Published: February, 2005 Thinking about my patch of waterfront, in light of the disastrous Tsunami in Indonesia, gave me pause as a San Franciscan who lives on a peninsula. The communities that cloister around the inlets, bays, and deltas are vulnerable to the powers of the sea. I now look at these communities with a […]
By Paul Duclos Published: March, 2013 Any protagonist cast upon a storm-tossed sea will have some appeal to those of us who rely on ferries as our primary mode of transportation. But haven’t we all encountered the occasional rascal who deserves to be cast out of the boat when things get rough? That would be […]
By CaptaIn Ray Published: July, 2012 In last July’s column, I talked about the SS Jeremiah O’Brien. She’s a fully restored World War II Liberty ship berthed at Pier 45 in San Francisco. Liberty ships were designed at the beginning of World War II to serve as the tractor trailers of the sea. As the […]
