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Frances Barbour Hayden Promotes Larkspur Bike Station By Nancy Salcedo What seems like the ideal commute situation—ride your bike to the Larkspur ferry terminal and board for the city—can actually be laced with difficulties. For one, if you’ve got a nice bike, you don’t feel right leaving it vulnerably chained to a bike rack at […]

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 […]

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 […]

By David Fear  Published: September, 2002 For years now, you’ve been wanting to sally forth once more into the fray of higher education, but with a family to feed, a boss to keep off your back, and physics’ damned finite-amount-of-time-and-space-continuum rule, how can you find the time and energy to do it? Or, maybe you’re […]

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 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 The Port of San Francisco today announced that Kenneth E. Winters has been named as the Port’s new Director of Real Estate, effective immediately. Winters is responsible for directing, promoting, and managing the Port’s real estate portfolio along the 7.5 miles of San Francisco’s waterfront that extends from Fisherman’s Wharf to Bayview/Hunter’s […]

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 […]

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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, […]