When a TV camera crew shows up, it attracts attention. What’s going on, we wondered, when we saw the press and Wilford Welch on the gangway to his 1 East Pier home last month. It turns out, he was being interviewed by a German TV station about solutions to global...
Community involvement was the theme of this year’s Floating Homes Association Annual Membership Meeting. A capacity crowd gathered in the Bay Model meeting hall to hear new FHA President Michael Labate and VP Taylor Ray announce that 2019 is the year of participation in FHA activities. Taylor presented a slide...
Last week, king tides reached seven feet and more, as predicted. The volunteer citizen scientists from Gate 6 ½ to South 40 were ready, and at about 11 a.m. on Monday, Jan. 21, everyone snapped photos of their yardsticks. The results below are fairly similar to what we found in...
The night after a strong winter storm, two dozen people gathered at the Bay Model to hear and discuss the Conservation Corps North Bay’s presentation on natural ways to slow crashing waves that threaten our coast. East Pier resident Terri Thomas, CCNB Director of Natural Resources and Climate Resiliency, introduced...
Update from the California King Tides Project: Last month, Californians photographed some of the highest high tides of the year to help us better understand and plan for future sea level rise. You’ll get one more chance to participate this season, Sunday January 20 and Monday January 21. Check...
WHAT: Community Engagement Meeting FOCUS: Adaptations to Sea Level Rise WHERE: Bay Model WHEN: Thursday, Jan. 17 from 6-8 PM OUTCOME: Influence the creation of nature-based solutions on the Sausalito shoreline When waves crash on our shoreline, they erode the land. As water levels increase, threatening even more damage to...
At about 11:20 a.m. on Sunday, Dec. 23, volunteers from nine docks checked yardsticks to see the height of the king tide. Tracking the rising water is a project of the FHA Environmental Committee, and we mounted yardsticks on 4x4s, just below the top decking, to measure distance down to...
Your tide app or chart predicted a 6-foot tide at 8 a.m. this Wednesday, Dec. 19. But maybe you noticed the water seemed higher than that. What’s going on? Longtime dock residents are well aware that winter storms plus high tides mean predictions may be off by many inches. That’s...
Mother Nature’s early Christmas present will be a series of high tides (6.6’ feet or more) from Dec. 21 to Dec. 24. Even higher tides will come on January 20 and 21. Check the interactive tide chart on the right side of this page; by clicking on the Day +...
TO KEEP EVERYONE UP TO DATE ON WHAT THE FHA BOARD IS DOING, HERE ARE SOME OF THE ITEMS THAT WERE DISCUSSED OR DECIDED AT THE OCTOBER AND NOVEMBER BOARD MEETINGS: Linda Sempliner announced the results of dock rep elections. Contact information for dock reps and alternates is posted on...