During the last two weeks of March, the FHA Legislative Action Committee (LAC) held dock meetings to discuss the rent control law amendment negotiated with the four Sausalito marinas. Soon, community residents will be asked to give your opinion through an online poll on whether the proposed changes to the...
Sausalito’s Parks and Recreation Department is hosting a City Wide Yard Sale from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. on Saturday, April 12 at MLK Parking Lot and basketball courts, with the entrance at 610 Coloma St. The yard sale will include over 80 booths, and is free to the public....
The Bay area has been home to many of the greatest musical luminaries of our time, including Janis Joplin, The Grateful Dead, The Doobie Brothers, The Jefferson Airplane and Starship, Canned Heat … just to mention a few. Very few people know that many members of these legendary bands still...
The Floating Homes Association Annual Meeting returned to the Bay Model on March 15 for the first time in the post-Covid era. Early birds began arriving at 10:00 a.m. to browse the treasures in a silent auction. The crowd soon swelled to over 140. At 11:00 a.m. new FHA President...
Michele Affronte of Liberty Dock and Engel & Völkers Real Estate sends along statistics from the multiple listing service that indicate the market for floating homes shows no signs of slowing down: In 2024 16 Floating homes sold on the multiple listing service The lowest price was $565,000 and the...
Issaquah Dock’s Jim Woessner has published the second book in his microfiction series. This one is titled Latté with Extra Foam. Like the first book, No More No Less, it is a collection of one hundred microfiction stories, each one exactly one-hundred words in length. Microfiction attempts to convey complete...
HERE ARE SOME OF THE ITEMS THAT WERE DISCUSSED AT THE MAR 11 FHA BOARD MEETING. MORE DETAILS WILL BE REPORTED LATER IN THE FLOATING TIMES. FHA Events Chair BettyAnn Kram and ex-President Pete Hudson reported that 140 reservations had been made for the March 15 Annual Meeting. Next week...
After years of procrastination, I finally got a resident passcard good for parking in downtown municipal lots. For 40 years, these were only available to residents of Sausalito, despite constant lobbying from the floating homes community. Even when the City Manager was living in a rental home on Gate 6...
We recently reported on a team of students from Centerville Middle School in Fremont who toured the floating homes as research for a project to design a fully functioning floating metropolis. The team’s entry took first place over 30 teams from across Northern California. Then they headed off to Washington,...
East Pier Dock Rep Carole Angermeir has updated the Service Providers list which is available to FHA members on the Association’s website. The list includes providers with experience working on floating homes, including contractors, handymen, painters, electricians, plumbers, roofers, line tying, hull repair, hull inspection, house cleaners, upholsterers, refrigerator repairs,...