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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/stanford-university\">Stanford University\u003c/a> archaeologist Laura Jones wasn’t looking for flower farms — at least not at first.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was researching the school’s early land-leasing practices when a retiring colleague gave her some maps of Stanford from the 1950s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Jones looked closer, she noticed familiar areas — where Stanford Shopping Center, the school’s research park and graduate student housing are today — shaded in with what seemed like colored pencil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re coded for what flower is being grown,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones cross-checked the map with aerial photographs from the time. What emerged were patterns — clear outlines of fields in bloom. The layouts of the plots were similar, recognizable in terms of shape and size. Plus, Jones said, there was usually a small greenhouse on each field.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To Jones, the parcels were notable for another reason, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Next to the colors, in … dark black pencil, are the names of the farmers, and they’re all Chinese and Japanese,” Jones said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flower fields. Asian American growers. She wanted to know more.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Flowers in Santa Clara Valley\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For much of the 20th century, this stretch of the Peninsula was home to seas of chrysanthemums, asters and irises.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a 1948 issue of the University of California’s \u003cem>California Agriculture\u003c/em> journal, about 200 acres of chrysanthemums — imagine roughly 150 football fields — were grown in San Mateo and Santa Clara counties at the time. The total valuation of the crop amounted to roughly $2 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12089258\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12089258\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260629_ForgottenFlowers_01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260629_ForgottenFlowers_01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260629_ForgottenFlowers_01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260629_ForgottenFlowers_01-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The corsage-making workshop was held at the O’Donohue Family Stanford Educational Farm. The event was put on in collaboration with the Bay Area Chrysanthemum Growers Association, the Chinatown History and Culture Association, the Chinese Historical and Cultural Project, and the Asian American Research Center at Stanford. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Diego Bustamante)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The industry was shaped in large part by Japanese, Italian and Chinese farmers. Some of these flowers were grown on Stanford lands between the 1890s and 1960s, in plots leased to Asian American farmers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her research, Jones has uncovered more about the contributions of Chinese American growers in particular. Many got their start on Stanford lands, establishing a model of farming that spread throughout the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of this history was never formally documented, something Jones is hoping to change with her \u003ca href=\"https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2026/01/forgotten-flowers-project-asian-american-flower-growers-history-bay-area\">Forgotten Flowers\u003c/a> research project. She’s collaborating with community organizations, including the Bay Area Chrysanthemum Growers Association, to help clarify the history.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A business intertwined with immigrant history\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At a time when discriminatory laws made land ownership a challenge, leasing land was a common option for many immigrants. Leland and Jane Stanford, Jones said, were willing landlords.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jim Mok was one such lessee. He spent much of his American life in the Stanfords’ orbit, carving out a path that many Chinese immigrants on the Peninsula would later follow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hailing from Guangdong Province, Mok worked as a foreman on the Stanfords’ land, leading a team of Chinese workers in planting the \u003ca href=\"https://stanforddaily.com/2022/05/31/from-the-community-stanfords-history-is-inextricably-linked-with-asian-american-history/\">emblematic 166 palms\u003c/a> lining the approach to the university.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12089254\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12089254\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/062426TCR-Mag-Forgotten-Flowers_GH_001-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/062426TCR-Mag-Forgotten-Flowers_GH_001-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/062426TCR-Mag-Forgotten-Flowers_GH_001-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/062426TCR-Mag-Forgotten-Flowers_GH_001-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">George Chin, head of San Francisco’s Chinatown History & Culture Association, looks over a display of family photographs, newspaper clippings and historical materials documenting the Chinese American flower-growing industry in the Santa Clara Valley at his home in Cupertino on June 24, 2026. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Founding Director of San Francisco’s Chinatown History & Culture Association George Chin said Mok was also a leader in the local Chinese community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because he’s a foreman,” Chin said, “he employed some of his fellow clansmen, relatives and whatnot.” In the end, Chin said, most of the Stanfords’ Chinese workers ended up coming from Guangdong as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chin believes that Mok initially learned the business of commercial flower growing from Japanese immigrants. After modeling the practice in his own community, Chin said other Chinese immigrants followed suit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When he started growing commercially,” Chin said, “he recruited his fellow relatives, villagers and people that he knew from the same region.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12089255\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12089255\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/062426TCR-Mag-Forgotten-Flowers_GH_003-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/062426TCR-Mag-Forgotten-Flowers_GH_003-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/062426TCR-Mag-Forgotten-Flowers_GH_003-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/062426TCR-Mag-Forgotten-Flowers_GH_003-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">George Chin with his brother and sister at their family nursery, c. 1960s, in Baron Park of Palo Alto, part of a working flower-growing environment. The photograph is displayed at Chin’s home in Cupertino on June 24, 2026. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Chinese growers were an important part of the shift towards flower cultivation, but they were not alone. \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/2023/07/22/japanese-flower-market-history/\">Japanese\u003c/a> and Italian immigrant farmers had been building flower operations across the Bay Area too, creating a patchwork industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a gradual transition, taking shape around the early 1900s, as the demand for cut flowers started to accelerate. “They discovered that they can sell flowers in San Francisco and make much more profit compared to vegetables,” Chin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For researchers like Jones, talking with the families of growers has proved one of the best ways to better understand this story.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Growing up on the flower farm\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Chin, of the Chinatown History & Culture Association, grew up on a Palo Alto flower farm in the 1960s and ‘70s. 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She grew up on an East Palo Alto flower farm on land her parents owned from the late 1940s to the mid-1960s, where she spent her childhood summers working alongside her brothers. It was precision work, where nimble children’s fingers proved a big help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So to get the big chrysanthemum, you had to use the thumbs and pick off what they call the little suckers, so that there was only one big flower,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the end of the summer, her nails were packed with dirt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While her parents worked late into the evening, Ching and her brothers slept nearby. “I never knew a babysitter,” she said. “They put bedding into the barn area so that when we got tired, we’d just sleep on the bedded area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12089260\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 1056px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12089260\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260629_ForgottenFlowers_03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1056\" height=\"869\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260629_ForgottenFlowers_03-KQED.jpg 1056w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260629_ForgottenFlowers_03-KQED-160x132.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1056px) 100vw, 1056px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wanda Ching stands with her mother, Toi Lonnie Yee Young, in front of their family flower shop in East Palo Alto, circa 1952. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Wanda Ching and the Young Family )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At harvest time, Ching remembers her parents gathering the cut chrysanthemums into bundles to prepare for shipping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They would tie it at the end and then put it on the newspaper and roll it, so they protected the flower and were able to make deliveries,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ching said many of the flowers were shipped across the country. About 75% of cut blooms from San Mateo and Santa Clara counties were shipped east, according to \u003cem>California Agriculture\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rest were sold locally, and Ching said her family sold their flowers at their own store and at the San Francisco Flower Market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My father would have to leave at 3 o’clock in the morning [to head to market],” Ching said. She only occasionally made the trip.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chin said he remembers his dad packing up their family truck with fresh-cut flowers to sell at the wholesaler. He’d also collect some other farmer’s flowers to take with him. It was just one of many ways this group of Chinese American growers looked out for each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In order to protect each other and fight against the competition, the Chinese growers … formed a Bay Area Chrysanthemum Growers Association,” Chin said. The Association, founded in 1956, offered a sense of support and community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the late 1970s, one report shows that the Association had grown to nearly 140 Chinese growers. Italian and Japanese growers formed their own associations. Jones’ project, focusing on Stanford lands, highlights the contributions of Asian American growers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These growers had essentially self-organized into cooperatives,” Jones said, “so that they could, in fact, afford mass shipping.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A boom, then bust\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At its peak, California’s flower industry was massive. In 1947, commercial cut flower production in the state’s largest flower-growing counties was valued at more than $25,000,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The small plots of land Jones saw on her map are part of that story and speak to that demand. But why flowers?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In large part for corsages, which is a tradition we don’t really follow as much anymore,” Jones said. “It’s really rare, but it was huge between 1920 and about 1960.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12089259\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12089259\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260629_ForgottenFlowers_02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260629_ForgottenFlowers_02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260629_ForgottenFlowers_02-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260629_ForgottenFlowers_02-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Participants at a corsage-making event at Stanford University revive a historic tradition. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Diego Bustamante)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Old photographs of Cal vs. Stanford football games serve as evidence of this flower-mania. Spectators often wore elaborate corsages. Stanford fans chose white chrysanthemums with red pipe cleaners shaped into an “S.” Cal fans opted for similar designs in blue and yellow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At every step, Chinese growers worked together to tackle new business opportunities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the things that’s interesting about flower growing and also true about vegetable farms is that you can make a living with a fairly small acreage,” Jones said. “That’s a real opportunity for immigrants to come in and start something for their families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Chin and Ching, flower farming offered their families a chance at upward mobility. “They actually want[ed] us to go get a better education,” Ching said, “so that we wouldn’t have to be farming.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the latter half of the 20th century, the flower industry began to decline. By the 1980s, it became more economical to ship cut flowers from South America. At the same time, Bay Area real estate was starting to boom alongside the technology industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12089261\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12089261\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260629_ForgottenFlowers_05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260629_ForgottenFlowers_05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260629_ForgottenFlowers_05-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260629_ForgottenFlowers_05-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Stanford-themed corsage made during the workshop. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Diego Bustamante)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Flower growers were starting to sell their land,” Ching said. “They closed down the farms, and cashed in and they made the money and invested it elsewhere.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The farm Ching grew up on is now home to a 7-11, among other buildings. Chin’s childhood stomping ground is now a condo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Chin, it’s all the more reason to keep this history alive, and Jones’ Forgotten Flowers Project is working to do just that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, Jones and Chin helped organize a \u003ca href=\"https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2024/11/vintage-big-game-fashion-makes-a-comeback\">corsage-making event on Stanford’s campus\u003c/a>. They brought in corsage kits from San Francisco’s Chinatown, and about 200 participants showed up to take part.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was kind of exciting because you are seeing people really intensely learning from the past,” Chin said. “That history is still alive, the tradition is still alive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones cross-checked the map with aerial photographs from the time. What emerged were patterns — clear outlines of fields in bloom. The layouts of the plots were similar, recognizable in terms of shape and size. Plus, Jones said, there was usually a small greenhouse on each field.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To Jones, the parcels were notable for another reason, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Next to the colors, in … dark black pencil, are the names of the farmers, and they’re all Chinese and Japanese,” Jones said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flower fields. Asian American growers. She wanted to know more.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Flowers in Santa Clara Valley\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For much of the 20th century, this stretch of the Peninsula was home to seas of chrysanthemums, asters and irises.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a 1948 issue of the University of California’s \u003cem>California Agriculture\u003c/em> journal, about 200 acres of chrysanthemums — imagine roughly 150 football fields — were grown in San Mateo and Santa Clara counties at the time. The total valuation of the crop amounted to roughly $2 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12089258\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12089258\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260629_ForgottenFlowers_01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260629_ForgottenFlowers_01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260629_ForgottenFlowers_01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260629_ForgottenFlowers_01-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The corsage-making workshop was held at the O’Donohue Family Stanford Educational Farm. The event was put on in collaboration with the Bay Area Chrysanthemum Growers Association, the Chinatown History and Culture Association, the Chinese Historical and Cultural Project, and the Asian American Research Center at Stanford. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Diego Bustamante)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The industry was shaped in large part by Japanese, Italian and Chinese farmers. Some of these flowers were grown on Stanford lands between the 1890s and 1960s, in plots leased to Asian American farmers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her research, Jones has uncovered more about the contributions of Chinese American growers in particular. Many got their start on Stanford lands, establishing a model of farming that spread throughout the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of this history was never formally documented, something Jones is hoping to change with her \u003ca href=\"https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2026/01/forgotten-flowers-project-asian-american-flower-growers-history-bay-area\">Forgotten Flowers\u003c/a> research project. She’s collaborating with community organizations, including the Bay Area Chrysanthemum Growers Association, to help clarify the history.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A business intertwined with immigrant history\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At a time when discriminatory laws made land ownership a challenge, leasing land was a common option for many immigrants. Leland and Jane Stanford, Jones said, were willing landlords.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jim Mok was one such lessee. He spent much of his American life in the Stanfords’ orbit, carving out a path that many Chinese immigrants on the Peninsula would later follow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hailing from Guangdong Province, Mok worked as a foreman on the Stanfords’ land, leading a team of Chinese workers in planting the \u003ca href=\"https://stanforddaily.com/2022/05/31/from-the-community-stanfords-history-is-inextricably-linked-with-asian-american-history/\">emblematic 166 palms\u003c/a> lining the approach to the university.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12089254\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12089254\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/062426TCR-Mag-Forgotten-Flowers_GH_001-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/062426TCR-Mag-Forgotten-Flowers_GH_001-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/062426TCR-Mag-Forgotten-Flowers_GH_001-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/062426TCR-Mag-Forgotten-Flowers_GH_001-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">George Chin, head of San Francisco’s Chinatown History & Culture Association, looks over a display of family photographs, newspaper clippings and historical materials documenting the Chinese American flower-growing industry in the Santa Clara Valley at his home in Cupertino on June 24, 2026. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Founding Director of San Francisco’s Chinatown History & Culture Association George Chin said Mok was also a leader in the local Chinese community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because he’s a foreman,” Chin said, “he employed some of his fellow clansmen, relatives and whatnot.” In the end, Chin said, most of the Stanfords’ Chinese workers ended up coming from Guangdong as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chin believes that Mok initially learned the business of commercial flower growing from Japanese immigrants. After modeling the practice in his own community, Chin said other Chinese immigrants followed suit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When he started growing commercially,” Chin said, “he recruited his fellow relatives, villagers and people that he knew from the same region.