From Bay Crossings - November 2005
"It ain’t over ’til it’s over," with the Alcatraz contract, as our cover story, "The Big Game," makes plain. Still, the National Park Services’ decision to overturn precedent and negotiate with the upstart Hornblower Cruises in preference to the incumbent operator, The Blue and Gold Fleet, is stunning.
Seasoned waterfront watchers counted The Blue and Gold Fleet a shoo-in to be awarded an extension. Jaws are agape, up and down the waterfront, that a non-union operation might operate the marquee maritime contract. Harry Bridges, the Longshoreman who led the epochal 1936 San Francisco waterfront General Strike that launched unionism in America, must be spinning in his grave, like a propeller.
But even Blue & Gold must now concede that Hornblower’s Chief Executive, Terry MacRae, is at the very minimum a mighty good proposal writer. MacRae, a seasoned waterfront pro, with maritime operations around the country, is keeping mum about whatever sizzle he used to bedazzle National Park Service reviewers.
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