Author: BAY CROSSINGS STAFF REPORT

Published: October, 2002 The 2002 Pan Pacific conference is an international meeting of key figures in international trade from around the world, many of whom have never presented before in the Western Hemisphere. The event occurs every two years. This year the Port of Oakland has the honor of hosting the prestigious conference at the […]

Published: September, 2002 You Are There as Funding for the San Francisco Water Transit Authority is Passed into Law   “People will sleep better not knowing how their politics and sausages are made”.                                                                     Bismarck Editor’s note: this article originally ran in October, 2000. As WTA releases its plan for expanded regional ferry service we […]

Published: September, 2002 On September 19th, rhythm-and-blues  group Pure Ecstasy and Brazilian jazz musician Sandy Cressman will bring the 16th annual Summer Evening Sounds concert series at Oakland City Center to a rousing close. The two groups will perform in City Square and in the Zen Garden at 1111 Broadway, respectively. Free of charge, the […]

Is the Artship riding the crest of the wave of Oakland’s artistic future, or could this ambitious project be little more than a water-colored daydream? By David Fear  Published: September, 2002 If you drive down Interstate 880 heading east alongside Oakland’s waterfront district, you might not notice the large seafaring vessel silently biding its time […]

Riding the Yakima By A.S. Lewis  Published: September, 2002 When I was a teenager in the ‘70s, my parents sent me to a sailing camp on Orcas Island in Washington’s San Juan Islands. Coming from the Bay Area, it’s an all-day trip starting at the crack of dawn at SFO. After a two and a […]

Published: September, 2002 No Matter  

Published: September, 2002 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA MARINE ASSOCIATION’S ANNUAL FALL SHOW Jack London Square, Port of Oakland 32nd Annual Fall Boat Show September 7-15, 2002 The Northern California Fall Boat Show, currently at Jack London Square, originated at the Oakland Coliseum, moved to the San Leandro Marina, then Marina Village in Alameda, and has now enjoyed […]

Published: September, 2002 Dear Editor: I have read your publication since the beginning and find much to like — interesting and informative articles and sometimes exceptional writing from some of your contributors. Recently though I notice a distasteful strain of class-mongering in your pages. This ranges from strident references to “…well-to-do Marinites…” to the mild […]

A Time to Celebrate  Published: September, 2002 Three years ago this January, on a blustery morning on the San Francisco Ferry Building docks, Inlandboatmen Union (IBU) deckhands, led by their indomitable Regional Director Marina Secchitano, joined me to hand out the first copies of Bay Crossings to groggy ferryriders arriving on the first boat. The […]

AT SEA IN THE CITY: New York From The Water’s Edge By William Kornblum  Published: September, 2002 Circling La Guardia airport, I took a break from reading At Sea in the City and tried to imagine William Kornblum’s journey in and around the waters of New York City. I saw a few beaches, abandoned docks, […]