Back in the 80s, a singularly ugly fish — the humming toadfish — created quite an uproar in our community. In those days, toadfish came into the bay each summer to spawn. The males would find a nice solid object, like a ferro-cement houseboat hull, and build a nest on...
Kelly English of Kappas East sends along this social media advice: The Sausalito Floating Homes community can really shine on Instagram! Residents can share photos of their unique homes and the beautiful waterfront views, capturing the quirky charm of the neighborhood. By posting pictures, you would attract those interested in...
Author Jennifer Gennari has written a history of Sausalito’s counterculture houseboat community for the current issue of Marin Magazine. Titled Wild and Free, the article is illustrated with historic black and white photographs by Catherine Lyons-Labate of A Dock from her coffee table book, Once Upon a Waterfront. Jen’s article...
The Nob Hill Gazette has published the most comprehensive article on our community I can remember seeing in my 44 years here. Writer Jennifer Massoni Pardini really did her homework, interviewing a broad range of dock residents, including architect David Spurgeon, Brown Sugar owner Megan Dixon, Rabbi Sydney Mintz, Burlingame...
The website iHeart states: “There is one town in California situated within the hills along the coast, framing the lines where the sun meets the earth and the earth meets the sea. A breathtaking change of pace that is simply impossible to forget if you’ve ever visited, leaving you with...
Over the next few weeks, we’ll be presenting brief profiles of the members of the FHA Public Relations and Marketing Committee. East Pier resident Kelly English has lived in the community for 12 years. She loves the outdoors and access to trails for biking and hiking. She runs her own...
A spectacularly remodeled floating home on South 40 Pier is profiled in the August issue of Dwell Magazine. The Seneca, which was featured in the FHA’s 2021 Virtual Gala and Tour, is owned by Marka Hansen and Joe Brubaker, who teamed with Sausalito designer Michelle Chan and Steve Crutchfield of...
Fresno Bee columnist Marek Warszawski recently spent some time on a floating home visiting his sister, and recorded his impressions of our part of the world. “Sometimes,” he wrote, “it takes a week in Marin County, specifically on a houseboat with an unobstructed view of Mount Tamalpais (Tam in casual...
The Drifty Dreamers are Arleen Ma and Scott Collins, whose South 40 floating home is so named. Before moving into the community last spring, they often admired and paddled around the floating homes from their base, a 36’ trawler moored in Clipper Yacht Harbor. Both have worked in the biotech...
Gate 6 ½ resident Claudia Cowan, a reporter for Fox News, has posted an update to the anchor-out situation off our shores. And writer Sharon McDonnell, who attended our September 14 open homes tour, recorded some very favorable impressions of our community for Roadtrippers Magazine. Her piece includes some gorgeous...