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SF GOV

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www.unionstreet.com

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www.fishermanswharf.org

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12/14/2003 - Ahoy San Francisco and the rest of California. Our Tradewinds of the West Page just went up in time for the Holiday Season. A gift to you all, along with our story of our clipper ship maritime heritage as expounded upon these pages.

There is quite a bit of early San Francisco history here for you all to discover for the first time on the World Wide Web. We are happy to report that this Web site is already a bit hit with educators and teachers throughout the Golden State.

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Tall Ships of the Coos Bay

Tall Ships of the Coos Bay

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www.americanpride.org

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Directory

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We hope to get The Era of the Clipper Ships into print soon, and will let you all know on this Web site when the book will be released.

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The History of the "Oregon Clipper"

Western Shore

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Anchor Brewing Calendar Offer

Anchor Brewing Print Offer

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The San Diego Maritime Museum: The Home of Star of India. www.sdmaritime.com

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San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park: The Home of Rice-a-roni. . . the San Francisco Treat! www.nps.gov/safr

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The Museum of the City of San Francisco: The history of the city is here. www.sfmuseum.org

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SF Gate: Comics

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See more of the wonderful pictures of Carole Isaacs / San Francisco Film Commission

Web page

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When you surf through our Web site extensively you will pick up on the fact that our major goal is to see that American clipper ships are built again and to have Deep Sea Derby clipper ship races from the Northeast around Cape Horn to San Francisco just like in the old days from 1849 through the 1850s around the time of the California Gold Rush.

Now wouldn't that be exciting! A Deep Sea Derby certainly would be a boon to San Francisco. It could happen.

In the meantime, we invite you all to watch this new Tradewinds of the West page evolve over the coming months and we invite the Maritime community, tourist industry, historians, educators, teachers, and everyone else in the region to get involved and contribute Web site links. See our Tradewinds page for details.

I should also say that I lived in the Bay Area for over a decade back in the 1960s and 70s and have always considered it to be my other home.

Happy sails,

Don Ross

1st-cousin-4-times-removed to Donald McKay

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