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www.baycrossings.com July 2019 3 columns features 07 WHO’S ON DECK? 12 COVER STORY Gloria Freeman Bay Area Council’s Jim 16 by Matt Larson Wunderman Talks About the Future of Ferry Service by Dan Rosenheim guides 14 BAYKEEPER Celebrate the Bay at This 16 GREEN PAGES 20 BAY AREA FERRY SCHEDULES Year’s Bay Parade Orcem Cement Factory Be on time for last call by Sejal Choksi-Chugh Project Dies in Vallejo AROUND THE BAY by Joel Williams 22 To see, be, do, know 19 CULTURAL CURRENTS Tattoos and Taboos at the news S.F. Asian Art Museum ON OUR COVER by Paul Duclos 06 WATERFRONT NEWS Appeciating the Jones Act on Independence Day by Patrick Burnson

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BY PATRICK BURNSON reserved for U.S.-built, -owned and -documented vessels. The Jones Act study findings were s we celebrate Independence Day, announced last month in San Diego it is well worth noting that the at the christening of Lurline, the American Maritime Partnership newest combination container/roll-on, (AMP)A and federal lawmakers recently roll-off (“con-ro”) ship of Oakland- announced that California is the fourth based Matson and General Dynamics largest domestic maritime state in the NASSCO shipyard. Lurline is the largest Photo courtesy of Matson United States. con-ro ship ever built in the United Lurline, recently christened in San Diego, is the largest container/roll-on, roll-off ship ever built in the According to the findings of a new States. United States. report conducted by Pricewaterhouse- “As a proud U.S. company and Coopers on behalf of Transportation Jones Act carrier, our investment in Institute, the Jones Act fuels a strong this new ship is about much more than of Oakland with never-seen-before ships discharge more containers than domestic maritime industry in the maintaining a high level of service to container volumes. According to port in previous years, cargo handling in- Golden State. The industry employs Hawaii,” said Matson’s chairman, Matt spokespeople, the vessels typically load tensifies. A greater number of exports more than 51,450 individuals, produces Cox. “It also helps drive substantial and unload the equivalent of 1,767 20- must be loaded to vessels while simul- $12.21 billion for the local economy and economic benefits and opportunities in foot boxes (TEUs) each time they call. taneously, more imports are taken off. generates $3.6 billion in worker income communities around the Pacific, where It’s the highest container move count in Meanwhile, harbor truckers are arriving in California alone. this vessel will operate.” port history, up almost 10 percent from in greater number to haul containers to Furthermore, this is an important Cox also shared some insights re- 2018 and 50 percent over 2009. final destinations. shipyard state. A recent study of ship- garding working waterfront imperatives. The port said higher move counts Big ships load and unload as many building by the U.S. Maritime Admin- “These are all living wage jobs, support- result from shipping lines consolidating as 2,500 containers on Oakland visits. istration, covering both commercial ing the families of American workers, more cargo on larger vessels. It added That’s less than some ports where move and military ship construction, found a the taxes they pay and the local impact that bigger loads test the port’s cargo- counts can surpass 10,000 boxes per $3.67 billion annual economic impact they make all flow from this one ship,” handling capacity but that cargo vessel. It’s nevertheless an unprecedented in California with 34,810 associated jobs he said. “Multiply that by all the ships continues to move briskly. challenge. and more than $2.38 billion in worker NASSCO and other U.S. shipyards are “Ships still depart within 24 hours Earlier in this decade, ships carrying income. building, and you get a sense of the value of arrival and harbor truckers are usually 4,000 to 8,000 cargo containers were The Jones Act is not only a vital of the maritime industry to our country getting in and out with their container standard in Oakland. Today, ships able anchor for economic strength and job and its economy.” loads in less than 80 minutes,” said Port to handle 10,000 to 14,000 containers creation in California, but also a pillar of Oakland Maritime Director John are commonplace. “It’s a matter of of the nation’s security and military Container Volumes Surge at Driscoll. “It’s a tribute to the marine economics,” said Driscoll. “By loading capability. Among other things, the Port of Oakland terminal operators who’ve stepped up to more cargo on bigger ships, the shipping law states that the transportation of meet our cargo demand.” lines can actually reduce the number of merchandise between U.S. ports is Bigger ships are challenging the Port The port said Oakland terminals— vessels they deploy.” where vessels load and unload—keep Oakland vessel calls have declined big ships on schedule thanks to high 9.3 percent this year despite record productivity. The best example: Oakland volume. That’s good for two reasons: ship-to-shore cranes can move as many there’s less crowding at vessel berths and as 30 to 40 containers per hour. That’s ship emissions are down. the highest productivity level on the Mike Zampa, the port’s com- West Coast, the port added. munications director, said dockside labor Higher vessel move counts are has responded well as volume continues no surprise. That’s because Oakland to increase. “High labor productivity set a record in 2018 by handling the has become an Oakland hallmark,” he equivalent of 2.55 million TEUs. added. Volume is up another 5.5 percent so far this year. But the impact of all-time high Patrick Burnson is the executive volume is being magnified by greater editor of Logistics Management. ship size, the port said. www.logisticsmgmt.com The port explained that as bigger 6 July 2019 www.baycrossings.com WHO’S ON DECK? Gloria Freeman