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12089255\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12089255\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/062426TCR-Mag-Forgotten-Flowers_GH_003-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/062426TCR-Mag-Forgotten-Flowers_GH_003-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/062426TCR-Mag-Forgotten-Flowers_GH_003-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/062426TCR-Mag-Forgotten-Flowers_GH_003-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">George Chin with his brother and sister at their family nursery, c. 1960s, in Baron Park of Palo Alto, part of a working flower-growing environment. The photograph is displayed at Chin’s home in Cupertino on June 24, 2026. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Chinese growers were an important part of the shift towards flower cultivation, but they were not alone. \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/2023/07/22/japanese-flower-market-history/\">Japanese\u003c/a> and Italian immigrant farmers had been building flower operations across the Bay Area too, creating a patchwork industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a gradual transition, taking shape around the early 1900s, as the demand for cut flowers started to accelerate. “They discovered that they can sell flowers in San Francisco and make much more profit compared to vegetables,” Chin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For researchers like Jones, talking with the families of growers has proved one of the best ways to better understand this story.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Growing up on the flower farm\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Chin, of the Chinatown History & Culture Association, grew up on a Palo Alto flower farm in the 1960s and ‘70s. His dad, Arthur Y. Chin, came to the U.S. in 1923 and quickly found his way into the flower business, following in Mok’s footsteps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Looking back, Chin said the farm was the center of family life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His mother was the backbone of it all — working the fields, preparing cut flowers for sale, cooking meals for the crew and raising three children who chipped in too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12089256\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12089256\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/062426TCR-Mag-Forgotten-Flowers_GH_009-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/062426TCR-Mag-Forgotten-Flowers_GH_009-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/062426TCR-Mag-Forgotten-Flowers_GH_009-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/062426TCR-Mag-Forgotten-Flowers_GH_009-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">George Chin sits on his backyard patio beside chrysanthemums at his home in Cupertino on June 24, 2026. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“When I was a teenager, there was a little bit of resentment,” Chin said. “I cannot join the sports club or after-school activities because I have to be home working.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wanda Ching remembers her childhood similarly. She grew up on an East Palo Alto flower farm on land her parents owned from the late 1940s to the mid-1960s, where she spent her childhood summers working alongside her brothers. It was precision work, where nimble children’s fingers proved a big help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So to get the big chrysanthemum, you had to use the thumbs and pick off what they call the little suckers, so that there was only one big flower,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the end of the summer, her nails were packed with dirt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While her parents worked late into the evening, Ching and her brothers slept nearby. “I never knew a babysitter,” she said. “They put bedding into the barn area so that when we got tired, we’d just sleep on the bedded area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12089260\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 1056px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12089260\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260629_ForgottenFlowers_03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1056\" height=\"869\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260629_ForgottenFlowers_03-KQED.jpg 1056w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260629_ForgottenFlowers_03-KQED-160x132.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1056px) 100vw, 1056px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wanda Ching stands with her mother, Toi Lonnie Yee Young, in front of their family flower shop in East Palo Alto, circa 1952. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Wanda Ching and the Young Family )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At harvest time, Ching remembers her parents gathering the cut chrysanthemums into bundles to prepare for shipping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They would tie it at the end and then put it on the newspaper and roll it, so they protected the flower and were able to make deliveries,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ching said many of the flowers were shipped across the country. About 75% of cut blooms from San Mateo and Santa Clara counties were shipped east, according to \u003cem>California Agriculture\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rest were sold locally, and Ching said her family sold their flowers at their own store and at the San Francisco Flower Market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My father would have to leave at 3 o’clock in the morning [to head to market],” Ching said. She only occasionally made the trip.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chin said he remembers his dad packing up their family truck with fresh-cut flowers to sell at the wholesaler. He’d also collect some other farmer’s flowers to take with him. It was just one of many ways this group of Chinese American growers looked out for each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In order to protect each other and fight against the competition, the Chinese growers … formed a Bay Area Chrysanthemum Growers Association,” Chin said. The Association, founded in 1956, offered a sense of support and community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the late 1970s, one report shows that the Association had grown to nearly 140 Chinese growers. Italian and Japanese growers formed their own associations. Jones’ project, focusing on Stanford lands, highlights the contributions of Asian American growers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These growers had essentially self-organized into cooperatives,” Jones said, “so that they could, in fact, afford mass shipping.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A boom, then bust\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At its peak, California’s flower industry was massive. In 1947, commercial cut flower production in the state’s largest flower-growing counties was valued at more than $25,000,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The small plots of land Jones saw on her map are part of that story and speak to that demand. 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Spectators often wore elaborate corsages. Stanford fans chose white chrysanthemums with red pipe cleaners shaped into an “S.” Cal fans opted for similar designs in blue and yellow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At every step, Chinese growers worked together to tackle new business opportunities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the things that’s interesting about flower growing and also true about vegetable farms is that you can make a living with a fairly small acreage,” Jones said. “That’s a real opportunity for immigrants to come in and start something for their families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Chin and Ching, flower farming offered their families a chance at upward mobility. “They actually want[ed] us to go get a better education,” Ching said, “so that we wouldn’t have to be farming.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the latter half of the 20th century, the flower industry began to decline. By the 1980s, it became more economical to ship cut flowers from South America. 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Chin’s childhood stomping ground is now a condo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Chin, it’s all the more reason to keep this history alive, and Jones’ Forgotten Flowers Project is working to do just that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, Jones and Chin helped organize a \u003ca href=\"https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2024/11/vintage-big-game-fashion-makes-a-comeback\">corsage-making event on Stanford’s campus\u003c/a>. They brought in corsage kits from San Francisco’s Chinatown, and about 200 participants showed up to take part.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was kind of exciting because you are seeing people really intensely learning from the past,” Chin said. “That history is still alive, the tradition is still alive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Acclaimed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/los-angeles\">violinist Vijay Gupta\u003c/a> still sees his late father everywhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’d appear unexpectedly, like when a concert hall conductor pointed to his chest to coax more heart out of a musician, something that Gupta’s dad would do when coaching the young Vijay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And it was like, there’s dad,” Gupta said. “And he’d already been gone for a couple years, and yet there he was like he had never gone. He had never abandoned me. He had never died.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gupta’s parents, Bengali immigrants, loom large in the pages of his new memoir \u003cem>Restrung\u003c/em>. Especially his father, Vivek Gupta — Vijay’s biggest mentor, his toughest musical coach and a brutal disciplinarian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Vivek heard his son pause when he should have been practicing, Vijay risked another beating. The violin became as much a shield against the blows as it was an instrument of music, and a refuge for Vijay. But his dad also came up with creative schemes to push young Vijay into the spotlight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I was 7 or 8 years old, he was writing to famous people as me,” Gupta said. “He would write to Oprah, David Letterman, Sally Jessy Raphael and Zubin Mehta, and it was sort of like I was living in a world made of his dreams.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he was 9 years old, Gupta was among a group of young, Juilliard-trained violin protégées invited to accompany rapper Coolio onstage at the 1995 Billboard Awards. The quintet of violinists accompanied the rapper on “Gangsta’s Paradise,” a song featuring lyrics that would foreshadow Gupta’s life in his mid-20s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRveeMoCDiw\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m 23 now, but will I see 24? / The way things are goin’, I don’t know / Tell me why we are so blind to see, that the ones we hurt are you and me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ten years later, at age 19, after pursuing two university undergrad degrees — one in medicine, the other in music — Gupta won a seat on the Los Angeles Philharmonic orchestra. He did so after acing his very first audition, becoming the youngest violinist to ever join a major orchestra in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t know what I signed up for at 19 years old. I just happened to get that gig,” Gupta said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suddenly, he was earning a six-figure salary but still didn’t know how to drive a car or do online banking. His father joined him on his cross-country trek from New York to Los Angeles, the two moving into a small apartment together. His mother managed his finances from New York, explaining to her son that his salary would also help support family in the U.S. and the Indian state of West Bengal. It’s a decision that would later lead to financial calamity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12090270\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12090270 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/VIJAY-GUPTA-9-photo-by-Kate-Bawden.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/VIJAY-GUPTA-9-photo-by-Kate-Bawden.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/VIJAY-GUPTA-9-photo-by-Kate-Bawden-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/VIJAY-GUPTA-9-photo-by-Kate-Bawden-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Master violinist Vijay Gupta entered Juilliard at age 7. The son of strict, disciplinarian Bengali immigrant parents, Vijay appeared on Oprah a few years later. At 19, he joined the L.A. Phil, yet he was desperately unhappy. He also began volunteering on L.A.’s Skid Row and founded the acclaimed Street Symphony. \u003ccite>(Image courtesy of Kat Bawden)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I was suddenly supporting my family, and I got tenure, and I don’t want to be there,” Gupta said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So, five years later, I’m eating my feelings and all I’m thinking about during L.A. Phil concerts is my post-concert In-N-Out order, and how many bottles of Russian River pinot I’m going to drink that night,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Five years into his stint with the L.A. Phil and deeply unhappy, Gupta began pursuing a second musical path. He said he wanted to take professional-level classical music out of “stuffy” concert halls and bring it into much different concert settings: jails, homeless shelters, prisons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He headed to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/skid-row\">Skid Row\u003c/a>, a part of downtown Los Angeles he discovered while on a driving lesson with his father. Just a little over a mile away from the footlights of Walt Disney Concert Hall, Skid Row is home to the largest concentration of homeless people in the United States. Gupta tapped a few other L.A. Phil musicians to form the \u003ca href=\"https://www.streetsymphony.org/\">Street Symphony\u003c/a>. The nonprofit ensemble has since evolved into a sprawling collective of professional and amateur musicians spanning a host of genres.[aside postID=news_12088748 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260618-PASADENA-ROCK-OPERA-SC01-KQED.jpg']One of the first people Gupta reached out to was Georgia Hawley, communications director at \u003ca href=\"https://www.midnightmission.org/events-musicwithamission/\">The Midnight Mission\u003c/a>, Los Angeles’s longest-running homeless shelter offering meals, drug rehabilitation and other services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He called and said, ‘Hey, I have this group called Street Symphony, and I want to come and play. Do I need to audition? Should I send you a tape? What do you need?’” Hawley said. “And I said, ‘Well, our next opening is Thursday … are you available?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time, Hawley had just launched the Music with a Mission program, offering free, weekly concerts for shelter clients. She has since worked closely with Gupta on hundreds of music events in Skid Row.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know, he fought a lot with being this young person who was in this adult world and having to behave a certain way and act a certain way, and he was supporting his family,” Hawley said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think just not having an outlet to talk to people about that and to say, ‘I’m hurt, I’m scared.’ And I think the more he tried to help others, the more he couldn’t ignore what was happening to him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Skid Row would end up becoming something of a mirror, a pathway for Gupta to finally reconcile his own demons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zGAgEBl3ws&t=2599s\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The real transformation started happening for me in Skid Row was when people said, ‘Hey Vijay, it’s good that you’re coming here to walk your steps, keep coming.’ What are you talking about? I’m here to bring you joy, I’m the healer! And they’re like, ‘Yeah, yeah. Keep coming,’” Gupta said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Walk your steps,” meaning the guiding principles of the 12-Step program used in rehab. People in Skid Row wanted to show Gupta something they could see, but that he couldn’t — or wouldn’t — see himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would not have admitted to anyone that I was as much an addict, not only to food and alcohol, but everybody else’s version of who I should be,” Gupta said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, Gupta kept up a frenetic performing schedule. In addition to his role at L.A. 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The son of strict, disciplinarian Bengali immigrant parents, Vijay appeared on Oprah a few years later. At 19, he joined the L.A. Phil, yet he was desperately unhappy. He also began volunteering on L.A.’s Skid Row, and founded the acclaimed Street Symphony. \u003ccite>(Image courtesy of Kat Bawden)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At a 2012 Grantmakers in the Arts conference in Miami, Gupta appeared on stage in a rumpled suit, his shirttails sticking out beneath his navy-blue blazer. He was much heavier then and still drinking a lot. But once the bow touched the strings, his playing was effortless, fluid and gorgeous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That guy had never been kissed. That guy had never been on a date, absolutely hated himself. Probably [weighed] around 315 pounds,” Gupta said, reflecting on the performance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And that guy was using the violin, that effortlessness, as a way of hiding in plain sight. 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But they still resurface.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I write about it in the book that my mom ambushed me backstage at Walt Disney Concert Hall,” Gupta said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She was there just to berate me in front of my colleagues. Sometimes I would walk into Skid Row and be like, ‘Oh, is that her, is that mom?’ I would just see her everywhere in Skid Row.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Gupta, the area is a crucible, calling it the largest recovery zone for people teetering on the edge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a place where people are undone, and it’s also a place where people are remade,” he said. “If someone wants to get clean, or they want a bed or want to start over, this is a place where people can begin again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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At 19, he joined the L.A. Phil, yet he was desperately unhappy. He also began volunteering on L.A.’s Skid Row and founded the acclaimed Street Symphony. \u003ccite>(Image courtesy of Kat Bawden)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I was suddenly supporting my family, and I got tenure, and I don’t want to be there,” Gupta said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So, five years later, I’m eating my feelings and all I’m thinking about during L.A. Phil concerts is my post-concert In-N-Out order, and how many bottles of Russian River pinot I’m going to drink that night,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Five years into his stint with the L.A. Phil and deeply unhappy, Gupta began pursuing a second musical path. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>One of the first people Gupta reached out to was Georgia Hawley, communications director at \u003ca href=\"https://www.midnightmission.org/events-musicwithamission/\">The Midnight Mission\u003c/a>, Los Angeles’s longest-running homeless shelter offering meals, drug rehabilitation and other services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He called and said, ‘Hey, I have this group called Street Symphony, and I want to come and play. Do I need to audition? Should I send you a tape? What do you need?’” Hawley said. “And I said, ‘Well, our next opening is Thursday … are you available?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time, Hawley had just launched the Music with a Mission program, offering free, weekly concerts for shelter clients. She has since worked closely with Gupta on hundreds of music events in Skid Row.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know, he fought a lot with being this young person who was in this adult world and having to behave a certain way and act a certain way, and he was supporting his family,” Hawley said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think just not having an outlet to talk to people about that and to say, ‘I’m hurt, I’m scared.’ And I think the more he tried to help others, the more he couldn’t ignore what was happening to him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Skid Row would end up becoming something of a mirror, a pathway for Gupta to finally reconcile his own demons.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/5zGAgEBl3ws'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/5zGAgEBl3ws'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>“The real transformation started happening for me in Skid Row was when people said, ‘Hey Vijay, it’s good that you’re coming here to walk your steps, keep coming.’ What are you talking about? I’m here to bring you joy, I’m the healer! And they’re like, ‘Yeah, yeah. Keep coming,’” Gupta said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Walk your steps,” meaning the guiding principles of the 12-Step program used in rehab. People in Skid Row wanted to show Gupta something they could see, but that he couldn’t — or wouldn’t — see himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would not have admitted to anyone that I was as much an addict, not only to food and alcohol, but everybody else’s version of who I should be,” Gupta said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, Gupta kept up a frenetic performing schedule. In addition to his role at L.A. 