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November 2011 Vol.12, No.11 Color Page BAYAY ROSSINGSROSSINGS “The VoiceB of the Waterfront” CC November 2011 Vol.12, No.11 A Bridge for the Ages 75 Years of the Bay Bridge No More Wasting Away Shaking Up Garbage Collection For Whom the Shell Tolls Feathered Friendly Sea Turtles Win Key Protections Bird-Safe Buildings in S.F. Complete Ferry Schedules for all SF Lines Color Page FREE SHUTTLE FOR FERRY RIDERS! We’ll bring you to the Vallejo Ferry Terminal in the morning and pick you up at the end of the day when your car is ready! SPECIALIZING IN Service & Maintenance • 30/60/90K Service Open for Thanksgiving All Insurance Work • Collision Repair • Engines & Transmissions 2pm-7pm Electrical • Air Conditioning • Tune-ups & Brakes Special menu Change Engine • Light Diagnosis & Repair $29 per person +tax+gratuity $20 off of oil change FREE FREE DIAGNOSTIC ESTIMATES $100 Value 20% off Labor Must present coupon. 1 coupon per table per visit. 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Club Members) advance tickets can be purchased in the Tasting Room. www.rosenblumcellars.com Please enjoy our wines responsibly. 2900 Main St. Suite 1100 © 2011 Rosenblum Cel Alameda, CA 94501 Alameda, CA p: 510-995-4100 www.DrinkiQ.com columns features 08 BAYKEEPER 14 HAPPY BIRTHDAY Staying Pesticide Free The Fabled Bay Bridge by Deb Self Celebrates 75 Years 22 10 WHO’S AT THE HELM? 16 GREEN PAGES Captain Sly Hunter Mahon Hopes to Shake guides by Matt Larson Up Local Waste Disposal WATERFRONT ACTIVITIES by Bill Picture 20 Our recreational resource guide 11 SAILING ADVENTURES Such a Simple Pleasure news 24 WETA FERRY SCHEDULES by Captain Ray Be on time for last call Petaluma’s Moose Delivers 04 26 AROUND THE BAY 19 CULTURAL CURRENTS Oakland Patrol Boat To see, be, do, know Symphony Centennial 04 S.F. Marina Receives by Paul Duclos Major Renovations ON OUR COVER 05 Local Firm Wins Contract for Superyacht Refit November 2011 Volume 12, Number 11 Bobby Winston, Proprietor WATERFRONT NEWS Joyce Aldana, President 06 Joel Williams, Publisher Port of Oakland Reaches Patrick Runkle, Editor Funding Milestone ADVERTISING & MARKETING Joel Williams, Advertising & Marketing Director by Patrick Burnson GRAPHICS & PRODUCTION Francisco Arreola, Designer / Web Producer WETA Awards Ferry ART DIRECTION 07 Francisco Arreola; Patrick Runkle; Joel Williams Contract to Blue & Gold COLUMNISTS Captain Ray Wichmann; S.F. Slashes Greenhouse Paul Duclos; Patrick Burnson; 09 Deb Self and Matt Larson Gas Emissions The opening of the original Bay Bridge on November 12, 1936, WRITERS & PHOTOGRAPHERS in the midst of the Great Depression, was marked with a gala Bill Picture; Joel Williams celebration that lasted five days and nights. The bridge was Teri Shore AMERICA’S CUP constructed in five phases: first the East Span, followed by the ACCOUNTING 12 Cindy Henderson Commitment to Healthy tunnel through Yerba Buena Island, and then the West Span. This was followed by the Interstate-80 West approach and on-and- Advertising Inquiries: Oceans; AC World Series (707) 556-3323, [email protected] off-ramps, and finally, the Transbay Terminal in San Francisco. Comes to San Diego Bay Crossings SF Ferry Building Store The terminal housed the control center for the four railroad (415) 362-0717, lines along the bridge’s lower deck. It took three years and $77 Clipper customer service center Mayor Approves New S.F. (877) 878-8883 18 million to build the original bridge and Transbay Terminal. For Transit Information – Dial 511 Bird-Safe Building Rules Photo © Moulin Studios Bay Crossings Ferry Building, #22 San Francisco, CA 94111 New Protections for www.baycrossings.com 22 Corrections & Letters A Division of Nematode Media, LLC California’s Sea Turtles We appreciate the opportunity to publish our readers' comments, letters or requests