BY MATT LARSON a potential career option, but changed but for Freeman the primary draw is course immediately after her husband, the customers. “What I look forward to Ed, became a longshoreman. the most when going to work is being f you exit the ferry boat in an “One of the girls out there told me around our passengers,” she said. “I’m exceptionally good mood, one about the IBU,” Freeman recalled. “I glad to see them every day.” reason could be that deckhand signed up, got my credential within one Freeman grew up in Oakland, was Gloria Freeman was working on week, and a month and a half later they raised in Annapolis, Maryland, and Iboard that day. Passengers may even do called me in to do the training. It was currently resides in Suisun City. When a little dance to match Freeman, who like it was meant to be.” she’s not working on the ferries, Freeman frequently dances a bit as she welcomes Once Freeman started working as likes to spend her time traveling, the passengers onboard a mariner, oftentimes especially on the road. with warmth and she was able to spot her “I love road trips. And I love family,” positivity. husband hard at work she said. So naturally, road trips with her “It’s like a big happy “There’s no as she floated by on the family are hard to beat. “I like to see the family,” she said. “We ferry. “I used to do the scenery, the trees, listen to music, and see each other every day! other means of Alameda/Oakland run,” enjoy the fresh air.” During her interview I know their names and transportation she said. “He would be on for this article, Freeman was on her way they know mine.” She like the ferry. It’s the dock and I would pass to Reno. Her longest road trip to date always makes a point to comfortable, by on the boat. He would was from California back to her old reach out and actually wave at me and I’d take stomping grounds in Maryland. At this talk to the commuters, get you can’t beat the his picture as we passed writing, she’s most looking forward to to know them, and help scenery… it’s just by.” Pretty good vibes all visiting New Orleans. “I love the south,” themBay feelCrossings comfortable as a beautiful around, which makes this she said. “That atmospherelueSkNews.com is the best they cruise along the Bay. September 2018 Revisedatmosphere.” a perfect job for someone and their southern hospitality00 W. Harboris just Dr., Suite 1805, San Diego, CA 92101 She1/4 said, Page simply, 10’ “I like2.8 to Color like Freeman. wonderful.” Tel: 619-233-200 -Mail: MonicaBlueSkyNews.com satisfy the passengers and “I’m a people person,” Freeman is happy to be working on make them happy.” she explained. “I love the water, especially for such a company Monday through brightening everyone’s as Blue & Gold, and she believes that the Gloria Freeman decided to work in the Friday, you can currently catch Freeman day because that’s just who I am. That’s ferry is the best way to travel in the Bay. maritime industry after her husband became on the San Francisco Bay Ferry with what I do. And they brighten my day “There’s no other means of transportation a longshoreman. She is now a member of the Inland Boatman’s Union (IBU). Blue & Gold Fleet on the Vallejo when they come on board as well.” like the ferry,” she said. “It’s comfortable, commute. Before life on the ferry She’s gotten to know many riders on a you can’t beat the scenery. Plus, you have boats, Freeman worked for Chevron for first-name basis. She loves the beautiful the people that go upstairs and play nearly 20 years. She then studied up on scenery of the Bay, the calmness of the poker, people that get on their laptops, on their way home from work—it’s just medical insurance billing and coding as water, her amazing team of co-workers; they go to the bar and get a glass of wine a beautiful atmosphere.”

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BY DAN ROSENHEIM the study that WETA will now fund is The study is expected to take a year providing freight service between Bay significantly larger than was originally and will incorporate the views of a wide Area airports and for use in emergency envisioned. variety of maritime industry, public response. overcraft just got a major WETA Planning Manager Kevin policy and government organizations. The airboats have special value in boost as a potential source Connolly told the meeting the agency Connolly said WETA plans to look at an emergency because they can land of ferry service on the will now evaluate up to five potential capital and operating costs, as well as just about anywhere there’s a beach— Bay as Water Emergency hovercraft routes, compared to two potential maintenance facilities, and dock or no dock. Coincidentally, just HTransit Authority (WETA) directors routes when the study was first discussed it will seek comparisons to traditional two days before the WETA meeting, the voted to begin a formal evaluation of the by the board in April. Connolly said catamaran ferry costs. U.S. Navy launched two giant hovercraft boats that float on a cushion of air. he expects to survey the viability of Along with economic viability, from sea for a landing through the surf The decision to spend about hovercraft to towns in the Carquinez proponents will have to convince onto a beach in northern Oregon. The $500,000—and possibly more—on Strait and South Bay, but also for a regulators, including the California drill was meant to demonstrate the a hovercraft feasibility study was not potential run from Treasure Island to Department of Fish and Wildlife, that support hovercraft could provide in unexpected. Interest in the flying boats San Francisco and conceivably even to the boats floating on a cushion of air do ferrying people and material in the event has grown steadily in ferry circles since replace or augment some existing central not cause undue environmental harm. of a feared 9.0 Cascadia earthquake in last fall when WETA’s executive director Bay ferry runs. Noise pollution has been a concern, as the Pacific Northwest. and others joined a Bay Area Council “We know that what we have now have been emissions and disruption to “This opens up a whole new world tour of hovercraft operations in the south won’t work across the whole Bay,” wildlife. But traditional ferries and the for us,” Jim Wunderman, BAC president of England. But the 4-0 vote to invest said WETA Chair Jody Breckenridge. dredging they often require come with and vice chair of WETA’s board, said in a study, which came at WETA’s June “Is hovercraft transit feasible? Is it an environmental cost as well. And the of the board vote. “It’s completely 6 directors meeting, provides a tangible economical? We’ve asked the staff to look opportunities for hovercraft are many appropriate for WETA to take the lead endorsement to a project that only a year at hovercraft operations across the globe and varied, not only in broadening in looking at the viability of hovercraft, ago seemed more like a pipe dream. And to see what we can learn from them.” commuter service, but also in potentially and it’s very exciting.”

