Blue & Gold Fleet has temporarily suspended ferry service between San Francisco and Sausalito while PG&E undertakes environmental cleanup at the fleet’s Pier 41 base in the city. Riders traveling between San Francisco and Sausalito are encouraged to use the Golden Gate Ferry as an alternative. Blue & Gold has...
Our favorite waterfront citizen scientist, Michael Konrad of South 40 Pier, recently submitted a photo essay of his adventures rowing on the Bay to Latitude 38, the local boating magazine. That submission led the editors to interview Michael for an article they titled “A Local Mariner Aging Gracefully on the...
Private tour director Lewis Shireman reports that a group of Sausalito Village members will tour three homes in Kappas Marina on Wednesday morning, May 13. The tour will begin on Kappas Green at 11:00 a.m. and conclude at 1:00 p.m. Attendees will be divided into two or three groups based...
The Gate 5 Area Drainage Management Study is a City of Sausalito initiative to address chronic flooding and sea level rise risks in the Marinship/Gate 5 Road corridor, which includes the southernmost floating home docks. The effort focuses on locations currently affected by storm events, coastal flooding, and aging drainage...
On Saturday, May 9, the popular NBC Bay Area show Open Road will air a segment on harmful algal blooms in San Francisco Bay that will feature photos from a Floating Times report of a massive algae bloom in June, 2020. The episode follows scientists from the San Francisco Estuary...
Coach Keith Castillo at The Exercise Coach Sausalito is proud to serve the floating homes community and neighbors throughout Sausalito. The studio specializes in building strength and healthy muscle through a highly personalized, data-driven approach. Using proprietary equipment, each client’s strength is measured to determine the precise level of resistance...
Blaise Simpson and Jung Vu from Gate 6 ½ attended the April 14 meeting of the Flood Zone 3 Advisory Board at the Marin County Civic Center. They were the only members of the public present, along with District 3 Supervisor Stephanie Moulton-Peters and her aide, Jennifer Imbimbo. Here’s her...
FHA President Peter Miller has lined up an eclectic mix of music and spoken word to entertain attendees at Day in the Park on May 3. Cathy Gellis will kick things off at 12:10 p.m. performing a capella favorites including a sea shanty about Elon Musk. From 12:50 p.m. to...
On April 21, The Edgewater Room at Sausalito City Hall was filled with friends congratulating Mary Ann Griller on her imminent move to Austin, Texas. Mary Ann has been a longtime supporter of the FHA, Sausalito Village, Marine Mammal Center, Sausalito Historical Society and Fireside senior center. She was also...
Gate 6 ½ resident Jung Vu has launched a new app that provides more accurate local tide projections than have ever been available before. MarinFlood provides real-time and future tidal water levels for flood-prone locations in Southern Marin. This ad-free utility combines official NOAA astronomical tide predictions with proprietary forecast...