On Saturday, May 31, the Sausalito Center for the Arts will present a performance of chamber music by trio of teenage virtuosos. The award-winning Onde Trio infuses classical melodies with passion, precision, and a touch of humor. Their name, inspired by the Italian word onde (wave), reflects the waves of...
Journalist Joe Kloc first learned about the anchor-outs of Richardson’s Bay while on assignment for Harper’s Magazine. His new book, Lost at Sea: Poverty and Paradise Collide at the Edge of America, grew out of his Harper’s feature on the alternative society of boaters. As early as 2010, Kloc began...
Zen philosopher Alan Watts is fondly remembered for the days he spent aboard the beached ferry Vallejo, along with flambouyant artist Jean Varda. But he moved off the waterfront in the mid-50s and eventually found another unconventional home, at Druid Heights on the southeast flank of Mount Tam in the...
The Sausalito Floating Homes Association (FHA) Legislative Action Committee (LAC) has issued a report summarizing results from the recent survey to gauge community opinion on potential changes to provisions governing berth rents proposed for the California Floating Homes Residency Law (FHRL). The report is being sent to dock reps for...
Marinship Park will be the scene of a new Spring Fling hosted by the City of Sausalito on Saturday, May 17 from 11:30 a.m. — 5 p.m. Family fun for everyone will include roast pig and other delicacies; a BBQ sauce competition; local celebrity bartenders serving craft cocktails, beer, wine,...
With a little help from the Floating Homes Association, residents of Gate 6 ½ did some spring sprucing earlier this month. Lori Bergeron, Felicity Gordon, Blaise Simpson, Patti Bott and Jung Vu joined forces to sand the rust off wrought iron chairs at the end of the dock and repaint...
The three largest Sausalito floating home marinas have recommended that their residents vote in favor of the legislative arrangements they previously agreed to with the FHA’s Legislative Action Committee. In a recent email, Becky Smith from Waldo Point Harbor wrote: “We hope you will support these revisions as they are...
HERE ARE SOME OF THE ITEMS THAT WERE DISCUSSED AT THE APR 8 FHA BOARD MEETING. MORE DETAILS WILL BE REPORTED LATER IN THE FLOATING TIMES. Treasurer Linda Futrell reported that the March15 Annual Meeting, which was produced on budget for $8,015, brought in $3,872 in revenues, resulting in a...
On Monday, the FHA’s Legislative Action Committee (FHA/LAC) emailed a link to a survey seeking opinions on amendments to the rent control and vacancy control portions of the Floating Homes Residency Law. The confidential survey asks a few short questions to gather community input on an agreement reached between the...
Two local authors will be reading from their works this month. Tonight, John Byrne Barry will discuss his novel Pirates of Sausalito at Sausalito Books by the Bay, 100 Bay St., Sausalito. Starting at 6:00 p.m., John will speak about the waterfront skirmishes that inspired his houseboat wars murder mystery,...