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John Beck

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

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

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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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

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....