Published: December, 2000 Riders vie for best of class. Here's first up.
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So You Want to be a Travel Book Writer
Published: December, 2000 How did a good Stanford girl find her way to working on – and writing about — the Alaska ferry system? I was working in the Calaveras County Planning Department putting my Master’s in Geography as well as a Bachelor’s in Biology to good use but I decided I would like to […]
Bay Crossings Reader of the Month
Published: December, 2000 DENIS KO PROFESSION: Graphic Designer / Creative Director. FERRY COMPUTER: Yes, since 1989. MY MOTTO: Think first. HOBBIES: Woodworking. FAVORITE BOOK: When Pride Still Mattered, by David Maraniss FAVORITE FILM: The Four Feathers, by Zoltan Korda IF I HAD A FREE DAY, I’D SPEND IT: Fishing and wandering the tide pools PEOPLE […]
Our Ferries a’ Buildin’
Published: December, 2000 In another installment of our ongoing coverage of the two new ferryboats destined for San Francisco Bay currently under construction at Nichols Brothers Boat Builders, Bay Crossings recently checked in with Project Manager Happy (I kid you not) Richards. Well, Happy, wow’s it going with our new boats? It’s going swell. We’re […]
A Brief History of Ferries on the Bay…
Published: December, 2000 Bay Area ferry services have played a long and historic role in the development of the region, at one time constituting the greatest water transit system in the world. From the Gold Rush until the completion of the Bay and Golden Gate Bridges, ferries provided the only transportation across the Bay. The […]
The Little Ferry Company that Could
Bay Crossings recently sat down with Captain Maggie McDonogh, Owner/Proprietor of the Angel Island Ferry Company. Published: November, 2000 What’s it like running the Angel Island Ferry? Walk us through an average day. On an average day, we’re dealing with several hundred people, all with a variety of needs and interests going to and […]
Man in the Middle Will Travis, Executive Director Bay Conservation and Development Commission
Published: November, 2000 One of my predecessors said that the most important word in the agency name is "AND". His point was that BCDC is a management agency – not just a single purpose environmental protection agency and not just a single purpose economic development agency. What BCDC does is balance these two objectives and […]
Bay CrossingsLiterature
Published: November, 2000 Bay Crossings welcomes this delightful contribution from Syvlia Plapinger. Ms. Plapinger has been published in many notable publications and lives in New York City. We were very tired, we were very merry – We had gone back and forth all night on the ferry. With these lines, Edna St. Vincent Millay introduced […]
ENGINEERS HONORED BY MARINE SOCIETY FOR WAKE WASH INVESTIGATION
Published: November, 2000 The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers (SNAME), has honored four Seattle area engineers with the prestigious Vice Admiral Edward L. Cochrane Award for the outstanding technical paper of the past year. In its annual convention held in Vancouver British Columbia from 4-8 October, the Society recognized the work of Stanley […]
Meet the WTA!
The San Francisco Water Transit Authority will have its first meeting in late November or early December to begin planning a comprehensive regional ferry system for the San Francisco Bay Area. Here are the folks who will be the architects of that system, the 10 members of the Authority Board appointed so far (one slot […]