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The son of strict, disciplinarian Bengali immigrant parents, Vijay appeared on Oprah a few years later. At 19, he joined the L.A. Phil, yet he was desperately unhappy. He also began volunteering on L.A.’s Skid Row, and founded the acclaimed Street Symphony. \u003ccite>(Image courtesy of Kat Bawden)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At a 2012 Grantmakers in the Arts conference in Miami, Gupta appeared on stage in a rumpled suit, his shirttails sticking out beneath his navy-blue blazer. He was much heavier then and still drinking a lot. But once the bow touched the strings, his playing was effortless, fluid and gorgeous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That guy had never been kissed. That guy had never been on a date, absolutely hated himself. Probably [weighed] around 315 pounds,” Gupta said, reflecting on the performance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And that guy was using the violin, that effortlessness, as a way of hiding in plain sight. If I was infallible, bulletproof, then people might forgive the fact that I was actually Quasimodo.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2018, after winning a six-figure MacArthur Genius Grant, Gupta left the L.A. Phil. He threw himself into his work with Street Symphony and pursued solo and chamber work, collaborating widely with other artists on a range of projects. He’s currently developing a one-man show combining performance, documentary film and storytelling based in part on his new memoir.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the way back to his home in Altadena from Skid Row, Gupta talked more about his parents. Though his dad is gone and he’s estranged from his mom, he still sees them in other people. Since seeking therapy, dealing with addiction and even taking up boxing, the bad memories don’t haunt or hurt as much. But they still resurface.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I write about it in the book that my mom ambushed me backstage at Walt Disney Concert Hall,” Gupta said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She was there just to berate me in front of my colleagues. Sometimes I would walk into Skid Row and be like, ‘Oh, is that her, is that mom?’ I would just see her everywhere in Skid Row.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Gupta, the area is a crucible, calling it the largest recovery zone for people teetering on the edge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a place where people are undone, and it’s also a place where people are remade,” he said. “If someone wants to get clean, or they want a bed or want to start over, this is a place where people can begin again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Supporters of prominent San Francisco politico and supervisor candidate \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12045209/san-francisco-city-leaders-call-out-disturbing-string-of-antisemitic-incidents\">Manny Yekutiel\u003c/a> are weighing how to respond as recent sexual assault allegations against the well-known local business owner roil the city’s Democratic circles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Accusations against Yekutiel, \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/2026/06/30/sf-political-activist-accuses-supervisor-candidate-manny-yekutiel-2020-sexual-assault/\">first reported\u003c/a> in the \u003cem>San Francisco Standard \u003c/em>last week, come amid a backdrop of sexual assault cases against Democrats, including former \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12079911/the-rise-and-fall-of-eric-swalwell\">East Bay Rep. Eric Swalwell\u003c/a> and former Maine U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner, and as tensions in a San Francisco district election that could swing the balance of power in the city ramp up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yekutiel, the 36-year-old owner of Manny’s Cafe, a longtime community hub and event space for high-profile Democrats like Gov. Gavin Newsom and former Vice President Kamala Harris, has been accused of sexually assaulting a man at a party six years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yekutiel, who is gay, has denied the allegations. But they have prompted some one-time allies to abandon their endorsements and others to say they are waiting to learn more before making a decision about whether to back him or rescind support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right now, this situation is, what are they willing to accept?” said local political consultant Jim Ross, regarding Yekutiel’s backers who have continued to stand with him. “The big question is, what if more comes out?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Already some elected Democrats, like Supervisor Myrna Melgar and Attorney General Rob Bonta, have withdrawn support for Yekutiel, and some speakers for events at his cafe in the Mission District have dropped out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12090122\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1984px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12090122\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/20260707_SFRally_GC-3_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1984\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/20260707_SFRally_GC-3_qed.jpg 1984w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/20260707_SFRally_GC-3_qed-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/20260707_SFRally_GC-3_qed-1536x1032.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1984px) 100vw, 1984px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From center left, Francesca Gonzalez, Summer Phillips and Raissa Madamba gather during a rally for survivors of sexual assault and harassment at San Francisco City Hall in San Francisco on July 7, 2026. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But there was little mention of the allegations at a rally on Tuesday on the steps of City Hall in support of sexual assault survivors. And many of Yekutiel’s supporters, which currently include the majority of the Board of Supervisors, say they are waiting for more evidence before they change their positions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because there are allegations on him, and frankly other people that I’ve already heard running for office, I’m waiting for that investigation to be completed before making a decision,” said Supervisor Bilal Mahmood, who spoke at the rally on Tuesday and is currently endorsing Yekutiel’s campaign to represent District 8, which includes the Castro and Noe Valley.[aside postID=news_12089959 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/20260511-YickWoCommemoration-JY-14_qed.jpg']City gardener and community organizer Brad Chapin accused Yekutiel, who interned in the Obama White House and worked on Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign for president, of sexual assault at a party in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chapin said Yekutiel grasped him aggressively and stuck his hand down his pants, groped his genitals and pulled hard as Chapin tried to push away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the incident, Chapin said, Yekutiel lifted up Chapin’s shirt, grabbed his belly and said “ew,” humiliating him during an unwelcome sexual advance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I remember being very scared,” Chapin told KQED. “Every time I tried to get away, he would literally pull me back and squeeze harder, and the entire time he was staring at me in the eyes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the rally this week, organizers said they decided to avoid addressing specific cases in part to draw attention to the broader issue of sexual assault that happens across all industries, not just in politics. But for many in attendance, the recent allegations were top of mind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Supervisor Mabel Teng was the sole speaker to address them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As someone who knows the recent publicized survivors and victims, I am free to call out their names, Judy and Brad,” Teng said, also referring to Judy Lee, who \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/2026/06/30/sf-chinese-chamber-commerce-lawsuits-donald-luu-resignation/\">recently accused\u003c/a> the Chinese Chamber of Commerce board president Donald Luu of harassment and retaliation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12090123\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12090123\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/20260707_SFRally_GC-6_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/20260707_SFRally_GC-6_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/20260707_SFRally_GC-6_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/20260707_SFRally_GC-6_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supporters and community advocates gather during a rally for survivors of sexual assault and harassment at San Francisco City Hall in San Francisco on July 7, 2026. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The chamber organizes the city’s Chinese New Year parade. Luu has since resigned and filed a defamation lawsuit against Lee, the chamber’s program director. “You are not alone. And to all of the survivors and victims, we see you, we hear you, we feel you, and we believe in you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yekutiel categorically denied the allegations and called them politically motivated. Chapin is a former vice president of the progressive Harvey Milk LGBTQ Democratic Club, which has endorsed Yekutiel’s opponent, Gary McCoy, in the District 8 race. Chapin denied that coming forward was politically driven.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t do what these accusations suggest, and I do think it’s because I am here and I’m running for office that this is coming out now,” Yekutiel told KQED. “The San Francisco Police Department looked into it, and there was nothing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The SFPD didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chapin, who is also gay, said the personal fallout has been traumatic. On social media, people have scrutinized his character and questioned his motives for coming forward after so many years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He has completely stepped away from political activism, saying it was detrimental to his mental health to be in those spaces after his experience with Yekutiel and other high-profile sexual assaults in politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12090125\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1928px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12090125\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/20260707_SFRally_GC-8_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1928\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/20260707_SFRally_GC-8_qed.jpg 1928w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/20260707_SFRally_GC-8_qed-160x111.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/20260707_SFRally_GC-8_qed-1536x1062.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1928px) 100vw, 1928px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supervisor Connie Chan speaks during a rally for survivors of sexual assault and harassment at San Francisco City Hall in San Francisco on July 7, 2026. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“People really don’t understand how scary it is to come forward when there’s not a lot of evidence,” Chapin said. “In some ways, I think if someone is involved in politics, it does make it even less likely for [survivors] to come forward.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He told friends about the incident shortly after it happened, text messages show, but Chapin said he waited years to publicly come forward out of fear and because Yekutiel was not running for public office at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was scared to tell another soul,” Chapin said. He eventually filed a police report in April and came forward. “I was so anxious about this person being in power and what would happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before his accusations became public, Chapin said he reached out to several political figures he knows, including termed-out current District 8 Supervisor Rafael Mandelman, who is still listed as endorsing Yekutiel, and for whom Chapin said he formerly helped organize and volunteered. But the supervisor isn’t convinced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I haven’t felt a reason to particularly doubt Manny’s account. It was an event that was six years ago, and it hasn’t caused me to reevaluate my endorsement,” Mandelman told KQED. “I think how long ago something supposedly happened matters. I think numbers and believability of accusations matter. Sometimes there’s a flood that follows an initial accusation. I hope that’s not the case here. But I do think this is very different from a situation where there’s rumors from multiple people, and then someone comes forward, and then the dam breaks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12090132\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12090132\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/20260707_SFRally_GC-25_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/20260707_SFRally_GC-25_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/20260707_SFRally_GC-25_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/20260707_SFRally_GC-25_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sticky notes with messages are posted on a white paper during a rally for survivors of sexual assault and harassment at San Francisco City Hall in San Francisco on July 7, 2026. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Eric Jaye, a political consultant who has donated to Yekutiel’s campaign, said even serious accusations like Chapin’s are processed politically in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“American politics right now is so partisan and so divisive that you care about these accusations when they’re leveled against somebody you oppose and you excuse or disbelieve them when they are directed to someone you support,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The District 8 seat is crucial to moderates trying to keep their majority on the board. Yekutiel is facing off against McCoy, who most recently served as campaign manager for Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s Save Our Healthcare initiative, and patent attorney Michael Nguyen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Politicians are going to take a watch-and-wait approach to this. If it’s a one-off, I don’t think it will have much impact on the race. If it emerges that there was a pattern, then that will be a different situation,” Jaye said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If that prediction plays out, the case will stand in stark contrast to those of other politicians whose campaigns have swiftly collapsed in recent months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, after multiple women accused Swalwell of drugging and raping them, he quickly lost support and exited the race for California governor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12090130\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12090130\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/20260707_SFRally_GC-22_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/20260707_SFRally_GC-22_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/20260707_SFRally_GC-22_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/20260707_SFRally_GC-22_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supporters and community advocates gather during a rally for survivors of sexual assault and harassment at San Francisco City Hall in San Francisco on July 7, 2026. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Usually with politicians, where there’s smoke, there’s fire. So the question is, is there something else? And I don’t know that. But I think that’s what a lot of [Yekutiel’s] endorsers are waiting to see,” Ross said. “If another person comes forward or another issue comes up, then it becomes much more fraught for his supporters.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Yekutiel, some of the fallout could be economic. He has become a widely recognized Democratic pillar in San Francisco, where his cafe regularly hosts talks with government leaders and activists. He’s amassed powerful allies in the city’s Democratic sphere, including Mayor Daniel Lurie, with whom he started the Civic Joy Fund nonprofit. Lurie has so far not endorsed anyone in the District 8 race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My supporters are going to make their own choices. The overwhelming majority of my supporters are standing strong with me,” Yekutiel said. “And the few people that did rescind their endorsement, I’m looking forward to working with them as a supervisor.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahmood, the supervisor, is on a committee focused on addressing sexual assault complaints within the San Francisco Democratic Party, which was formed following a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12033207/sf-latinx-club-leaves-local-democratic-party\">series of allegations\u003c/a> in local Democratic clubs. The party adopted a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12016733/sf-democrats-adopt-new-sexual-assault-reporting-policies\">new set of reporting policies\u003c/a> for sexual assault and harassment in December 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But critics say there are flaws in the process. Chapin said he filed a complaint to the organization’s ombudsperson and never received a response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12090127\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12090127\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/20260707_SFRally_GC-12_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/20260707_SFRally_GC-12_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/20260707_SFRally_GC-12_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/20260707_SFRally_GC-12_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supervisor Bilal Mahmood speaks during a rally for survivors of sexual assault and harassment at San Francisco City Hall in San Francisco on July 7, 2026. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Chair Nancy Tung declined to publicly comment on the reporting process or current allegations in the District 8 race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Democrats who made a big issue around sexual assault a few years ago, it was moderates attacking the progressives over that issue. And now they created a system and a process that was supposed to protect people and that pretty much failed,” Ross, the political consultant, said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chapin received a response from the party’s ombudsperson after reporting about his allegations went public. The inquiry is ongoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been absolute hell, but I just couldn’t not do it,” Chapin said on his decision to come forward. “That’s not a thing for me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yekutiel, who is gay, has denied the allegations. But they have prompted some one-time allies to abandon their endorsements and others to say they are waiting to learn more before making a decision about whether to back him or rescind support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right now, this situation is, what are they willing to accept?” said local political consultant Jim Ross, regarding Yekutiel’s backers who have continued to stand with him. “The big question is, what if more comes out?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Already some elected Democrats, like Supervisor Myrna Melgar and Attorney General Rob Bonta, have withdrawn support for Yekutiel, and some speakers for events at his cafe in the Mission District have dropped out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12090122\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1984px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12090122\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/20260707_SFRally_GC-3_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1984\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/20260707_SFRally_GC-3_qed.jpg 1984w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/20260707_SFRally_GC-3_qed-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/20260707_SFRally_GC-3_qed-1536x1032.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1984px) 100vw, 1984px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From center left, Francesca Gonzalez, Summer Phillips and Raissa Madamba gather during a rally for survivors of sexual assault and harassment at San Francisco City Hall in San Francisco on July 7, 2026. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But there was little mention of the allegations at a rally on Tuesday on the steps of City Hall in support of sexual assault survivors. And many of Yekutiel’s supporters, which currently include the majority of the Board of Supervisors, say they are waiting for more evidence before they change their positions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because there are allegations on him, and frankly other people that I’ve already heard running for office, I’m waiting for that investigation to be completed before making a decision,” said Supervisor Bilal Mahmood, who spoke at the rally on Tuesday and is currently endorsing Yekutiel’s campaign to represent District 8, which includes the Castro and Noe Valley.