Color Page BAYAY ROSSINGSROSSINGS “The VoiceB of the Waterfront” CC October 2011 Vol.12, No.10 Anchors Aweigh! Clean Water Update S.F. Fleet Week Turns 30 Bills Hit Governor Brown’s Desk Unearthing Awareness High C at Home Plate Youth Program Goes Green Opera Returns to AT&T Park 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 Open for Service & Maintenance • 30/60/90K Service 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. May not be combined with any other discounts or offer. Excludes banquets. Expires 10/31/11 (707) 645-1909 BC1011 1416-A Sonoma Boulevard in Vallejo CELEBRATE THIS YEAR’S HARVEST AT OUR OPEN HOUSE BARBECUE Enjoy live music Taste over 40 wines including new releases & barrel samplings Meet our growers & discover our 20 little wineries • ZIN CAFÉ: Fridays, 6Chat:30pm to 9: 3with0pm: Rosenblum’s Winemaker, John Kane Zinfana cs can commingle with fellow fans of our robust reds at Zin Cafe, our evening pairing of area mJoinusicians , liinght s nouracks and grgrapeeat Rosenblum stomping Cellars competitiion & wines by the glass. Star ng on July 8th, Zin Cafe will be each and every Friday! Admission is $10 (cSimplyomplimentary f oexperiencer Club Members) advance c kharvestets can be at our urban winery purchased in the Tas ng Room. • RDEGIOONNAL W’TIN EMISS SERIES: S aTHISturday s , 1OPPORTUNITY2pm to 5pm: , IT CERTAINLY DOESN’T HAPPEN EVERYDAY. Did you know that Rosenblum produces over 40 wines? Every Saturday LOCATION : 2900 MAIN ST., ALAMEDA, CA, (800) 559-8069 this Summer, we will be introducing them all to you, region by region. WAc INEvi es wCill inLUBc lude v eMr caEMBERSl wine tas ngs:, ed12ucPMa on-4al c lPMasse,s aADMISSIONnd , $25 IN ADVANCE, $40 AT THE DOOR barrel saNmplONMEMBERSings! In August, we will: b e1 f ePMaturi-4ngPM wine,s ADMISSIONfrom Sonoma , $35 IN ADVANCE, $50 AT THE DOOR County. • HOT AUGUST DATYS: SICKETSundays, 1pm to 5 pmGO: ON SALE ON OCTOBER 1ST! Every Sunday in August, a local car club will be showcasing their best cars. Be prepared to be awed by hot rods, corve es and many other vehicles that you just don’t see everyday. Vote you’re your favorite and you may win a ride on one hot August night. • MUSIC ON THE DECK: Sundays, 2pm to 5pm: Our tas ng room experience expa nds outdooICKETSrs with a new SuGOnday a ernoon ALE ON live performance serie s, Music on the DecTk. Sample wine by the glass and listen 1 to the tunes of Oakland’s Simon Russ ell Project on our deck, a spiffy, shaded outdoor entertainme nt and lounging space just a dance step away from our newly remodeled tas ng room and the San Francisco ferry dock. • LADIES NIGHT OUT Thursday, August 18th, 6:30pm to 9:30pm: Looking for a place to catch up with your girlfriends? Join us at Rosenblum for an evening dedicated to our local ladies. Enjoy music, light snacks and our acclaimed wines available by the glass. Admission is $10 (complimentary for Club Members) advance ckets can be purchased in the Tas ng Room. www.rosenblumcellars.com WWW.ROSENBLUMCELLARS.COM 2900 Main St. Suite 1100 Alameda, CA p: 510-995-4100 Please enjoy our wines responsibly. www.DrinklQ.com © 2011 Rosenblum Cellars, Alameda, CA 94501 columns features 05 BAYKEEPER 08 FLEET WEEK Clean Water Legislation Storied Tradition Returns Needs Your Assistance for 30th Anniversary 16 by Deb Self 14 GREEN PAGES 11 IT CAME FROM At-Risk Youth Program guides BENEATH THE SEA Teaches Sustainability The Bay Gets a Checkup WATERFRONT ACTIVITIES by Bill Picture 20 Our recreational resource guide by Kelly Cash news 24 WETA FERRY SCHEDULES 13 SAILING ADVENTURES Be on time for last call Unique Bayside Living 04 Clipper Card Spreads Its AROUND THE BAY by Captain Ray Sails to Hit New Heights 26 To see, be, do, know by Brenda Kahn 06 WATERFRONT NEWS ON OUR COVER Documentary on 9/11 October 2011 Volume 12, Number 10 NYC Ferry Evacuation Bobby Winston, Proprietor by Patrick Burnson Joyce Aldana, President Joel Williams, Publisher Patrick Runkle, Editor 10 Comments & Correction ADVERTISING & MARKETING Joel Williams, Advertising & Marketing Director Sara Doremus, Advertising Sales Executive 12 Angel Island Hosts GRAPHICS & PRODUCTION “Gateway to the Pacific” Francisco Arreola, Designer / Web Producer ART DIRECTION Francisco Arreola; Patrick Runkle; Joel Williams AMERICA’S CUP COLUMNISTS 16 Captain Ray Wichmann; Spills & Thrills: AC World Paul Duclos; Patrick Burnson; Deb Self and Kelly Cash Series in Plymouth, UK This year marks the 30th Anniversary of San Francisco Fleet WRITERS & PHOTOGRAPHERS Bill Picture; Joel Williams Week and from October 5 to 11, San