BY MATT LARSON Published: March, 2019 For more than two years now, Garry Mason has been working as a deckhand on ferry boats throughout the San Francisco Bay. He could be working in Vallejo one day, Alameda the next, and Marin the day after that. “I work all over,” he said. “With seniority, you […]
By Bill Picture Published: March, 2015 It’s not often that tampering with Mother Nature proves to be a good thing in the long term, but that’s exactly what has happened at the Port of Oakland. Last month, the port announced that recent dredging activity yielded 400,000 cubic yards of sediment, every muddy drop of which […]
Published: December, 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 […]
