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By Kristen BolePublished: May, 2006 At midnight on a high tide, a cruise ship enters the Bay, sliding through the Golden Gate as hundreds of cargo ships have done since the Gold Rush. The passengers who are awake can see the world-famous bridge illuminated above them as they enter the calm waters. They round the […]
By Kristen Bole Special to Bay CrossingsPublished: May, 2006 Local activists are once again crying foul on the San Francisco Waterfront, this time over a pending contract with Hornblower Yachts Inc. for an eco-friendly ferry service for the Alcatraz Island tours. And in true San Francisco fashion, the outcry is coming from the least expected […]
By Joel WilliamsPublished: April, 2006 Prior to 1978 it was illegal to brew beer at home for personal consumption. We can thank California Senator Alan Cranston for introducing legislation to legalize homebrewing, and President Jimmy Carter for signing it into law. Homebrewers brew home beer because domestic beer lacks the rich malty taste they like, […]
By Whit PoorPublished: April, 2006 Is the winter season loosens its grip on the northern hemisphere, we wait in anticipation of the coming seasons. Clothes are bought and houses are cleaned, as the gloom of winter is replaced by wild, warming, ever-changing spring. Daydreams take flight. Our bodies become restless in their quest for activity, […]
Can’t catch a wave if you’re not fit to paddle By Alex KolovyanskyPublished: April, 2006 If you haven’t noticed, the last couple months it’s been raining cats, dogs and even a few snowmen in the usually fair city of San Francisco. That doesn’t bode well for a chance to hit the water and surf. What […]
Published: April, 2006 Presidential yacht, Potomac, Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s famed Floating White House will participate in Opening Day on the Bay on Sun., April 30. Some 250 recreational and special interest boats will participate in this year’s festivities. Join us aboard the Potomac, which is a National Historic Landmark, for a 3 ½-hour cruise (10:30AM-2PM) […]
By Bill PicturePublished: April, 2006 Aspot of bad luck kept Johnnie Owen from participating in last year’s Opening Day on the Bay, a judged parade of theme-decorated boats that helps kicks off the official boating season here in the Bay Area every April. The Walnut Grove resident, a member of the Encinal Yacht Club in Alameda […]
By Ed & Pam McGrathPublished: April, 2006 The boat business is really all about people. That’s our philosophy. We love boats, boating and boaters! We make our living finding boats for folks and finding folks for boats. In fact, twice a year, we gather our listings, power and sail priced from $30,000 to $2-million, and […]
By Wes Starratt, PEPublished: April, 2006 San Francisco is a city surrounded on three sides by water and on two sides by major earthquake faults. The City has two fireboats, the Phoenix and the Guardian. They are docked at Firehouse No. 35 at Pier 22½, which is located directly under the Bay Bridge. Between earthquakes, […]
Published: April, 2006 From: In Hiding Ah yes, so a Marin Supervisor, like all the rest from Marin, takes money from anti-transit interests, and then gets appointed to help promote mass transit?No, no, donors to the Kensey campaign oppose any good mass transit system, which is why Marin, allegedly a liberal county, has never funded […]