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BY DAN ROSENHEIM University of California). WETA planning and development Berkeley - Mission The temporary pier was necessitated manager. “The (ferry) service may not be Bay Ferry Service after a freeze on funding delayed fantastic, but it’s getting things up and It’s a self-described “imperfect solution,” construction of a permanent ferry running.” Berkeley Marina- but ferry operators and the Port of San terminal at the foot of 16th Street, just Ridership levels to Mission Bay Francisco have taken steps to ensure southeast of the Chase Center. That are difficult to predict, according to Pier 1.5-Pier 52 (Mission Bay) there will be ferry service when the new terminal, which would service both Connolly. “It’s a new season with a new Monday-Friday Chase Center Arena opens in Mission special-event and regular commuter ticket base, (so) it’s a bit of a mystery,” Free Parking Bay this fall. service, is expected to cost nearly $50 he said. In addition, the demographics Berkeley Marina, By unanimous vote at their June million, with $25 million of that money of Warriors attendees may not resemble Wifi, Beverage Service & board meeting, Water Emergency Transit to come from a toll increase enacted under those of concertgoers. For example, the Bikes Welcome Authority (WETA) directors approved Regional Measure 3. But opponents largest block of tickets for a September plans to move ahead with a temporary of RM3 have filed lawsuits against the 11 Eric Clapton concert has been bought dock at Pier 48½. The dock will provide measure. Pending the outcome of that from Los Angeles. landing space for WETA and Golden litigation, the additional toll monies For now, an analysis of Warriors Gate ferries to service events at the Chase are being placed in an escrow account. ticket holders shows a heavy concen- Center. Provided the litigation is resolved in tration in the East Bay, so WETA will The arena is scheduled to open RM3’s favor this year, construction of service people going to the games September 6 with a concert by Metallica the permanent terminal would begin in from Oakland/Alameda, while Golden and the San Francisco Symphony. Along early 2020, with completion scheduled Gate’s ferry will run from Larkspur. with many concerts, the center will host for late 2021. For concerts, ferries will run on a select the Golden State Warriors, whose first Meanwhile, the temporary dock basis, depending on demand and the get tickets at event is a preseason game against the Los will require a delicate balancing act. A availability of vessels. Angeles Lakers on October 5. portion of Pier 48½ has been red-tagged, WETA fares for the run to Mission www.tidelinetickets.com Plans for the temporary landing which will limit the floating dock to a Bay are expected to start at $9.60 for facility, located four-tenths of a mile single side—unlike the permanent dock, adults and $7.20 for youth, senior and north of the center, call for WETA which will have two sides. As a result, disabled fares—the same as is currently to relocate a spare floating dock from WETA and Golden Gate boats will charged for ferry service to Giants Charters Mare Island to the pier. The relocation have to stagger their arrivals. Further games. Golden Gate spokesperson Priya and installation are to be financed by complicating matters, Pier 45½ is shared Clemens said that service also expects to and Events the Port of San Francisco, the Golden by Westar Marine, a very active tugboat match its Giants fare at Mission Bay— Gate Bridge District and an unnamed and barge company with 65 employees. $14 for full fare. Tideline has over third party (reliably believed to be the “It’s a tight fit,” said Kevin Connolly, 20 landing locations in the Bay including SF, Marin, East Bay and Napa. McDonnell Road to offer convenient approved Regional Measure 3, which Our fleet can accommodate Ferry Short access to SFO employment hubs. provides for staggered bridge toll hikes 10-149 passengers. totaling $3, two so-called watchdog Check out our calendar Takes Ferry Rate Hike: On July 1, San groups have filed a new complaint for Special Events and Francisco Bay Ferry will implement against the measure. The Transportation Services to Ball Games. Catch Your Ferry to Fly: Starting July the fifth of five annual fare increases Solutions Defense and Education Fund 29, SFO will be launching a free airport in accordance with the FY2015-2020 and the Bay Area Transportation Working shuttle to connect the San Francisco Fare Program adopted by the WETA Group filed their complaint with the Fair Bay Ferry South San Francisco Ferry Board of Directors in September 2014. Political Practices Commission (FPPC) Terminal to the airport, meeting The Fare Program is intended to offset charging that MTC and other groups passengers on all arriving ferries from inflationary cost increases and rising misused public funds in campaigning Oakland/Alameda in the morning and operational costs. Base level adult fares for RM3 and failed to file campaign transporting them on a 15-minute ride to increase approximately three percent. expense reports. At stake in the legal the SFO International Terminal. In the The FY 2015-2020 Fare Program is maneuvering are billions of dollars for evening, the bus will pick up passengers available at sanfranciscobayferry.com/ Bay Area transportation projects. MTC at the International Terminal and arrive fare-program. had no immediate comment on the five minutes before ferries depart for the latest complaint, and the FPPC will now East Bay. In both directions, the shuttle New RM3 Complaint: Exactly one year have to determine whether to open an [email protected] will stop at a couple locations on North after 55 percent of Bay Area of voters investigation.

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he WETA Downtown San Francisco Ferry Terminal Expansion is on schedule for completion in Janu- ary 2020. Gates F and G, along with the new over-water promenade andT pedestrian bridge, are now both fully operational and have been since February 2019. Happening now and over the next few months is over-water construction of the 17,000-square-foot granite plaza and re-construction of Gate E. The plaza will be a treat for the public with its amphitheater stepped seating and planter landscaping. Because part of WETA’s mission involves emergency response, the plaza also will serve as a gathering area in the event of a regional disaster. Currently missing from the site, but returning soon, is the Gate E float. It was towed to Bay Ship & Yacht in Alameda, where it is being refurbished to top condition. In the meantime, the deck for Gate E is being demolished so it can be upgraded and joined with Gate F and Gate G via the promenade, plaza The 17,000-square-foot public plaza (above) just south of the Ferry Building, featuring amphitheater and pedestrian bridge. All of stepped seating, is beginning to take shape. New gates F and G (left) have been in service since the gates have been designed February. The full expansion is scheduled to be completed in January 2020. at a height to allow for sea level rise. All photos courtesy of Power Engineering Construction Company.

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Photo by Joel Williams What’s Next for Ferry Service Expansion? An Interview With WETA Vice Chair and Bay Area Council President Jim Wunderman

