Jim Woessner of Issaquah Dock sends along this tribute to his long-time neighbor Rachelle Dorris: One of the pillars of the waterfront community, Rachelle Dorris, passed away last Saturday, November 29th. Rachelle was a 40-year resident of the waterfront, the majority of those years living...
HERE ARE SOME OF THE ITEMS THAT WERE DISCUSSED AT THE NOVEMBER 11 FHA BOARD MEETING. MORE DETAILS WILL BE REPORTED LATER IN THE FLOATING TIMES. Lynn Lester has retired as Liberty Dock rep after years of service with Taylor Ray and Kathryn Soter stepping...
Two years of planning for sea level rise was swept away when the Sausalito City Council rejected the draft shoreline adaptation plan. According to the Marin IJ, last Tuesday the Sausalito City Council sent the 168-page plan plan back for more work, deeming it incomplete. The...
We’ve written before about the historic Record Plant studio that flourished here in the 70s. A play that just closed at the Curran Theatre called Stereophonic is loosely based on one of the legends of that storied venue: the tumultuous 1977 Fleetwood Mac sessions that...
Last Friday, about a dozen members of the Sausalito Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors toured all three docks in Kappas Marina, ending up with a wine down aboard the Fairy Tale on West Pier, hosted by Julie Durbin and Ed Lopez. The tour grew...
Jim Woessner, a thirty-three Issaquah Dock resident, has published his latest collection of microfiction, Aliens in the Park. It’s his third volume of one hundred hundred-word stories. The story, “Aliens in the Park,” is about how people relate to other living things that share the...
The Working Waterfront Celebration last Saturday brought together the maritime community, showcasing their innovations, creations, and art to highlight the maritime industry’s contributions to the community and the environment. The event, held outside the Bay Model, welcomed a steady stream of visitors who enjoyed live...
As we reported previously, Wilford Welch of East Pier has written an autobiography entitled A Wild Journey — values and circumstances that shaped a life. Tomorrow, he’ll be reading from the book at Sausalito Books by the Bay starting at 6:00 p.m. Then on Friday,...
On Saturday, November 15, the Sausalito Working Waterfront Coalition (SWWC) will highlight the Marinship community’s shipwrights, fabricators, artists and more who will be offering information on their industries’ innovations, creations, technology, history and works of art. Enjoy live music and fresh fish tacos from noon...
To mark its 50th anniversary, the Sausalito Historical Society announced the publication of a colorful, updated edition of the seminal Sausalito history book Moments in Time. The book was edited, researched and designed by Wayne Bonnett, who worked with SHS founder Jack Tracy on the...