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>City gardener and community organizer Brad Chapin accused Yekutiel, who interned in the Obama White House and worked on Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign for president, of sexual assault at a party in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chapin said Yekutiel grasped him aggressively and stuck his hand down his pants, groped his genitals and pulled hard as Chapin tried to push away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the incident, Chapin said, Yekutiel lifted up Chapin’s shirt, grabbed his belly and said “ew,” humiliating him during an unwelcome sexual advance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I remember being very scared,” Chapin told KQED. “Every time I tried to get away, he would literally pull me back and squeeze harder, and the entire time he was staring at me in the eyes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the rally this week, organizers said they decided to avoid addressing specific cases in part to draw attention to the broader issue of sexual assault that happens across all industries, not just in politics. But for many in attendance, the recent allegations were top of mind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Supervisor Mabel Teng was the sole speaker to address them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As someone who knows the recent publicized survivors and victims, I am free to call out their names, Judy and Brad,” Teng said, also referring to Judy Lee, who \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/2026/06/30/sf-chinese-chamber-commerce-lawsuits-donald-luu-resignation/\">recently accused\u003c/a> the Chinese Chamber of Commerce board president Donald Luu of harassment and retaliation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12090123\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12090123\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/20260707_SFRally_GC-6_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/20260707_SFRally_GC-6_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/20260707_SFRally_GC-6_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/20260707_SFRally_GC-6_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supporters and community advocates gather during a rally for survivors of sexual assault and harassment at San Francisco City Hall in San Francisco on July 7, 2026. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The chamber organizes the city’s Chinese New Year parade. Luu has since resigned and filed a defamation lawsuit against Lee, the chamber’s program director. “You are not alone. And to all of the survivors and victims, we see you, we hear you, we feel you, and we believe in you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yekutiel categorically denied the allegations and called them politically motivated. Chapin is a former vice president of the progressive Harvey Milk LGBTQ Democratic Club, which has endorsed Yekutiel’s opponent, Gary McCoy, in the District 8 race. Chapin denied that coming forward was politically driven.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t do what these accusations suggest, and I do think it’s because I am here and I’m running for office that this is coming out now,” Yekutiel told KQED. “The San Francisco Police Department looked into it, and there was nothing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The SFPD didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chapin, who is also gay, said the personal fallout has been traumatic. On social media, people have scrutinized his character and questioned his motives for coming forward after so many years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He has completely stepped away from political activism, saying it was detrimental to his mental health to be in those spaces after his experience with Yekutiel and other high-profile sexual assaults in politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12090125\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1928px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12090125\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/20260707_SFRally_GC-8_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1928\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/20260707_SFRally_GC-8_qed.jpg 1928w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/20260707_SFRally_GC-8_qed-160x111.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/20260707_SFRally_GC-8_qed-1536x1062.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1928px) 100vw, 1928px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supervisor Connie Chan speaks during a rally for survivors of sexual assault and harassment at San Francisco City Hall in San Francisco on July 7, 2026. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“People really don’t understand how scary it is to come forward when there’s not a lot of evidence,” Chapin said. “In some ways, I think if someone is involved in politics, it does make it even less likely for [survivors] to come forward.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He told friends about the incident shortly after it happened, text messages show, but Chapin said he waited years to publicly come forward out of fear and because Yekutiel was not running for public office at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was scared to tell another soul,” Chapin said. He eventually filed a police report in April and came forward. “I was so anxious about this person being in power and what would happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before his accusations became public, Chapin said he reached out to several political figures he knows, including termed-out current District 8 Supervisor Rafael Mandelman, who is still listed as endorsing Yekutiel, and for whom Chapin said he formerly helped organize and volunteered. But the supervisor isn’t convinced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I haven’t felt a reason to particularly doubt Manny’s account. It was an event that was six years ago, and it hasn’t caused me to reevaluate my endorsement,” Mandelman told KQED. “I think how long ago something supposedly happened matters. I think numbers and believability of accusations matter. Sometimes there’s a flood that follows an initial accusation. I hope that’s not the case here. But I do think this is very different from a situation where there’s rumors from multiple people, and then someone comes forward, and then the dam breaks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12090132\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12090132\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/20260707_SFRally_GC-25_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/20260707_SFRally_GC-25_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/20260707_SFRally_GC-25_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/20260707_SFRally_GC-25_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sticky notes with messages are posted on a white paper during a rally for survivors of sexual assault and harassment at San Francisco City Hall in San Francisco on July 7, 2026. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Eric Jaye, a political consultant who has donated to Yekutiel’s campaign, said even serious accusations like Chapin’s are processed politically in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“American politics right now is so partisan and so divisive that you care about these accusations when they’re leveled against somebody you oppose and you excuse or disbelieve them when they are directed to someone you support,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The District 8 seat is crucial to moderates trying to keep their majority on the board. Yekutiel is facing off against McCoy, who most recently served as campaign manager for Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s Save Our Healthcare initiative, and patent attorney Michael Nguyen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Politicians are going to take a watch-and-wait approach to this. If it’s a one-off, I don’t think it will have much impact on the race. If it emerges that there was a pattern, then that will be a different situation,” Jaye said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If that prediction plays out, the case will stand in stark contrast to those of other politicians whose campaigns have swiftly collapsed in recent months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, after multiple women accused Swalwell of drugging and raping them, he quickly lost support and exited the race for California governor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12090130\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12090130\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/20260707_SFRally_GC-22_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/20260707_SFRally_GC-22_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/20260707_SFRally_GC-22_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/20260707_SFRally_GC-22_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supporters and community advocates gather during a rally for survivors of sexual assault and harassment at San Francisco City Hall in San Francisco on July 7, 2026. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Usually with politicians, where there’s smoke, there’s fire. So the question is, is there something else? And I don’t know that. But I think that’s what a lot of [Yekutiel’s] endorsers are waiting to see,” Ross said. “If another person comes forward or another issue comes up, then it becomes much more fraught for his supporters.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Yekutiel, some of the fallout could be economic. He has become a widely recognized Democratic pillar in San Francisco, where his cafe regularly hosts talks with government leaders and activists. He’s amassed powerful allies in the city’s Democratic sphere, including Mayor Daniel Lurie, with whom he started the Civic Joy Fund nonprofit. Lurie has so far not endorsed anyone in the District 8 race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My supporters are going to make their own choices. The overwhelming majority of my supporters are standing strong with me,” Yekutiel said. “And the few people that did rescind their endorsement, I’m looking forward to working with them as a supervisor.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahmood, the supervisor, is on a committee focused on addressing sexual assault complaints within the San Francisco Democratic Party, which was formed following a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12033207/sf-latinx-club-leaves-local-democratic-party\">series of allegations\u003c/a> in local Democratic clubs. The party adopted a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12016733/sf-democrats-adopt-new-sexual-assault-reporting-policies\">new set of reporting policies\u003c/a> for sexual assault and harassment in December 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But critics say there are flaws in the process. 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"content": "\u003cp>More than 10,000 \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/california\">Californians\u003c/a> are receiving letters informing them that they need to retake their written driver’s license tests. Unfortunately for unlucky recipients, the letters aren’t part of a sophisticated scam, as Redditors have been \u003ca href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/DMV/comments/1um1s4j/many_california_drivers_to_retake_written_dmv/\">speculating\u003c/a> — or perhaps hoping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sorry to say, the notices are real, according to the California Department of Motor Vehicles — and as of this week, the agency has confirmed that they’re prompted by suspicions of cheating. All this means that people who receive these letters will indeed need to retake their written knowledge test to stay on the roads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you did receive a dreaded DMV letter, here’s what you need to know about why you’re being asked to retake your test, how to do it and what could happen if you don’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Who has to retake their driver’s test?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If you took your California written driver’s license tests between July 2025 and April 2026, look out for a letter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The DMV says about 11,000 people across the state who took the exam during that period will have to retake the test.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The affected licenses don’t appear to be isolated to one region — people from Los Angeles to San Francisco have \u003ca href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/DMV/comments/1um1s4j/many_california_drivers_to_retake_written_dmv/\">taken to social media\u003c/a> to say they’re headed to the DMV.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12032226\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12032226 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/IMG_6860_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/IMG_6860_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/IMG_6860_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/IMG_6860_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/IMG_6860_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/IMG_6860_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/IMG_6860_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Traffic on Interstate 550 in Oakland flowing with cars. \u003ccite>(Joyce Tsai/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Why is the DMV making me take my test again?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The DMV initially kept it vague — only saying that they identified “anomalies” in “certain” test results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, though, the agency said it flagged the results after finding irregularities that “may indicate instances of cheating.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These irregularities are “test taker related,” according to the DMV, “and not the result of an internal DMV technical issue, or involvement of artificial intelligence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>I got a DMV letter. Am I in trouble?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If you got a notice, don’t panic. The DMV said that it’s not a final determination that cheating occurred, but only that your test result was identified as “potentially problematic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency didn’t offer any specifics about \u003cem>how\u003c/em> test takers might have cheated, but it said multiple cases have been turned over to county district attorneys for prosecution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several state lawmakers have also sent the DMV letters asking for more details on the nature of any cheating.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Do I have to retake the practical test or just the written test?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Don’t worry, you won’t have to get graded on your actual driving behind the wheel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that’s not to say you shouldn’t brush up on the rules of the road ahead of retaking your written test. \u003ca href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/DMV/comments/1u72dw2/is_this_legitimate_will_i_need_to_redo_the_behind/\">Some people online\u003c/a> say they failed the exam when they went in for their retest and had their license revoked. \u003cstrong>Jump straight to: \u003ca href=\"#HowtostudyforyourDMVretest\">How to study for your DMV retest.\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How do I retake the test, and how fast do I have to do it?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>You’ll have to make an appointment online for an in-person test.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The letters mailed out include a QR code that you can scan with your cell phone camera, which will route you directly to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/appointments/select-appointment-type\">page on the DMV website\u003c/a> that has a “reevaluation” sign-up link.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11699281\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11699281\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/DMVEntrance.jpg\" alt=\"The entrance to a California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) office in Corte Madera.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1356\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/DMVEntrance.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/DMVEntrance-160x113.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/DMVEntrance-800x565.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/DMVEntrance-1020x720.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/DMVEntrance-1200x848.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/DMVEntrance-1180x833.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/DMVEntrance-960x678.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/DMVEntrance-240x170.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/DMVEntrance-375x265.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/DMVEntrance-520x367.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The entrance to a California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) office in Corte Madera. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If you’d rather go to the site on a computer or in your internet browser, click on the “Appointments” page at \u003ca href=\"http://dmv.ca.gov\">dmv.ca.gov\u003c/a> and look for the “knowledge test reevaluation” button.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But be warned: the letters say that you need to retake the exam within 30 days of the date the notice was issued, located in the top left corner, to keep your California driver’s license.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Do I \u003cem>have \u003c/em>to make a DMV appointment to retake my test, and what do I need to bring with me?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Yes. The letter says appointments are required for the reevaluation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When you go to your appointment, be sure to bring a copy of the notice requiring reevaluation, as well as your driver’s license card, temporary license, or instruction permit, whichever you have.[aside postID=news_12089236 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/GroceriesAP.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What if there are no available DMV appointments near me to retake the test within 30 days?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for the DMV told KQED that there have been “no known issues getting [appointments]” and plenty are available. A DMV that’s further away from you may have more appointments available.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"HowtostudyforyourDMVretest\">\u003c/a>What if I fail my retest? Can I take the test again?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Some people who have gone in for the reevaluation say \u003ca href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/DMV/comments/1u72dw2/is_this_legitimate_will_i_need_to_redo_the_behind/\">they’ve failed\u003c/a> and had their physical driver’s licenses taken by the DMV. They were able to reapply, retake the written test, and be issued a new temporary license within days — still with no road test needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It could be worthwhile to study up before your appointment (or just test your knowledge if you’re just curious how you’d hypothetically perform, like this reporter). The DMV provides \u003ca href=\"https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/driver-education-and-safety/educational-materials/sample-driver-license-dl-knowledge-tests/\">sample tests\u003c/a> in multiple languages, and proficient Googlers may also be able to find apparent sample questions online via sites that are not affiliated with the DMV.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What happens if I don’t retake the test within 30 days?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Your license will be canceled — which means you cannot drive. It also means that your license will not be a valid form of identification.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If your license \u003cem>does \u003c/em>lapse, the DMV says you are eligible to immediately reapply. It’s not clear if you would need to retake the road test in that case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Who has to retake their driver’s test?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If you took your California written driver’s license tests between July 2025 and April 2026, look out for a letter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The DMV says about 11,000 people across the state who took the exam during that period will have to retake the test.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The affected licenses don’t appear to be isolated to one region — people from Los Angeles to San Francisco have \u003ca href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/DMV/comments/1um1s4j/many_california_drivers_to_retake_written_dmv/\">taken to social media\u003c/a> to say they’re headed to the DMV.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12032226\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12032226 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/IMG_6860_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/IMG_6860_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/IMG_6860_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/IMG_6860_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/IMG_6860_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/IMG_6860_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/IMG_6860_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Traffic on Interstate 550 in Oakland flowing with cars. \u003ccite>(Joyce Tsai/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Why is the DMV making me take my test again?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The DMV initially kept it vague — only saying that they identified “anomalies” in “certain” test results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, though, the agency said it flagged the results after finding irregularities that “may indicate instances of cheating.