Frank Jordan and Dianne Feinstein. convince the public of their value. But JW: Well, for one, funding is always a BY DAN ROSENHEIM In a nutshell, Wunderman favors a in the last few years it’s spun completely challenge. We need to be sure we have more aggressive approach to expansion, the other way around; now our problem sustainable funding sources so that when hat Bay Area Council (BAC) one that includes new technologies is keeping up with the demand for more we start service it stays put. We’ll need President Jim Wunderman such as hovercraft and public-private service and new routes. A big part of this to find new sources of funds – and think thinks about ferries matters partnerships to add routes to currently is growing congestion on our roads as well more creatively about how ferry service aW lot. The BAC was there at the start unserved areas. as crowding on BART. Ferries provide a is structured—who provides it and how. 20 years ago, convening the so-called Here’s an edited transcript of a fast, safe and reliable alternative. Most of our successful plans represent Blue Ribbon Committee that led to conversation between Wunderman So, ferry service needs to expand to some form of partnership between the formation of the Water Transit and Dan Rosenheim done for the June meet demand! We do have a good core WETA, local government agencies, Authority. The WTA was, in turn, the edition of Waterfront Briefing, a regular system, with regular routes among many and in some cases, developers. I see predecessor to the Water Emergency executive report of issues and events central bay cities. But we need much opportunity for private sector operators Transit Authority, the agency that today related to San Francisco Bay transit: more—more ferries running to more to make important contributions as we operates the San Francisco Bay Ferry places more frequently. go forward, relieving the public sector of system. Dan Rosenheim: Suddenly, ferry boats are In the coming years, and not that some of the capital burden. Wunderman and the BAC’s vision very sexy. Ridership has increased steadily many years, ferry service should be Now, we’ve done pretty darned well for comprehensive regional ferry service in the last few years, and there’s growing extended to Berkeley and points north securing ferry boats’ share of public for the Bay Area required passing three demand for more boats, serving more including cities along the Carquinez funding. Regional Measure 3, assuming state laws, including major bond funding communities. What would you like to see Strait, to Treasure Island, to Mission Bay legal challenges against it don’t succeed, and two regional bridge toll hikes. The happen to ferry service in the coming years? and perhaps other new destinations in will provide an important new infusion political and financial wherewithal San Francisco and Alameda Counties, of money. But it won’t achieve the vision necessary for WETA simply wouldn’t Jim Wunderman: For ferry advocates and importantly, to Redwood City and laid out above. exist without them. Before taking the like us at the Bay Area Council, who go other communities in the South Bay. Going forward, we need to be helm at the BAC, Wunderman cut a back 20 years to the founding of WETA, flexible about the kinds of boats we use— wide swath through Bay Area political it’s all a bit disorienting! For many years, DR: That sounds like a vision for some runs are appropriate for WETA’s and corporate circles, notably holding ridership was low, and we had to beg comprehensive regional ferry service. What big boats and docks. But other runs top roles with San Francisco mayors authorities not to cancel ferries and stands in the way? demand smaller boats, different types of 12 July 2019 www.baycrossings.com COVER STORY schedules and newer technologies, such action created and maintained between Richmond and our other cities. I believe working conditions. We may need to as hovercraft. And we need to find a way WETA and the cities who become the WETA should welcome working with explore some type of tiered wage system to move more quickly. Planning for ferry beneficiaries of new service. smaller private companies if that can be but with a clear understanding that once service, like funding, is complicated. It This last is especially important. the result. sufficient ridership is achieved, providers requires studies and reviews that can A useful model is how WETA worked observe the WETA standards for how take years. The boats have to be safe, with the City of Richmond to bring DR: OK, but if private ferry companies employees are compensated and treated. the docks accessible, the workforce about ferry service. The mutual effort are to share publicly-funded facilities like I believe the expansion of water transit, engaged, and we need to be mindful of involved Richmond finding new revenue docks with public ferries, what standards establishing the Bay Area as the global the environment. But the process can be sources, identifying a place for a dock and expectations should be set? leader in terms of providing robust streamlined without taking shortcuts. and parking, and getting the word out ferry service, will provide great career once service started. It all worked like JW: I’ll leave these all-important details opportunities for workers. DR: Do you have some specifics in mind? a charm; that service is far exceeding to the experts, but I think we will want expectations. input from several groups, including the DR: Lots to be done but sounds like you’re JW: It’s a complex problem and the WETA and the Port of San Francisco Coast Guard, the broader Harbor Safety optimistic. answer is going to take hard work and have also shown great adaptability in the Committee and organized labor. consensus building. decision to build a temporary ferry dock Key issues will be crews with safety JW: I am. The need for new and better For one, though, a small but for the new Chase Center. As you know, credentials, participation in water traffic transit alternatives is there, and the important contribution can be made by construction of the permanent dock has safety and environmental protocols, public is ready to come onboard. It’s so-called water-taxis and private-public made progress but there are still funding participation in emergency preparedness exciting, and there’s ultimately no reason partnerships. These partnerships need decisions to be made. I think we’ll work and a shared understanding of wages and at all we can’t do it. to be carefully thought out. Safety, the through those once RM3 clears its court environment, and wages and working challenges, but to their credit WETA Dan Rosenheim is a veteran Bay Area journalist who recently conditions for ferry boat employees and the port scrambled to come up with retired after 18 years as Vice President/News for KPIX-5 TV. Prior to can’t get short shrift. But in some cases, an interim solution just a few blocks going into broadcast, Rosenheim worked as a reporter, city editor and private ferry companies can move more away that will allow service to get started managing editor at the San Francisco Chronicle. Dan and his wife, quickly when it comes to launching this fall as the arena opens. Cindy Salans Rosenheim, live in San Francisco. hovercraft and providing smaller-boat service to new communities. So it may DR: What role should be played by make sense for big public agencies like privately-operated small ferry companies? WETA and Golden Gate to look for ways to collaborate with them. JW: What’s not to like about companies using water taxis to get their employees DR: What is the biggest challenge facing to work? It’s really a lot like the shuttle WETA in all this? bus concept, just on the water—and like the shuttle buses, it gets cars off the road. JW: WETA is responsible for planning That said, there were important wrinkles and helping to realize ferry service for that needed to be ironed out regarding the entire Bay. That’s a tall order; we’re the shuttle buses including shared use of already two decades in and there’s far pickup areas, and fair pay and working to go. WETA can and should play an conditions for drivers. So, again, we need important role in helping the region to ensure the same kinds of standards if develop common policies involving the private companies use publicly funded use of publicly funded docks, emergency docks. preparedness and getting new services Safety is also critical. It’s especially off the ground. There are a number of important that small boat crews have important regulatory agencies involved, proper training. A bus can just pull like BCDC, the California PUC, Army over to the side of the road; the captain Corps of Engineers, Fish and Game and of a vessel has a whole different set of others with whom we’ve built strong challenges. relationships. But the general public can’t possibly know how much work it DR: Public-private partnerships aren’t KAYAK | SUP SWIM | BOAT takes from conception to ribbon cutting always easy to pull off. People have vested when it comes to creating new terminal interests that they worry about. FOR A HEALTHY SAN FRANCISCO BAY infrastructure needed to enable service to expand. JW: I don’t see why all that can’t be Sunday, August 11, 2019 Also, remember that WETA has no figured out. I’m excited about water BAYKEEPER.ORG/BAYPARADE control over landside decisions. To make taxis helping to get new communities DrewBirdPhoto.com Photo: water transit work, there needs to be a going on a path that ends up in them strong partnership and commitment to having full-blown WETA service like

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BY SEJAL CHOKSI-CHUGH shoreline, from the Golden Gate Bridge to McCovey Cove; or • Kayak or stand-up paddleboard Photo by Robb Most f you’re a swimmer, kayaker, stand- two miles along the San Francisco up paddle boarder, boater—or waterfront; or The Bay Parade is a once-a-year chance to get out on the water and celebrate a San Francisco Bay that’s clean and healthy for recreation. someone who simply loves San • Cruise aboard a beautiful yacht with FranciscoI Bay—you’re invited to be part lunch and wine served; or of the sixth annual Bay Parade. • Volunteer with your motorboat, This event is a once-a-year chance to sailboat, or rowboat for swimmer We’ll raise a big banner showing celebrate a San Francisco Bay that’s clean support; or our love for San Francisco Bay. And enough for recreation on and in the • Volunteer on land and help put on the finale will be broadcast on the water. The Bay Parade is Sunday, August the Bay Parade. ballpark Jumbotron at the start of 11, with varied morning start times, the Giants home game. depending how you choose to celebrate: Costumes, noisemakers and musical The celebration continues on instruments are encouraged! Everyone dry land at the Bay Parade party, with • Swim 6.5 miles, solo or in a relay will come together for the spectacular yummy refreshments and bottomless team, along the San Francisco city Bay Parade finale in McCovey Cove. beer from Anchor Brewing. Photo by Clay Schmitz Join this fun community Bay Parade kayakers and stand-up paddleboarders celebration and show your paddle along the San Francisco waterfront. commitment to the beautiful Bay we all love so much. Event proceeds will support Baykeeper’s work to stop information and sign up at baykeeper. polluters and defend San Francisco Bay org/bayparade. See you on the water on from the biggest threats. Find more August 11!

