BC Staff Report Published: January, 2017 Svendsen’s Boat Works, an Alameda-based, family-owned and operated company since 1963, has been acquired by Alameda’s Bay Maritime Corp., parent company to Bay Marine Boatworks and Bay Ship & Yacht. Now in its 53rd year of operation, Svendsen’s will continue to operate under the Svendsen’s name and […]
Published: May, 2019 Ferry Q&A is where you can have your questions about Bay Area ferry service answered by the professionals who speak for the ferry systems on a daily basis. Thomas Hall is the public information and marketing manager for WETA, the agency that runs the San Francisco Bay Ferry service. Priya Clemens […]
By W. Graham Claytor Published: June, 2005 Oakland, in 1851, was described as an “evil-smelling strip of muddy tidelands on one side and a flotsam-filled creek on the other.” A few scattered shacks inhabited by squatters on Don Luis Maria Peralata’s vast land grant and cattle ranch were beneath his notice, dismissed as mere gringos. […]
