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The Floating TimesVOL. XXIX No. 1 The Floating Homes Association Newsletter January/February 2012

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FHA Annual Party ......................... 1CERT Corner ................................ 2Emergency Notification ................ 2Water You Doing Here? ................ 3Tour Thanks .................................. 4Artists of Issaquah ........................ 5Dock Talk ...................................... 5Herring Spawn .............................. 6TV Special .................................... 6Advertising .................................... 7FHA Contacts ............................... 8

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by Ray Dunaway, President

Welcome to 2012. The beginning of the year is always a good time to

take stock and see where we are. One of the items to check is your Floating Homes Association membership. This year there is a new membership fee structure -- $25 on a yearly basis or $65 for three years. That is a real bargain when you consider that it buys you the following: - Floating Times newsletter - Tide books and calendars at cost FHA financial support to all the docks (for the dock members to use for the benefit of the dock as they see fit) - Informative and educational website: www.floatinghomes.org - Well outfitted emergency response trailer - CERT training class costs which are reimbursed upon suc-cessful completion - Dock carts for all docks - Representation before city, county and regional legislatures and regulators - The newest benefit, an emer-gency messaging service, under control of our local leader-ship, that will contact you by phone, text, or e-mail in the event of an emergency.

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FHA Annual Party and MeetingSaturday, February 18, 2012by Jarl Forsman

Hello wonderful community! It’s that time of year to meet and par-taaaay with the entire floating homes community. Where else will you be able to meet such a fantastic array of interesting and ame-

nable people? Do yourself a favor and pen it into your calendar this very moment -- February 18, 2012.

Our annual FHA meeting and shindig will once again be held at the Bay Model in Sausalito. Check-in is at 5:00 PM, and the meeting starts at 5:30.

Our President Ray Dunaway will update us on the current state of the FHA and hip us to the latest news about noteworthy happenings. He'll be followed by our new County Supervisor, Katherin Sears, who has taken the place of our beloved Charles McGlashan, and Jared Huffman, our state assemblyman.

Drum roll pleeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaase! We'll also be announcing the lat-est FHA Member of the Year Award. Don't forget that your entry ticket, free with your ridiculously inexpensive year long membership to the Association, entitles you to participate in the super duper, extra fantastic door prize drawing. Various local establishments and service providers, inspired by our very own Malia Daily, have generously agreed to donate gifts for our community raffle.

You are in store for a delightful soiree, because immediately following the meeting, your FHA will be providing a delicious dinner with wine from J. Lohr Vineyards and music by the fabulous Pacifico Samonte.

Maggie Knibbs, left, presents Issaquah resident Denise Ward with a gift basket won in the raffle at the 2011 FHA Meeting. Behind is Flo Hoylman.

Photo by Larry Clinton

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Plus you have free entrance to the annual party with door prizes, free food and drink, and most important-ly, an opportunity to meet your friends and neighbors whose volunteer efforts make all this possible.

We will have a Floating Homes Tour again this year. The organizational details are still being resolved but there is a fine group of experienced volunteers getting the ball rolling. This is the most important fund rais-ing event of the year for the FHA. The proceeds from the tour support our community with contributions to the local agencies including Friends of the Marin City Library and the Sausalito Village. The tour also makes it possible for us to have one of the best equipped and staffed CERT groups in the country.

All of this is accomplished without any governmen-tal assistance. When the call comes for volunteers for the Floating Homes Tour we hope to see you in the throng. We need 210 to 230 volunteers for the tour. You work a two- to three-hour shift and receive a free pass for the tour which was worth $40 in 2011. But that is not the best part of being a volunteer. The best part is the people with whom you are working -- get-ting to know new friends and neighbors, and being part of doing something to benefit our community.

The Tour Committee will be at the Annual Meeting to register people who wish to volunteer their homes and to register volunteers. Please stop and register.

