From its dishes and cocktails to its social traditions, the Bay Area has always been a land dictated by its seas. Here’s a look back.
built mostly in the late 1800s, lovingly restored and ripe for public exploring.
Steve Hyman, a marine preservationist in San Francisco, got involved in the care of these venerable ships by “not listening to my mother and hanging out in the wrong bars,” he jokes. “I got upset with my girlfriend one evening and ended up at Specs’ bar in North Beach. I ran into some great drunken sailors who invited me to the waterfront, where they were sailing on a replica of Sir Francis Drake’s ship, the Golden Hind.
“Nineteenth-century sailing ships were lost often – just go missing and never be heard from again,” he says. “Navigation was all done through sextants and a lot of dead reckoning. There were weather incidents, especially off Cape Horn in the, and then you get around 50 South, where the gale-force winds are extreme. There were dismastings constantly, and the ships that could, would limp back to the Falkland Islands.
“Ships would often stop at the Galapagos Islands, where they could get fresh meat on the hoof or on the claw, whatever a tortoise has,” says Everett. “They’d grab these hundreds-of-pounds Galapagos tortoises, turn them on their backs so they couldn’t keep crawling away, then it’d take several men to carry one to the ship. They’d keep them in the bilges, because you can’t kill a turtle – they’d just live in the pitch black, down in the bilge in the water.
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