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W W W. M A I N E B I Z . B I Z 15 F E B R UA R Y 2 1 , 2 0 2 2 W E A LT H M A N A G E M E N T / R E T I R E M E N T Portland's Fore Points Marina and South Portland's Sunset Marina. e Massachusetts native originally connected with the franchise as a mem- ber. As an employee, he gets even more of an opportunity to be out on the water; he also likes the flexible hours and working with young people and can't wait until April 8, opening day at Hadlock Field. "I'm starting to get bored," he says. "I feel like I need to get to work. ere are little things to do around the apart- ments, but I like to be engaged and the customer contact," he says. "People are generally having a good time when they're out on the water." More than six years after retiring from his longtime occupation, Martin says, "I don't think I would ever go back to the 9-to-5 road-driving thing again … I could drive a boat all day and be perfectly happy." Freedom Boat Club franchise owner Steve Arnold is happy to have Martin on the team, and envisions his own retire- ment as scuba diving around the world. Scarborough resident Rod MacPhie, 74, is equally enthusiastic about ushering at Maine Portland Sea Dogs baseball games, after a career in sales including a decade with Utz Brands Inc., where he was an assistant district manager for Cumberland and York counties. His duties as a Sea Dogs ambassador range from greeting fans at home games and helping people with disabilities, to showing college interns the ropes; outside of baseball season, he ushers at Maine Celtics basketball games. "I've been a Sea Dogs fan since they started in 1994, and now I can go to all the games," says MacPhie. "I worked until I was 67 and now I get to play." Meanwhile in California, John Burns and his family were getting ready to head to Baja, Mexico, for a few weeks before driving up the coast and then homeward across the Trans-Canadian highway to Blue Hill by June. at's when his next journey will begin. R e n e e C o r d e s , M a i n e b i z s e n i o r w r i t e r, c a n b e r e a c h e d a t r c o r d e s @ m a i n e b i z . b i z a n d @ r s c o r d e s This is Briggs. We were there when he opened his one-man shop. We're here now as he grows his boat-building business. Someday he'll retire and sail to Bermuda. And when that day arrives, we'll be there. 1-800-447-4559 | bathsavings.bank MEMBER FDIC EQUAL HOUSING LENDER P H O T O / C O U R T E S Y T H E S E A D O G S Rod MacPhie serves as an usher and ambassador for the Portland Sea Dogs. He's pictured here at Hadlock Field. I worked until I was 67 and now I get to play. — Rod MacPhie Portland Sea Dogs ambassador/usher F O C U S

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