The Bay Log · A story a day

Stories of San Diego Bay

Every day, one true story of this harbor — the carriers and the canneries, the lighthouse keepers and the flag raisers, the bridge and the boats — told the way we tell it from the deck of JADA, the classic 1938 yacht of Sail JADA Charters.

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The Bay That Smelled Like the Sea — San Diego's Lost Tuna Empire

How San Diego became the Tuna Capital of the World, who built the fleet that earned the title, and what happened to the people who made it.

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The Ship That Refused to Die — Star of India's 160 Years

She survived a mutiny, a gale, and decades of neglect in a San Diego harbor. The world's oldest active sailing ship has called this bay home for nearly a century.

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Eight Days Late, Forty-Seven Years Stubborn

USS Midway was commissioned eight days after Japan surrendered. She arrived too late for the war she was built for, so she stayed for the next forty-seven years.

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The Flight That Changed Everything

On January 26, 1911, Glenn Curtiss flew the first seaplane in America from the sheltered water off North Island — and the Navy has been building on that flight ever since.

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