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The Spaulding Marine Center will continue to restore and preserve important San Francisco Bay wooden boats and communicate the skills and ideals that went into their design, building, and use. The 32-foot (9.8 m) gaff-rigged sloop Freda , the oldest active sailing yacht on the west coast, is the inaugural Spaulding Center restoration project.
OCSC SAILING was an ongoing sponsor of sailing programs for disadvantaged youth in San Francisco, Oakland, Berkeley and the East Bay. [10] In addition, a percentage of net annual sales was donated to social causes and groups that preserve and restore the natural environment. [11] [12]
The school's mission was "to give practical and theoretical instruction in navigation, seamanship, steam engines, gas engines, and electricity in order to prepare young men to serve as officers in the American Merchant Marine." By 1930, a training vessel and a school site was acquired; the original site was in Tiburon in the San Francisco Bay Area.
He's just raw intellect and power. As a sailing person, as a user of materials, he was a genius. He was Excalibur; he learned from Sparkman and Stephens. [He was] the first one on San Francisco Bay to combine a thorough knowledge of design, along with the difficulties of sailing in San Francisco Bay. So it was a powerful combination.
StFYC hired the famous San Francisco architect Willis Polk to design their clubhouse which was then built on land leased from San Francisco by the club on the jetty off of Crissy Field in the Marina District, San Francisco, on landfill created for the 1915 Panama Pacific International Exposition. Polk died before the blueprints could be ...
The Marine Science Institute (MSI) is a nonprofit organization focusing on marine science research and education. MSI was founded in 1970 [1] and currently is situated in Redwood City, California, adjacent to the Port of Redwood City. [4]
October 1991: USYRU change its name to the United States Sailing Association, Inc. and began to do business as US SAILING. 1993: US Sailing developed a comprehensive instruction program for adults to learn to sail in larger sailboats. 2019: US Sailing located its training for the US Sailing Olympic Team on Treasure Island, San Francisco [15]
The junk was built in 2003 as a joint project between China Camp State Park in San Rafael, California and the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park, and is now jointly exhibited and operated by both institutions. It functions as a "working sailing museum" to educate the public about a previously forgotten chapter in the history of ...