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Published: April, 2013 Jeremiah O’Brien Offers Opening Day Cruise The last unaltered Liberty Ship, SS Jeremiah O’Brien, will offer its first cruise day of the 2013 season on Opening Day of the Bay this April 28 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Enjoy this rare opportunity to steam through Raccoon Strait between Angel Island and […]
Published: March, 2013 This display of many moving parts is called a flap sign, and it’s just been installed in the Ferry Building’s Great Nave, suspended from the ceiling in the passageway leading from the Embarcadero to the ferry docks out back. The retro sign tells ferry riders at a glance when their boat is […]
By Patrick Burnson Published: March, 2013 Now that shippers have completed the last quarter of 2012, it appears that the state’s merchandise export trade finished 2012 on a weak note, owing largely to a sharp drop in shipments of electronics components to factories in Mexico. According to an analysis by Beacon Economics of foreign trade […]
By Brenda Kahn Published: March, 2013 A nostalgic and alluring new sound has been added to the bustle of the San Francisco Ferry Building Marketplace: that of hundreds of individual metal panels whirring and flapping at a furious pace as they cycle through the alphabet and numbers, racing to post the current ferry departure […]
By Bill Picture Published: March, 2013 When the 200 fruit trees recently planted throughout San Francisco as part of the City’s Urban Orchards program reach maturity, the fruit they bear and clean air they help create will be enjoyed for years to come by the surrounding communities. Trees don’t get as much credit as humans […]
Published: March, 2013 Celebrating its 10th Anniversary, the San Francisco International Ocean Film Festival will be hosting its signature four-day event at the Bay Theater at Aquarium of the Bay on PIER 39 from March 7 to 10. Kicking off the event is an exciting Opening Night Gala featuring Jean-Michel Cousteau, founder of Ocean Futures […]
By CaptaIn Ray Published: March, 2013 In an ongoing series of columns I’ve written, I’ve considered the nautical origins of words and expressions that we use in everyday language ashore. For example, a phase like "the devil to pay" (explained in a previous column) has lost all connection to its original nautical meaning and acquired […]
Published: March, 2013 Sailors for the Sea has recognized each of the America’s Cup World Series regattas in San Francisco in August and October 2012 with the first-ever platinum-level certification under its Clean Regattas program, due in part to a 98 percent landfill diversion rate at the second AC World Series regatta in San Francisco […]
By Deb Self Published: March, 2013 When an oil tanker hit one of the Bay Bridge towers on a foggy morning in early January, it was a wake-up call for everyone who cares about San Francisco Bay. The collision between the tanker, the Overseas Reymar, and the bridge could have led to a real disaster. […]
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 […]