Home sweet houseboat
Larry and Penny Rasmussen just love to sit on their woody porch and watch the traffic in front of their Ridgefield home.
Kayakers, after all, don’t tend to honk or yell at each other as they travel down the winding Columbia River tributary that is their house boat’s front yard.
Neither do the otters, muskrats, beavers and other creatures that casually float, swim or fly by.
“In the early morning, watching the herons coming off the water, and there’s a little fog — it’s beautiful,” Penny Rasmussen said.
Life on a houseboat has its ups and downs, both literally and figuratively, with the changing of the tides and seasons.
Living that way isn’t as common in Southwest Washington as it is over the river in Oregon, but once it gets its hooks in you, you can’t imagine living any other way, said the couple, who’ve lived at McCuddy’s Ridgefield Marina since last August.
“I’d be hard pressed to want to live back on land,” said Larry Rasmussen, a semi-retired architect. “Driving around looking at houses in town — it’s pretty boring. I’m not sure I could go back.”
One reason that there are fewer houseboats in Clark County than in Portland is that state laws make river property ownership more complicated in Washington, said Mike Armstrong, the marina’s manager.
People in Oregon can buy property on the water, but in Washington they have to lease water access from the state, which makes it harder for facilities like McCuddy’s to do any sort of industrial or property development, he said.
“When they set up statehood, Oregon said keep our rivers industrial — and if you look at houseboats and marinas down there you’ll see million-dollar homes, lots of development,” Armstrong said. “Washington said keep those riverways for the people, so we have a lot less development. It’s a smaller community.”
The Ridgefield marina has 55 houseboats, with about 75 percent of the owners living there full time. The other 25 percent are renters who either lease year-round or lease for vacations, Armstrong said.
Costs for homes vary, although a purchase range of $50,000 to $100,000 plus monthly mooring fees is reasonably accurate at his facility, Armstrong said.
Rents for homes at the marina, including moorage, range from $600 to $800 or more per month, depending on the house, he added.
Kelly Kellogg, who’s rented a house at McCuddy’s for the past eight years, said he really enjoys living on the water — but it’s certainly not for everyone.
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Larry and Penny Rasmussen enjoy the view from the top deck of their floating home which they rent at Mc Cuddy's Marina in Ridgefield. The couple said that they enjoy the sense of community they get from living in the Marina and spend as much time as
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