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    Should NY have a Minimum Property Tax that homeowners have to pay ?

    The whole point of a minimum property tax Would be to even out the tax burden and get a tax reduction in downstate NY. More State Aid would come our way and school taxes would go down. My property taxes upstate are half school and half county and local, both tax bills are about the same amount...
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    Should NY have a Minimum Property Tax that homeowners have to pay ?

    This isn't political . I look at my Long Island Tax bill and it's $14,000 a year and I look at my Chenango County Property Tax bill and it's under $700 a year ( both school and county/local tax) taxes on a property that's 11 1/4 acres and has a small cabin. I could live there full time and send...
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    Offshore Wrecks

    They have a reef planned to be built in 100 feet of water South of Jones Inlet.
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    Offshore Wrecks

    Guess who was the last U Boat Captain to die ? He sank the British Tanker Coimbra and the Norwegian Tanker Norness in January 1942 off Long Island. His name ? He died in June 2018 at the age of 105.
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    Last trip of season

    Went out for Bass today Thursday 11/20 because it was flat calm except in the inlet where there were rollers you were always looking over your shoulder at.Big fleet of boats chasing birds , a lot of wakes, rocking back and forth. Saw a fish here and there caught , didn't look too big . Pain in...
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    Offshore Wrecks

    Any danger from radiation ? Did your dad eat that Mako Shark ? I remember catching my first shark in 1973 off Montauk . Do you remember what Merrick was like in 1964 ? , I was born that year. The marsh went right up to Merrick Road , they illegally pumped sand from Merrick bay to fill in the...
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    Offshore Wrecks

    Somewhere out there is a 35 foot Downeast Lobster Boat that was sunk by a crooked doctor who wanted people to think he drowned. What ever happened to that guy ? Did they find him ? The Government knows exactly where that boat is . And all the little boats you read about over the years that sank...
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    Offshore Wrecks

    ANOTHER GREAT BOOK TO READ - The Last Battle Of the Atlantic - The Sinking of U853 by Captain Bill Palmer. Fantastic photo from a Navy Blimp showing the USS Atherton dropping Depth Charges on U853 and the crew painting a U Boat on the side of the cabin on the ship after they sank U853. The USS...
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    Offshore Wrecks

    I see you bought the same book I did. You can see Gottfried on You Tube , a nice video of him at an air show cracking jokes
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    Offshore Wrecks

    So many Germans came to the US and Canada after the war. There was a WW2 German Pilot who flew an ME 109 . He got shot down by the Russians and he spent 5 years in a Russian Gulag and survived. He came to the US and settled in Patchogue where he raised his family. He wrote a book - Another...
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    Offshore Wrecks

    I have that book about U869 and also the book about U550. U550 sank a little inshore of the Andrea Doria , after they sank U550 they found bodies of dead U Boat Sailors floating 25-35 miles SE of Shinnecock. Yeah U boats sailed right up to NY Harbor and off Long Island and the US Navy didn't...
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    2nd body of missing kayaker found

    What's so bad about wearing a life vest ? And i wonder how many people have the outboard cutoff switch lanyard around their wrists that will turn off their engine(s) if they pass out or fall overboard ? I have that around my wrist when sitting on the back tiller steering my boat. I've seen a...
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    Offshore Wrecks

    The things I learned about WW2 off the US East Coast would shock you. German U boat 607 or 606 sailed right up to entrance of NY harbor and laid 10 mines where Ambrose Tower use to be. A year after we declared war on Germany ! Another U boat was sent by the German High Command ( The Kreigsmarine...
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    Offshore Wrecks

    The USS Turner Sank in January 1944. The ship was preparing to unload it's munitions and bring it ashore . The crew wasn't properly trained to disarm the munitions and they blew up and killed about 125 men . The Turner was anchored at the Mouth of Gravesend Bay at the Tin Can Grounds. The Coast...
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    Offshore Wrecks

    I purchased all 3 of Dan Bergs Wreck Valley Books and the craziest thing happened years later - My brother was having health issues and a visiting nurse came to check him once a week , the visiting nurse was Dan Berg!!!!! He came in and checked on my brother and after the checkup my brother and...
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    Offshore Wrecks

    I read it's in remarkable condition on the bottom.
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    Offshore Wrecks

    There's a wreck about 25 miles South Of Jones Inlet , They sank it in the 1920's to make a silent movie.I think it was named the Corvalis. Another wreck if you can find it was Bert Youngs Yacht. He was Paulie in Rocky . Somebody stole his yacht and it caught fire and sank. Another wreck was the...
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    Will the new Oyster Beds in NY Harbor be good for fishing ?

    Why don't they put Oyster Beds in Long Island Bays? Saw underwater pictures of the beds and what perfect bottom for porgies and blackfish.
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    Boston Mackerel are in

    Read reports about Bass Fishermen catching Boston Mackerel off the South Shore and out off Montauk they're very thick. Anybody catch any ?
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    Bass Fishing Outside Jones Inlet

    Read Combs Bait and Tackle Fishing report , said Friday was good off the Pink Hotel, Saturday it was good off Fire Island and Sunday the fishing for the most part shut down. Bass are moving all over . One bright spot was all the Boston Mackerel being caught by jiggers.. Off Montauk Point the...

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