{"id":2295,"date":"2024-04-25T17:11:25","date_gmt":"2024-04-26T00:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tradewindssailing.com\/wordpress\/?p=2295"},"modified":"2024-04-25T17:18:26","modified_gmt":"2024-04-26T00:18:26","slug":"nautical-terminator-opening-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tradewindssailing.com\/wordpress\/nautical-terminator\/nautical-terminator-opening-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Nautical Terminator – Opening Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Baseball and fishing have opening days for the season, but what opens? A gate? A bottle? In the case of sailing on San Francisco Bay there was once something that actually did open<\/em> on opening day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

          In many\nparts of the country, the climate dictates that boats be taken out of the water\nfor winter, so it\u2019s natural for there to be some sort of celebration when they\nare recommissioned in the spring. Despite our more temperate climate, the custom\nwas brought here and observed at scattered locations where boats were kept in\nthe 19th<\/sup> century. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

          In the\nlate 1800s, some people owned houseboats that they called \u201carks.\u201d They spent\nthe summer months anchored in quiet Belvedere Cove where the San Francisco\nYacht Club is now, but in winter things could get somewhat dicey in the open\nwater. Tiburon Lagoon (now filled in) on the back side of Corinthian Island\nprovided excellent protection, but Main Street, which connected Tiburon to Beach\nRoad and Belvedere Island, would have been in the way. A drawbridge was\nconstructed that permitted the arks to pass into the lagoon for winter on\n\u201cclosing day\u201d in the fall. When the bridge was opened in the spring, \u201copening\nday\u201d featured a celebration and parade. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

          If you\ngo to Tiburon, walk west along Main Street and just after it curves, on your\nright you\u2019ll see many of the quaint old arks, now firmly anchored on land. Behind\nthem where the parking lot is now was once Tiburon Lagoon, and just a little\npast the arks was the location of the bridge. Go into Sam\u2019s Anchor Cafe, and in\nthe last dining room on your left as you head toward the deck, you\u2019ll find a\nphotograph of the drawbridge on the wall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

          The Pacific Inter-Club Yacht Association\n(PICYA), formed in San Francisco in 1896, united local celebrations, including\nTiburon\u2019s, into a sail called a \u201cCruise in Squadron\u201d in 1917. This became\nOpening Day and is still organized by the PICYA. In 1963, a \u201cBlessing of the\nFleet,\u201d based on a tradition of blessing fishing boats that dates from at least\nmedieval times, was added specifically for recreational boats under the auspices\nof Tiburon\u2019s Corinthian Yacht Club. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Blessing of the Fleet occurs this year on April 28 at 10:30 in Raccoon Strait. The opening day parade of boats begins at 12:00 off of Chrissy Field. For details see https:\/\/picya.org\/event\/opening-day-on-the-bay\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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