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Published: October, 2003 What is it about ancient ferryboats that inspire people to save them, or try at least? Notable successes include the Eureka, which is stuffed and mounted like a trophy fish at the Hyde St. Maritime Museum. Or the Berkeley, posing as a one-boat museum in San Diego with her boiler cut in […]
Published: October, 2003 OCTOBER 3 Modelers Workshop 4 Chantey Sing Pet Goats and a Charthouse of Her Own Modelers Workshop 5 Just What DO You Do With A Drunken Sailor? … History Through Song Of Whales and Men: West Coast Whaling 1850-1950 11 Fleet Week Viewing Party San Francisco maritime National Park Association hosts beer, […]
Published: October, 2003 Features Master Glass Blower Joseph Morel. Joseph joins Arts Benicia for the first time in offering Glass Blowing Classes. The owner of Zellique Art Glass has been teaching private lessons in his Benicia Studio and College level workshops at Chico State for the past six years. He has joined other talented Benicia […]
Published: October, 2003 Call it your home-based business that makes good. What started out of the house of entrepreneur Bobby Winston — and then moved aboard the good sailboat Belle Chere — has now morphed into Bay Crossings’ Ferry Tickets Shop. Now one of the many new businesses at San Francisco’s Ferry Building, the store […]
Published: October, 2003 Portugal, 17th century: A winemaker is in despair because he has had a poor harvest of grapes and his wife is yelling at him because the children need shoes. How are they going to live with so little to sell? He helps himself to a swig of brandy to calm his nerves. […]
Published: October, 2003 Tom Wylie and crew are taking people, primarily from the education community, sailing on San Francisco Bay. Currently based at the Berkeley Marina fuel dock, the vessel is available for demo sails and contracted outings for interested parties. The original and primary purpose of the vessel since its conception by boat designer […]
Published: October, 2003 Quiet had sunk in through the night. Sawdust stilled, power saws turned off, old fashioned wooden sliding doors closed to the public, we arrived one by one for the 9:00a.m. class held at the Mariner Museum Boatshop. A class on rigging and sailing old fashioned downeast wooden sailboats. Welcome, my name is […]
Published: October, 2003 Hawaiian Chieftain Tallship, has defended SF Bay in repeated battles all summer. These scenes are from September’s fierce battles with the Tallship Lynx. In October she will face the Lady Washington aka the "Black Pearl" from Disney’s "Pirates of the Caribbean." In October the Hawaiian Chieftain is available for day sails, full […]
Published: October, 2003 The Ferry Building Marketplace is steadily adding new shops, lending momentum to what has quickly become one of San Francisco’s favorite destinations for food shopping, eating and socializing . Just announced: from October 23-26 the first of a series of seasonal public festivals . First up: the Harvest Festival. Thursday, October 23, […]
Published: October, 2003 The Bay Planning Coalition presents the 17th Annual San Francisco Bay Decisionmakers Conference, 20/20 Visioneering the Future, on Thursday, November 13, 2003 at the Marriott City Center in Oakland. The condition of the Bay and the quality of life for citizens in the region is affected by dynamic interactions and flux among […]