just me wrote:
have you looked/visited any marinas there that you would recommend?





About a half hour drive from Jax is a town in Georgia called St. Marys.

Langs Marina in St. Mary's Georgia is a lovely spot. Reasonable prices
and well cared for marina. Plus the town itself is really quite charming.

just me wrote:
have you looked/visited any marinas there that you would recommend?



Marley wrote:
About a half hour drive from Jax is a town in Georgia called St. Marys.

Langs Marina in St. Mary's Georgia is a lovely spot. Reasonable prices
and well cared for marina. Plus the town itself is really quite charming.


But it's a lot further away by boat.

Closer is Fernandina Beach, which has a great anchorage and a pretty
good city marina... hard to get a spot there, the snowbirds circle like
vultures every morning waiting to pounce on any opening.

DSK

Langs Marina is a well cared for marina? I doubt that even the Langs
would claim that. The one were the sailboat are is a 300 - 400 yard
walk from the parking area.

Marley wrote:
just me wrote:

have you looked/visited any marinas there that you would recommend?





About a half hour drive from Jax is a town in Georgia called St. Marys.

Langs Marina in St. Mary's Georgia is a lovely spot. Reasonable prices
and well cared for marina. Plus the town itself is really quite charming.

Spoke with Lang's today. They said marina was heavily damaged by the
hurricane and they are just beginning to re-build. It will be a few months
I think before they will be able to take boats.


"JR Gilbreath" wrote in message
...
Langs Marina is a well cared for marina? I doubt that even the Langs
would claim that. The one were the sailboat are is a 300 - 400 yard walk
from the parking area.

Marley wrote:
just me wrote:

have you looked/visited any marinas there that you would recommend?




About a half hour drive from Jax is a town in Georgia called St. Marys.

Langs Marina in St. Mary's Georgia is a lovely spot. Reasonable prices
and well cared for marina. Plus the town itself is really quite charming.

"just me" wrote in
news
Spoke with Lang's today. They said marina was heavily damaged by the
hurricane and they are just beginning to re-build. It will be a few
months I think before they will be able to take boats.



Y'all boys haul out your charts of the South Carolina coast. Look at all
the miles and miles of UNCROWDED waterways from Georgetown to Savannah to
explore and enjoy. Now, look at that damned silted-up ditch they call
Eastern Florida.

Ask yourselves, "Why would I want a boat in that ditch?"

There's 8 boats on the docks in Charleston Harbor who've found Eastern SC a
new winter home.....so far. No need to curse the idiot anchored 8 ft from
you when you can have a whole creek to yourself, here....(c;

Yecch....Florida sucks for boating!

"Larry W4CSC" wrote in message
...

Y'all boys haul out your charts of the South Carolina coast.
Look at all
the miles and miles of UNCROWDED waterways from Georgetown
to Savannah to
explore and enjoy.

And get nailed for property tax on your boat. They put a
property tax on motorcycles, cars. boats and airplanes
including foreign documented vessels, can you imagine. 5% of
the BUK book value.

--
Joe

Joe Kovacs
SV Sea Breeze

Are you saying that SC charges property tax on boats that stay there?
Is it an annual tax?
Do many states on the east coast do that?
Do you have to be in their waters for a certain period of time for the tax
to be levied?

"just me" wrote in
news
Are you saying that SC charges property tax on boats that stay there?
Is it an annual tax?
Do many states on the east coast do that?
Do you have to be in their waters for a certain period of time for the
tax to be levied?

Only resident boats are taxed. I know transients that have been here for
years...

Personal Property Tax is very steep, here, on NEW boats/cars/planes/and
anything else that moves with an engine that has a license attached to it.
However, taxes are very cheap on OLD boats/cars/etc. that are beyond the
blue books. My nice 1983 Mercedes is $13/yr. You'll find a lot of older
cars/boats/etc. lovingly restored and maintained here. A NEW Mercedes will
cost you thousands per year. I don't want one.

6.5% sales tax, except 8.5% on bars/restaurants/accomodations. 7% income
tax is also imposed. Gasoline tax is 34.3c/gal. Diesel is 39.3c/gal.
Diesel at the marina isn't taxed, but I think gas is...?? It still costs
more because of the marina ripoffs.

Gas is $1.74 for regular this morning in Charleston. Diesel for my truck
is $1.89/gal including the awful taxes because the Damned Yankees are still
heating their houses with it this time of year. What's fuel cost at your
gas stations? Diesel at Ashley Marina was about $2/gal last time I looked.

I'm going out to C&W Buffet for lunch about 2ish. $4.99 will buy you 1
American food hotbar, 2 Chinese food hotbars, 1 fruit bar, 1 dessert bar,
one soft ice cream machine but you have to buy your drinks separately.
They stamp your card each time you eat there. When you get 6 stamps, your
7th meal is free, a nice rebate to us "Frequent Fryers"...(c; The food is
delicious, even at this price. With all the chandeliers, mirrored walls,
mirrored ceiling tiles and fancy furniture, the place first looks like a
Las Vegas Whorehouse...(c; A pretty, young Vietnamese girl will hold my
hand while she takes me to my table. I already got my $5 worth by the time
we get there...hee hee. If you don't see the sushi you like, they'll make
it for you, fresh. Noone goes home hungry. A teapot of Chinese tea made
the way it's supposed to be is about $1.25 extra.

It's still pretty cheap to live in Charleston. You can buy a nice home
here for lots less than Florida. Check it out:
http://www.sciway.net/reloc/chasres.html

Yes.

Do many states on the east coast do that?

Some do. Some tax more, some less.

The national marina operators association is lobbying the US
government to get _all states to charge 4% property tax on
boats, whatever a marina association's interest in taxing
might be.

Do you have to be in their waters for a certain period of
time for the tax
to be levied?

You have to be found there by the tax man, who prowls around
marinas, creeks and anchorages looking for boats to tax.

--
Joe

Joe Kovacs
SV Sea Breeze