President’s Message - continued from page 1

CERT Corner

The FHA Emergency Notification Systemby Stan Barbarich

As we told you in the last Floating Times issue, we are in the midst of implementing the FHA Emergency Notification System, by which

FHA will be able send our members notifications of expected emergency situations like flood, plus ongo-ing information regarding events like earthquake, tsu-nami, etc. Our testing program has been very success-ful and we are now fine tuning the system.

We will be receiving updates directly from the County Office of Emergency Services, the National Weather Service, US Geological Survey and others. We will receive those notices from the same sources, and at the same time, as the local law enforcement and fire departments do. Thus, we will be able to supple-ment whatever notifications that those agencies might send to your home phone. But the significant advan-tage to our members is that our alerts will be able to not only go to your home phone, but also alert you by cell and text messaging, if you so choose.

Soon, all members will be requested to provide us with a valid e-mail address if they wish to receive these alerts. And we presume everyone will want to. We will send you an invitation to participate, with detailed instructions to follow (it’s an easy process). When you do, you will receive alerts at the numbers you register with the system.

Except for the Floating Homes Residency Law, this is definitely the single most important benefit that the FHA can provide to its members. The emergency-re-sponder community keeps reminding us that we are on our own for some days following a major disaster, and this new system will help our members in many ways.

So, when you receive the request for a valid e-mail address (which will not be revealed to anyone or used for undesirable purposes), we hope you will respond quickly.

by Ray Dunaway

I have received an important notice from the South-ern Marin CERT organization regarding your CERT Identification Cards. On successful comple-

tion of your CERT course you completed and signed the Marin County CERT Disaster Service Worker form. These forms and the ID you were issued are good for four (4) years following your original class.

Please check the expiration date on your card. If you are past due for recertification, or if your expi-ration date is coming soon, you either need to attend another Marin County CERT Basic Course or an ad-vanced training course here in Southern Marin.

The main reason you need a current certification is that is what covers you under State Worker’s Compen-sation protection. If you respond to a call for CERTs you will not be protected under Worker’s Compensa-tion if your ID card is expired.

Furthermore, you may not be allowed to partici-pate in the response effort. If you need your Disaster Services Worker status recertified, please contact Ray Dunaway at rdunaw@attglobal.net. If we have suffi-cient need we will schedule advance training for Divi-sion 3B CERTS.

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Catherine Lyons-Labate has lived in the Co-Op since 1973 when she became one of the origi-nal nine signatories for the Gates Cooperative.

As far as she knows she is the only one still in the neighborhood. For 29 years she devoted herself to affordable housing on the waterfront. She says she really enjoyed the in-teraction and friendships with the many Marin agencies, including the Marin County Board of Supervisors, Ecumeni-cal Affordable Housing, Marin Housing Authority, HUD, the Marin Com-munity Foundation, and as far back as the San Francisco Foundation. She says, “I have always enjoyed community or-ganizing and laying the groundwork for future se-curity for those in need.” She also mused that, in retrospect, she had no idea what trip she was go-ing to be on.

Water you doing here? By the Dinghy Dame

Catherine came to us from Chicago. After attending college in DeKalb, Illinois, she read Small is Beauti-ful by E. F. Schumacher, and it inspired her to change her life. It also prompted her to hitchhike all over Europe and then here in the states where she found herself drawn to Sausalito. She had read all of Alan Watts’ books before she set out on her journey, and he was one of her heroes. Shortly after she arrived here, however, he died. She decided to attend his funeral and went alone. Soon, a woman came and sat next to her. When Catherine looked over she realized that the woman was wearing long boots which extended above her knees.....and nothing else! Someone gently covered the woman’s shoulders and ushered her out. “That,” she said, “is when I discovered the water-front.”