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These irregularities are “test taker related,” according to the DMV, “and not the result of an internal DMV technical issue, or involvement of artificial intelligence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>I got a DMV letter. Am I in trouble?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If you got a notice, don’t panic. The DMV said that it’s not a final determination that cheating occurred, but only that your test result was identified as “potentially problematic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency didn’t offer any specifics about \u003cem>how\u003c/em> test takers might have cheated, but it said multiple cases have been turned over to county district attorneys for prosecution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several state lawmakers have also sent the DMV letters asking for more details on the nature of any cheating.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Do I have to retake the practical test or just the written test?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Don’t worry, you won’t have to get graded on your actual driving behind the wheel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that’s not to say you shouldn’t brush up on the rules of the road ahead of retaking your written test. \u003ca href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/DMV/comments/1u72dw2/is_this_legitimate_will_i_need_to_redo_the_behind/\">Some people online\u003c/a> say they failed the exam when they went in for their retest and had their license revoked. \u003cstrong>Jump straight to: \u003ca href=\"#HowtostudyforyourDMVretest\">How to study for your DMV retest.\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How do I retake the test, and how fast do I have to do it?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>You’ll have to make an appointment online for an in-person test.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The letters mailed out include a QR code that you can scan with your cell phone camera, which will route you directly to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/appointments/select-appointment-type\">page on the DMV website\u003c/a> that has a “reevaluation” sign-up link.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11699281\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11699281\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/DMVEntrance.jpg\" alt=\"The entrance to a California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) office in Corte Madera.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1356\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/DMVEntrance.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/DMVEntrance-160x113.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/DMVEntrance-800x565.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/DMVEntrance-1020x720.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/DMVEntrance-1200x848.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/DMVEntrance-1180x833.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/DMVEntrance-960x678.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/DMVEntrance-240x170.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/DMVEntrance-375x265.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/DMVEntrance-520x367.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The entrance to a California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) office in Corte Madera. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If you’d rather go to the site on a computer or in your internet browser, click on the “Appointments” page at \u003ca href=\"http://dmv.ca.gov\">dmv.ca.gov\u003c/a> and look for the “knowledge test reevaluation” button.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But be warned: the letters say that you need to retake the exam within 30 days of the date the notice was issued, located in the top left corner, to keep your California driver’s license.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Do I \u003cem>have \u003c/em>to make a DMV appointment to retake my test, and what do I need to bring with me?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Yes. The letter says appointments are required for the reevaluation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When you go to your appointment, be sure to bring a copy of the notice requiring reevaluation, as well as your driver’s license card, temporary license, or instruction permit, whichever you have.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What if there are no available DMV appointments near me to retake the test within 30 days?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for the DMV told KQED that there have been “no known issues getting [appointments]” and plenty are available. A DMV that’s further away from you may have more appointments available.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"HowtostudyforyourDMVretest\">\u003c/a>What if I fail my retest? Can I take the test again?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Some people who have gone in for the reevaluation say \u003ca href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/DMV/comments/1u72dw2/is_this_legitimate_will_i_need_to_redo_the_behind/\">they’ve failed\u003c/a> and had their physical driver’s licenses taken by the DMV. They were able to reapply, retake the written test, and be issued a new temporary license within days — still with no road test needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It could be worthwhile to study up before your appointment (or just test your knowledge if you’re just curious how you’d hypothetically perform, like this reporter). The DMV provides \u003ca href=\"https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/driver-education-and-safety/educational-materials/sample-driver-license-dl-knowledge-tests/\">sample tests\u003c/a> in multiple languages, and proficient Googlers may also be able to find apparent sample questions online via sites that are not affiliated with the DMV.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What happens if I don’t retake the test within 30 days?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Your license will be canceled — which means you cannot drive. It also means that your license will not be a valid form of identification.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If your license \u003cem>does \u003c/em>lapse, the DMV says you are eligible to immediately reapply. It’s not clear if you would need to retake the road test in that case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"#Viewthefullepisodetranscript\">View the full episode transcript.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a sunny day, the beauty of San Francisco Bay rivals almost any place in the world. The stately bridges boldly cross its watery expanse, dreamy islands call out for exploration, green or golden hills rise up on all sides and the twinkling lights of the city sparkle in the distance. But on a foggy, windy day, that same paradise can be treacherous for ships coming in and out of the Golden Gate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s why all ships over 750 gross tons — about 150 feet or longer — are required to use a special mariner who knows the local conditions when they enter or exit the bay. Known as bar pilots, these local guides board vessels about 11 miles west of the Golden Gate Bridge, take charge of the ship and guide it safely under the bridges and through the bay to its anchorage spot or port berth. They also help move vessels within the bay, like from anchorage to port, for example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Erik Udd often sees the bar pilot speedboat depart from Pier 9, where the bar pilots are headquartered, as he cycles his pedicab along the Embarcadero.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve seen the boats, and I’ve seen them heading out towards the Golden Gate, but I never thought about the process,” Udd said. So he asked Bay Curious: “What do they do? How does it work? Do they get hazard pay when they’re out there in a storm?”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How the bar pilots came to be\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>There are a lot of reasons San Francisco Bay is a tricky port to enter. First, there’s a large sandbar outside the mouth of the Golden Gate with only a narrow channel through it that’s deep enough for ships to navigate. Then there’s the weather — dense fog, strong winds and winter storms. Lastly, the currents can be deadly and pull ships off course.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For all these reasons, many Gold Rush-era ships foundered and sank on their way into the bay. And sunken ships are bad for the flow of commerce. They create additional maritime hazards and gum up the works.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12089870\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12089870 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260114-BarPilots-22-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260114-BarPilots-22-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260114-BarPilots-22-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260114-BarPilots-22-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A pilot boat operator navigates a pilot boat in the San Francisco Bay. The pilots guide large ships along California’s coast to ports in San Francisco Bay and beyond. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12089871\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12089871\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260114-BarPilots-28-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260114-BarPilots-28-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260114-BarPilots-28-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260114-BarPilots-28-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ships sit at anchor in the San Francisco Bay in areas known as ‘anchor buckets,’ where commercial vessels can remain for extended periods. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The San Francisco Bar Pilots have been around a long time,” said Anne McIntyre, business director for the San Francisco Bar Pilots. “We were founded in 1850. The first thing the California legislature did was pass the Pilotage Act, and that’s what founded the San Francisco Bar Pilots.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Evidence of this long history lines the walls of bar pilot headquarters at Pier 9. The first ships they served were sailing ships, but soon steam-powered vessels came on the scene, and eventually, diesel engines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12089869\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12089869\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260114-BarPilots-01-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260114-BarPilots-01-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260114-BarPilots-01-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260114-BarPilots-01-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Capt. Cevan LeSieur points to historic photos of early bar pilot boats at the San Francisco Bar Pilots headquarters in San Francisco. The San Francisco Bar Pilot Association was founded in 1850 and is one of the oldest maritime organizations on the Pacific Coast. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the early days, “the pilot would get on a little dinghy, and they’d row to the side of the ship, and then climb up the ladder,” said Captain Cevan Lesieur, a bar pilot with more than 10 years of experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He has piloted hundreds of ships through the bay’s waters and shook his head at the idea of one man braving the fog and wind alone in a boat powered only by his own strength.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know when I look at the type of weather and conditions we deal with, these people were just tougher than we are nowadays,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What’s it like being a bar pilot today?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>That’s not to say being a bar pilot today is easy. They have to navigate many types of waterways – including through the open ocean, up and down the Stockton and Sacramento rivers, under several bridges and through a congested central bay. They also pilot all kinds of vessels from massive cargo ships to cruise ships, tankers to bulkers, yachts to car ships.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most harrowing part of a bar pilot’s job is open water boarding. Here’s how it works: when a ship approaches San Francisco from the open ocean, it meets up with a station boat that’s always waiting 11 miles west of the Golden Gate Bridge. The crew on that boat rotates weekly, but the bar pilots work 365 days a year in all weather conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12089866\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12089866\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260114-BarPilots-34-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260114-BarPilots-34-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260114-BarPilots-34-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260114-BarPilots-34-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Capt. Cevan LeSieur (left) prepares to board the Pasha Hawaii ship George III at the Port of Oakland. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12089879\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12089879\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260114-BarPilots-Diptych4-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"847\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260114-BarPilots-Diptych4-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260114-BarPilots-Diptych4-2000x662.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260114-BarPilots-Diptych4-160x53.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260114-BarPilots-Diptych4-1536x508.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260114-BarPilots-Diptych4-2048x678.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: A bar pilot boat pulls up next to the Pasha Hawaii ship George III at the Port of Oakland. Right: Capt. Cevan LeSieur boards the Pasha Hawaii ship George III. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As the ship approaches, it slows down to 9 knots — about 12 miles per hour — and the pilot boat comes alongside at the same speed. Then, timing the jump carefully, the bar pilot leaps across and grabs onto a ladder hanging on the side of the ship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They are not tied into anything when they make this jump. When a ship leaves for sea, this process is reversed, with the bar pilot jumping from the ladder to the moving deck of the pilot boat.[aside postID=news_12088210 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260521-YEMENICOFFEE-11-BL-KQED.jpg']“Getting on can be tricky, and people have gone in the water,” said John Carlier, the president of the bar pilots association and a man with more than 30 years on the job. “But getting off and trying to get that small landing area on that deck while that boat’s surfing past you can be a bit sketchy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If a pilot does go in the water, he’s wearing a “float coat,” which turns into a lifejacket when it hits the water, complete with lights and a safety whistle. Pilots make the jump in all kinds of weather conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If it’s not safe, you don’t do it, but a lot of people would look at the conditions and not think it’s safe, but we have our own definition of it,” Lesieur said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He estimated that it’s only about once a year that the weather is so bad that the pilot can’t make the jump. If that happens, the pilot has to stay on the ship until the next port of call and then fly home, and no one wants that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our question asker, Erik Udd, was interested in knowing if bar pilots receive hazard pay during bad weather, and the answer is no. But they are paid well — in the mid-six figures on average. They are paid by the shipping companies that use their services. There’s a \u003ca href=\"https://sfbarpilots.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Pilotage-Rates.pdf\">rate structure\u003c/a> based on the tonnage of the ship.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Becoming a bar pilot\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>To become a bar pilot, a person must be a mid-career captain with decades of experience already. There’s a written test and a simulator test. Based on those scores, candidates are ranked on a list from which the bar pilots pull when apprenticeships open up. Once in the training program, most people spend close to two years shadowing more experienced pilots and learning all the different routes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The area starts with the Gulf of the Farallones, works its way through the main bay, down the Redwood City, and all the way up to Stockton and Sacramento,” Carlier said. “There’s eight different sections. You’re going to do in the neighborhood of at least 600 jobs under the tutelage of existing pilots.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12089872\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12089872\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260114-BarPilots-57-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260114-BarPilots-57-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260114-BarPilots-57-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260114-BarPilots-57-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bar pilot Capt. Cevan LeSieur stands on the bridge of the Pasha Hawaii ship George III while docked at the Port of Oakland. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>They also have to learn by heart over 670 aids to navigation — the lights and buoys — as well as the depth charts for the entire 5,000-square-mile area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the expertise and local knowledge of the bar pilots, there have been instances when they made mistakes with devastating consequences. In 2007, a ship with a bar pilot in charge \u003ca href=\"https://response.restoration.noaa.gov/remembering-cosco-busan-overview-2007-oil-spill\">clipped one of the Bay Bridge towers\u003c/a> and 58,000 gallons of fuel oil spilled into the bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were some communication problems between the pilot and the crew as to where the center of the bridge was on their electronic [navigation] equipment, which definitely added to the sideswiping of the Delta Tower of the Bay Bridge,” Carlier said. “We actually bring our own electronic navigation equipment with us on board now. We also bring our GPS antennas.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Bar pilots at work\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The container ships that dock at the Port of Oakland to load and unload cargo are massive. The largest ones are as long as the Salesforce Tower is tall, but even more modestly sized ones are huge. The bar pilots have had to adapt as the ships have gotten bigger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.pashahawaii.com/services/vessels/george-iii\">George III is a container ship\u003c/a> operated by Pasha Hawaii that brings supplies to the Hawaiian Islands. It runs the same route every two weeks, leaving Honolulu mostly empty save for a few commodities like macadamia nuts and rum, stops in Oakland to take on cargo and then heads down to Long Beach for more, before returning to Hawaii.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12089946\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12089946\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/GraphBarPilots.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1079\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/GraphBarPilots.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/GraphBarPilots-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/GraphBarPilots-1536x1036.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Many of the ships operating in the bay are as long as a skyscraper is tall. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the San Francisco Bar Pilots)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The state of Hawaii has about three to five days of food availability if shipping stopped,” said Ed Washburn, senior vice president of fleet operations. “So it’s very sensitive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The crew of the ship signs on for long stints, 10 to 14 weeks, but then gets just as much time off on land. When they’re on board, they work as a team to keep ship operations running smoothly, the loads balanced, and the engines purring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>George III is a unique vessel because it runs on both diesel fuel and \u003ca href=\"https://www.pashahawaii.com/news-media/news/571/pasha-hawaii-marks-historic-milestone-mv-george-iii-first-lng-powered\">natural gas\u003c/a>, making it a cleaner vessel, but also one with more specific engineering needs. The crew eats, sleeps and works in shifts, building a strong sense of camaraderie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12089873\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12089873\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260114-BarPilots-60-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260114-BarPilots-60-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260114-BarPilots-60-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260114-BarPilots-60-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A crew member on the Pasha Hawaii ship George III works on the bridge while docked at the Port of Oakland. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12089878\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12089878\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260114-BarPilots-Diptych03-BL-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"846\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260114-BarPilots-Diptych03-BL-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260114-BarPilots-Diptych03-BL-2000x661.