Francisco will open its CULTURAL CURRENTS arms and piers to what promises to be the most extensive Fleet ACCOUNTING 19 Cindy Henderson Blue Collar Diversions Week ever. With more ships, more sailors, more Marines, Advertising Inquiries: by Paul Duclos more Coasties, more free family friendly events than ever and (415) 913-0394, [email protected] continuing the focus on emergency preparedness, this year’s event Bay Crossings SF Ferry Building Store also commemorates the 100th anniversary of the birth of naval (415) 362-0717, Coast Guard K-9s Sniff Clipper customer service center 22 aviation: an event which started here in San Francisco Bay with (877) 878-8883 the first-ever launch of a plane from the deck of a ship – the USS For Transit Information – Dial 511 Out Waterfront Dangers Pennsylvania in 1911. Photo by Joel Williams Bay Crossings Ferry Building, #22 San Francisco, CA 94111 Pirates in Paradise Event www.baycrossings.com 23 Corrections & Letters A Division of Nematode Media, LLC at Alameda’s Waterfront We appreciate the opportunity to publish our readers' comments, letters or requests for corrections, which can be sent to [email protected]. www.baycrossings.com October 2011 3 TRANSPORTATION NEWS Clipper® Card Hits New Highs and Spreads Its Sails BY BRENDA KAHN uoyed by a surge in back- to-school ridership on Bay Area public transit systems, the Clipper® card for the first time recently hit and surpassed the milestone of a half-million averageB daily boardings. There were nearly 560,000 average daily boardings using the Clipper card on the region’s seven participating transit systems for the week ending September 16, 2011, a nine-fold increase from the 63,000 daily boardings logged by MTC’s precursor electronic fare collection system before the introduction of Clipper just over a year ago, in June 2010. “Transaction volume has been exploding over the last 12 months,” said Jake Avidon, Clipper senior program Photo by Peter Beeler coordinator for the Metropolitan The Clipper kiosk at San Francisco’s Embarcadero BART/Muni station is a popular place for getting a free Clipper card — including youth and senior cards Transportation Commission. for most participating systems — as well as for adding value and troubleshooting problems. Spikes in youth boardings on AC Transit and San Francisco Muni helped to push overall traffic past the half-million summer to sign up youths for the program, anymore. No small leftover values to mark. Muni, AC Transit and BART with nearly 55,000 Clipper youth cards consolidate, and magnets are your friend staged a number of outreach events this distributed to date. again,” BART points out enthusiastically Among the seven Bay Area transit on its website, alluding to the weaknesses of operators participating in the Clipper the old paper-based tickets, which are prone program, San Francisco Muni is leading to being disabled by magnets in purse clasps the charge, with 336,000 average daily and the like. The website also promotes the boardings using Clipper the week ending convenience of Clipper: “When you get to September 16, which equates to almost the fare gate, tag, open and go!” half of the agency’s nearly 700,000 daily AC Transit logged 50,000 average daily Photo by Noah Berger boardings (per the American Public boardings the week ending September 16, A Clipper ambassador demonstrates how to use Transportation Association, or APTA). a quarter of its ridership. a Clipper-ready S.F. Muni fare machine. Muni completed migration of its Also currently participating in Clipper adult monthly passes to Clipper earlier are Golden Gate Transit and Ferry in the transit ridership in the region, and is now this year. As of this August, Muni North Bay, Sam Trans and Caltrain on looking at further expansion to the region’s completed the smooth transition of its the Peninsula, and the Santa Clara Valley other 20 or so transit systems. Next in youth monthly pass to Clipper-only, and Transportation Authority (VTA) in the line is the San Francisco Bay Ferry system is on to the next frontier: encouraging South Bay. operated by the Water Transportation customers who use cash for each ride to Overall, there are nearly a million Emergency Authority, which by the spring pay with Clipper (which can carry a cash Clipper cards in active use, and Clipper of 2012 will deploy Clipper® at its ferry balance as well as passes). fare payments now account for about terminals, including the new one under Meanwhile, over a third of BART’s a third of the roughly 1.5 million daily construction in South San Francisco.