Please tell your friends: The Ferry Captains have announced there will be a one day strike on the Golden Gate Ferry from both Sausalito and Larkspur on Friday, September 26, 2014. Service will resume on Saturday. Blue and Gold fleet sailings between Sausalito and Pier 41 at Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco will NOT be affected and will operate normally. We … [Read more...]
Educational Tall Ship Project Looking for Volunteer Sausalito Art Festival “Crew”
We mentioned the other day that volunteer signups for the 2014 Sausalito Art Festival are open for August 30-September 1. It turns out that this year there's another volunteer opportunity within the inner harbor of the Festival. The Educational Tall Ship project is located in a huge tent adjacent to the traditional Festival grounds, with its entrance inside the … [Read more...]
2014 Galilee Harbor Day is Saturday, August 2
For a guide to this annual event with music links and a map of the location, click here. Each year since 1980 the Galilee Harbor cooperative liveaboard affordable-housing community has hosted this event. with free boat rides, demos of traditional boat-building methods, a marine flea market and floating home tours (not to be confused with the separate Annual Sausalito … [Read more...]
80th Anniversary of Alcatraz Event is August 10
On Sunday, August 10, the National Park Service is celebrating the 80th anniversary of the day that the Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary welcomed (perhaps there's a better word for that...) the first prisoners transferred from other penitentiaries in August of 1934. Until its closure in 1963 "The Rock" was home to "the worst of the worst” prisoners in … [Read more...]
SF Marathon Will Affect Golden Gate Bridge Traffic Sunday AM July 27
If you travel to San Francisco on weekend mornings via the Golden Gate Bridge, be ready for slower than usual traffic this coming Sunday morning July 27 from 6:00 AM to 9:00 AM.or 10:00 AM due to the ruinning of the San Francisco Marathon. Bridge parking lots will be closed from midnight Sunday morning until 10:00 AM, and you cannot drop off ruinners anywhere at the … [Read more...]
