John Arndt

What are your sailing plans? It’s just two weeks until the summer solstice starts your summer sailing with the Summer Sailstice celebration. A look at the map shows sailors across the country posting personal plans, events, races and whatever they feel like doing with a sailboat on the weekend of June 20. If you have access to a sailboat, the summer is the time to use it — days are long and the sun is high. Of course, the Bay may be cool and windy, though just right for a brisk sailing adventure.

On page 31 of the current, June, issue of Latitude 38, reader Larry McCullough explains his pursuit of understanding California’s byzantine world of the property taxes paid on boats. His findings, shared below, don’t look good: I finally received my “Findings of Facts” from the appeals board. I won on the valuation, the penalty and the interest, but I did not win, as expected, on the addition of sales tax being added every year.