Deep Sea Tasting Room is NOW OPEN!

Deep Sea Tasting Room is NOW OPEN! Conway Family Wines has received occupancy permits and opened for business their remodeled premises on Stearns Wharf, located on the second floor above Old Wharf Trading Company and Nature’s Own Shell stores. The “Deep Sea” brand, a Rhone influenced varietals, will be featured for your wine tasting enjoyment! … Read more

Interim Waterfront Director

Congratulations to Scott Riedman, who has been named the Interim Director of the Santa Barbara Waterfront Department. Mr. Riedman brings considerable experience to the job, having served as the Waterfront Business Manager which has overseen the financial management of the department, as well as parking operations, Stearns Wharf, and tenant relations.

Self-service parking

If you’re in the Santa Barbara harbor area, you’ll see the beginnings of an upgrade to the self-service parking lots. Starting in the Harbor West parking lot, new pay systems will be installed that can accept cash, coin, credit and/or debit cards. These are digital payment systems, and should make things much easier for people … Read more

Improvements

Our webmaster is hard at work making improvements to Harbor News. We hope you find them useful.

Nautical Swap Meet

SANTA BARBARA HARBOR NAUTICAL SWAP MEET Treasure Trove of Nautical Trinkets, Tackle and Things Saturday, May 14th from 8 am to Noon SANTA BARBARA, CA – 05/10/2011 The City of Santa Barbara Waterfront Department, in conjunction with the Santa Barbara Harbor Merchants Associations, invites you to the Fifth Annual Santa Barbara Harbor Nautical Swap Meet … Read more

That’s all she wrote

[flickr id=”5688634489″ thumbnail=”medium” align=”left”] On Monday, May 2, 2011, the Santa Barbara Drydock’s era in the harbor came to an end.

New Piles

[flickr id=”5688657365″ thumbnail=”medium” align=”left”] Work on installing new piles to the City Pier in the Santa Barbara Harbor continues, as seen here on May 4, 2011. Maintaining marine facilities is an ongoing process.

2011 Operation Clean Sweep

Working Together for a Clean Santa Barbara Harbor SANTA BARBARA, CA –05/04/2011– The seafloor in any busy harbor can grow littered with lost or discarded junk, impacting boating safety, navigability and the environment. You may ask yourself, “What’s really down there, and how can we clean it up?” Enter Santa Barbara Harbor’s Fifth Annual Operation … Read more

Fuel Prices

If you’re a boater, you’re probably getting hit twice with these rising fuel prices. Once for your vehicle and again for your boat. I read that people are already paying $6.00 per gallon for boat fuel in San Francisco. Prices like these will definitely have an impact on summer boating activities.