BY MATT LARSON Published: April, 2017 Trevor Hendron is no stranger to the sea. The first picture ever taken of him, when he was just four days old, was on a boat with his father and grandfather. He’s pretty sure he didn’t even go home first after he was born at the hospital—he instead […]
Published: August, 2009 John Joseph Cota, the pilot who caused the Cosco Busan, a 900-foot long container ship, to collide with the Bay Bridge and discharge approximately 53,000 gallons of oil into San Francisco Bay, was sentenced in July to serve 10 months in federal prison. Cota, who was a licensed bar pilot at […]
By Mary Swift-Swan Published: January, 2003 West Marine’s extensive growth in the 1990s has supplied the push to topple its fiercest discount marine supply competitor, BoatU.S. West Marine purchased 62 stores, equipment inventories, and mail-order catalog sales of BoatU.S. for $72 million in cash and assumption of certain liabilities. This move also swells their marine […]
