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BY PAUL DUCLOS Published: April, 2018 The Bay Area Book Festival—one of the world’s premier celebrations of writers, readers and the written word—has announced its full complement of presenters, programs and activities. The schedule is available at www.baybookfest.org, with tickets on sale now. Nearly 500 authors and exhibitors—from the Bay Area, nation and […]
Published: April, 2018 April 11 Radar Recertification 1 Day – Maritime Institute, Alameda, 888-262-8020, www.MaritimeInstitute.com This course is a renewal test for the Unlimited Radar Observer renewal for the advanced mariner that does radar plotting on a regular basis. Testing on the first and second triangles and practical plotting on the radar scope (2 tests […]
Published: April, 2018 Boat Show Returns to Craneway The 2018 Pacific Sail & Power Boat Show will cruise into the historic Craneway Pavilion and Marina Bay Yacht Harbor from April 19 to 22 for all things boating. The show has expanded its exhibit space in both locations and attracted more exhibitors from around the […]
Published: March, 2018 A $4.45 billion package of congestion relief projects known as Regional Measure 3 (RM3) will be on the June 5 ballot in all nine Bay Area counties. This month we look specifically at how passage of RM3 would expand the ferry system and relieve ferry overcrowding.
BY PATRICK BURNSON Published: March, 2018 The day before the Presidential State of the Union address, West Coast shippers were given a positive view of Oakland in the annual “State of the Port” speech. “This is our time,” proclaimed Port of Oakland Executive Director Chris Lytle. “We’ve spent much of this decade working […]
BY MATT LARSON Published: March, 2018 If you find yourself at the Larkspur, Sausalito or San Francisco ferry terminals and you end up needing help from a Golden Gate Ferry operations supervisor, you may very well be speaking with Suzanna Adamova. Adamova has been a casual operations supervisor since last summer, after working […]
BC STAFF REPORT Published: March, 2018 Nearly three-quarters of voters say they would vote “yes” on a bond measure to fund improvements to San Francisco’s seawall, based on a citywide voter survey conducted in January on behalf of the Port of San Francisco. Seventy-three percent of voters polled were in favor of a proposed […]
BY SEJAL CHOKSI-CHUGH Published: March, 2018 If you discover a sewage spill in Oakland—or have reported a spill in the past to Oakland city officials—please report it to Baykeeper. Sewage spilled into city streets generally ends up in San Francisco Bay. Spilled sewage is sometimes inappropriately washed down a nearby storm drain, or […]
Published: March, 2018 "How inappropriate to call this planet Earth,” opined legendary author Arthur C. Clarke, “when it is quite clearly ocean.” For 15 years, the International Ocean Film Festival has been bringing back the focus to the 75 percent of our habitat that is indeed water. Like a wave-borne United Nations representing […]
BY JOEL WILLIAMS Published: March, 2018 On February 8, the Water Emergency Transportation Authority Board (WETA) approved a resolution supporting Regional Measure 3 (RM3), the bridge toll ballot measure that voters in the nine Bay Area counties will consider during the statewide elections on June 5. If approved by voters, RM3 would raise […]