Published: July, 2005 San Francisco Bay Area Water Transit (WTA) Lures Commuters Onto Ferries "Pssst. Hey Buddy. The first one’s free!" No, the WTA isn’t peddling candy or drugs; the addiction they are promoting is very benign. It won’t give you cavities or ruin your life. As part of an aggressive marketing campaign, the WTA […]
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San Francisco… What a Bay!
By Wes Starratt, Senior Editor Published: July, 2005 From the former shipbuilding capital of the world in Richmond, to suburbia rising from an old dynamite plant at Hercules, to Oakland, with its lonesome container cranes, and down to the South Bay’s Working Waterfront at Redwood City, you never know what you will find around San […]
Worldwide Sources for Freighter Cruising
Published: July, 2005 The Pacific Tom Wörden The Polynesia departs Los Angeles for San Francisco, CA; Papeete, Tahiti; Apia, Western Samoa; Pago Pago, American Samoa; returning to Los Angeles in about 28 days. Mare Schiffahrtsgesellschaft Tausala Samoa departs Los Angeles for San Francisco, CA; Papeete, Tahiti; Apia, Western Samoa; Pago Pago, American Samoa; […]
Freighter Cruising
Revival of a nomadic travel tradition By Lisa Klassen, staff writer Published: July, 2005 Once a popular pastime of nomads, authors, students and professors on sabbatical, retirees with time on their hands, and the adventurous wealthy class, freighter cruising dropped to near extinction in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s. In 1986, there were only […]
Living Aboard on the Water’s Edge of Sausalito-ville
By Kurt Poeltl Published: July, 2005 I live in Sausalito. Well, that’s not completely true. I should say I live on the edge of Sausalito. On the edge of respectability and romanticism, that is where my sloop shares the enclave known as Richardson Bay. "Live-aboards," as we like to be referenced, are rather a misunderstood […]
Living Aboard 101
By Mary Swift Swan Published: July, 2005 Living aboard a boat brings to mind an array of images: endless summer, simpler living, or salty dogs and grand adventure. In everyday life, most live-aboards never venture near high seas. Some never leave the dock. Though some do get up and sail away, most simply want to […]
So Beautiful. So Boastful. So Illegal.
Top San Francisco architect outs himself as an illegal live-aboard, in the New York Times By Bobby Winston, Editor Published: July, 2005 "Olle Lundberg has a client list most architects would kill for" began the article in the New York Times "Home" section, (June 2, 2005) titled "The Scavenger’s Guide to the Galaxy," which […]
Harbor Bay Ferry Chuggin’ Along
WTA promotion efforts prompt surge in ridership By Bobby Winston, Editor Published: July, 2005 This time last month the Harbor Bay Ferry was looking like it had one foot in the grave and the other on a banana peel. My, what a difference a little promotion makes. Ridership on the Tuesday, June 21 5:30 […]
Commute Hour
Published: July, 2005 A flag hangs off the stern. Red and white stripes dance in sporadic, undulating beats. A white swath through grey green beyond. Two seagulls follow, then three. Perhaps a morsel of food will let loose in the wind. Rock island off port side desolate and dead but for the stirring of […]
Thinking Inside the Cargo Box
Modernized Port: a battle for the mythical town of Oakland (part II) By W. Graham Claytor Published: July, 2005 In 1911, the city of Oakland had finally secured the rights to its own waterfront, after some 61 years of legal wrangling with Horace Carpentier and the hated Southern Pacific Railroad. The question was what to […]