ON OUR COVER

ON OUR COVER

Published: June, 2009 

Ferries of the world

Published: March, 2000 It’s a relaxing and pleasurable cruise across Cook Strait and through the beautiful Marlborough Sounds. The journey covers a distance of 52 nautical miles. The Interislander is 148 meters long and carries up to 975 passengers, 126 cars and 60 railcars at once. During the summer season, a fast ferry called the […]

THE RISE AND FALL(ING) OF THE BERKELEY PIER

By Captain RayPublished: February, 2011    The Berkeley Pier, jutting out into the Bay in various states of disrepair, is a remnant of bygone age—an artifact left over from another time.  Built in the 1920s, abandoned in the 1930s, and left to deteriorate in the 1960s, it has become an historical relic. As the automobile […]