Of Skis And Seas
San Francisco is a city of contradiction. Of oddities. Of strange things that only seems strange to residents of other cities. Normal cities.
To wit: There’s a sailing ship in SOMA and perhaps a ski jump (again) in Pac Heights.
First - the return of the ski jump event. Maybe. Seems Tahoe-based Icer is ramping up efforts to hold the event in late September, this time working (even more) closely with demanding Pac Heights residents and perhaps moving the event to a weekday to mitigate the impact. Yeah, I don’t get how a weekday is better either. You’ll have to ask them.
Next - if snow ain’t your thing and you’re more of the sailing type, your ship may have come in . . . to Folsom and Spear. And about two hundred years late. Or technically, you’re two hundred years late:
Construction crews building a new high-rise condominium project in downtown San Francisco have uncovered a maritime mystery — the remains of a large wooden sailing ship that probably dates from the 1849 Gold Rush.
The bones of the old ship were discovered last week 20 feet below Folsom Street near Spear Street, the site of a 650-unit building now under construction. Passers-by on Folsom Street could see the stern section of a ship, lying on its side. The ship was about 125 feet long, built of thick wooden timbers, and had a rudder about 6 feet high.
Archaeologists could not say much about this ship, though Richard Everett, a curator at the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park, said that the site had once been the location of a ship-breaking yard owned by Charles Haer, and the ship was almost surely a relic of the Gold Rush.
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