By Kati SchmidtPublished: October, 2010 Bay Area residents and visitors alike are sure to be star-gazing in the daytime this month, heading to the waterfront to watch the Blue Angels soar overhead during Fleet Week. Before and after the air show and 364 days each year, Bay-lovers also have the chance to see, learn […]
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Commercial Ports are Alive and Well in the Delta
By Jah MackeyPublished: October, 2010 Most of the time, we see the Delta as a peaceful playground where we escape from the daily drudge of our lives. However, there are those who live and work on the river. Do they escape their daily drudge by going to the big city? Intrigued, I set out […]
Coast Guard Investigates Algal Bloom
Published: October, 2010 On the afternoon of September 17, a red-orange substance was reported in the water approximately 11 miles south of Half Moon Bay and was determined to be an algal bloom by visual inspection. The organic material was reported to be in long ribbon-like strings by an overflying pilot. Upon receiving this […]
Around the bay in October 2010
Trash Dance Nina Haft & Company presents “DEBRIS/FLOWS,” the premiere of a dance performance and craft installation about landscape, rubbish and our efforts to control nature drawing inspiration from rocks, fungi, systems theory, road-kill, mudslides, oil spills, Little Red Riding Hood and other nature tales. This dance performance will be preceded by an interactive craft installation that transforms […]
ON OUR COVER September 2010
Published: September, 2010
Another ‘Ghost Ship’ Removed From Suisun Bay for Scrapping
Published: September, 2010 Bay Ship & Yacht, located in Alameda on San Francisco Bay, has completed hydro-blasting the hull and superstructure, and finished its seawirthiness inspection of, the decommissioned USS Florikan. The ship, shown above, was brought to the shipyard’s 388’ x 84’ drydock prior to being towed to Texas for scrapping. The Florikan will […]
WATERFRONT ACTIVITIES September 2010
Published: September, 2010 Every Wednesday 6PM – 8PM – Wednesday Night Sail, OCSC Sailing, Berkeley, 510-843-4200, www.ocscsailing.com This two-hour skippered charter is a great way to break up a long week. We’ll be sailing from 6 to 8 pm and follow that with a chili and chowder social. Don’t miss this great opportunity for a mid-week break! On September 1st this […]
Port of Oakland Recycles Its Mammoth Cranes
By Patrick BurnsonPublished: September, 2010 The Port of Oakland has added state-of-the-art super-post-Panamax cranes over the past decade to handle the larger container ships that now transit the globe. When the Alameda Naval Air Station was in service, however, Oakland used thousand-ton “low-profile” cranes to accommodate flight-path safety issues. Since the base closure, those […]
Transbay Transit Center Breaks New Ground
By Marjorie BlackwellPublished: September, 2010 The long-awaited “Grand Central Station of the West” is under way at last — after years of planning and accumulating funds, an international design competition, unrelenting political will from the Bay Area, Sacramento and Washington, DC, and a final boost of federal “stimulus” funds. The $4.2 billion Transbay Transit […]
Farewell Album
Turning Out the Lights at the Old Transbay Terminal By Marjorie BlackwellPublished: September, 2010 San Francisco’s Transbay Terminal is going, going… gone. In the next few months, the gray concrete monolith that has dominated Mission Street between Fremont and First streets since 1939 will become a pile of rubble. The lights went out […]