By CaptaIn Ray Published: December, 2012 About six weeks ago, the US Sailing Association (the national governing body of the sport) held two instructor evaluation courses on San Francisco Bay. US Sailing-affiliated schools host these courses and US Sailing instructor trainers conduct them, evaluating and certifying the instructor candidates. OCSC Sailing in the Berkeley Marina […]
Published: June, 2003 If the California Legislature approves the San Francisco Bay Area Water Transit Authority (WTA)’s recommendations and this plan is funded, 31 new boats will be added to the current fleet of ferries for a total of 44 ferry boats in the Bay and as many as eight new terminal locations. These […]
Published: July, 2001 Incredible as it seems, the town had been incorporated, the city council duly elected and the waterfront appropriated by Carpentier before most of the residents were aware that Oakland existed. The village had always been called Contra Costa. To be sure, the name was merely a Spanish term meaning "the opposite shore," […]