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260114-BarPilots-Diptych03-BL-160x53.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260114-BarPilots-Diptych03-BL-1536x507.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260114-BarPilots-Diptych03-BL-2048x676.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: Mark Bancroft, a second assistant engineer, works in the engine room of the Pasha Hawaii ship George III while docked at the Port of Oakland. Right: Crew members eat dinner on the George III before departing the Port of Oakland. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When it’s time to push off for sea, the bar pilot boards the ship and heads towards the ship’s bridge, at the top of the vessel. From there, he checks in with the captain, makes sure the equipment has all been tested and communicates with tugboats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s kinda anticlimactic when you have 90-ton boats and no wind,” said Christian Barron, the bar pilot on duty as George III slowly inched away from the dock. “We’ll start casting off tugs once we get about half a mile from here and start bringing her up to speed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12089875\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12089875\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260114-BarPilots-83-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260114-BarPilots-83-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260114-BarPilots-83-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260114-BarPilots-83-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco bar pilot Christian Barron works on the Pasha Hawaii ship George III before departing the Port of Oakland. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12089874\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12089874\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260114-BarPilots-72-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260114-BarPilots-72-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260114-BarPilots-72-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260114-BarPilots-72-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A bar pilot boat is docked at the Port of Oakland. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12089876\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12089876\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260114-BarPilots-101-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260114-BarPilots-101-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260114-BarPilots-101-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260114-BarPilots-101-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Views of the San Francisco skyline from a bar pilot boat. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Once the ship was safely out of San Francisco Bay, Christian climbed down the ladder and jumped onto the station boat, where he waited for the next ship needing his services to arrive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the bar pilots are doing their jobs well, we landlubbers might not even know they exist. We only see the stocked grocery shelves, fuel at the gas pump and cruise ships awaiting passengers at the pier. But to make all of that happen, a bar pilot is working day or night, rain or shine, fog or no, to bring ships safely to port.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousquestion]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"Viewthefullepisodetranscript\">\u003c/a>Episode transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> If you ask mariners, they’ll tell you, navigating a boat from the open ocean into the San Francisco Bay is notoriously treacherous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s the dense fog that can make it hard to see. Strong currents constantly rearrange the sea floor, and can quickly throw a vessel off course. And finally – our bridges! If a boat were to strike a pillar it could be\u003cem> catastrophic. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s why captains of big ships aren’t allowed to navigate into port on their own. A specially trained mariner called a \u003cem>bar pilot\u003c/em> – hops aboard every ship that comes into San Francisco Bay, and takes over command.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We got a question about those bar pilots, so we sent Bay Curious editor and producer Katrina Schwartz to the Embarcadero to meet the man who asked it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Erik Udd said he’d meet me at the Embarcadero BART station. When I emerged on the escalator he was waiting for me, sitting at the helm of a pedicab.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Erik Udd: \u003c/strong>It’s a great retirement job, I get exercise, it is perfect for me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>While we talk, he’s giving me a ride in his pedicab over to Pier 9…near the Exploratorium…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Erik Udd: \u003c/strong>Oh, there goes a boat right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>While Erik pedals along the Embarcadero, he often notices the orange and white boats with the word “PILOT” painted on the side in giant, all caps letters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Erik Udd: \u003c/strong>I’ve seen the boats and I’ve seen them heading out towards the golden gate, but I never thought about the process. What do they do? How does it work?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Erik wants to know everything about the bar pilots. Like, how does the pilot get onto one of those big container ships?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Erik Udd: \u003c/strong>How big of a boat needs a pilot to come into the bay?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>What kind of training do the pilots go through?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Erik Udd: \u003c/strong>Has anyone ever gone in the water? I’m sure someone has gone in the water. Maybe a better question is how many times?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>What happens when there’s a storm?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Erik Udd: \u003c/strong>Do they get hazard pay when they’re out there in a storm?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>After all, some of the ships coming into the bay are truly massive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Erik Udd: \u003c/strong>It’s like a building is moving along across the water. Those things are huge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>It’s quite a lot of questions, but I’m up to the task. Erik drops me off at Pier 9, where the Bar Pilots are headquartered. It’s the last office out at the end of the pier and sits behind a chain link fence. But once I’m inside, it looks like a fairly typical office building except the views of the bay are stunning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cevan Lesieur: \u003c/strong>Anne’s office has the best views in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Captains Cevan Lesieur and Anne McIntyre are showing me around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cevan has been a pilot here for 12 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cevan Lesieur: \u003c/strong>This is the best and most interesting waterway to work on from my experience and most challenging. So I always said if I was gonna become a pilot, it’d be in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Challenging because of the currents, the weather, the varied types of waterways and a congested central bay. Bar pilots can be called upon to move cruise ships, oil tankers, cargo ships, even really big yachts. And they have to be able to skillfully maneuver each type of vessel through narrowly dredged channels up the Sacramento and Stockton rivers and around smaller vessels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Anne McIntyre: \u003c/strong>We service all nine Bay Area ports. So we take ships all the way up to West Sacramento, to Stockton, down to Redwood City, even down to Monterey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Here’s how it works.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every ship over about 150 feet is required by law to use a bar pilot to enter and exit the bay, as well as to move from anchor to port within the bay. The pilots serve about 75-hundred vessels a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most dramatic moment for a bar pilot happens out in the open ocean beyond the Golden Gate Bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cevan Lesieur: \u003c/strong>We have what we call our station boat or ocean boats. And one is off shore at all times, about 11 miles west of the Golden Gate Bridge. And so we have crews out there that rotate every week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>When a large vessel is heading into San Francisco Bay, it meets up with the bar pilot boat out on the ocean and the bar pilot leaps from one to the other — you heard that right — and they are not tied into anything when they do it. Then they climb up a ladder on the outside of the ship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cevan Lesieur: \u003c/strong>Timing is critical, and especially the worse the weather, the more important timing is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>The ships are side-by-side going about 12-miles per hour when the pilot makes his jump. Cevan says there are some weather conditions that make the transfer too dangerous, but it doesn’t happen often…maybe once a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cevan Lesieur: \u003c/strong>If it’s not safe you don’t do it, but a lot of people would look at the conditions and not think it’s safe, but we have our own definition of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Once the pilot is on board, he or she communicates with the captain and crew to bring the vessel safely under the Golden Gate Bridge, through the Bay and to its anchorage spot or port berth. The same happens in reverse, except the pilot has to jump off the ladder and onto the pilot boat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every bar pilot I talked to had a harrowing story about open water boarding, but Cevan’s is the funniest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cevan Lesieur: \u003c/strong>I was boarding a car ship and the conditions were really bad and the ship and the pilot boat were going up and down and up and down. The wind was so bad, I took like 3 attempts. Finally we came alongside and I was on the platform and I jumped and landed on the deck and was laying there. And the mate looked down, and said you’re f**ing crazy!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Over their long history, pilots \u003cem>have\u003c/em> died and many have gone in the water, but it’s not common.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cevan Lesieur: \u003c/strong>In the modern era, we have not lost a pilot here. And the last time a pilot went into the water has been several years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>If a pilot does miss the jump, he’s wearing a “float coat” that becomes a life jacket when he hits the water, complete with lights and whistles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And to answer our question asker, no, they don’t get hazard pay. But they are paid well… on average about 500,000 a year — all of that paid by the companies operating the boats they serve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> We’re going to take a quick break, but when we come back we’ll learn how the bar pilots came to be and Katrina gets to shadow a pilot on a real job. Will she make the jump? All that coming up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sponsor message\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>We were on a tour of bar pilot headquarters at Pier 9. Bay Curious editor and producer Katrina Schwartz found the halls are lined with evidence of the organization’s very \u003cstrong>long\u003c/strong> history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Captains Cevan Lesieur and Anne McIntyre are showing me cool photos and artifacts from bar pilot history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Anne McIntyre: \u003c/strong>We have to stop at this one here. This is the original charter from the first California legislative session.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Anne points to an old looking document on the wall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Anne McIntyre: \u003c/strong>The San Francisco Bar Pilots have been around a long time. We were founded in 1850. We’re the second oldest business in San Francisco behind Boudin Bread.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>The bar pilots are as old as the state of California. Even back in 1850, state legislators understood the future of San Francisco — California even — depended on the safe flow of ships in and out of the Bay. We couldn’t have all these shipwrecks gumming up the works.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Anne McIntyre: \u003c/strong>We were the first act of the first California Legislature. So the first thing the California legislature did was pass the pilotage act happened and that’s what founded the San Francisco Bar Pilots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Back then, the ships coming to San Francisco were mostly sailing vessels. By the end of the century coal-fired steam engines would come on the scene and later diesel engines. Each era required something different from the bar pilots, Cevan tells me. Boarding sailing ships might have been the most physically demanding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cevan Lesieur: \u003c/strong>The pilot would get on a little dinghy, and they’d row to the side of the ship, and then you’d climb up the ladder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>He shakes his head at the idea of rowing a dingy through dense fog and huge wake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cevan Lesieur: \u003c/strong>You know when I look at the type of weather and conditions we deal with…These people were just tougher than we are nowadays. \u003cem>(Laughs, fade under)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>To become a bar pilot, you have to be a mid-career captain with many years of experience. There’s a written test and a simulator test. Candidates are ranked based on their scores and are then eligible for an apprenticeship with the bar pilots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>John Carlier: \u003c/strong>You’re going to probably do in the neighborhood of at least 600 jobs under the tutelage of existing pilots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>John Carlier is the President of the Bar Pilots Association. He says there are eight sections in the Bay, each with their own challenges, and the pilots have to learn all of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>John Carlier: \u003c/strong>And the area starts with the Gulf of the Farallones, works its way through the main bay, down the Redwood City, and all the way up to Stockton and Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Piloting up the rivers here can be especially challenging. The ships are within two feet of the bottom in narrow channels with little room for error. And it takes a long time, about 9 hours from the open ocean to Stockton or Sacramento, so they usually change bar pilots half way to avoid fatigue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite all this training, there have been incidents when ships captained by bar pilots have run into trouble in the Bay. Like in 2007 when an oil tanker clipped one of the Bay Bridge towers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>John Carlier: \u003c/strong>Yes, that was a bar pilot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>News clip: \u003c/strong>A 900 foot container ship hit the Bay Bridge tower east of the main anchorage. 58,000 gallons of fuel oil. Countless fragile ecosystems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>John Carlier: \u003c/strong>There was some communication problems between the pilot and the crew as to where the center of the bridge was on their electronic nav equipment which definitely added to you know the the sideswiping of the Delta Tower of the Bay Bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Because of that incident, the bar pilots now bring their own GPS navigational equipment on board with them so they don’t have to rely on the vessel’s equipment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m going to get to see that in action soon, so we start heading towards a boat with the word “pilot” boldly written on its side tied up out back. We clamor aboard. It looks like a fancy speedboat, and head towards Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pilot: \u003c/strong>Where do you want to head to?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cevan Lesieur: \u003c/strong>Port of Oakland, George III\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>It takes about 20 minutes to cross the bay and soon our small boat is pulling up alongside a massive containership. This boat is considered “small” by shipping standards and it’s still as tall as a 15 story building from the water up to the top. I now have to step from the bobbing deck of the pilot boat onto a rope ladder dangling from the first deck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sounds of ladder clanking against the ship\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>I had hoped to do the open ocean leap I’d heard so much about. Climbing about 15 feet up this ladder felt pretty tame by comparison. The water in the Oakland estuary was very calm, kinda the training wheels version of this climb. No heroics for me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This ship, George the III, brings supplies to the Hawaiian Islands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ed Washburn: \u003c/strong>Everything from medicine to groceries to fertilizer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Ed Washburn is senior vice president of fleet operations with Pasha, Hawaii, the company that owns this vessel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This ship runs the same two-week route on repeat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ed Washburn: \u003c/strong>The state of Hawaii has about three to five days of food availability, of shipping stopped. So it’s very sensitive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>It leaves Honolulu mostly empty, carrying a few commodities like rum and macadamia nuts to the mainland. Then it stops in Oakland to pick up cargo, down to Long Beach for more and back to Honolulu.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ed Washburn: \u003c/strong>The value of that is about $50 million in cargo each time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ok, should we go up to the bridge?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>The bridge is at the top of the ship and it’s where the bar pilot does their work. We walk up A LOT of steps to get there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>(sounds of steps under this)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>From up here we have incredible views of the sun setting over the bay and the internal workings of the port.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cevan Lesieur: \u003c/strong>This is Christian Barron. He’s also a Cal Maritime graduate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Today, Christian Barron is the bar pilot in charge. But Cevan is hanging out with me, explaining what’s happening so I don’t bug Christian at crucial moments, like when he’s checking in with the captain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cevan Lesieur: \u003c/strong>Once the tugs have been made fast and the engine’s been tested we can get rolling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Captain Eric Veloni: \u003c/strong>The engine has been tested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>These massive ships are hard to maneuver, so pilots use tugboats to pull the ship off the dock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Radio sounds: \u003c/strong>Captain, this is the chief engineer. Show of power. Cables secured.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Captain Eric Veloni: \u003c/strong>Roger, Dave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Christian checks in with Vessel Traffic Services, basically air traffic control for boats, to let them know his plan and find out if there are other vessels in the shipping lanes he needs to be aware of.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Christian Barron: \u003c/strong>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Traffic, good evening, 4-5. Preparing to depart Oakland 55 starboard side two bound for sea. Deep draft 32 feet two inches. Tend to Delta-Echo span and deep water traffic lane Working my tugs on 20 Alpha.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>VTS Operator:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Roger, copy that, 4-5. George the third preparing to get underway from Oakland…\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Nothing to worry about. There’s a fair amount of waiting as the crew gets in position and the port workers untie the boat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Christian Barron: \u003c/strong>All clear forward\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>And then we get going.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Christian Barron:\u003c/strong> All clear fore and aft, stand clear of your tuglines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Artemis and Apollo are the names of the tugboats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Christian Barron: \u003c/strong>Ok, ready to go. Artemis stop and stretch. Apollo stop and stretch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>As Christian gives orders, the massive container ship starts to slowly move away from the dock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Christian Barron: \u003c/strong>It’s kinda anticlimactic when you have 90 ton boats and no wind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Once the tugboats are secured and ready to go, the whole procedure only takes about ten minutes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz (in scene): \u003c/strong>It is a little anticlimactic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Captain Eric Veloni: \u003c/strong>We love boring when it comes to this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz (in scene):\u003c/strong> I didn’t even realize we were moving at first.