From Arks to Anchor-Outs: The History of Waterfront Living on Richardson Bay

Bay Curious

KQED

History, Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.9 • 999 Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2019

⏱️ 12 minutes

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People have been living for free anchored in Richardson Bay for decades, but living on the water in Marin County goes all the way back to the state's early days.

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0:00.0	From K-QED. I'm Olivia Allen Price. This is Bay Curious, the show where we answer
0:07.2	listener questions about the Bay Area. And today I'm walking along the old rail
0:11.9	trail in Tiburon with Polly Chandler.
0:14.8	This trail used to be the railroad that went into Tiburon, bringing cheese and wood and
0:21.9	into the city.
0:23.0	And how often do you walk out here on this trail?
0:26.0	Oh, probably two or three times a week.
0:28.0	Yeah, it's beautiful any time a day.
0:31.0	About a mile into our walk, we stop and look across the bay at hundreds of boats.
0:37.6	This is what we've come here to see.
0:39.5	So a lot of that is a marina in Sausalito.
0:42.8	We see some houseboats spread across a few different marinas,
0:46.3	all of them tied up to docks.
0:48.0	And then as you start going out,
0:49.5	you see all these boats that are kind of anchored out in the water. Those are the anchor
0:54.2	outs. Now these anchor outs which aren't connected to land dot the horizon
0:59.2	each anchored a few hundred yards from shore. They've been a hot topic of debate in Marin towns around Richardson
1:05.3	Bay. People live on many of these boats anchored out in the water, and some are used as floating
1:10.4	storage units. So there's, I guess I've heard anywhere from numbers of 75 to 150 of them.
1:18.9	And what specifically about them are you looking to know more about?
1:22.3	How did that get started? How did we end up with so many
1:25.8	boats getting anchored out there? Today I'm Bay Curious, we explore how the 1906 earthquake, World War II, the beats, the hippies, and the housing crisis, all gave rise to people living as anchor outs. I'm Olivia
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