Author: BAY CROSSINGS STAFF REPORT

Published: June, 2001 Checkin' out the oakland /Alameda Estuary

Published: June, 2001 Readers may recall a spoof ad we ran recently inviting the donation of "a boat with character sufficient to be an office and promotional tool for Bay Crossings." The ad made quite clear that "we can’t afford to pay anything or even offer a tax deduction." Lo and behold, God has provided […]

Published: May, 2001 Editors note: Last month, we printed two of the many letters we received in response to our March cover story "Here Comes the Sun" featuring Dr. Robert Dane, inventor of the new solar ferry. The common theme of all the letters we received, including one from a self-styled "Fairy for Ferries", had […]

Published: May, 2001 The Marine Environmental Education Foundation (MEEF), a group committed to clean boating practices through National Clean Boating Campaign (NCBC), will hold its fourth-annual NCBC event Saturday, June 9, 2001, from 10 am to 4 pm, at San Francisco‘s Hyde Street Pier near Fisherman’s Wharf. The free celebration features activities, demonstrations, tours and […]

Published: May, 2001 Tucker, the Alameda/Oakland Ferry Celebrity Dog  PROFESSION: The Minister of Napping at the Design Bunch, an advertising/graphic design firm in San Francisco FERRY COMMUTER: You bet…daily for the last 9 years on the Alameda/Oakland ferry. PEOPLE WOULD BE SURPRISED IF THEY KNEW: I don’t eat homework and I all buy all my […]

Scott Bodensteiner  Published: May, 2001 I was a biology major and a lot of my professors spent a lot of time talking about environmental issues. I went to work for an environmental group in Sacramento, the Sacramento Valley Toxics Campaign. that tried to raise money to help combat some of these problems. Now I work […]

Published: May, 2001 The San Francisco Bar Pilots, who have been safely guiding ships through San Francisco Bay since 1835, will soon christen two new 2000 Class Station Boats. These vessels, the San Francisco and the California, are outfitted with the latest technology, including environmentally friendly low exhaust emission engines and oil water separators. The […]

By Carl Nolte  Published: May, 2001 Roger Murphy, who founded the Blue and Gold Fleet and was a major figure in the revival of ferry operations on San Francisco Bay, died of heart failure on the last day of March. "Roger Murphy was a father figure of the ferry fleet," said Bobby Winson, the editor […]

Published: May, 2001 A new and exciting project, that will bring music and magic to the people of San Francisco, is brewing at the foot of Market Street and Embarcadero, in front of the historic Ferry building. The Waterfront Pavilion will be a cultural facility that will become the permanent home of the 1915 Exposition […]

Published: May, 2001 Editor’s note: I confess to jingoism here: I live in Alameda across the Oakland Estuary from the Fruitvale neighborhood and have come to love this colorful, undiscovered treasure of a neighborhood. Fruitvale reminds me of the Potrero Hill neighborhood in San Francisco. In the early 1980’s many artists moved in to what […]