She told me she had left her wallet in the old Mo-hawk station when she first arrived in town, and when she went back to see if anyone had found it, they in-formed her that they had found two that day! She re-claimed hers intact and was able to buy The Primrose at Gate 6 for $400, and spent $50 a month paying it off. She later moved to the Okey Dokey. She found the waterfront lifestyle calming, and strongly feels that we all need to change our lives, and feels everyone who lives here seems to be of the same ilk. In these early years Catherine took classes at San Francisco’s de Young Museum, and had a weaving studio on the Charles Van Damme, the famous Co-Op ferry, of which only the paddle wheel and smoke stack remain.

Catherine Lyons-LabatePhoto by Dinghy Dame

Waterfront dwellers 1983 photo by Catherine Labate

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Her daughter Calli-Rose Lyons, who also lives in the Co-Op, was born in 1979 aboard the Issaquah. Both Catherine and Rose studied photography at the San Francisco Art Institute, though many years apart. Calli-Rose currently produces photo shoots for Wil-liams-Sonoma. As for her own photography, Cathe-rine was influenced by Pirkle Jones, Hank Wessel and Jack Fulton. She is in the process of getting together many of her black-and-white portraits from those early years on the waterfront, and she shared some of them with me. They are indeed a wonderfully insight-ful testimony to her talent, and a poignant portrayal of the lives of those living here during those formative and sometimes tumultuous years.

During those early years, Catherine was waitressing at the Seven Seas and going to school so she stayed busy. She says she didn’t have time to date. When Rose was about ten, however, she chose a partner for Catherine in Michael Labate. She urged her to date him as he was such a nice man, and when he asked her out she accepted and they eventually married. Mi-chael had been living at Schoonmacher, and Catherine had just remodeled her newest home, Calhoun Boule-vard, which she had purchased from Laura Farabough who ran the Snake Theater at Gate 3. It later became the Nightfire Theater at the same location and is now the Antenna Theater in West Marin. The old Calhoun Blvd. sign still festoons their colorful red home over-looking the lagoon. There is still a large peace sign on one side of their home as well, which is usually lighted. She feels folks gravitate to that sign, and they even have trick-or-treaters in kayaks each year.

Catherine spent five years as the in-house photog-rapher in the Sweetwater in Mill Valley during some interesting days, and she might put those photos out in book form as well. She also did sixteen years of wedding photography, but recently has stopped do-ing that. You will be able to view her early waterfront photos sometime in the near future when her book is published -- The Sausalito Waterfront: A Collection of Portraits by Catherine Lyons. She also plans to have a show at the Bay Model. Michael has a woodworking shop near Mollie Stone where Catherine also main-tains a studio and darkroom to pursue those interests.

Catherine and Michael were blessed with a son, An-gelo Julian Lyons-Labate, who was born in 1991 and raised in the community. He is currently a junior at San Francisco State with a double major in Linguistics and Japanese. Catherine feels so happy here. She soft-ly related, “This is home.” She loves to travel, and es-pecially loves India. She feels that living this lifestyle we have here on the waterfront helps one to be a better traveler. She is a practicing Buddhist, loves to walk to the ocean three times a week, loves to cook, and says she reads like crazy. Her current book is Japanese philosophy! Gathering people is one of her favorite pastimes. They even host a yearly party for friends and neighbors complete with flamenco dancers!

Currently Catherine is in her fifth year working for the San Francisco nonprofit, Curry Without Worry. You can take a gander at that on Currywithoutworry.

org. In The City, they feed about 250 people each Tuesday night. They serve Nepalese food, and it is meatless. (Guess I shouldn’t have said, “take a gan-der”....but, my goose won’t be cooked!) She shops wisely at the food bank, cooks and serves, and does their fundraising. She says she feels rich having this activity in her life and feels, “we are all supposed to give in this life.” She is committed to this service and is trying to extend Curry to Marin. $250 will feed 250 needy folks a healthy, tasty meal one night a week. Any help is appreciated. They use all authentic herbs and spices, and I could almost smell the fenugreek as we sat there on her deck overlooking Issaquah, Main Dock, part of Liberty and Clipper.

