7 x 7 Magazine honors Summer Sailstice with 'Best Day on the Bay'
7 x 7 Magazine, a highly-regarded San Francisco city art, design, fashion and people magazine recently published their 'Best of the City issue in June. Amongst the list of '100 Things We Love' was a huge variety of art, entertainment and best things to do in a day in San Francisco. Here's how they put it:
Best of the City 2009: Day
How to spend a day in San Francisco? We’ve got a few (dozen) ideas—go sailing, picnicking and hiking, walk like an Egyptian, settle in for story time or grab a bleacher seat to watch the Giants take the Astros to the cleaners.
Right up front is sailing! And that's the way it should be in San Francisco and many other cities as well. We'd have to agree it's one of the very best reasons to live in San Francisco and just too few of the 6 million Bay Area residents understand how easily they can step off the shore, on to a sailboat and experience the Bay Area in a profoundly different way. Recenly, members of the Bay Area sailing community decided to help make that a little easier for Bay Area residents who can't figure out how to access sailing. The new website, www.gosailingsf.org, is a new Bay Area resource giving everyone the informaiton they need to find a way to the Bay.
Of course it also helps to have a magazines like 7 x 7 recognize the beauty that surrounds the city of their focus. They included Summer Sailstice in the magazine and website with the following copy on Summer Sailstice:
Best Day on the Bay
Zinc oxide is required, but Dramamine is optional. Take advantage of the extended daylight on the weekend of the summer solstice, June 20–21. While away the sun-drenched hours on a boat during the Summer Sailstice event at Treasure Island and you’ll have a front-row seat for the onshore concert, water races and buried-treasure hunts.
We're happy Summer Sailstice was recognized but even happier if it helps a few land-bound city dwellers find their way sailing on San Francisco Bay. Perhaps Mayor Gavin Newsom will even try sailing the Bay someday. We ran into him a couple of years ago and talked to him about sailing. He admitted that, though he'd lived in the Bay Area his entire life and 2/3 of the territory within San Francisco city limits is underwater, he's never sailed on San Francisco Bay! We're hoping he, like many others, will give it a try on Summer Sailstice on Treasure Island, June 20th.
Friday nigt racing, June 5th, 2009 San Francisco Bay:
