I just found out that I’ll be attending a conferance in SF during the week of June 11-17th. at the Moscone Center. We got any modelers in the area? or decent nauticle sites to see? I’ll probally hit all the local stuff, Bay Bridge, Pier 39, the Cables Cars, and the Transamerica. I figure there must be a decent museum on ship out there? Any ideas?
Jake
Go to the warf area - near pier 41 and you can visit the USS Pampanito (WWII fleet boat) and the Jerimia Obrion (sp). There may be some other stuff there too.
cheers,
Paul
You could blow off the conference and spend the whole week sightseeing.
Things to do:
1.) Maritime Museum: http://www.nps.gov/safr/local/mus.html
2.) sub : http://www.maritime.org/pamphome.htm
3.) Maritime Park: http://www.maritime.org/index.htm
4.) Hornet Muesum (across the bay in Alameda): http://www.uss-hornet.org/
5.) Liberty ship: http://www.ssjeremiahobrien.org/
6.) USS Macon (~1 hr. south in Sunnyvale): http://www.moffettfieldmuseum.org/
The South Bay Model Shipwrights will meet on June 17th, 7:00 PM, at the Stanford Linear Accelerator (~1 hr. south of SF)
Enjoy your trip. Let me know when you’ll be in the area.
Thanks
That’s the ticket!
Jake
Be sure to check out Franciscan Hobbies, as they have a lot of ship stuff. San Antonio Hobbies down in Mountain View is worth a trip too, as they have a lot of reference materials, and it is just one big hobby store.
If you look on a map (northwest corner) you will find Land’s end, where the bridge wings of the USS San Francisco (CA-38) are preserved as a memorial.
On Sunday’s in Golden Gate Park, you will often find folks running model ships at Spreckels Lake (36th and Fulton)
HTH
Kurt