for corrections, which can be sent to [email protected]. www.baycrossings.com November 2011 3 WORKING WATERFRONT NEWS Moose Delivers Oakland Patrol Boat oose Boats, a designer The procurement by the City of The Moose M2-37 is a 37’-6” All- The vessel will provide New Orleans and builder of unique Oakland was funded by U.S. Department Aluminum Jet Powered Catamaran with Fire Department with fire fighting, aluminum boats of Homeland Security’s 2010 Port Security twin Cummins 380 hp turbo diesels rescue, dive and security capabilities. based in Petaluma, Grant Program. The vessel is stationed at and is propelled by Hamilton 292 water The M3-36 will be equipped with a has delivered a Moose Jack London Square and will provide jets. This vessel can attain a top speed of dedicated 1,500 gallon-per-minute fire M2-37 security and patrol vessel to the security patrol for critical infrastructures over 34 knots, cruise at almost 30 knots, pump, dual remote control fire monitors, MOakland Police Department to provide including the Bay Bridge and Oakland come to a full-speed stop in less than foam capabilities and a positive pressure expanded patrol duties at the Port of Airport’s perimeter, SWAT interdiction two boat lengths and turn on a dime. CBRNE air filtration system. The New Oakland in addition to shallow draft and shallow water emergency response Its 21” draft will allow all of this to be Orleans Fire Department vessel will be response for Oakland’s waterfront. for the greater Bay Area. done in less than three feet of water, outfitted with a sophisticated navigation which is ideal for its patrol application and communications suite, thermal in the Oakland estuary. imaging camera and an array of threat In other Moose news, the company detection equipment. has been awarded a new contract from Moose Boats has constructed the New Orleans Fire Department for several fire fighting vessels for many the construction of a M3-36 Monohull agencies throughout the United States CBRNE Fire Rescue Boat. The M3 is a including Tiburon Fire Rescue District new product line for Moose Boats and and San Francisco Fire Department, incorporates the builder’s established Old Saybrook Fire Department in design and quality reputation in a more Connecticut, Lewes Fire Department compact platform than the M1 and M2 in Delaware, Anne Arundel County Catamaran Vessels. in Maryland, Massport Fire/Rescue at The M3-36 is a 36’-6” aluminum Boston Logan Airport and Northport Photo courtesy of Moose Boats monohull powered by twin Yamaha Fire Department in New York. 350 hp four-stroke outboard engines. SF Marina Receives Major Renovations he City of San Francisco including the Louis Vuiton Challenger Parks and Recreation Selection Series and the America’s Cup Department awarded World Series. This will be the first time Dutra Construction a the America’s Cup has been hosted in the contract worth $20 million United States since 1995. to design and rebuild the San Francisco The West Harbor Marina project TWest Marina Yacht Harbor. Dutra will consists of demolishing the old marina, team with marine engineering firm Ben dredging the marina to a depth of -12 feet, C. Gerwick to complete the project. furnishing and installing new concrete The San Francisco Marina is located docks to create over 320 state-of-the- on the northern waterfront of the City art slips of various lengths, upgrading contiguous to the district that bears its utility service, building a floating wave name. Consisting of two harbors — east attenuator, building a fixed breakwater, and west — the marina is the City’s oldest renovating the harbormaster building, recreational facility of its kind with vessels removing an existing rubble mound having berthed in its original basin since breakwater, performing various site before the 1906 earthquake.
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