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Crossing the Bar: The Adventures of a San Francisco Bay Bar Pilot
By Paul Lobo
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An experienced maritime pilot’s “fascinating” memoir of storms, rescues, and disasters on the treacherous waters of San Francisco Bay (Carl Nolte, San Francisco Chronicle).
There is nothing placid about San Francisco Bay. Its raucous waters have hosted brutal storms, daring rescues, horrendous accidents, and countless hours of drama and tension. Captain Paul Lobo knows that better than most people. As a federally and state licensed ship pilot of unlimited tonnage for those treacherous waters, Captain Lobo piloted nearly 6,500 ships in a thirty-one year career—everything from mega-yachts to the USS Enterprise to TV’s Love Boat. Each trip tells its own story, and the Cap'n shares many sea stories, all true. Readers will find gripping, tense adventure stories, all well told.
Reading Crossing the Bar is like being on the rolling bridge with Captain Lobo. Here are tragic deaths and lives saved, inspiring rescues, devastating storms, and the infamous and horrendous oil spill after the Cosco Busan rammed the Oakland Bay Bridge—resulting in the first known imprisonment of a maritime pilot for making an error.
Also covered is a December sea rescue Captain Lobo was involved in during a winter storm with hurricane-strength winds and monstrous seas. Without Captain Lobo, two other pilots and the pilot boat crew and their supreme effort, the ship they saved would have foundered on Marin County’s rocky coastline with the loss of all hands.
“I’ve read a lot of sea tales, but Captain Lobo’s is a first-person inside story from someone at the top of the seagoing ladder.” —Carl Nolte, reporter and columnist, San Francisco Chronicle
There is nothing placid about San Francisco Bay. Its raucous waters have hosted brutal storms, daring rescues, horrendous accidents, and countless hours of drama and tension. Captain Paul Lobo knows that better than most people. As a federally and state licensed ship pilot of unlimited tonnage for those treacherous waters, Captain Lobo piloted nearly 6,500 ships in a thirty-one year career—everything from mega-yachts to the USS Enterprise to TV’s Love Boat. Each trip tells its own story, and the Cap'n shares many sea stories, all true. Readers will find gripping, tense adventure stories, all well told.
Reading Crossing the Bar is like being on the rolling bridge with Captain Lobo. Here are tragic deaths and lives saved, inspiring rescues, devastating storms, and the infamous and horrendous oil spill after the Cosco Busan rammed the Oakland Bay Bridge—resulting in the first known imprisonment of a maritime pilot for making an error.
Also covered is a December sea rescue Captain Lobo was involved in during a winter storm with hurricane-strength winds and monstrous seas. Without Captain Lobo, two other pilots and the pilot boat crew and their supreme effort, the ship they saved would have foundered on Marin County’s rocky coastline with the loss of all hands.
“I’ve read a lot of sea tales, but Captain Lobo’s is a first-person inside story from someone at the top of the seagoing ladder.” —Carl Nolte, reporter and columnist, San Francisco Chronicle
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Paul Lobo
Paul Lobo has been writing fiction and nonfiction for several years as a software engineer and army veteran. He has been involved with the National Disaster Search Dog Foundation for over a year, and is the coauthor of Hero Dogs. He currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife and two rescued pit bulls.
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