On 15 Sep 2008 20:50:01 -0500, Dave wrote:

Mary Taylor was running the place when I had my boat there--my first
experience with Bobsprit's type of phony yacht club. At that time I had a
little 16' English twin keel boat with some pretty bare bones
accommodations.

We bought our first keel boat, an Abbott Soling, from Bob Taylor a
couple of weeks before he and Mary split in the fall of 1971. Things
quickly got very chaotic and we pulled out at the first opportunity.

On Tue, 16 Sep 2008 04:20:35 +0000, Larry wrote:

Wayne.B wrote in
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On Mon, 15 Sep 2008 23:07:17 +0000, Larry wrote:

Y'all stop by. Lotsa Yankees do! They seem to enjoy it.

Until the local tax collector takes a liking to your boat for some
inexplicable reason. It's a nice enough town but it will be a *long*
time before I take a boat there again.



God, how long did you stay?!

We want Yankees to VISIT....not drop anchor until it rots!

We spent two nights at the city marina, a very nice facility as I'm
sure you know. We needed a generator repair which was handled very
efficiently by a local mechanic that the marina recommended. Some how
the tax people thought that money was owed by a previous owner and
they made my life miserable for about 6 months trying to collect.

I take it back. I just got back from an overnight cruise and my tracking
page is blank. Since S&L's isn't working either, I suspect they are still
working on the servers or there is some problem at that end.

First failure I've had since I figured out the button sequence.

--
Roger Long

Belay that. The page tracking info just showed up. My browser was probably
looking at a cached page. I tried reloading Skip's though but it still
shows him in Bayside.

--
Roger Long

Wayne.B wrote in
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Some how
the tax people thought that money was owed by a previous owner and
they made my life miserable for about 6 months trying to collect.

Wow...I'd like to hear more about that story. Did you buy it from here?

"Roger Long" wrote in
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Belay that. The page tracking info just showed up. My browser was
probably looking at a cached page. I tried reloading Skip's though
but it still shows him in Bayside.

--
Roger Long





I don't have your URL, but I clicked up Skip and nothing loaded, at first.
Clicking that little rotating button (refresh) at the bottom of the text
list resulted in an instantaneous refresh that shows the Pig just east of a
tiny little marina, out in the bay on the hook I suppose, at Bayside.

Looking at the satellite/map hybrid, the little marina's fuel dock looks a
short walk to The Bay Terrace at Bayside, come kind of big mall...(c; St
Mary's Hospital is very close, too....which is nice if you need it.

I bet the rent in that nice high rise complex between 23rd and 17th Ave
fronting on the Cross Island Expressway is a LOT more than Skip is paying
for a much better view....(c;

The last spot on his page was 3 days ago.

"Roger Long" wrote in
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Belay that. The page tracking info just showed up. My browser was
probably looking at a cached page. I tried reloading Skip's though
but it still shows him in Bayside.

--
Roger Long





I was browsing around looking for Archie Bunker's house, and found many of
them, when I ran into Shea Stadium on Flushing Bay.

I wonder if those nice folks at the marina right across the expressway from
Shea Stadium would let you borrow a slip long enough to take in the ball
game and have a few overpriced hot dogs? The picture shows lots of empty
slips. Must be kinda pricey to be empty like that....(c;

Boy the Jumbotron sticks way up behind the outfield!

On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 00:45:07 +0000, Larry wrote:

Wayne.B wrote in
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Some how
the tax people thought that money was owed by a previous owner and
they made my life miserable for about 6 months trying to collect.

Wow...I'd like to hear more about that story. Did you buy it from here?

No, we purchased the boat in Florida and all applicable Florida taxes
and fees were paid at time of sale. We received the usual assurances
in the purchase contract that the boat was being sold free of any
liens or encumberances. The next year we took the boat north for the
summer, stopping at Charleston for 2 days along the way. About 3
months later we received a letter from the Charleston County tax
office that we owed over $14K in retroactive personal property taxes.
Our choice was to pay or have the boat seized and auctioned off. As
you can imagine a number of phone calls ensued. They were adamant
that a prior owner, some ten years previously, had overstayed his time
in Charleston and that we as the current owners were liable for the
taxes and penalties. They informed us that we either had to pay, lose
the boat, or prove that the taxes were not due.

We went back and forth with them for over six months, exchanging
lawyer letters, tracking down former owners, etc. After being
threatened with seizure any number of times they finally decided that
no money was due after reviewing all of the available evidence. I
insisted that they write me a letter to that effect which I still have
in the boat files. The whole affair has left me with a rather bad
feeling toward your otherwise fine city. We won't be back any time
soon. I even get nervous transiting the coast.

Wow. That's the end of my plan for taking "Strider" to Charleston for the
winter (next year). If I ever go that way, I'll do the fast transit thing
as well.

With my boat's history, I don't have any real concern about what you went
through but, as a matter of principle, I don't want my money to go to any
state that would allow such things to take place.

You should write this story up and submit it to some of the cruising
magazines. This kind of crap is like mold. Exposure to light and air is
the best cure.

--
Roger Long

On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 06:28:35 -0400, "Roger Long"
wrote:

Wow. That's the end of my plan for taking "Strider" to Charleston for the
winter (next year). If I ever go that way, I'll do the fast transit thing
as well.

With my boat's history, I don't have any real concern about what you went
through but, as a matter of principle, I don't want my money to go to any
state that would allow such things to take place.

You should write this story up and submit it to some of the cruising
magazines. This kind of crap is like mold. Exposure to light and air is
the best cure.

I'm sure there is some connection here to the Secret Grand Council of
Abusive Tax Collectors, but I'll leave it to Larry to defend the great
city of Charleston.

--Vic