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Bay Ship And Yacht is an example of the best of the best. They are a fantastic employer and they do amazing work. For Alamedens, Bayship And Yacht flies a bit under the radar. You really can't see their business from the roads around Alameda. But Alamedens should know, Bay Ship And Yacht contributes to the Bay Area economy and makes possible our robust, continuously growing, passenger ferry services. Have you ever wondered where tugboats get worked on? Do you have an idea what tugboats do? Without tugboats, those giant cargo ships that bring in everything we use in the United States and export all the things we grow in the Central Valley would not be able to moor alongside the dock. And without Bayship And Yacht, those tugboats wouldn't run. Bay Ship And Yacht is one of the unsung heroes of our region.

They have everything for boats and ships! Highly recommend them for their knowledge and selection of parts.

While I don't actually have a ship or a yacht (yet), it's great having Bay Ship & Yacht around. For a shipmaniac like myself, there's never a shortage of stunning vessels moored for your viewing pleasure. Forget Hollywood celebs -- there are many big-name ships that frequent BS&Y. The Balclutha, Californian, your local ferries, military ships from all eras, tugboats, luxury yachts, and even National Geographic wonder twins Sea Bird and Sea Lion have all stopped by for a visit. BS&Y is a 24-hour yard, so you can ogle the beauties day or night. Spyglass optional.

These guys are the best at what they do. Anytime I have maintenance, big or small, they do it all. 24 hours a day!! Thanks for the quality work, fellas!

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We have always had a passion for quality.

Bay Ship & Yacht was founded in 1977 by Bill Elliott with a primary focus on the construction and repair of wooden ships. Bill traveled the country with his crew, instilling in them a deep respect for the sea and a passion for achieving the level of quality that ocean travel demands.   That passion endured as the company made the transition to repair and conversion of commercial and military vessels and superyachts. Today, the passion for quality anchors our mission to deliver absolute customer satisfaction.    Bay Ship & Yacht's commitment to quality construction and repair is widely recognized throughout the commercial vessel community. That reputation is well-known to experienced owners who have made Bay Ship & Yacht their company of choice, and who recognize that the Bay Ship & Yacht experience has set the standard for others to follow.

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Secret service director kimberly cheatle resigns, sources say, bay ship & yacht a pillar of alameda’s maritime industry.

Johnson, then a port engineer for Foss Maritime, called Alameda’s Bay Ship & Yacht. The shipyard rustled some workers out of bed to hoist Johnson’s vessel out of the water and begin emergency repairs.

“There have been many situations like that, and I’ve never had anything they couldn’t handle,” said Johnson, now the marine superintendent for the San Francisco Bar Pilots.

Most activity at the facility isn’t that dramatic, but it’s no less important for keeping an engine of the Bay Area economy shipshape.

Up to 300 vessels berth annually at Bay Ship & Yacht, where 250 employees repair, rebuild and maintain everything from workhorse tugboats to commuter ferries and floating pleasure palaces.

“They’re a bit like God. If Bay Ship disappeared tomorrow, it would be nothing less than a crisis,” said Bobby Winston, the proprietor of Bay Crossings, a monthly maritime newspaper. “You’d have to invent them.”

Bill Elliott founded the company in 1977 as a mobile construction-and-repair outfit specializing in wooden ships. It settled in its current home next to Rosenblum Cellars Winery on Main Street in 1994 and has been growing steadily ever since.

“Over the last few years, we’ve incorporated a lot of new facilities, moving forward to become a 21st-century shipyard,” said Ira Maybaum, Bay Ship’s director of business development.

Its sweet spot is midsize working boats — ferries, fishing boats, military vessels, tugboats and barges — that experts say are integral to the area’s economy.

The company itself is now one of Alameda’s largest private employers, said Lori Taylor, Alameda’s community development director. She estimates the island’s maritime industry currently employs about 1,000 people, with Bay Ship & Yacht the largest contributor.

James Dalske, assistant dean of students at the California Maritime Academy in Vallejo, said the area’s maritime industry took a big hit during the recession but is bouncing back. Bay Ship & Yacht, he said, helps boat-based businesses thrive and stay local by providing the critical support they need.