They might have to move to another location in the near future, but Catherine is ready for the change. She said that she has tried to instill in her children that life is in the journey, not the destination . Even if they are moved out of their beloved lagoon, she will feel happy to be here. As Catherine would say upon departing, “Namaste.”

Sausalito Village Thanks the Floating Homes Association and Tourby Felicity Kirsch

The following is a letter from Betsy Stroman of the Sausalito Village Steering Committee.

The Sausalito Village Steering Committee wishes to thank the Floating Homes Association for your ex-tremely generous contribution to Sausalito Village. The $1,000 contribution from the Association and Tour will be used exclusively to fund subsidies for membership in Sausalito Village for individuals who can benefit from the program and are unable to afford the entire $200 per year membership fee. From the be-ginning it has been our hope that we will be able to make Sausalito Village available to mature residents without regard to their financial circumstances. With the type of support the Floating Homes Association is providing, we are well on our way to being able to do so.

Separate and apart from the monetary value of your contribution, it symbolizes a growing partnership be-tween our two organizations. Our members enjoyed being volunteers for the Tour and are looking forward to returning this year. Sausalito Village is pleased to have at least a half dozen households from the floating homes community, and look forward to welcoming more. If any association member requires a subsidy for membership, please contact Betsy Stroman, Chair, at 331–1464.

Thank you again for your generosity. And we in-vite all floating home residents to contact Sausalito Village with any questions or comments, or to let us know how we can do a better job serving the floating homes community: Betsy Stroman and the Sausalito Village Steering Committee (www.marinvillage.org/sausalito)

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Artists of Issaquah Show – Call for ArtistsBy Felicity Kirsch

The Artists of Issaquah are pleased to announce they will be hosting their 10th Annual Artists of Issaquah Show on Saturday, April 28th, 2012,

from 11am to 5pm. All artist residents of the Sausalito Floating Homes community are invited to participate in the show.

If you are interested in presenting your work, please make your reservation by e-mailing flohoy@gmail.com. Then mail your name, phone number, e-mail address and art medium, along with a check for $40 made payable to Flo Hoylman, PO Box 2355, Sau-salito, CA 94966.

The first artists meeting was held on January 30 at 7:00 pm at 53 Issaquah Dock. Venues will be allocat-ed, jobs will be assigned and plans will be made in the next month to assure this event is even more success-ful than last year’s. Approximately 600 people visited the work of 20 artists in 10 floating homes last year. Artists are asked to attend the last meeting on March 26th and to serve on a committee.

And this just in: We will be listed in the March/April issue of VIA Magazine!

Local artists are featured in the Artists of Issaquah ShowPhoto by Emily Riddell

Dock Talk

Muriel Kifer and Jib with Santa at Christmas

On January 1st, about thirty South 40 residents climbed aboard the Mirene, owned by Stuart Brand and Ryan Phelan, and motored out for a

brunch cruise under the Golden Gate to celebrate the New Year and the 100th birthday of their boat.

The Mirene is not only 100 years old, but is also the

She looks great! The Mirene on her 100th birthday.

South 40 Celebrates the Mirene’s 100th Birthdayby Flo Hoylman

Photo by Hillair BellI’ve been asked to send out a very cute Christmas

photo from our dear neighbor, Muriel Kifer. For newbies, Muriel owns the first boat on the right as

you enter Issaquah Dock.I thought I’d also take this opportunity to remind

you that we have a calendar set up to organize assis-tance to her. I know she was so grateful to everybody who helped her clean her boat, and prepared food for her in the past.

She can still use help with meals. So please think of cooking a little extra and helping our effort to keep her living independently on the dock. Of course you don’t

Muriel Kifer Assistance Calendarby Steve Sekhon

need me to tell you this, but it’d be very good dockma. (No, not dogma, D O C K M A - dock karma).

We’re organizing the effort with a super easy-to-use online calendar that can be made accessible and edited by anyone. It’s on a website called Keepand-Share, and it’s the Muriel Assistance Calendar.

