BC STAFF Published: June, 2019 Despite an extremely active Bay Area sailing scene, thousands of local boats remain tied to their docks day after day, week after week, and sometimes for years on end. Often the people and skills to use them are in short supply. Boats need people, and despite the myth […]
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Ferry Questions Answered
Published: June, 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. Thomas Hall is the public information and marketing manager for WETA, the agency that runs the S.F. Bay Ferry service. Priya Clemens is his counterpart at Golden […]
RM3 Funds Still In Limbo
Published: June, 2019 The Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association has decided to file a notice of appeal in its lawsuit against Regional Measure 3. The decision represents an abrupt about-face for the group, which just a week before filing said it had decided not to fight an April court ruling that dismissed its lawsuit. […]
Berkeley Ferry: Project Launched, But a Long Voyage Remains
BY DAN ROSENHEIM Published: June, 2019 WETA’s board gave the go-ahead last month to study construction of a ferry dock in Berkeley. The board’s action is an important move toward establishing long-awaited passenger service between San Francisco and the East Bay city. But even if everything proceeds smoothly, it will be five years […]
Rich Garnett
BY MATT LARSON Published: June, 2019 We met Rich Garnett aboard an SF Bay Ferry working for Blue & Gold Fleet on the Vallejo-San Francisco run. He’s soon to celebrate two years with Blue & Gold, approaching three years in the field. He didn’t necessarily expect to be working the Bay’s waterways, but a […]
Maritime Cargo Stakeholders Come Together to Oppose Oakland A’s Waterfront Stadium
BY PATRICK BURNSON Published: June, 2019 A rare alliance in the ocean cargo industry—including shippers, terminals operators, dockside labor and port authorities—has taken form recently in response to perceived threats to operations posed by a proposed 35,000-seat waterfront baseball stadium at the Port of Oakland’s Howard Terminal. The Oakland Athletics will soon be the […]
ON OUR COVER
Published: June, 2019 John Arndt, publisher of local sailing magazine Latitude 38, created Summer Sailstice in 2001. It has developed into an annual, global sailing celebration that unites sailors worldwide to celebrate and share their passion for sailing. There are many Sailstice events planned around the Bay Area to help ignite the public’s passion for […]
Alvin Haymon
BY MATT LARSON Published: May, 2019 As Blue & Gold Fleet celebrates its 40th anniversary, Alvin Haymon is celebrating his fourth year with the company as a deckhand and looking forward to his first as a captain. He recently completed his captain’s evaluation, so by the time you read this, Haymon may be up […]
Two Good News Stories Surface in Oakland
BY PATRICK BURNSON Published: May, 2019 As this column has recently documented, the ocean carrier industry remains in the throes of a seemingly unending cycle of rate erosion, vacant sailings and dysfunctional relationships with shippers and other stakeholders. But there have been exceptions to this sorry state of affairs, with one outstanding example […]
ON OUR COVER
Published: May, 2019 This month, Blue & Gold Fleet is celebrating 40 remarkable years of ferry and water excursion services on San Francisco Bay. The company was founded by Roger Murphy and developer Warren Simmons at the same time as PIER 39 launched operations in 1979. The company started by providing pleasure cruises from PIER […]