That support was on full display one recent afternoon, as crews overhauled the 31-guest room National Geographic Sea Lion cruise ship, painted the WETA ferry Pisces and refueled the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Pike. In nearby warehouses, tradesmen fabricated the complex machinery that keeps boats afloat as workers tooled around the sprawling shipyard on bicycles.

One repeat customer is the National Park Service. It’s hired Bay Ship & Yacht for several projects, including the $10 million-plus refurbishment of the 1895 schooner C.A. Thayer, which is docked at San Francisco’s Hyde Street Pier.

The wooden-ship reconstruction required craftsmen to specially bend pieces of lumber, said Lynn Cullivan, a park ranger there.

“That’s pretty specialized. It was a hard, intricate and delicate job to do,” he said.

Today Bay Ship is increasingly targeting the mogul market. Super yachts, or yachts longer than 100 feet, often bypass San Francisco Bay for warmer climates. Maybaum hopes the upcoming America’s Cup in 2013, with races beginning next year, can put the area — and its ship facilities — on the map of their well-heeled owners.

But it’s already making a name for itself in the rarefied super-yacht world. Workers will soon begin lengthening a 170-foot super yacht by some 36 feet.

“We’ll literally cut it in half, then insert the midbody, which we’re getting ready to build right now,” Maybaum said.

Maybaum said it’s that kind of diverse service offering that will keep business sailing along Alameda’s waterfront.

Added Winston of Bay Crossings, “The ferries and barges and tugboats are here, and they always are going to be here. The everyday work of commerce, all of that would stop if you didn’t have a shipyard to keep these things going.”

• Founded: 1977
• Services: Full-service shipyard repairing and maintaining yachts, commercial and military vessels and historic ships; custom boatbuilding; industrial fabrication; wood joinery.
• Employees: 250 at Main Street facility; also operates Treasure Island dock; Richmond boatyard; mobile ship repair unit
• Dry dock capable of lifting a 390-foot boat up to 3,000 tons; elevator-like “Syncrolift” can haul vessels up to 200 feet and 1,200 tons. Capacity for 10 ships on land at once.
• Where: 2900 Main St., No. 2100, Alameda
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Shipbuilding: Leadership Transition at Bay Ship & Yacht

MarineLink February 26, 2022

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Bay Ship & Yacht founders Bill Elliott and Alan Cameron step back, name Joel Welter CEO, Gerona Goethe General Manager

Bill Elliott, who during a 45-year career catapulted Bay Ship & Yacht (BS&Y) from operating out of a single, mobile shipping container known as the “Shipyard in a Box” to becoming a premiere ship repair conglomerate in San Francisco Bay, announced a new generation of leadership for the company.

Joel Welter, currently Chief Naval Architect, was named Chief Executive Officer and Gerona Goethe, currently Assistant General Manager was tapped tas General Manager. Both changes are effective March 28, 2022.

Welter graduated from Webb Institute in 1994 with a degree in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering and has been with BS&Y since 1998. 

Goethe, who attended California Maritime Academy, holds a degree in Marine Engineering Technology and has been with the company since 2000. 

Founded by Elliott in 1977, BS&Y’s steady expansion of marine refit and repair capabilities now serves a cross-section of commercial and government customers encompassing the region’s expanding ferry system, barge network, superyachts and more.  

BS&Y’s main facility is located in Alameda, Calif., along with Svendsen’s Marine & Industrial supply, employing approximately (350) craftspeople. Another facility, Svendsen’s Bay Marine in Richmond, Calif. specializes in commercial and recreational vessels.  

Vice President Alan Cameron joined Elliott’s fledging BS&Y in 1979 and currently serves as General Manager. Both Elliott and Cameron will be engaged in business development outside BSY, with the various endeavors of Bay Maritime Corp.

