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AYAY ROSSINGSROSSINGS “The VoiceBB of the Waterfront” CC August 2007 Vol.8, No.8 The Voyage Home Long-Haul Freighter Journey Bay Bridge Closure Behind the Labor Day Project U.S. Windsurfi ng Nationals Competition at Crissy Field Complete Ferry Schedules for all SF Lines Upscale. Downtown. Voted Best Restaurant 4 Years Running For $300,000 less. Lunch & Dinner Daily Banquets Corporate Events www.scomas.com (415)771-4383 Fisherman’s Wharf on Pier 47 Foot of Jones on Jefferson Street Zinfandel, Syrah and more. Rich, ripe, fruit-forward Zins, Syrahs–and more– Eight Orchids in downtown that get top scores from critics and Wine Spectator. Oakland’s Chinatown is Visit us to taste your way through the best of California. redefining urban style and city convenience. At a price you won’t find anywhere in San Francisco. Discover unparalleled luxury in these exceptional condominium homes. Affordably priced from the high $300,000s. 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Open Daily 11–6 510-835-8808 8orchidsmovie.com 510-865-7007 Exclusively represented by The Reiser Group www.RosenblumCellars.com 2 August 2007 BAYCROSSINGS www.baycrossings.com columns feature 15 SAILING ADVENTURES 12 THE VOYAGE HOME 12 Making Your Sailboat Bay Bridge Sand Takes Look Good Long Trip from Canada guides by Scott Alumbaugh by Tom Paiva 07 WATERFRONT ACTIVITIES 16 BREW REVIEW Our recreational resource guide Lagunitas Is a Brewery Like No Other news WTA FERRY SCHEDULES 18 Be on-time for last call by Joel Williams 05 WATERFRONT NEWS AROUND THE BAY Virgin America Cargo 22 To see, be, do, know by Patrick Burnson BAYCROSSINGS WATERFRONT August 2007 Volume 8, Number 8 10 sponsored stories ADVENTURES Bobby Winston, Proprietor Water Dog Lake Park METROPOLITAN TRANSPORTATION Joel Williams, Publisher 04 Patrick Runkle, Editor Offers Bike Challenges COMMISSION (MTC) Labor Day Bay Bridge Closure ADVERTISING & MARKETING by Dan Sankey Joel Williams, Advertising & Marketing Director 09 PORT OF OAKLAND - GRAPHICS & PRODUCTION JACK LONDON SQUARE Francisco Arreola, Designer / Web Producer 14 SURFING NEWS Latin Music Festival ART DIRECTION Nationals Competition Francisco Arreola; Patrick Runkle; Joel Williams Comes to Crissy Field 20 CITY OF RICHMOND WORKING WATERFRONT Signature Point Ferry Site Patrick Burnson COLUMNISTS Joel Williams; Scott Alumbaugh ON OUR COVER WRITERS & PHOTOGRAPHERS green pages Bill Picture; Camper English; Dan Sankey; Dennis Anderson; JB Powell; Kristen Bole; Loren Earle-Cruikshanks; Scott Hargis 11 WHALE ARTS ACCOUNTING Life-Size Cetacean Cindy Henderson Photographer Subscribe: By mail: $45 / year (12 monthly issues) Online: www.baycrossings.com/subscribe.asp Advertising Inquiries: (707) 556-3323, [email protected] Harmony Corsi-Clark and Bob Stein (with shark fi n) frolic in Bay Crossings the surf while Don Case kitesurfs in the background. Photo was Ferry Building, #22 Corrections & Letters San Francisco, CA 94111 taken by Loren Earle-Cruickshanks, a conceptual, commercial www.baycrossings.com We appreciate the opportunity to publish our readers' and fashion photographer based out of San Francisco. To see comments, letters or requests for corrections, which can A Division of Nematode Media, LLC be sent to [email protected]. more of his work visit http://www.lecphoto.com, or email him at [email protected] www.baycrossings.com BAYCROSSINGS August 2007 3 Metropolitan Transportation Commission Labor Day Weekend Closure Looms for Bay Bridge BY KARIN BETTS have a 150-year life span similar to the rest of the new East Span,” said Andrew Fremier, deputy executive director of the he countdown is under way Bay Area Toll Authority, which is staffed to the start of a full closure of by the Metropolitan Transportation the San Francisco-Oakland Commission. Bay Bridge over the 2007 While the Bay Bridge is closed for the Labor Day weekend, during Yerba Buena Island operation, Caltrans Twhich two operations — a critical seismic workers also will be busy on the Oakland retrofi t to the bridge deck and FasTrak® side of the bridge making changes to the lane reconfi guration — will be performed. toll plaza lanes. An additional FasTrak®- Beginning at 8 p.m. on Friday, August 31, only lane will be added at the Bay Bridge, the bridge will close to traffi c in both reserving eight of the 20 total lanes for directions, and will remain closed until exclusive use by FasTrak® electronic 5 a.m. on Tuesday, September 4. toll tag customers during peak hours. Over the three-plus days of closure, The lanes will be strategically placed to Just east of the Yerba Buena Island tunnel, construction crews are working round-the-clock on a allow easy access for FasTrak®-equipped replacement for a key chunk of the upper road deck of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. The construction