ANNAPOLIS, Md. - Hamilton Chaney lost a customer last week.
Dr. Richard Rende, a 60-year-old orthopedic surgeon from Steamboat Springs,
Colo., told Chaney his 48-foot sailing catamaran would be departing early from
Herrington Harbour North, the marina Chaney's family owns in southern Anne Arundel
County.
On June 25, he arrived at the marina, where he pays $1,000 a month to dock. He
has spent $30,000 in Maryland _ mostly on boat work with different companies, but
also at local restaurants and hotels.
But Rende is leaving for Delaware to avoid Maryland's vessel excise tax, which
would force him to pay 5 percent of the value of his boat if he stayed in the
state longer than 90 days this year.
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You can thank O'Alley and Conway for that. And, it's only going to get worse. If I owned a boat, I'd name it after O'Malley. "Bow Movement"
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