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The proposed location of the Orcem cement plant in Vallejo was on the site of the old Sperry Mill at the entrance to the Mare Island Strait. Residential homes are located blocks from the location and an elementary school is only a quarter-mile away. Citizens opposed to the project cited concerns over pollution and heavy diesel truck traffic in a residential neighborhood. Proposed Vallejo Waterfront Cement Factory Sleeps With the Fishes

BY JOEL WILLIAMS original project was denied a major this project over three years ago, when as “green” cement. This ignored the use permit by the Vallejo Planning Baykeeper submitted an article to us in potentially toxic elements found in the Commission on February 27, 2017 due early 2016 that warned the deep-water blast furnace slag that would be shipped he City of Vallejo announced to concerns over environmental and terminal being proposed in Vallejo in from Japan and stored on the Vallejo in late May that Vallejo Marine quality of life impacts. could be used to ship coal to China. waterfront, as well as the environmental Terminal (VMT) has elected Local opponents to the development The article also described the cement cost of the shipping. Tto withdraw its appeal of the planning consisted of citizens concerned about plant being planned for the location It didn’t take long for other groups commission’s 2017 denial of the VMT- pollution and heavy diesel truck traffic by an Irish company called Orcem (including the Sierra Club) to join the Orcem cement plant, effectively killing in a residential area, which includes an that used granular blast furnace slag (a opposition as additional information the project. elementary school located just a quarter- waste product from the metal recycling regarding the project was exposed, This announcement marked the end mile away. Regional and statewide process) as the main ingredient for their which included clandestine meetings of a lengthy battle over the proposed organizations joined in the fight against product. Overexposure to slag can cause with several councilmembers before the facility, which would have been located at the cement plant as more details were chemical burns, irreversible skin and eye project was announced to the public. It the entrance to the Mare Island Strait in revealed, in many cases due to the tireless damage, lung failure and cancer. was those same councilmembers, who Vallejo. VMT had applied on September efforts of individuals and grassroots Because the process used by Orcem became labeled the “Orcem Four,” that 5, 2013 for a cement processing plant organizations like Fresh Air Vallejo, required less energy than the process used upheld the VMT/Orcem 2017 appeal project on approximately 30 acres at headed by Vallejo resident Peter Brooks. to produce the more common Portland of the planning commission’s six-to-one the former General Mills factory. The Bay Crossings first became aware of cement, Orcem advertised their product vote to deny permits for the project and

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the fight continued for almost two more Malgapo, de facto head of the “Orcem years. Four,” failed to retain his seat and there In December 2017, Jay Gunkelman, was no longer a majority of the council who was on the Community Air Quality to support the project. Monitoring Technology Advisory Panel Shortly after that, the California for the Bay Area Air Quality Management Department of Justice sent Vallejo city District, called a news conference to officials a letter arguing environmental present his findings. He stated, “Our documents prepared for the project scientific analysis of the Orcem cement were misleading and violated state law, factory shows that air pollution levels stating, “The environmental documents will be too high. The homes and school for the project fail to provide adequate in this neighborhood would suffer from legal support for the City of Vallejo to an illegal and immoral amount of diesel approve the project.” exhaust and cement dust.” In the end, it was the efforts of the Gunkelman added, “Nowhere else concerned citizens of Vallejo with a has Orcem built a cement factory so strong desire to preserve their precious close to a residential neighborhood. If waterfront and protect the health of their there was ever a plant that shouldn’t be neighbors that finally brought an end built, this is it. The City of Vallejo must to this project. It was a long and hard stop this project now.” battle, but they never backed down. This In July of last year, Solano County time it was the underdog that defeated Sierra Club Chairperson Joseph Feller the well-funded and politically powerful warned, “After examining the current opponent. environmental impact report for the “It’s amazing how people from proposed factor, our attorneys have all across Vallejo—and all around the found major holes that would allow the Bay—came together to keep a cement applicant to ship coal through Vallejo factory off our waterfront,” said Brooks. if the city were to approve the project. “It took nearly four years of struggle but Our children and citizens are at great we never gave up and we’ve set the stage risk from the potential of coal shipments for a better future.” through Vallejo.” Bay Crossings congratulates the The 2018 elections changed the people of Vallejo on their victory. dynamics of the City Council when Jess

Photo by Joel Williams GET TICKETS AND INFO AT SSJEREMIAHOBRIEN.ORG A group of concerned citizens gathered on the steps of Vallejo’s City Hall in September 2016 to protest the construction of a cement plant on the waterfront. It would take over 2 1/2 years before OR CALL (415) 544-0100 the project was ultimately defeated.

