard, so convenient for passengers clambering aboard for a trip down the river or across Puget Sound, becomes a major liability in a storm at sea; their ornate deck covers and big-windowed deckhouses, so nice for watching the scenery gliding by, take the full force of boarding seas when things get rough. And yet riverboats did, in the late 1800s, have to venture out into the open sea from time to time, either...
McKenzie River Reflections...