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Port sounds\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz (in scene): \u003c/strong>You pushed off, what’s the next thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Christian Barron: \u003c/strong>I’ll give a command for dead slow ahead. We’ll confirm the engines come up to rpm and then we’ll put the tugs in position so they can follow along so they’re not impeding us, but can still affect the boat if we have an engine or steering failure they can still maneuver the vessel if need be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Then he’ll check in with traffic again to let them know he’s underway and get any updates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Christian Barron: \u003c/strong>And then we’ll start casting off tugs once we get about half a mile from here and start bringing her up to speed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz (in scene): \u003c/strong>Anything you’re particularly concerned about tonight?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Christian Barron: \u003c/strong>Tonight, no. We have a little bit of current at the bar, so I just need to make sure I time my turns correctly, use enough rudder, engine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Unfortunately, the bar pilots were not keen on me following Christian all the way out into the open ocean to disembark at 9 knots onto the pilot boat. Instead, we’ll be going back down the ladder in the Oakland estuary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Thanks, nice to meet you all. Safe voyage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Captain Eric Veloni: \u003c/strong>Be safe on the ladder!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>We tramp down many flights of stairs, back to the lowest deck and our ladder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>It should be easier going down, right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sounds of clanking\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pilot boat crew: \u003c/strong>You’re two from the bottom…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>As we head back towards the Ferry Building, the sun’s last glow seeping from the sky, I’m struck by the vastness of the Bay as the darkness encroaches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m heading home to my warm bed. But a crew of bar pilots is waiting 11 miles offshore rain or shine. At their best, their work is invisible to us. We only notice the stocked shelves, cruise ships at their berths and fuel at the gas station. Our entire city works because they do. Guiding ship after ship through the fog and to safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sound of the pilot boat motoring back to the Embarcadero\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>That was Bay Curious editor and producer, Katrina Schwartz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thanks to the KQED Members whose support made this episode possible! If you’d like to become a member, visit donate.kqed.org/podcasts to get started. It only takes a minute and comes with some nice perks. We’ll drop the link in our show notes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Curious is made by Katrina Schwartz, Christopher Beale and me, Olivia Allen-Price. With extra support from Maha Sanad, Katie Sprenger, Jen Chien, Ethan Toven-Lindsey and everyone on Team KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some members of the KQED podcast team are represented by The Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, San Francisco Northern California Local.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m Olivia Allen-Price. Have a great week!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Erik Udd often sees the bar pilot speedboat depart from Pier 9, where the bar pilots are headquartered, as he cycles his pedicab along the Embarcadero.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve seen the boats, and I’ve seen them heading out towards the Golden Gate, but I never thought about the process,” Udd said. So he asked Bay Curious: “What do they do? How does it work? Do they get hazard pay when they’re out there in a storm?”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How the bar pilots came to be\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>There are a lot of reasons San Francisco Bay is a tricky port to enter. First, there’s a large sandbar outside the mouth of the Golden Gate with only a narrow channel through it that’s deep enough for ships to navigate. Then there’s the weather — dense fog, strong winds and winter storms. Lastly, the currents can be deadly and pull ships off course.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For all these reasons, many Gold Rush-era ships foundered and sank on their way into the bay. And sunken ships are bad for the flow of commerce. They create additional maritime hazards and gum up the works.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12089870\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12089870 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260114-BarPilots-22-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260114-BarPilots-22-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260114-BarPilots-22-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260114-BarPilots-22-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A pilot boat operator navigates a pilot boat in the San Francisco Bay. The pilots guide large ships along California’s coast to ports in San Francisco Bay and beyond. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12089871\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12089871\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260114-BarPilots-28-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260114-BarPilots-28-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260114-BarPilots-28-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260114-BarPilots-28-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ships sit at anchor in the San Francisco Bay in areas known as ‘anchor buckets,’ where commercial vessels can remain for extended periods. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The San Francisco Bar Pilots have been around a long time,” said Anne McIntyre, business director for the San Francisco Bar Pilots. “We were founded in 1850. The first thing the California legislature did was pass the Pilotage Act, and that’s what founded the San Francisco Bar Pilots.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Evidence of this long history lines the walls of bar pilot headquarters at Pier 9. The first ships they served were sailing ships, but soon steam-powered vessels came on the scene, and eventually, diesel engines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12089869\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12089869\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260114-BarPilots-01-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260114-BarPilots-01-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260114-BarPilots-01-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260114-BarPilots-01-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Capt. Cevan LeSieur points to historic photos of early bar pilot boats at the San Francisco Bar Pilots headquarters in San Francisco. The San Francisco Bar Pilot Association was founded in 1850 and is one of the oldest maritime organizations on the Pacific Coast. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the early days, “the pilot would get on a little dinghy, and they’d row to the side of the ship, and then climb up the ladder,” said Captain Cevan Lesieur, a bar pilot with more than 10 years of experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He has piloted hundreds of ships through the bay’s waters and shook his head at the idea of one man braving the fog and wind alone in a boat powered only by his own strength.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know when I look at the type of weather and conditions we deal with, these people were just tougher than we are nowadays,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What’s it like being a bar pilot today?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>That’s not to say being a bar pilot today is easy. They have to navigate many types of waterways – including through the open ocean, up and down the Stockton and Sacramento rivers, under several bridges and through a congested central bay. They also pilot all kinds of vessels from massive cargo ships to cruise ships, tankers to bulkers, yachts to car ships.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most harrowing part of a bar pilot’s job is open water boarding. Here’s how it works: when a ship approaches San Francisco from the open ocean, it meets up with a station boat that’s always waiting 11 miles west of the Golden Gate Bridge. The crew on that boat rotates weekly, but the bar pilots work 365 days a year in all weather conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12089866\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12089866\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260114-BarPilots-34-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260114-BarPilots-34-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260114-BarPilots-34-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260114-BarPilots-34-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Capt. Cevan LeSieur (left) prepares to board the Pasha Hawaii ship George III at the Port of Oakland. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12089879\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12089879\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260114-BarPilots-Diptych4-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"847\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260114-BarPilots-Diptych4-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260114-BarPilots-Diptych4-2000x662.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260114-BarPilots-Diptych4-160x53.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260114-BarPilots-Diptych4-1536x508.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260114-BarPilots-Diptych4-2048x678.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: A bar pilot boat pulls up next to the Pasha Hawaii ship George III at the Port of Oakland. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“Getting on can be tricky, and people have gone in the water,” said John Carlier, the president of the bar pilots association and a man with more than 30 years on the job. “But getting off and trying to get that small landing area on that deck while that boat’s surfing past you can be a bit sketchy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If a pilot does go in the water, he’s wearing a “float coat,” which turns into a lifejacket when it hits the water, complete with lights and a safety whistle. Pilots make the jump in all kinds of weather conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If it’s not safe, you don’t do it, but a lot of people would look at the conditions and not think it’s safe, but we have our own definition of it,” Lesieur said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He estimated that it’s only about once a year that the weather is so bad that the pilot can’t make the jump. If that happens, the pilot has to stay on the ship until the next port of call and then fly home, and no one wants that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our question asker, Erik Udd, was interested in knowing if bar pilots receive hazard pay during bad weather, and the answer is no. But they are paid well — in the mid-six figures on average. They are paid by the shipping companies that use their services. There’s a \u003ca href=\"https://sfbarpilots.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Pilotage-Rates.pdf\">rate structure\u003c/a> based on the tonnage of the ship.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Becoming a bar pilot\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>To become a bar pilot, a person must be a mid-career captain with decades of experience already. There’s a written test and a simulator test. Based on those scores, candidates are ranked on a list from which the bar pilots pull when apprenticeships open up. Once in the training program, most people spend close to two years shadowing more experienced pilots and learning all the different routes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The area starts with the Gulf of the Farallones, works its way through the main bay, down the Redwood City, and all the way up to Stockton and Sacramento,” Carlier said. “There’s eight different sections. You’re going to do in the neighborhood of at least 600 jobs under the tutelage of existing pilots.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12089872\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12089872\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260114-BarPilots-57-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260114-BarPilots-57-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260114-BarPilots-57-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260114-BarPilots-57-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bar pilot Capt. Cevan LeSieur stands on the bridge of the Pasha Hawaii ship George III while docked at the Port of Oakland. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>They also have to learn by heart over 670 aids to navigation — the lights and buoys — as well as the depth charts for the entire 5,000-square-mile area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the expertise and local knowledge of the bar pilots, there have been instances when they made mistakes with devastating consequences. In 2007, a ship with a bar pilot in charge \u003ca href=\"https://response.restoration.noaa.gov/remembering-cosco-busan-overview-2007-oil-spill\">clipped one of the Bay Bridge towers\u003c/a> and 58,000 gallons of fuel oil spilled into the bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were some communication problems between the pilot and the crew as to where the center of the bridge was on their electronic [navigation] equipment, which definitely added to the sideswiping of the Delta Tower of the Bay Bridge,” Carlier said. “We actually bring our own electronic navigation equipment with us on board now. We also bring our GPS antennas.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Bar pilots at work\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The container ships that dock at the Port of Oakland to load and unload cargo are massive. The largest ones are as long as the Salesforce Tower is tall, but even more modestly sized ones are huge. The bar pilots have had to adapt as the ships have gotten bigger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.pashahawaii.com/services/vessels/george-iii\">George III is a container ship\u003c/a> operated by Pasha Hawaii that brings supplies to the Hawaiian Islands. It runs the same route every two weeks, leaving Honolulu mostly empty save for a few commodities like macadamia nuts and rum, stops in Oakland to take on cargo and then heads down to Long Beach for more, before returning to Hawaii.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12089946\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12089946\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/GraphBarPilots.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1079\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/GraphBarPilots.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/GraphBarPilots-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/GraphBarPilots-1536x1036.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Many of the ships operating in the bay are as long as a skyscraper is tall. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the San Francisco Bar Pilots)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The state of Hawaii has about three to five days of food availability if shipping stopped,” said Ed Washburn, senior vice president of fleet operations. “So it’s very sensitive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The crew of the ship signs on for long stints, 10 to 14 weeks, but then gets just as much time off on land. When they’re on board, they work as a team to keep ship operations running smoothly, the loads balanced, and the engines purring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>George III is a unique vessel because it runs on both diesel fuel and \u003ca href=\"https://www.pashahawaii.com/news-media/news/571/pasha-hawaii-marks-historic-milestone-mv-george-iii-first-lng-powered\">natural gas\u003c/a>, making it a cleaner vessel, but also one with more specific engineering needs. The crew eats, sleeps and works in shifts, building a strong sense of camaraderie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12089873\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12089873\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260114-BarPilots-60-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260114-BarPilots-60-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260114-BarPilots-60-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260114-BarPilots-60-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A crew member on the Pasha Hawaii ship George III works on the bridge while docked at the Port of Oakland. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12089878\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12089878\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260114-BarPilots-Diptych03-BL-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"846\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260114-BarPilots-Diptych03-BL-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260114-BarPilots-Diptych03-BL-2000x661.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260114-BarPilots-Diptych03-BL-160x53.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260114-BarPilots-Diptych03-BL-1536x507.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260114-BarPilots-Diptych03-BL-2048x676.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: Mark Bancroft, a second assistant engineer, works in the engine room of the Pasha Hawaii ship George III while docked at the Port of Oakland. Right: Crew members eat dinner on the George III before departing the Port of Oakland. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When it’s time to push off for sea, the bar pilot boards the ship and heads towards the ship’s bridge, at the top of the vessel. From there, he checks in with the captain, makes sure the equipment has all been tested and communicates with tugboats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s kinda anticlimactic when you have 90-ton boats and no wind,” said Christian Barron, the bar pilot on duty as George III slowly inched away from the dock. “We’ll start casting off tugs once we get about half a mile from here and start bringing her up to speed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12089875\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12089875\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260114-BarPilots-83-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260114-BarPilots-83-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260114-BarPilots-83-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260114-BarPilots-83-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco bar pilot Christian Barron works on the Pasha Hawaii ship George III before departing the Port of Oakland. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12089874\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12089874\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260114-BarPilots-72-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260114-BarPilots-72-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260114-BarPilots-72-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260114-BarPilots-72-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A bar pilot boat is docked at the Port of Oakland. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12089876\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12089876\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260114-BarPilots-101-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260114-BarPilots-101-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260114-BarPilots-101-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260114-BarPilots-101-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Views of the San Francisco skyline from a bar pilot boat. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Once the ship was safely out of San Francisco Bay, Christian climbed down the ladder and jumped onto the station boat, where he waited for the next ship needing his services to arrive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the bar pilots are doing their jobs well, we landlubbers might not even know they exist. We only see the stocked grocery shelves, fuel at the gas pump and cruise ships awaiting passengers at the pier. But to make all of that happen, a bar pilot is working day or night, rain or shine, fog or no, to bring ships safely to port.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"Viewthefullepisodetranscript\">\u003c/a>Episode transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> If you ask mariners, they’ll tell you, navigating a boat from the open ocean into the San Francisco Bay is notoriously treacherous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s the dense fog that can make it hard to see. Strong currents constantly rearrange the sea floor, and can quickly throw a vessel off course. And finally – our bridges! If a boat were to strike a pillar it could be\u003cem> catastrophic. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s why captains of big ships aren’t allowed to navigate into port on their own. A specially trained mariner called a \u003cem>bar pilot\u003c/em> – hops aboard every ship that comes into San Francisco Bay, and takes over command.