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By: Visiting Maine soon? - SailNet Community

Visiting Maine soon? - SailNet Community — Tue, 06 May 2008 18:12:27 +0000

[...] below link and the embedded link within the blog to the NY Sun article will be of interest to you. Hey, rich guy! | Neptunus Lex __________________ Liberalism: the haunting fear that, somewhere, somehow, someone can help [...]

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 06 May 2008 02:22:31 +0000

“Besides, who the hell would want to yacht up to Maine? If you’re in the NE area you might as well hit up Buzzard’s Bay, MV, the Tuck or the perennial classic Newport.”

I’ve done a lot of sailing “down east” – the dress code and the attitude is much more to my liking than the high-dollar locations mentioned above.

By: Grumpy

Grumpy — Mon, 05 May 2008 20:40:41 +0000

SJBill, Sir, yes, you deserve it, you did it the old fashioned way, you earned it. It is strange, one side of my family, it was a mix of trades people then with glass industry. People like Dr. Jonas Salk went to them to have all of his glassware made by them. The other side were seafaring people, no steam engines, all sail. This was up to my Grandfather. He started on that path, but some health issues with my Grandmother put the stop to it. He was also a journeyman carpenter. When it came time to “put down” the old schooner, the base of the main mast, about 6′, was brought here and put in the cellar. To this day, it is still there. What is strange is they could sail the schooner up the Egg Harbor River a long way. There was a depth of about 40′ for most of it. This was true until man, in his infantile wisdom, started to build on the barrier islands. They took a small group of islands and tied them all together and built on them. This just about shut down the river. Well, if you take Google Earth, you look up “Longport, NJ”, look at the lower end. You’ll see something strange, it starts with 11th Street. People ask, Why did they start there? What happened with 1st to 10th streets? Oh, they’re there, just under water. People decided it was not the smartest move to argue with Mother Nature.

Bill, do you know what I think this Country’s biggest problem is? It is my belief, we need to start learning from history.

Thank you, for reading, it was fun.
Have a GREAT week,

Grumpy

By: Brian R

Brian R — Mon, 05 May 2008 18:33:23 +0000

Doesn’t anybody know how to play this tax policy game? What you want to deter or punish you tax, what you want to promote or encourage you subsidize. Sheesh.

Evidently not. Witness the “necessity” of bailing out (== subsidizing) those who were too greedy or stupid to realize they had signed up for a mortgage they couldn’t handle. Paid for by taxing us fools who actually bought something we could afford.

OK I’ll stop now.

By: Maritime Monday 109 | gCaptain.com

Maritime Monday 109 | gCaptain.com — Mon, 05 May 2008 11:08:04 +0000

[...] Lex covers Maine’s outright money grab as they tax rich people who decide to visit their state by private yacht or plane. OK, dock fees [...]

By: SJBill

SJBill — Mon, 05 May 2008 03:37:42 +0000

Grumpy,

I was enlisted as well — an AX back in the day.
Sorry, I’m old fashioned and refer to folks I respect as Sir, and that includes most folks in Lex’s crib.

BTW, my Mom and Dad moved across the state and lived in Barnegat (across the Bay from Barnegat Light, just up in Ocean County. They were descended of recent immigrants who came over in the 1890s and early 1900s.

I fully appreciated the colonial history. Were your ancestors involved in the bog iron industry ’round Batsto or were they farmers?