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immigrants from China in the 19th White Devil’s Daughter: Fighting Slavery At the SF and early 20th centuries. A new work in San Francisco’s Chinatown. of scholarship provides yet more She relates how the women who information on the remarkable resilience ran the home defied contemporary Asian Art of the new citizens who were able to convention—even occasionally breaking make it to San Francisco’s Chinatown the law—by physically rescuing children to begin a new life under daunting from the brothels where they worked Museum: circumstances. or by snatching them off ships as they Beginning in 1874, the Occidental were being smuggled in. The book also Tattoos and Mission Home on the edge of San includes the story of how they helped Francisco’s Chinatown served as a bring the exploiters to justice. She also gateway to freedom for thousands of shares the moving stories of many of Taboos enslaved and vulnerable young Chinese the girls and young women who sought women and girls. Run by a courageous refuge at the mission, and she writes group of female abolitionists who fought about the lives they went on to lead. This the slave trade in Chinese women, it is a remarkable chapter in an overlooked PR Asian Art Museum BY PAUL DUCLOS survived earthquakes, fire, bubonic part of our history, told with sympathy plague and violence directed against its and vigor. occupants and supporters. The book is available online and at cursory look at fellow ferry collectors and connoisseurs familiar with With compassion and an the SF Asian Art Museum. For more passengers on any given the technical virtuosity of these artworks, investigative historian’s sharp eye, Julia information, see www.asianart.org. day will reveal that scores of to audiences who want to understand Flynn Siler tells the story of both them are rather elaborately more about the surprising history of the abolitionists who challenged the Follow Paul Duclos’ Cultural “inked” in some fashion or their own personal ink.” corrosive anti-Chinese prejudices of the Currents online with his blog at: another. What was once the domain of While searching for new subjects for time and the young women who dared www.duclosculturalcurrents.com sailors,A longshoremen and old sea dogs has his prints, Kuniyoshi hit upon the idea to flee their fate in her new book, The become so common that social scientists of a print series focused on hero-bandits estimate nearly 50 million Americans are from the famed Water Margin tale, sporting some kind of tattoo these days. which was first translated from Chinese The craze is not without precedent, and published in Japan between 1757 however, as a new exhibition at the Asian and 1790. Kuniyoshi called his series, Art Museum demonstrates. Tattoos in published in the late 1820s, One Hundred Japanese Prints, which runs through and Eight Heroes of the Popular Water August 18, focuses on Edo (modern Margin. Significantly for the history Tokyo) when it was a center for cutting- of tattoo art, Kuniyoshi gave many of edge art in the 19th century. the heroes elaborate tattoos, even if the With more than 60 superb original text did not mention any inked works from Boston’s Museum of Fine embellishment on their bodies. Arts’ collection, Tattoos in Japanese “Tattoos in Japanese Prints lets Prints uncovers the complex interplay museum visitors see how creative ideas between ink on paper and ink on skin, flowed from popular art into urban revealing the origin of some of the life, and back again,” said Laura Allen, world’s most enduring and popular Asian Art Museum chief curator and tattoo motifs. The exhibition traces curator of Japanese art. “Scholars are these designs to a famous set of prints by uncertain whether Kuniyoshi’s series artist Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797–1861), kicked off the 40-year tattoo boom that a series which was itself inspired by a followed, or if a nascent fad for body art popular 14th-century Chinese martial- prompted Kuniyoshi’s artwork, but the arts novel. ample prints we have from this period “By putting the aesthetic genius of by Kuniyoshi and others, who freely Japanese printmakers on full display, imagined elaborate tattoos, probably this exhibition underscores how the both inspired and reflected the real-life popular culture of late Edo-period trend.” Japan continues to influence how we express ourselves today,” said Jay Xu, New Book on Chinese Immigrants Asian Art Museum director and CEO. Ferry riders who have paid a visit to “We’re excited to share such eye-catching Angel Island well know about the prints with every kind of visitor—from shameful treatment given to quarantined