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World’s first hydrogen-powered commercial ferry to run on San Francisco Bay, and it’s free to ride

The world’s first hydrogen-powered commercial passenger ferry will start offering free rides on San Francisco Bay as California seeks to phase out diesel-powered vessels and reduce planet-warming carbon emissions. (AP Video/Terry Chea)

The MV Sea Change, the first commercial passenger ferry powered by hydrogen fuel cells, is seen on the water, Friday, July 12, 2024, in San Francisco. The MV Sea Change will begin offering free rides to the public along the San Francisco waterfront on Friday, July 19. (AP Photo/Terry Chea)

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A person walks off the MV Sea Change, the first commercial passenger ferry powered by hydrogen fuel cells, Friday, July 12, 2024, in San Francisco. The MV Sea Change will begin offering free rides to the public along the San Francisco waterfront on Friday, July 19. (AP Photo/Terry Chea)

The MV Sea Change, a hydrogen-powered ferry, is docked at the San Francisco ferry terminal Friday, July 12, 2024, in San Francisco. The zero-emission vessel will begin offering free rides to the public between the Ferry Building and Fisherman’s Wharf on July 19. (AP Photo/Terry Chea)

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The world’s first hydrogen-powered commercial passenger ferry will start operating on San Francisco Bay as part of plans to phase out diesel-powered vessels and reduce planet-warming carbon emissions, California officials said Friday, demonstrating the ship.

The 70-foot (21-meter) catamaran called the MV Sea Change will transport up to 75 passengers along the waterfront between Pier 41 and the downtown San Francisco ferry terminal starting July 19, officials said. The service will be free for six months while it’s being run as part of a pilot program.

“The implications for this are huge because this isn’t its last stop,” said Jim Wunderman, chair of the San Francisco Bay Area Water Emergency Transportation Authority, which runs commuter ferries across the bay. “If we can operate this successfully, there are going to be more of these vessels in our fleet and in other folks’ fleets in the United States and we think in the world.”

Sea Change can travel about 300 nautical miles and operate for 16 hours before it needs to refuel. The fuel cells produce electricity by combining oxygen and hydrogen in an electrochemical reaction that emits water as a byproduct.

The technology could help clean up the shipping industry, which produces nearly 3% of the world’s total greenhouse gas emissions, officials said. That’s less than from cars, trucks, rail or aviation but still a lot — and it’s rising.

Frank Wolak, president and CEO of the Fuel Cell & Hydrogen Energy Association, said the ferry is meaningful because it’s hard to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from vessels.

“The real value of this is when you multiply out by the number of ferries operating around the world,” he said. “There’s great potential here. This is how you can start chipping away at the carbon intensity of your ports.”

Backers also hope hydrogen fuel cells could eventually power container ships.

The International Maritime Organization, which regulates commercial shipping, wants to halve its greenhouse gas releases by midcentury.

As fossil fuel emissions continue warming Earth’s atmosphere, the Biden administration is turning to hydrogen as an energy source for vehicles, manufacturing and generating electricity. It has been offering $8 billion to entice the nation’s industries, engineers and planners to figure out how to produce and deliver clean hydrogen.

Environmental groups say hydrogen presents its own pollution and climate risks.

For now, the hydrogen that is produced globally each year, mainly for refineries and fertilizer manufacturing, is made using natural gas. That process warms the planet rather than saving it. Indeed, a new study by researchers from Cornell and Stanford universities found that most hydrogen production emits carbon dioxide, which means that hydrogen-fueled transportation cannot yet be considered clean energy.

Yet proponents of hydrogen-powered transportation say that in the long run, hydrogen production is destined to become more environmentally safe. They envision a growing use of electricity from wind and solar energy, which can separate hydrogen and oxygen in water. As such renewable forms of energy gain broader use, hydrogen production should become a cleaner and less expensive process.

The Sea Change project was financed and managed by the investment firm SWITCH Maritime. The vessel was constructed at Bay Ship and Yacht in Alameda, California, and All-American Marine in Bellingham, Washington.

Associated Press journalist Jennifer McDermott contributed to this report from Providence, Rhode Island.

COMMERCIAL REFIT & REPAIR

   Benefits of our facility include dependable service, absolute quality, and on-time redelivery. If you’ve experienced service problems at other shipyards, you’ll be pleasantly surprised as soon as you arrive at Bay Ship & Yacht.

Some of our capabilities:

Complete naval architecture and engineering services

New fabrication and structural repair

Re-powering

Equipment overhaul and laser alignment

Full machine shop for shaft-line inspection and service

Exhaust pipe lagging

Electrical power and control system--troubleshooting, installation and repair

Hydraulic equipment and piping systems--repair and installation

Complete surface preparation and painting systems

Complete prop shop service

   For more information about how we can support your commercial business, or to schedule a haul-out, contact Mike Stoecker a t 510-337-9122 or send an email to [email protected].