If you have any leftovers, it would be great if you just type your name next a particular meal (lunch or dinner), and then deliver it to her on the day of you’ve selected, or even before. If you’re moved, you might even offer to take her shopping. Thanks for consider-ing it!

Here’s the link to the calendar:(http://www.keepandshare.com/calendar/show_

month.php?i=1830366&lang=)

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Stewart Brand and Ryan Phelan, in the upper left, lead the party on the back deck.

A Fish Tale With No Fish?By Larry Clinton

Photo by Hillair Bell

only powered vessel moored in Waldo Point Harbor. Stuart and Ryan saved her in the 70’s and restored her with great loving care. On an incredibly beautiful day to sail, South 40 resident Joe Tate entertained us by singing “(Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay” while sit-ting at the table where it was written, although the table was not in the Mirene when it was written. Houseboat living is magical.

TV Special Feb. 12- Extreme Houseboatsby Larry Clinton

On Sunday, February 12 at 8pm, the Travel Channel will air a segment entitled “Extreme Houseboats.” Part of the segment was shot in

our community, with input from Larry Clinton, Ron Moreland, Ray Dunaway, Scott Stoneback, Henry Baer and Leni Miller. The Train Wreck and Dragon Boat are featured, and some waterborne footage was shot from a boat skippered by Bill Snyder of A Dock. Tell your friends, and set your DVR!

In a good year, millions of herring come into San Francisco Bay to spawn from mid-December until March. The pregnant fish usually follow a nocturnal

flood tide into the shallows. For floating homes, that means our front and back yards. The female herring leave a layer of eggs coated on hard, fixed objects such as rocks, pilings and concrete hulls.

If you check your pilings when you go out in the morning, you may discover them coated with millions of tiny, tan-colored eggs. The arrival of the pregnant

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Herring Fishing in 2002 Photo by Court Mast

little devils is good news for some of your neighbors. Certainly our friends the sea lions and harbor seals are happy. For them, the herring run is the pinnipedian version of a pie-eating contest.

As the late Steve Frisch of Liberty Dock said, “The look on their faces this time of year is a fish-eating grin.

That barking that you hear at night isn’t the hounds of Hell coming for you. It’s the sea lions, following schools of herring.” When the fish are spawning on our pilings, feeding frenzy erupts as birds and marine mammals fight for a share of the herring and their roe.

Some two-legged neighbors count on the herring run for a substantial part of their annual income. Her-ring boats have been known to pull in hundreds of thousands of dollars in a short season, set annually by the California State Fish and Game Commission. When the quota is filled, fishing is over for the season.

Recent years have showed a decline in the herring population, according to Baynature.org. The Novem-ber, 2007 Cosco Busan oil spill, just before the 2008-’09 spawn, wreaked havoc on embryonic fish in San Francisco Bay for the next two years, according to a new science paper in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The accident oiled shorelines near spawning hab-itats for the largest population of Pacific herring on the west coast of the continental United States. Three months after the spill, embryos at oiled sites showed heart defects and unexpectedly high rates of tissue death and fish mortality (the fish were literally falling apart) unrelated to heart defects.

In 2009, Fish and Game closed the fishery alto-gether. According to Ryan Bartling, a Fish and Game biologist who assesses the “spawning biomass” each season, the dismal numbers were most likely linked to many factors, including an anemic krill supply off-shore and higher than normal salinity in the Bay.

However, Fish and Game has recorded spawning increases since that time, according to Tom Greiner, herring fishery manager for San Francisco Bay. As of mid-January, the Department was seeing significant spawns in eel grass areas of Richardson’s Bay.

Although no piling spawns have been reported, floating homes residents have witnessed a few sizable hunting packs of cormorants, terns and pelicans, a positive sign as the herring season peaks in mid-win-ter. We can only hope that the Bay’s amazing ability to heal itself will lead to a herring resurgence so we can all enjoy the spawning spectacle once again.

