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By Captain Ray Published: January, 2016 Last September, I spent two weeks sailing in Greece with Tom, a fellow sailing instructor. The sailing school we both work for, OCSC Sailing in the Berkeley Marina, organizes at least two sailing vacations each year for its members and guests. In the winter we go the Caribbean and […]
Published: January, 2016 January 9-10 9AM – 5PM – Performance Racing Weekend – OCSC Sailing, Berkeley, 510-843-4200, www.ocscsailing.com Take your advanced sailing skills to a new and exciting level in OCSC’s J/105 Race Weekend! In this two day long clinic, you’ll learn the fundamentals of racing through on-the-water training aboard one of our J/105s […]
Published: January, 2016 Boat Show Returns to SF Waterfront The 3rd annual Progressive Insurance San Francisco Boat Show, Northern California’s premier boating lifestyle event and expo, will take place over the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend, January 15 to 18, at McCovey Cove & Pier 48 adjacent to AT&T Park. From seasoned sailors to boating […]
Published: December, 2015 Tree lightings, holiday concerts, lighted boat parades and other holiday festivities will fill up the Bay Area’s social calendar this December. Click here for a complete listing of all the lighted boat parades that will light up the waterfront this month all over the Bay Area. Click here for listings of other […]
By Patrick Burnson Published: December, 2015 John McLaurin, president of the Oakland-based Pacific Merchant Shipping Association, is making a holiday appeal to the working waterfront community to think of the neediest this season. He notes in his newsletter that many seafarers will spend this month at sea or at distant ports of call thousands of […]
By Matt Larson Published: December, 2015 To accentuate the holiday cheer this year, Golden Gate Ferry will once again be decorating its merry ferry boats. However, it won’t necessarily be Golden Gate Ferry employees doing the decorating, but rather local schoolchildren—kindergartners, first, second and third graders from schools in Marin, San Francisco and Petaluma. This […]
By Sejal Choksi-Chugh Published: December, 2015 This winter is forecast to bring heavy rains to the Bay Area. But no matter how much rain falls, it’s unlikely to end the current drought. So here are some things we can all do to help protect San Francisco Bay from the surge of pollution that comes during […]
Published: December, 2015 The historic relighting of the Ferry Building on March 3 of this year was a remarkable, festive event marking 100 years of San Francisco’s extraordinary history. All are invited to gather again on the Embarcadero in front of the Ferry Building on Friday, December 4 at 4:15 p.m. for a celebration marking the […]
By Captain Ray Published: December, 2015 By the time you read this, Thanksgiving will be in the rearview mirror and the holidays will be upon us. In December, there’s the start of Hanukkah at sundown on 6DEC, Winter Solstice on 21DEC, Christmas on 25DEC, the first day of Kwanzaa on 26DEC, and New Year’s Eve […]
By Bill Picture Published: December, 2015 The Port of Oakland recently pledged that by the year 2018, 75 percent of the energy it provides to its tenants will be derived from renewable sources. Although you might be surprised to learn that the Port of Oakland is in the energy business, the port actually functions as […]