Posts Tagged ‘cruise’
Monday, October 1st, 2012
How would you like to volunteer as a docent helping out with the new-school / old-school E-line on October 6-7, 2012?
First, some background about how busy the 415 will be this weekend:
“Looking at what’s scheduled for that weekend, there might not be room in the city for many more people, much less cars. First, there’s the free Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival in Golden Gate Park, a three-day event that drew about 800,000 people last year. That Sunday afternoon, the 49ers play the Buffalo Bills at Candlestick Park, while the Giants are hoping for weekend playoff games at AT&T Park, all guaranteed sellouts. About 60,000 people typically attend the Castro Street Fair, scheduled for that Sunday, while thousands more will jam North Beach for the annual Italian Heritage Parade at 12:30 on the same day. A different crowd will probably be at the Burning Man Decompression street fair, also that Sunday afternoon. To add to the fun, two mega cruise ships are expected to dock at Pier 35 over the weekend, disgorging thousands more tourists. Then, of course, there’s Fleet Week, which brings thousands of sailors and as many as a million visitors to the waterfront for the weekend.”
So you’ll be needed to help out all the visitors moving around on the Twin Torpedos, streetcars 1006 and 1008:
“We need several more docents to work the stops along the E-line on October 6 and 7, helping riders find the right platform and providing information about the service. We have docent books prepared by Paul Lucas, so it’s easy to learn what to do. If you’re interested, send us an email and we’ll get back to you.”
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Act now.
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Friday, February 17th, 2012
The P&O* Cruises Aurora was just in town up near Fishermans Wharf at Pier 35 South for part of her 2012 World Cruise.
But three of the passengers on this ship got busted for blow, deets here.
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*Peninsular and Oriental
Tags: 2012, 2012 World Cruise., Aurora, austrailia, australians, bay area, california, cocaine, cruise, Cruises, Embarcadero, fishermans wharf, hawaii, hawaiian, Hilo, Kirsty Harris, m/v, MV Aurora, new zealand, New Zealander, north point, passengers, pier 35, Pier 35 South, PO, police, port, San Francisco, south, street, sydney, Tony Earl Wilkinson, wharf, World Cruise.
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Friday, January 27th, 2012
Tags: 2012, 2012 World Cruise., Aurora, bay area, california, cruise, Cruises, Embarcadero, fishermans wharf, hawaii, hawaiian, Hilo, m/v, MV Aurora, north point, passengers, pier 35, Pier 35 South, PO, port, San Francisco, south, street, wharf, World Cruise.
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Monday, May 9th, 2011
Well this is what the first visit of the Disney Wonder cruise ship looked like last week when she sailed under the Golden Gate Bridge for the first time…
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… and this is what she looked like when berthed at Pier 35:
Via David Yu
Since then, she made it all the way to Canada, where a drydock appointment waits.
Making friends already up North:
(I won’t bother asking why San Francisco gets less than its fair share of cruise business and why the Wonder couldn’t have drydocked in the 415…)
Anyway, Bon Courage Disney Wonder!
(Come back when you can.)
Tags: 2011, alaska, bay area, boat, california, canada, cruise, Disney, dry dock, drydock, Embarcadero, fishermans wharf, los angeles, pier 35, port, San Francisco, ship, Vancouver, walt, waterfront, wisney wonder, wonder
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Monday, February 28th, 2011
You know why that Carnival Splendor cruise ship got towed to a San Francisco dry dock all the way up from Fun Diego last month, you know why her owners chose the 415 as the place where she’d get a new engine and get a whole bunch of work done?
Because they didn’t really have a choice, that’s why. If your 300-yard+ vessel needs to come out of the briny somewhere in the Eastern Pacific, odds are you’ll bring it here. Hurray!
So, why did the fire in one engine room affect the other engine room? Answer here.
And did the passengers really eat airlifted Spam and Pop Tarts for three days? Not really. Answer here.
The view from our world-class San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge. (It’s only been two decades since that earthquake and we’re almost done fixing it up already!) Now-defunct Potrero Power Plant camera right:
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Anyway, the Splendor is loaded up and chugging towards Mexico, back OTJ.
