Joe Novitski, chair of the Floating Homes Association’s Legislative Action Committee has crafted a series of quizzes to help you test your knowledge of your rights has a floating homeowner. We’ll be running one a week for the next few weeks. Here’s multiple choice question number one: You’re selling your...
Julie Durbin, PR and Marketing Committee Chair for the Floating Homes Association, is inviting local businesses, non-profits and other organizations to participate as sponsors of the May 19 Day in the Park. Julie points out: “our tightly knit community provides the best form of advertising: word of mouth. It is...
The pandemic was tough on live theater, with actors and directors needing to become overnight filmmakers—Zoommakers, in order to practice their craft and reach an audience. Because without an audience, what’s the point? The audience makes the circle complete. We houseboaters are lucky. No need to cross a bridge to...
FHA Marketing/PR Chair Julie Durbin has assembled a team of 12 volunteers to begin planning for a free FHA Day in the Park on Sunday, May 19. She is in need of help rounding up sponsors; if that’s something you’d like to do, contact Julie. Stay tuned for more details about...
Susan Huxtable of East Pier passes along a website for Marin Medical Equipment Recyclers, a volunteer non-profit based in San Rafael that offers free used medical equipment. If you can’t find what you need in the FHA’s Disaster Response Trailer, or if your need is permanent, you can visit their...
Long-time Gate 6 ½ resident Patti Bott has been elected Commodore of the Sausalito Yacht Club. Patti rose through the ranks at the 82-year old club, serving as a flag officer after stints on the Race Committee and on the board of the Sausalito Youth Sailing Foundation for several years,...
The story of how Juanita Musson moved her Galley onto the Charles Van Damme ferry is as colorful as the old girl and the old boat themselves. By 1959, Juanita was a nationally known restaurateur. The Fort Worth Press reported on how she found her way onto the old ferry:...
Juanita Musson, Sausalito’s favorite fun, feisty restaurateur, first laid eyes on our town in 1952 when she joined her husband Dick, who had been stationed at the Presidio Army Base, on the west coast. After his release from the army, the couple decided to stay in Sausalito while Dick began...