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We got a question about those bar pilots, so we sent Bay Curious editor and producer Katrina Schwartz to the Embarcadero to meet the man who asked it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Erik Udd said he’d meet me at the Embarcadero BART station. When I emerged on the escalator he was waiting for me, sitting at the helm of a pedicab.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Erik Udd: \u003c/strong>It’s a great retirement job, I get exercise, it is perfect for me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>While we talk, he’s giving me a ride in his pedicab over to Pier 9…near the Exploratorium…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Erik Udd: \u003c/strong>Oh, there goes a boat right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>While Erik pedals along the Embarcadero, he often notices the orange and white boats with the word “PILOT” painted on the side in giant, all caps letters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Erik Udd: \u003c/strong>I’ve seen the boats and I’ve seen them heading out towards the golden gate, but I never thought about the process. What do they do? How does it work?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Erik wants to know everything about the bar pilots. Like, how does the pilot get onto one of those big container ships?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Erik Udd: \u003c/strong>How big of a boat needs a pilot to come into the bay?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>What kind of training do the pilots go through?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Erik Udd: \u003c/strong>Has anyone ever gone in the water? I’m sure someone has gone in the water. Maybe a better question is how many times?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>What happens when there’s a storm?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Erik Udd: \u003c/strong>Do they get hazard pay when they’re out there in a storm?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>After all, some of the ships coming into the bay are truly massive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Erik Udd: \u003c/strong>It’s like a building is moving along across the water. Those things are huge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>It’s quite a lot of questions, but I’m up to the task. Erik drops me off at Pier 9, where the Bar Pilots are headquartered. It’s the last office out at the end of the pier and sits behind a chain link fence. But once I’m inside, it looks like a fairly typical office building except the views of the bay are stunning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cevan Lesieur: \u003c/strong>Anne’s office has the best views in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Captains Cevan Lesieur and Anne McIntyre are showing me around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cevan has been a pilot here for 12 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cevan Lesieur: \u003c/strong>This is the best and most interesting waterway to work on from my experience and most challenging. So I always said if I was gonna become a pilot, it’d be in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Challenging because of the currents, the weather, the varied types of waterways and a congested central bay. Bar pilots can be called upon to move cruise ships, oil tankers, cargo ships, even really big yachts. And they have to be able to skillfully maneuver each type of vessel through narrowly dredged channels up the Sacramento and Stockton rivers and around smaller vessels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Anne McIntyre: \u003c/strong>We service all nine Bay Area ports. So we take ships all the way up to West Sacramento, to Stockton, down to Redwood City, even down to Monterey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Here’s how it works.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every ship over about 150 feet is required by law to use a bar pilot to enter and exit the bay, as well as to move from anchor to port within the bay. The pilots serve about 75-hundred vessels a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most dramatic moment for a bar pilot happens out in the open ocean beyond the Golden Gate Bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cevan Lesieur: \u003c/strong>We have what we call our station boat or ocean boats. And one is off shore at all times, about 11 miles west of the Golden Gate Bridge. And so we have crews out there that rotate every week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>When a large vessel is heading into San Francisco Bay, it meets up with the bar pilot boat out on the ocean and the bar pilot leaps from one to the other — you heard that right — and they are not tied into anything when they do it. Then they climb up a ladder on the outside of the ship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cevan Lesieur: \u003c/strong>Timing is critical, and especially the worse the weather, the more important timing is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>The ships are side-by-side going about 12-miles per hour when the pilot makes his jump. Cevan says there are some weather conditions that make the transfer too dangerous, but it doesn’t happen often…maybe once a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cevan Lesieur: \u003c/strong>If it’s not safe you don’t do it, but a lot of people would look at the conditions and not think it’s safe, but we have our own definition of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Once the pilot is on board, he or she communicates with the captain and crew to bring the vessel safely under the Golden Gate Bridge, through the Bay and to its anchorage spot or port berth. The same happens in reverse, except the pilot has to jump off the ladder and onto the pilot boat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every bar pilot I talked to had a harrowing story about open water boarding, but Cevan’s is the funniest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cevan Lesieur: \u003c/strong>I was boarding a car ship and the conditions were really bad and the ship and the pilot boat were going up and down and up and down. The wind was so bad, I took like 3 attempts. Finally we came alongside and I was on the platform and I jumped and landed on the deck and was laying there. And the mate looked down, and said you’re f**ing crazy!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Over their long history, pilots \u003cem>have\u003c/em> died and many have gone in the water, but it’s not common.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cevan Lesieur: \u003c/strong>In the modern era, we have not lost a pilot here. And the last time a pilot went into the water has been several years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>If a pilot does miss the jump, he’s wearing a “float coat” that becomes a life jacket when he hits the water, complete with lights and whistles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And to answer our question asker, no, they don’t get hazard pay. But they are paid well… on average about 500,000 a year — all of that paid by the companies operating the boats they serve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> We’re going to take a quick break, but when we come back we’ll learn how the bar pilots came to be and Katrina gets to shadow a pilot on a real job. Will she make the jump? All that coming up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sponsor message\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>We were on a tour of bar pilot headquarters at Pier 9. Bay Curious editor and producer Katrina Schwartz found the halls are lined with evidence of the organization’s very \u003cstrong>long\u003c/strong> history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Captains Cevan Lesieur and Anne McIntyre are showing me cool photos and artifacts from bar pilot history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Anne McIntyre: \u003c/strong>We have to stop at this one here. This is the original charter from the first California legislative session.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Anne points to an old looking document on the wall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Anne McIntyre: \u003c/strong>The San Francisco Bar Pilots have been around a long time. We were founded in 1850. We’re the second oldest business in San Francisco behind Boudin Bread.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>The bar pilots are as old as the state of California. Even back in 1850, state legislators understood the future of San Francisco — California even — depended on the safe flow of ships in and out of the Bay. We couldn’t have all these shipwrecks gumming up the works.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Anne McIntyre: \u003c/strong>We were the first act of the first California Legislature. So the first thing the California legislature did was pass the pilotage act happened and that’s what founded the San Francisco Bar Pilots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Back then, the ships coming to San Francisco were mostly sailing vessels. By the end of the century coal-fired steam engines would come on the scene and later diesel engines. Each era required something different from the bar pilots, Cevan tells me. Boarding sailing ships might have been the most physically demanding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cevan Lesieur: \u003c/strong>The pilot would get on a little dinghy, and they’d row to the side of the ship, and then you’d climb up the ladder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>He shakes his head at the idea of rowing a dingy through dense fog and huge wake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cevan Lesieur: \u003c/strong>You know when I look at the type of weather and conditions we deal with…These people were just tougher than we are nowadays. \u003cem>(Laughs, fade under)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>To become a bar pilot, you have to be a mid-career captain with many years of experience. There’s a written test and a simulator test. Candidates are ranked based on their scores and are then eligible for an apprenticeship with the bar pilots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>John Carlier: \u003c/strong>You’re going to probably do in the neighborhood of at least 600 jobs under the tutelage of existing pilots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>John Carlier is the President of the Bar Pilots Association. He says there are eight sections in the Bay, each with their own challenges, and the pilots have to learn all of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>John Carlier: \u003c/strong>And the area starts with the Gulf of the Farallones, works its way through the main bay, down the Redwood City, and all the way up to Stockton and Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Piloting up the rivers here can be especially challenging. The ships are within two feet of the bottom in narrow channels with little room for error. And it takes a long time, about 9 hours from the open ocean to Stockton or Sacramento, so they usually change bar pilots half way to avoid fatigue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite all this training, there have been incidents when ships captained by bar pilots have run into trouble in the Bay. Like in 2007 when an oil tanker clipped one of the Bay Bridge towers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>John Carlier: \u003c/strong>Yes, that was a bar pilot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>News clip: \u003c/strong>A 900 foot container ship hit the Bay Bridge tower east of the main anchorage. 58,000 gallons of fuel oil. Countless fragile ecosystems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>John Carlier: \u003c/strong>There was some communication problems between the pilot and the crew as to where the center of the bridge was on their electronic nav equipment which definitely added to you know the the sideswiping of the Delta Tower of the Bay Bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Because of that incident, the bar pilots now bring their own GPS navigational equipment on board with them so they don’t have to rely on the vessel’s equipment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m going to get to see that in action soon, so we start heading towards a boat with the word “pilot” boldly written on its side tied up out back. We clamor aboard. It looks like a fancy speedboat, and head towards Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pilot: \u003c/strong>Where do you want to head to?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cevan Lesieur: \u003c/strong>Port of Oakland, George III\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>It takes about 20 minutes to cross the bay and soon our small boat is pulling up alongside a massive containership. This boat is considered “small” by shipping standards and it’s still as tall as a 15 story building from the water up to the top. I now have to step from the bobbing deck of the pilot boat onto a rope ladder dangling from the first deck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sounds of ladder clanking against the ship\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>I had hoped to do the open ocean leap I’d heard so much about. Climbing about 15 feet up this ladder felt pretty tame by comparison. 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His lawyer, Roberto Escobar, said he planned to appeal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prior to his sentencing, he said he was remorseful for his actions and asked to be sentenced to home confinement. His defense counsel said he had spent three decades providing mental-health care to underserved communities in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was faced with a challenging situational operation, and I chose poorly,” he told Breyer. “I relied too heavily on my own judgment. At the very moment when outside input would have made a crucial difference, I failed to engage others. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a> voters will be asked this November if they want to create a public bank.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisors on Tuesday agreed to create a municipal financial corporation, setting up the framework and governance structure for a public bank proposal to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12058853/san-francisco-public-bank-supporters-eye-2026-ballot-measure\">go before voters on the November ballot\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If voters ultimately pass the measure later this fall, San Francisco would become the first U.S. city to have a municipal bank. The move comes as federal funding cuts have worsened budgets for the city and families alike, and alongside several progressive campaigns to boost affordability in every aspect of life, from housing production to groceries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A public bank would open the doors to build an engine for affordable housing, a lifeline for struggling small businesses and the financial backbone for our climate goals,” Supervisor Chyanne Chen said. “Let us use every tool at our disposal to keep the city affordable and to drive an economic recovery that leaves no one behind.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislation passed on Tuesday sets up the mission and structure for the public bank, including outlining how it would begin with focusing on affordable housing, green energy and small businesses. It also clarifies that the institution would never lend to fossil fuel corporations or weapons manufacturers. It would also establish that the city attorney, controller, treasure and tax collector, mayor and supervisors have appointing power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This ensures we have an institution run by real bankers that is accountable, nevertheless, to public priorities and public policy priorities,” said Supervisor Jackie Fielder, a longtime advocate for a public bank in San Francisco. “San Franciscans right now are really asking for affordability in a city that is becoming increasingly out of reach for even middle-class families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043503\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043503\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250609-SF-IMMIGRATION-PROTESTS-MD-08-KQED-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250609-SF-IMMIGRATION-PROTESTS-MD-08-KQED-3.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250609-SF-IMMIGRATION-PROTESTS-MD-08-KQED-3-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250609-SF-IMMIGRATION-PROTESTS-MD-08-KQED-3-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco City Supervisor Jackie Fielder addresses protesters at a rally in the Mission District in San Francisco in opposition to the Trump administration’s immigration policy and enforcement on June 9, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>No funding is directly tied to the ballot proposal. But backers say it’s necessary to put before voters this year to keep moving forward on the idea, because the state policy that permits cities to create laws related to public banks expires in 2028.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We really want to take advantage of this; otherwise, we will not have the legal context to allow San Francisco to make this legislation,” Chen said. “If the state law expires, then we have to work on a new state law before we can have this conversation again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters of the public bank say it would enable the city to move ahead on the thousands of approved housing units that lack funding, finance climate goals and support small businesses. The idea would be to have the institution available to offer financial tools like low-to-no-cost loans for projects such as affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city currently has thousands of housing units that have been approved, but still lack the financing needed to break ground.[aside postID=science_2001391 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/07/260629-DOXYPEP-02-BL-KQED.jpg']“I really see the public bank as a tool for the city to have infrastructure in the future to support more affordable housing and support our small businesses to be more resilient,” Chen told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Five supervisors have co-sponsored the creation of a municipal finance corporation, including Myrna Melgar, Bilal Mahmood, Shamann Walton and Fielder, who was leading the public bank effort before stepping away for a recent medical leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other places in the U.S., like North Dakota, have publicly run banking institutions. But San Francisco is on track to be the first place to create and run such an institution on the municipal level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s created excitement for some who say San Francisco could be a leader in municipal banking and who see popularity growing for publicly run efforts to boost affordability, from subsidized grocery stores to free childcare programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 2025 poll commissioned by the San Francisco Public Bank Coalition, a group in support of the idea, showed 67% of likely San Francisco voters supported starting a public bank.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other supporters pointed to ways that traditional private banks have failed to finance certain projects that could benefit the public, or have historically discriminated against and denied loans to Black customers and other groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We still see great disparities in lending for no financial business reason against women, against people who don’t have proper documentation, against all sorts of human beings that could be thriving economic actors in our society,” Melgar said at last week’s board meeting in support of the proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12065672\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12065672\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251201-NEWSFSUPERVISOR-08-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251201-NEWSFSUPERVISOR-08-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251201-NEWSFSUPERVISOR-08-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251201-NEWSFSUPERVISOR-08-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alan Wong speaks after he is sworn in as District 4 supervisor by Mayor Daniel Lurie at Abraham Lincoln High School in San Francisco on Dec. 1, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The public bank idea still lacks a confirmed plan for revenue. A local tax or coordination with a union trust are among the ideas that supporters of the plan have floated for potential capital investment in the bank. The legislation before the board on Tuesday does not commit any funding to a public bank.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would like to see a tax on major financial institutions to fund the public bank,” Fielder said. “But that’s not what we’re voting on this year, and further legislation is definitely going to be needed to actually capitalize the bank, and that could include private philanthropic dollars as well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others on the board are skeptical of taking on the challenge. Supervisor Alan Wong, who represents the Sunset District, was among the two no votes on Tuesday, along with Supervisor Stephen Sherrill.[aside postID=news_12089758 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231209-FORMERANCHORWORKERS-13-BL-KQED.jpg']“In a moment like this, asking voters to commit San Francisco to potentially running a financial institution is asking for trust the city has not yet earned,” Wong said. “A public bank involves decisions about deposits, lending, credit, regulation and risk management. Those decisions carry real financial consequences. They demand institutional discipline, insulation from political pressure, transparency and deep banking expertise. 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