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20 July 2019 www.baycrossings.com Golden Gate Ferry Blue & Gold Fleet LARKSPUR TIBURON – Pier 41 SAUSALITO Weekdays (excluding Holidays) Weekends and Holidays Weekdays FISHERMAN’S WHARF, PIER 41 Depart Arrive S.F. Depart S.F. Arrive Depart Arrive S.F. Depart S.F. Arrive Depart Arrive Depart Arrive Weekdays Larkspur Ferry Bldg. Ferry Bldg. Larkspur Larkspur Ferry Bldg. Ferry Bldg. Larkspur Pier 41 Tiburon Tiburon Pier 41 Depart S.F. Arrive Depart Arrive S.F. Pier 41 Sausalito Sausalito Pier 41 5:45 a.m. 6:15 a.m. 6:20 a.m. 6:50 a.m. 9:30 a.m. 10:30 a.m. ------9:45 a.m. 10:30 a.m. • 10:40 a.m. 11:10 a.m. 10:55 a.m. 11:25 a.m. 11:35 a.m. 6:35 7:05 7:10 7:40 11:40 12:30 p.m. 12:40 p.m. 1:30 p.m. 11:25 12:10 p.m. • 12:20 p.m. 12:45 p.m. 12:05 p.m. 7:00 7:30 7:35 8:05 1:40 p.m. 2:30 3:45 4:35 1:45 p.m. 2:30 • 2:40 3:05 12:25 p.m. 12:55 p.m. 1:10 p.m. 1:45 7:30 8:00 ------4:45 5:35 6:25 7:15 3:30 4:00 4:10 5:05 • 2:00 2:25 2:40 3:10 7:50 8:20 8:30 9:05 ------7:25 8:10 5:15 5:45 5:55 6:25 3:20 3:45 4:00 4:25 8:20 8:50 9:10 9:45 4:45 5:10 5:25 5:55 One-way Ferry Fares Larkspur Sausalito 6:15 7:05 ^ 7:15 7:45 8:50 9:20 ------8:20 9:20 ^ 9:25 10:05 6:15 6:40 6:55 7:45 • 9:20 9:55 10:10 10:45 Daily Daily 8:20 9:00 9:10 10:05 • 10:10 10:45 10:55 11:30 Adult Cash Fare (19 – 64) $12.50 $13.00 NO 8:20PM FERRY ON THURSDAY, JULY 4TH NO 8:20PM FERRY ON THURSDAY, JULY 4TH 11:10 11:45 11:55 12:30 p.m. Clipper $ 8.00 $ 7.00 • Via Angel Island ^ Via Sausalito Weekends and Holidays 11:40 $ 6.25 $ 6.50 12:15 p.m. 12:25 p.m. 1:00 Youth (5-18)/Senior/Disabled Depart S.F. Arrive Depart Arrive S.F. 12:40 p.m. 1:15 1:25 2:00 Children 4 and under FREE FREE TIBURON – Pier 41 Pier 41 Sausalito Sausalito Pier 41 2:15 2:50 3:00 3:30 (limit 2 per fare-paying adult) Weekends and Holidays 10:55 a.m. 11:25 a.m. 11:35 a.m. 12:05 p.m. 2:50 3:25 3:30 4:00 Children ages 5 and under travel free 12:25 p.m. 12:55 p.m. 1:10 p.m. 1:40 ------4:00 4:30 when accompanied by a full fare paying Depart Arrive Depart Arrive Pier 41 Tiburon Tiburon Pier 41 2:10 2:35 2:50 3:20 3:40 4:15 4:30 5:00 adult (limit two youth per adult). 3:40 4:10 4:30 5:25 + 4:10 4:45 5:00 5:30 Visit goldengateferry.org for updates. 9:45 a.m. 10:30 a.m. • 10:40 a.m. 11:10 a.m. 3:40 4:35 • 4:55 5:25 ------5:30 6:00 Contact Information Toll free 511 or 711 (TDD) 11:25 12:10 p.m. • 12:20 p.m. 12:45 p.m. • 5:40 6:10 6:25 6:50 5:10 5:45 6:00 6:30 1:45 p.m. 2:30 • 2:40 3:10 • 5:55 6:50 • 7:00 7:30 5:40 6:15 6:30 7:00 Giants Larkspur Ferry: $14 each way per person. Advanced 3:40 4:10 4:20 5:25 ^ 8:20 9:00 9:10 10:05 • 6:40 7:10 7:20 7:50 purchase of tickets at goldengateferry.org or (877) 473-4849 5:55 6:25 6:35 7:30 ^ • Via Tiburon, + Via Angel Island 7:25 8:00 8:10 8:40 is required. Ferry departure times vary. 7:00 7:25 7:35 8:05 8:50 9:25 9:35 10:05 8:20 9:20 ^ 9:30 10:05 FARES: One-way Round-trip SAUSALITO Adult $13.00 $26.00 Child (5-11) SENIOR (65+) $7.50 $15.00 Weekdays (excluding Holidays) Weekends and Holidays • Via Angel Island ^ Via Sausalito For the most current schedule, Depart Arrive S.F. Depart S.F. Arrive Depart Arrive S.F. Depart S.F. Arrive FARES: One-way Round-trip visit www.blueandgoldfleet.com Sausalito Ferry Bldg. Ferry Bldg. Sausalito Sausalito Ferry Bldg. Ferry Bldg. Sausalito 7:10 a.m. 7:35 a.m. 7:40 a.m. 8:10 a.m. ------10:40 a.m. 11:10 a.m. Adult $13.00 $26.00 There will be no Sausalito / Tiburon / Angel Island service Child (5-11) SENIOR (65+) $7.50 $15.00 on Thanksgiving Day. The day after Thanksgiving, all 8:15 8:45 10:00 10:30 11:20 a.m. 11:50 a.m. 12:00 p.m. 12:30 p.m. services will operate on a Holiday schedule. There will 10:55 11:25 11:35 12:05 p.m. 12:45 p.m. 1:15 p.m. 1:25 1:55 be no Blue & Gold Services on Christmas Day. On New 12:15 p.m. 12:45 p.m. 12:55 p.m. 1:25 2:10 2:40 2:50 3:20 Year’s Day, Sausalito / Tiburon / Angel Island will operate 1:55 2:25 2:35 3:05 3:50 4:20 4:40 5:10 BAY CRUISE on a Holiday schedule. On President’s Day, all services will 3:15 3:45 4:00 4:30 ------6:00 6:30 operate on a Holiday schedule. 4:45 5:15 5:30 6:00 5:35 6:05 ------Depart PIER 39 6:10 6:35 6:45 7:10 6:45 7:15 ------Daily Monday - Sunday (depart PIER 39) ANGEL ISLAND - S.F. 7:20 7:50 7:55 8:20 10:00 a.m. 2:00 p.m. Weekdays (Depart Pier 41) 10:40 3:20 Holiday service is in effect on Martin Luther King, Jr. Arrive Depart TIBURON COMMUTE 11:20 4:40 Depart Arrive Day, Presidents Day, Memorial Day, Independence Angel Angel 12:00 p.m. 6:00 Pier 41 Island Island Pier 41 Day, Labor Day, and the day after Thanksgiving Day TIBURON – S.F. Ferry Building 12:40 7:00 9:45 a.m. 10:10 a.m. 10:20 a.m. 11:10 a.m. * (Sausalito). The Larkspur line operates on a Modified Weekday Service ONLY 1:20 - - - Holiday Schedule on the day after Thanksgiving Day. 11:25 11:50 12:00 p.m. 12:45 p.m.* Depart Arrive S.F. Depart S.F. Arrive NO 7:00PM FERRY ON THURSDAY, JULY 4TH 1:45 p.m. 2:10 p.m. 2:20 3:05 * Tiburon Ferry Bldg. Ferry Bldg. Tiburon For the most current schedule, visit www.blueandgoldfleet.com - - - 4:20 * 4:35 5:05 5:30 a.m. 6:00 a.m. 6:00 6:30 Bay Cruise does not operate during inclement weather. Bay Area Ferry Terminal Locations 6:40 7:10 7:15 7:45 FARES: All prices include audio tour. Weekends & Holidays (Depart Pier 41) Alameda Ferry Terminal 7:55 8:25 8:30 9:00 2990 Main Street 9:10 9:35 ------Adult $34.00 Child (5-11) $23.00 9:45 a.m. 10:10 a.m. 10:20 a.m. 11:10 a.m. * ------4:25 p.m. 4:55 p.m. Junior (12-18) $26.00 Senior (62+) $26.00 11:25 11:50 12:00 p.m. 12:45 p.m. * Berkeley 5:05 p.m. 5:35 p.m. 5:45 6:15 Discount fares available at www.blueandgoldfleet.com 1:45 2:10 2:20 3:10 * K Dock at Berkeley Marina in front of 6:20 6:50 6:55 7:25 - - - 4:45 + 4:55 5:25 Harbormaster’s office 7:30 8:00 8:05 8:35 ESCAPE FROM THE ROCK * Via Tiburon + Via Sausalito ANGEL ISLAND PRICES Harbor Bay Ferry Terminal Daily: Monday - Sunday (depart PIER 39) 215 Adelphian Way, Alameda FARES: One-way One Way S.F. Pier 41 (round-trip) 11:00 a.m. Adult (19-64) $13.00 1:00 p.m. 3:00 p.m. 5:00 p.m. Adult $ 9.75 $19.50 Larkspur Landing Ferry Terminal Clipper $ 7.00 Ticket Prices: Adult $42.00 Child (5 - 11) $28.00 Child (5-11) SENIOR (65+) $ 5.50 $11.00 101 E. Sir Francis Drake Boulevard Youth (5-18) Senior (65+) $ 6.50 Junior (12 - 18) $31.00 Senior (65+) $31.00 Child (5 & under) FREE FREE Child (age 4 & under) FREE All prices include general state park entrance fee. Oakland Ferry Terminal 10 Clay Street @ Jack London Square Richmond 1453 Harbour Way South San Francisco: SF Ferry Building @ foot of Market Street BERKELEY/SAN FRANCISCO Pier 41 @ Fisherman’s Wharf Weekdays Pier 1½ just north of SF Ferry Building Pier 52 in Mission Bay Depart Depart Depart Arrive Berkeley Pier 1.5 Pier 52 Berkeley Sausalito Ferry Terminal 7:10 a.m. 7:40 a.m. 8:00 a.m. ---- Humbolt Street & Anchor Avenue 8:35 9:05 9:25 10:00 a.m.