crews will demolish and piece will also function as a link to the tunnel for the new East Span that is now under construction. replace a 350-foot segment of the vehicles approaching the bridge from westbound upper viaduct near the Yerba Interstates 80, 580 or 880, and will be Buena Island tunnel’s eastern entrance. extended to over four times their current The Metropolitan Transportation be deployed to expand ferry service on Simultaneously, on the Oakland side of length to speed the approach to the plaza Commission, Caltrans and other select routes. the bridge, crews will reconfi gure the toll for FasTrak® users. Drivers who pay cash transportation agencies are working plaza as part of a regionwide effort to may face signifi cantly longer lines. together to alert the traveling public MTC’s 511 phone service and 511.org smooth the way for FasTrak® users. “These changes will improve the to the Labor Day weekend closure of Web site are the offi cial source for transit information and traffic conditions during On Yerba Buena Island, the new overall effi ciency of the entire toll plaza,” the Bay Bridge, and to ensure mobility the Labor Day bridge closure. Construction deck section and a moveable support explained Fremier. “Motorists who don’t options for transbay travelers. BART will updates also will be posted on baybridgeinfo. ® already pay their tolls with FasTrak® would org. To sign up for FasTrak , visit 511.org system have taken shape over the past few run all-night service to select stations or www.bayareafastrak..org. months just to the south of the existing be wise to make the switch right away.” over the weekend, and extra vessels will roadway, at grade with the upper deck. After the bridge closes, the fast-paced FasTrak® at the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge Toll Plaza plan is to demolish the existing roadway, clear and haul away the debris, lay -ETERING,IGHTS 4OLL0LAZA %XISTING#ONFIGURATION temporary tracks across the lower deck, "AY"RIDGE and then roll the new road segment into position. Once the operation is begun it must be completed before traffi c can be allowed back on the bridge. Weighing in at a whopping 6,500 tons 4O3AN&RANCISCO $IRECTIONOF4RAFFIC 7'RAND!VE &ROM/AKLAND and measuring nearly as long as a football ,EGEND %XISTING&AS4RAK /NLY,ANES fi eld, the new segment will be precisely .EW&AS4RAK /NLY,ANES placed into a gap that is only six inches .EW&AS4RAK /NLY,ANE PEAKHOURS#ASH&AS4RAKOFF PEAK . (IGH /CCUPANCY 6EHICLE,ANEPEAKHOURS -ETERING,IGHTS 4OLL0LAZA longer than the piece itself. Once the .EW#ONFIGURATION joints are fi nished, the upper deck will be "AY"RIDGE striped and the lower deck will be cleared of the skid tracks and other equipment, all in time for reopening before Tuesday morning commute traffi c. “Replacing the Yerba Buena Island 4O3AN&RANCISCO $IRECTIONOF4RAFFIC 7'RAND!VE &ROM/AKLAND structure is a far better strategy than In addition to reconfi guring the FasTrak%XISTING&AS4RAK ONLYAPPROACH®-only lanes, BATA and Caltrans also will.EW&AS4RAK ONLYAPPROACH install new retrofi tting the existing structure in place FEET FEET overhead signs and pavement markings to direct drivers to the correct lanes at the Bay Bridge toll plaza. * because the replacement viaduct will 4 August 2007 BAYCROSSINGS www.baycrossings.com WORKING WATERFRONT Virgin America Readies Its Cargo Operations and Aircraft Names BY PATRICK BURNSON Tonic, and Winner of Naming Contest. There are hosted bars during the pre-dinner longer into the night,” he adds. “We can’t “Also, two planes, Unicorn Chaser cocktail hour, and complimentary wine at promise anything beyond that, but we do and Chic Mobile, have been named by the every table. And best of all—no speeches. guarantee that there will be no offi cial pstart airline Virgin co-editors at [popular blog] boingboing. “We designed this evening long ago to greeting and/or grandstanding. Just show America will begin net,” Jones said. “The airline’s fi rst aircraft simply be an opportunity for fellowship up and entertain your friends.” its freight operations was named Jefferson Airplane last October and good fun,” says Steamship Night The event will take place at the San concurrently with the by Grace Slick.” chairman Jim Fitzgerald. “September is Francisco Marriott, whose location at 55 start of its passenger “We were overwhelmed by the sheer the perfect month for us to stage this Fourth Street is convenient to the City’s Uservice this summer. In a recent interview, numbers of entries people submitted party because everyone has returned from fi nancial, arts, and shopping districts. Virgin America’s manager of cargo Jason to help name our fleet,” said Virgin vacation and is preparing to fi nish the Checks should be made payable to Lazich told Bay Crossings that the America CEO Fred Reid.
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