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By Patrick BurnsonPublished: October, 2010 When a dead whale arrived draped over the bow of a container vessel calling the Port of Oakland last month, some environmentalists cited the ship’s high velocity as the cause. Shipping experts disagreed, noting that ships have never been traveling at lower speeds than today. Indeed, the current practice […]
Published: October, 2010 October 3 7AM – 7PM – Farallones Sailing Adventure, OCSC Sailing, Berkeley, 510-843-4200, www.ocscsailing.com Turn a regular weekend day into an experience you’ll remember forever! Sail out the Golden Gate on the beautiful 82’ schooner ‘Seaward’ to the majestic Farallon Islands. Cost is $275. October 3 12PM – 4PM – Leukemia Cup Regatta – […]
By John GoodwinPublished: October, 2010 Bay Area residents may remember the summer of 2010 for cooler than usual weather. But for ClipperSM — the region’s all-in-one, reloadable transit fare card — the season was hot, hot hot. The number of passengers using the distinctive blue-and-white cards to board ferries, trains and buses skyrocketed from about […]
Published: October, 2010 From October 7 to 12, San Francisco will open its arms and piers to what promises to be the most extensive Fleet Week in more than 20 years. With more ships, more sailors, more Marines, more free family-friendly events than ever and a new focus on emergency preparedness, the organizers of […]
By Deb SelfPublished: October, 2010 As Halloween draws closer and our thoughts turn to costumes and candy, this festive fall holiday also inspires us to dust the cobwebs off our spookiest stories. Being a water-oriented organization—and writing for a commuter-ferry audience—it was hard to resist the scariest aquatic thriller of all time: the 1975 […]
Published: October, 2010 Although drive-in theaters are mostly a thing of the past, you can recapture some of that outdoor fun at Jack London Square’s Waterfront Flicks series, which concludes this month with the last two features of the year. Bring a chair or a blanket and enjoy a free outdoor movie on Market […]
By Bill PicturePublished: October, 2010 On August 25, a proposed rule banning the discharge of sewage from cruise ships and many other large oceangoing vessels within three miles of the California shore was signed by United States Environmental Protection Agency Pacific Southwest Regional Administrator Jared Blumenfeld at a press conference held at San Francisco’s […]
By Paul DuclosPublished: October, 2010 As ferry commuters, we are all too familiar with breaches of simple manners and social conduct. The bore on the cell phone; the verbose stranger broadcasting his or her views on every conceivable subject; the sprawler splayed across several seats; and the gate rusher storming to the front of […]
Published: October, 2010 East Brother Light Station, Inc., a non-profit corporation, is seeking applicants for Keepers of East Brother Light Station, an island in San Francisco Bay with an intact 1874 lighthouse. The lighthouse is owned by the U.S. Coast Guard but maintained for public use by the non-profit corporation. Since 1979, it has […]
By Captain RayPublished: October, 2010 At the beginning of the 20th century, the Santa Fe Railroad (“SFRR”) began ferry service between Point Richmond and San Francisco. An area of shallow water between Angel Island and the eastern shore of the Bay, known as Southampton Shoal, posed a hazard to these ferries because they passed […]