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FHA OFFICERSPresident Ray Dunaway 331-2888 rdunaw@attglobal.netVice President Flo Hoylman 332-1043 flohoy@gmail.comSecretary Hillair Bell 577-7220 hillair_michael@yahoo.comTreasurer Ron Moreland 332-2429 ron@morelandonline.comDirector at Large Stan Barbarich 332-7225 stan@floatinghouse.netAdmin. Coordinator Lewis Shireman 331-8325 LJShireman@sbcglobal.netCOMMITTEES Emergency Services Ray Dunaway 332-5548 rdunaw@attglobal.netEnvironmental Suki Sennett 331-6375 sennett24@comcast.netLegal Pam Bousquet 331-3614 pamafloat@earthlink.netMembership Jarl Forsman (510) 866-5275 jarlforsman@hotmail.com Claudia Duncan 272-5002 duncanclaudia@sbcglobal.netNewsletter Editor Scott Stoneback 806-6083 scott@stonebackvp.comNewsletter Submissions Court Mast 331-1953 court@mastphotography.com Classified Ads Bonnie Hunter 302-5649 bonnieskip.hunter@comcast.net Tour Directors Ray & JoAnn Dunaway joanndunaway@e-msii.com Webmaster Ric Miller 331-6116 rick@floatinghome.comSERVICES Emergency Line when using cell phones 472-0911RBRAHarbor Admin Bill Price 289-4143 bprice@co.marin.ca.us cell: 971-3919 San Francisco Baykeeper Hot Line 1-800 533-7229Marin County Fire Dept. Non-emergency 446-4463Marin County Sheriff Non-emergency 332-5422Harbor Equity Group (HEG) Pam Bousquet 331-3614 pamafloat@earthlink.netWPH Residents (HEG) Liaison Ric Miller 331-6116 ric@floatinghome.comKappas Residents (KHA) Liaison Ron Moreland 332-2429 ron@morelandonline.comWildCare 456-7283 (24 Hour Nightline) 300-6359The Marine Mammal Center 289-7325

DOCK REPS and ALTERNATES ADock Laurel Polarek 339-8964 reddog1@sbcglobal.net Alternate Bob Engman 608-5068 engmanaia@sbcglobal.netCommodore Felicity Kirsch 888-3919 felicity_kirsch@comcast.net Alternate Richard Kiiski 332-5428 kiiski@earthlink.net

Co-op Michael Labate 331-5081 labateml@netscape.netEast Kappas Carole Angermeir 332-0682 carole@crossculturaljourneys.com Alternate Rose-Meri Muldoon 331-5348 rozom2@aol.comGate 6 1/2 Larry Clinton 332-6196 click@dipsymusic.com Alternate Blaise Simpson 331-6079 blaises@yahoo.comIssaquah Steve Sekhon 510 205-2148 stevesekhon@gmail.com Alternate Rachelle Dorris 272-1543 rdorris@fhallen.comLiberty David West 331-8188 dhw429@gmail.com Alternate Marti Roush 332-4398 martimarth@earthlink.netMain Dock Tony Williams 332-6296 tony@wolfisland.net Alternate Peter Huson 332-6240 peterhuson@att.net Alternate Janet Thuesen 332-6591 arkatype@comcast.netSouth Forty Craig Merrilees 331-3558 craig@ilwu.org Alternate Susan Neri 332-8482 sbneri@yahoo.comWest Kappas Maggie Knibbs 324-7200 maggieknibbs@aol.com Alternate Court Mast 331-1953 court@mastphotography.com Yellow Ferry Craig Meyer 408-1421 linmeyer@juno.com Alternate Debra Levy 332-1803 ccmginc@earthlink.net Alternate Jill Stephens 289-0410 jillstephens@gmail.com

GOVERNMENT District 3 Supervisor Kate Sears 473-7331Assemblymember Jared Huffman 479-4920San Francisco BCDC 352-3600FEMA 800-462-9029Army Corps of Engineers 332-0334Sausalito Post Office 332-0258

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