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,...
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,...
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...
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...
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,...
On Saturday, November 8, women from Sausalito — including many from the floating homes community — took to the streets to defend women’s rights, their bodies and their future. After gathering at Dunphy Park, over 300 women marched through Sausalito carrying signs and chanting. Cars honked in agreement and drivers...