Hurray!
Tags: 2011, bae systems, bay area, bay bridge, california, Carnival, carnival splendor, cruise, dry dock, drydock, engine, fire, fix, fixed, mexico, military, navy, Oakland, Potrero Power Plant, repair, san diego, San Francisco, San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge, span, towed, u. s., us navy, yard
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Thursday, June 3rd, 2010
Remember back in the day, when San Francisco was a blue collar town? Well, dude, S.F. is still a blue collar town, if only because of BAE Systems and all the stuff they do with ships on the east si-iiiide.
Remember the 70-yard band-aid that was slapped on the Cosco Busan at Pier 70 a few years back? This will show the same kind of deal – tonight you’ll be able to see all the deets of the work of our highly-paid blue-collar types. You’ll be able to see the Sea Princess, inside and out.
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Sea Princess Stars in National Geographic Channel’s Hit Series ‘World’s Toughest Fixes’
June 3 Episode to Take Viewers Behind the Scenes During Princess Cruises Ship’s Drydock
SANTA CLARITA, Calif., June 1 — The immense job of drydocking Sea Princess will be featured in the June 3 episode of National Geographic Channel’s (NGC) top-rated show, World’s Toughest Fixes. TV viewers can go behind the scenes as host Sean Riley follows the entire process from the time the Princess Cruises ship enters the drydock to the final sea trials.
Airing on Thursday, June 3 at 9 p.m. ET/PT on NGC, the show was filmed while Sea Princess was in a regularly scheduled drydock at BAE Systems San Francisco Ship Repair last September. The episode focuses on the enormous task of completing a multitude of drydock projects in just 15 days, with emphasis on several technical “fixes” on the bottom of the ship that could only be accessed when the ship is out of the water.
“This is a unique opportunity for audiences to really appreciate the amazing around-the-clock effort needed to keep our ships in top shape to deliver the experience our passengers expect,” said Jan Swartz, Princess Cruises executive vice president. “We’re excited that the National Geographic Channel was interested in featuring this rare behind-the-scenes project.”
One of the network’s most popular shows, World’s Toughest Fixes takes viewers inside some of the most daunting repair jobs with Riley, a professional master rigger, as he works with many of the world’s top mechanics to show how they tackle these challenging fixes. World’s Toughest Fixes airs Thursdays at 9 p.m. ET/PT on NGC.
Riley joins the Sea Princess drydock crew on a number of tasks, adding his own elbow grease and expertise along the way and tries out several drydock jobs. He helps strip and power wash the hull, tries his hand at upholstery work and joins the team working high up on the ship to seal the windows. He even gives viewers an up-close view inside the tail shaft housing as he crawls in to show the audience the work being done.
Throughout the episode viewers will get a glimpse of the buzz of activity on a ship in drydock, including a look at installation of carpet and floors, the stripping of wooden decks, and even a glimpse of the ship’s new adults-only Sanctuary which was constructed during the drydock.
More photos of last fall’s Sea Princess drydock are available in the Sea Princess Drydock Journal. Behind-the-scenes photos of the World’s Toughest Fixes crew at work during the shoot are available on the Princess Flickr photostream.
Additional information about Princess Cruises is available through a professional travel agent, by calling 1-800-PRINCESS, or by visiting the company’s website at www.princess.com.
Princess can also be found on:
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/PrincessCruises
Twitter: http://twitter.com/PrincessCruises
Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/princesscruises
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Monday, May 3rd, 2010
Of course, some people* don’t like you, RocketBoat, but I do. You add color to the bay. You complete me, RB. Thanks for coming back in 2010.
Get all the deets on the Rocket Boat here from sailboat-hating Ken Garcia. And take a look at the action on YouTube. RocketBoat just might rock your world. Check it:
“Came back for a 2nd round and this time we had a party of 7 go on the Rocketboat. That boat kicks ass. It goes about 45 mph and the driver loves to spin donuts.”
Verily.