South San Francisco Depart Depart Depart Arrive All Ferry schedules subject to change. 911 Marina Boulevard Berkeley Pier 52 Pier 1.5 Berkeley Tiburon Ferry Terminal 3:55 p.m. 4:30 p.m. 4:45 p.m. ---- For the most up to date information. Tiburon Blvd. & Main St. in Tiburon 5:15 5:50 6:05 6:35 p.m. Visit: www.baycrossings.com Vallejo Ferry Terminal Advance reservations recommended, 289 Mare Island Way in Vallejo purchase tickets at www.tidelinetickets.com. www.baycrossings.com July 2019 21 Around the Bay in July

th 4 of July Waterfront Activities & Fireworks Viewing

atching a waterfront fireworks San Francisco to 6:30 p.m. with live music plus food and a huge fireworks display over the Wdisplay from a boat, the shoreline PIER 39 celebrates Independence Day and games. The celebration continues at waterfront at 9:15 p.m. or hillside overlooking the water is with fun for the whole family. Rock out Gabrielson Park (next to the Ferry Pier) always a unique and special treat for at the Entrance Plaza Stage featuring from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. featuring more Vallejo Bay Area residents. The following is Mustache Harbor - Yacht Rock Explosion live entertainment and ending with a Six Flags Discovery Kingdom has a list of waterfront fireworks displays from 3-6 p.m. At 9:30 p.m. look to the sky spectacular show of fireworks on San fireworks every evening June 30 (or those that can be viewed from the for the City & County of San Francisco’s Francisco Bay starting at 9 p.m. through July 4 at 9:30 p.m. There will water) in the Bay Area to help you spectacular fireworks display. also be the 166th Annual Fourth of July plan your holiday, along with some of San Rafael Parade in downtown Vallejo starting at the activities leading up to the evening Berkeley Marin County Fair – Fireworks over the 10 a.m. followed by the Mad Hatter pyrotechnics. Berkeley Marina – Live entertainment lagoon every evening July 3-7 at 9:30 Celebration at the waterfront and a all day, face painting, arts & crafts, p.m. Also enjoy concerts, educational/ fireworks display at Waterfront Park Adventure Playground, and interactive exhibits, carnival rides, arts starting around 9:15 p.m. food from noon to 8 p.m. and crafts, contests and plenty of food. The day culminates with 10 Avenue of the Flags in San Rafael. Fireworks from the O’Brien the grand fireworks over The SS Jeremiah O’Brien, the famous the water near the end of Benicia WWII Liberty Ship berthed at Pier 45 the Berkeley Pier at 9:30 From noon to 7 p.m., City Park (First in Fisherman’s Wharf, invites you to p.m. Viewing is best along Street at Military West) will be bustling come aboard to view San Francisco’s Frontage Drive south of the with arts and crafts, delicious hot foods, Independence Day fireworks ex- Pier or from Hs Lordship’s live entertainment, children’s activities, travaganza. Many people consider parking lot. and more. Around 9 p.m., fireworks will the O’Brien to have the best fireworks blaze the sky at the foot of First Street. seats on the wharf. Events aboard Sausalito the ship are from 6:30 to 10 p.m., Fourth of July Parade/ Suisun City including hot dogs, chips, beverages, Picnic/Fireworks – 10 a.m. Fourth of July Celebration – From 11 live music and a whole lot of fun. For parade followed by picnic a.m. to 10:30 p.m. Enjoy free live music, tickets and more details, visit www. The Marin County Fair features nightly fireworks July 3-7. at Dunphy Park from noon craft vendors, family entertainment ssjeremiahobrien.org.

Hops & Vines Stroll can hop on and off the free trolley to cancer. Sample over 30 breweries and eat Benicia Waterfront Festival The first annual Downtown San Rafael easily cruise the full length of the event. barbecue for free throughout the festival, This popular summer event is back with Hops & Vines Stroll is on Saturday, July The ticket price includes wine and beer listen to live music under the huge tent, a splash on Saturday and Sunday, July 13 from 2 to 7 p.m. Celebrating the samples at all of the sampling locations. win many, many great prizes and enjoy a 27-28 from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., as Benicia craft beer and premium wine scene in relaxing afternoon in the sunshine—all celebrates its picturesque waterfront Marin, the festive tasting event will take The 18th Annual Breastfest while raising money for a great cause. A locale with two days of live music, craft place along the San Rafael Downtown Beer Festival limited amount of advance tickets are beer and wine tastings, tasty foods, a Fourth Street corridor through the Northern California’s best beer tasting available at $50 and can be purchased vendor village and a kids’ activity area. West End Village and feature music, event is returning to Fairground Island on the website thebreastfest.org or at Daily admission is $10 for adults and $5 numerous downtown breweries, bars and at the Marin Center in San Rafael Marin Brewing Company in Larkspur or for seniors, with children under 12 free restaurants, merchants and businesses on Saturday, July 20 from 1 to 5 p.m. Moylan’s Brewing Company in Novato with a paid adult. Adult weekend passes offering wine and beer tastings as The Breastfest Beer Festival helps or regular admission is $65 at the door. are also available for $15. For more well as light refreshments inside their raise funds for the Charlotte Maxwell The ticket price includes live music, information and a full listing of musical establishments. Advance tickets are Complementary Clinic, a nonprofit food, unlimited tasting and a Breastfest acts, visit www.beniciamainstreet.org. available for $25 at sresproductions. health center that supports economically commemorative cup. For additional com or for $30 at the event. Eventgoers challenged women in their fight against information, call (415) 461-4677.

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www.baycrossings.com July 2019 23 “ASK FOR ANDY” Svendsen’s Rigging is pleased to welcome a new shop manager, Andy Schwenk. Andy has a tremendous sailing background and 20 years of experience running his own rig shop in the Pacific Northwest. Andy is customer focused and with victories at Big Boat Series, Pac Cup and several races in Mexico, he knows what it takes to get your boat ready to perform – in the bay and offshore. Come Meet Andy at our 1st Anniversary CELEBRATION, August 2nd - 4th Marking 1 year in the chandlery’s new location at 2900 main St, Alameda

Svendsen’s Bay Marine & Svendsen’s Rigging Svendsen’s Marine & Industrial Supply Full service boatyard and custom rigging fabrication The bay’s largest chandlery, with rigging hardware, rope & more 310 West Cutting Blvd., 2900 Main St. #1900 Point Richmond, CA 94804 Alameda, CA 94501 sbm.baymaritime.com www.svendsens.com 510-237-0140 • [email protected] 510-522-2886 • [email protected]