Published: July, 2003 The Corinthian Yacht Club is proud to announce that Bruce Schwab, local rock-star sailor and rigger extraordinaire, will be speaking in person at the Corinthian Yacht Club on Thursday, July 10. The public is cordially invited to attend this exciting talk on fast, short-handed sailing. On May 3, 2003, just over a […]
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Japanese Tall Ship is Coming
Published: July, 2003 The Nippon Maru II, one of the largest tall ships in the world, is arriving from Tokoyo in July. She will sail into San Francisco Bay during her Pacific training voyage, and be in Port from July11-17. This beautiful 361-foot Japanese tall ship is a four-masted barque, has 36 sails, and carries […]
Port of Call: Jaffna, Sri Lanka
Published: July, 2003 "Does anyone know when we can catch the next ferry out of Jambukolapattana?" This was the question of the day in 1998 when a particular group of Sri Lankans were in need of a ferry boat ride to the other side of the island, which is about the same size as West […]
Amtrak Under the Gunn
Published: July, 2003 Railroad passenger trains were in trouble years before they were nationalized. In 1950, the larger railroads operated some 147,511 passenger route miles. By 1968, that fell to 58,130. Operating losses were huge. On the famed California Zephyr domeliner service between Chicago and San Francisco losses, rose to $2.6 million in 1969 on […]
MTC Courts Public in Quest to Solve Transportation Planning Mysteries
Published: July, 2003 Like death and taxes — or a splendid view from the deck of a ferry — you can always count on transportation to rank at or near the top of Bay Area residents’ lists of concerns. Just as certain is that transportation bureaucrats have no monopoly on good ideas for solving our […]
Ferry Building Clock Gets Ticking
Published: July, 2003 The Mayor of San Francisco, the Port of San Francisco, and Ferry Building Investors, LLC re-started the Ferry Building’s 245-foot tall historic timepiece during the "Ferry Building Clock Starting Ceremony" on Tuesday, June 17th. At noon, the Honorable Mayor Willie L. Brown, Jr. officially "re-started" the clock as the carillon signaled the […]
Summit Sows Seeds for New Funding Plans, But Political Winds May Blow Ill
Published: July, 2003 Mention of a $2 gasoline tax drew claps and cheers from many in the enthusiastic, and decidedly pro-transit, crowd. But with a $35 billion-plus state budget deficit proving unable to sway the opinions of hardline anti-tax forces in California, and the Bush Administration putting the kibosh on House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee […]
Portfest 2003 a Smashing Success
Published: July, 2003 An early-morning waterfront fog was the only visitor to PortFest 2003 that didn’t stay long as the sunny June 7th event attracted more than 30,000 couples, parents, children, vendors, performers, and music lovers to Oakland’s Jack London Square and adjacent Howard Terminal. Coordinated by the Port of Oakland’s Communications Division, PortFest 2003 […]
San Francisco Bay Master Mariners Benevolent Association Upcoming Events
Published: July, 2003 July 26 River Rat Cruise Sacramento Delta Bob Cart, (510) 549-2200 Aug 30-Sep 1 ChickenShip Regatta (location TBA) Dick Wrenn, (510) 654-7704 Oct. 4 WoodenBoat / MMBA Offshore Cruise Drake’s Bay Bob Rogers, Gene & Pat Buck (415) 364-1656 Oct. 18 Jessica Cup Regatta St. Francis Yacht Club Terry […]
Bikes on Boats
Published: July, 2003 The San Francisco Bay Area Water Transit Authority (WTA) has proposed a plan to expand the Bay Area’s ferry system that ought to make cyclists pretty happy. Not only has the WTA recommended reaching as many as eight additional communities around the Bay Area by ferry, but it plans to mandate bike-friendly […]