Now, we’ve all heard the expression “let’s get busy.” Well, this is a boat who gets “biz-zay!” Consistently and thoroughly. Look at RB totally pwning a local yachtsman just the other day:
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Even “smart chicks” love the RocketBoat. You will too.
Get all the deets after the jump.
See you there!
*Local sailboat people disapprove of motor vessels in general, and RocktBoat in particular. RocketBoat, RocketBoat/ It’s not your fault.
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Wednesday, January 27th, 2010
Photographer Eric Risberg must have still had the sleepers in his eyes this AM when he captured the new Cunard cruise ship Queen Victoria making her debut in San Francisco. Here’s how she looked going under the Golden Gate Bridge and past Alcatraz.
Look for her at the Pier 35 Cruise Ship Terminal (you know, the one that’s the most expensive to operate on the entire west coast, and that includes Canada, eh?)
How would you like to kill 107 days traveling the world? It would only cost $25k (and up):
Another dreary morn in San Francisco, via stevenseaweed
But here’s how she’ll look in sunny Lahaina, Maui:
And then, after Hawaii, she’ll be off to Cindy, Australia.
Bon Voyage, MSQV!
[UPDATE: And San Francisco’s Mayor was there – read what he had to say about Pier 27 after the jump.
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Wednesday, December 30th, 2009
Here we go, straight out of the shipyards of Trieste, Italy, it’s Cunard’s Motor Ship Queen Victoria! Well, guess what – she’s coming to San Francisco on Wednesday, January 27th, 2010, so plan accordingly.
This is going to be the biggest thing to hit town since the Queen Mary 2 back in ought-seven.
But don’t call the QV an ocean liner, oh no, she’s just a cruise ship owing to her lack of freeboard, among other things. Oh well.
See?
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Queen Victoria Makes Her U.S. Maiden Call to Port of San Francisco Jan. 27, 2010
Cunard Line’s youngest ship, Queen Victoria, will make her maiden call to San Francisco on Jan. 27, 2010, marking her only U.S. inaugural call in the next year.
Queen Victoria will stop in San Francisco as part of the first segment of her third world voyage. Expected to pass under the Golden Gate Bridge at approximately 6 a.m., she will dock at Pier 35 at 6:30 a.m. before departing at 6 p.m. for Hawaii. Designed in the grand Cunard tradition, the 2,000-passenger Queen Victoriais the second largest Cunarder ever built, weighing in at 90,000 gross tons and measuring 964.5 feet from stem to stern – more than 110 feet longer than San Francisco’s tallest building, the Transamerica Pyramid.
Thousands of spectators lined the shores of San Francisco Bay in 2007 when Cunard’s flagship, Queen Mary 2, made her first call in San Francisco. Best viewing locations include the Golden Gate Bridge – vista points on both north and south sides of the span; Fort Mason; Crissy Field and the Fisherman’s Wharf area. For information visit www.cunard.com.
Tags: , 2010, 27, 27th, bar pilots, bay area, cruise, cunard, Golden Gate Bridge, hawaii, january, Line, liner, ocean, pier, port, queen victoria, san francsco, ship
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Friday, September 25th, 2009
This was the scene last night at the Fleet Week 2009 Fundraising Cruise and Celebration on Pier 3′s California Hornblower right after comedian and Sunset District resident Will Durst introduced castmembers from the Golden Gate Theatre’s Tony Award-winning smash hit South Pacific.
After this, partygoers went for a cruise on San Francisco Bay, leaving the Death of Fun crowd back on dry land. All to raise money for the upcoming Fleet Week 2009 coming to town next month. Click to expand:
Just look at all these mens singing There is Nothing Like a Dame (Hello Nurse! at 3:10).
Other personalities on hand included George Michalski, David Nail, Madame Molotova, Paul Hayward, David Nail, and Ron Bunn.
Will this fundraising cruise and party become an annual event?
Stay tuned…
Tags: 2009, boat, cruise, David Nail, fleet week, George Michalski, Madame Molotova, nurse, party, Paul Hayward, pier 3, Ron Bunn, San Francisco, singing, song, south pacific, there is nothing like a dame, will durst
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