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Delta Billie
Short documentary about the Bay Area tugboat trade. Take a ride on board with veteran Captain Mike Harbarth and his Delta Billie crew as...
John Beck
Feb 24, 20211 min read


Two Ships in the Night
We’re putting the kids to bed, or at least trying. Cooper is swinging from the pull-up bar in his bedroom door jam and Zoe is writing in...
John Beck
Feb 23, 20213 min read


Gap Year
Back in high school, we used to meet up down by the pier at the end of First Street almost every Friday and Saturday night. One night, a...
John Beck
Feb 23, 20213 min read


Sailing Away
Marty said he had sailed before, that he’d been to sailing camp when he was younger and won all these medals, but it sure was hard to...
John Beck
Feb 23, 20213 min read


Salmon Season
It was Cliff’s idea to call the cops. I thought maybe we should wait awhile, see how the fish were biting. At least wet a line. But he...
John Beck
Feb 23, 20213 min read


The Ghost Ship
My Grampa used to tell us all kinds of stories when we were younger. He’d usually start out by picking up a book, like The Ugly Duckling...
John Beck
Feb 23, 20213 min read


One Wrong Turn
Dad read a funny story in the newspaper about this mama whale and her baby that were lost. Somebody had named them Delta and Dawn. “How...
John Beck
Feb 23, 20213 min read


The Promise
I remember, not long before my father died, we used to drive down to the end of First Street and sit on a bench that was dedicated to an...
John Beck
Feb 23, 20213 min read


Buena Vista
There are nights when I think to myself, everything would be better if I just dove off this deck and swam out to one of those ships....
John Beck
Feb 23, 20213 min read
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