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From: Paul Saltzman (no email)
Date: Mon Aug 02 1999 - 17:33:11 EDT
You know it's easy to read this thread and think nothing of it. and i
think that is because I am not a "live-aboard" as you and many others are.
I have a residence beside Evening Star. And maybe that's the key. What
changes "LIVE-ABOARD" from one that STAY ABOARD"?
I spend my week on evening star. My wife comes down to join me on Fridays
and we'll head out to our favorite gunkhole for the weekend. I do this
because I work 20 minutes from the boat and live 2 hours from work (don't
ask it's a long story). So here's my premise.
find someone that is willing to allow you the use of their address, keep a
change of clothes there, and use it as your legal address. Then the boat
is your pleasure craft once again and you have circumvented the rules.
the draw back is if you feel that you should be able to live aboard and not
be taxed as others living in more traditional housing. I think that if
your trying to hide something, modern technology is catching up to you. If
you truly love the life style and your an upstanding citizen then you
should be permitted the right of choice. the choice of living aboard or
ashore.
I guess the politico's only want their unfair share but what's so new about
that...
At 01:49 PM 8/2/99 -0700, you wrote:
>One of my co-workers told me this morning that he saw a news story on
>Fox News last night talking about how the city of Oakland, CA was
>moving to remove all the liveaboards from the Port Of Oakland Marinas.
>Did anyone else catch this? I know that the port was starting to crack
>down on some of the non-operational boats being used as cheap housing
>by putting a putt-putt rule into place.
>
>From what I heard one of the liveaboards wrote to the Oakland Mayor
>complaining that his/her rights were being violated and that the port
>should be made to back off. This resulted in the city coming down even
>harder on the liveaboards. It should be noted that there are no legal
>liveaboards in the Oakland marinas. I guess it goes to show that if you
>are not a legal liveaboard you have to keep your head down and accept
>the fact that you have no right to live where you want to no matter how
>long someone has let you get away with it.
>
>I am glad I finally got a legal liveaboard slip and so ending 4 years
>of sneaking around trying to be unnoticed.
>
>Marvin
>S/V Osage
>
>
>
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SMOOTH SAILING:
Paul Saltzman
S/V EVENING STAR
Kingston, NY
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