Wild and Free on the Waterfront

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...

Designer Docks and Rock-Solid Community

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...

Meet the PR/Marketing Committee

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...

Dwell Features South 40 Home

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...

Toto, You’re Not in Fresno Any More

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...

New PR Chairs: Drifty Dreamers

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...

Richardson Bay in the News – Again

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...

Richardson’s Bay in the News…Again

The national media’s fascination with our anchor-out neighbors continues. The May 17 Wall St. Journal carried an article titled: “Home Prices Lead Some To the Water,” which is available online under a longer headline. Writer Jim Carlton leads off by stating: “Homelessness has become such a big problem in the...

Life on the Water: Both Sides Now

It’s gone viral around here, so perhaps you’ve seen the New York Times article titled Living on the Water—Houseboats can be a more affordable way to live near a city center. Published on April 26, the article starts by describing how Aislyn Greene and Jeannie Cruz decided to buy a...