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    Offshore Wrecks

    The WW2 Destroyer USS Baldwin ran aground off Montauk in 1961 while being towed to Philadelphia and the Navy towed it 65 miles offshore and scuttled it and sank it just past the Continental Shelf drop off and it's in 1000 plus feet of water. They say 1000 plus feet of water, but why is the wreck...
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    Did you fish the wreck on a Party Boat ? The Andrea Doria, the 570 Foot Republic Ocean Liner , The USS Spikefish WW 2 Submarine and another Big Freighter aren't too far away.Just looked at a map of the area. Twin engines are needed for a trip like that ! I could see that wreck being good for...
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    I read it's just rocks now . 16 fathoms , the 16 Fathom Reef. They should sink one barge/ ship /rock pile after another in a big long straight line instead of in a big giant lump they do now. But outside 3 miles the reef will have Lobster Pots and we all know how irritating they are with all the...
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    Should NY have a Minimum Property Tax that homeowners have to pay ?

    I just think there should be a minimum property tax everybody in NY has to pay so it evens things out a bit. Newsday had an article years ago about the crazy state aid distribution in this state that heavily subsidizes counties upstate. Both Nassau and Suffolk Counties should have an income...
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    Should NY have a Minimum Property Tax that homeowners have to pay ?

    State School aid plays a big role in how much a school district taxes are. Southampton school salaries are just as high as school salaries in Nassau County, what Southampton has more of are migrant workers who work the farms out there and the summer residents out in Southampton have lobbied the...
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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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    They have a reef planned to be built in 100 feet of water South of Jones Inlet.
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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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