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SAN FRANCISCO, CA. - Friday, June 13, 2008 – The Port of San Francisco will officially open the Pier 52 Boat Launch on Saturday, June 14, 2008 at 11:00 a.m. The Pier 52 Boat Launch, located just south of AT&T Park on Terry Francois Boulevard, is the only public boat launch in San Francisco. City officials along with representatives of the California Department of Boating & Waterways, California Coastal Conservancy, the Bay View Boat Club and the Mariposa Hunters Point Yacht Club and San Francisco’s boating community will celebrate the opening of the new public boat launch and promote boating safety.
Pier 52 Boat Launch will be used by recreational boaters including kayakers, sailors, fishermen and power boaters. The San Francisco Police Department (Marine Unit), the San Francisco Fire Department, the U.S. Coast Guard, and the U.S. Navy also will use the public boat launch for water safety and security on the San Francisco shoreline.
The new $3.5 million facility replaces an existing facility that was a single lane launch built in the 1950s, which did not meet modern day boating requirements.
The new facility includes:
• 2-lane public boat launch
• 1 fully accessible landing float
• Loading floats
• Shoreline protection and improvements
• Lighting and signage
• Eventually will include shoreline landscaping and site furnishings as a part of the City's Blue Greenway and Regional Bay Trail projects
The Port and the local boating community have been planning this boat launch project for approximately 15-years. Funding for the project came from three sources - California Department of Boating and Waterways ($2,026,000); Port of San Francisco ($1,300,000); and the California Coastal Conservancy ($200,000).
“The boating community appreciates having safe access to San Francisco's most underutilized recreational resource - the Bay. The boat trailer parking will make it possible for small boat owners to use this facility even with the extensive development occurring all around us. We're grateful to the Port of San Francisco, the California Department of Boating and Waterways and the Coastal Conservancy for making this happen,” said Corinne Woods, long time member of the China Basin boating community.
The Port of San Francisco is a self-revenue generating agency of the City and County of San Francisco, which manages a broad range of commercial, maritime, and public-access facilities along 7½ miles of the city’s waterfront that are held in public trust for the people of California.
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