East Bay Times

Photos: Junk boat playground structure restored in Oakland’s Chinatown

With support from the Wa Sung Community Service Club and other Chinatown organizations, Councilmember Abel Guillén secured $195,000 in Community Development Block Grant funds to finance the ...
CNN

The last of Hong Kong’s original wooden junk boats is still afloat

You may not know what a junk boat is, but odds are high that you’ve seen one. The junk boat – tall and wooden with its three bright-red sails glowing in the Victoria Harbor sunlight – is one of the ...
East Bay Times

Oakland’s Junk Boat to undergo repairs

OAKLAND — After years of heavy use, the city’s famed Junk Boat is getting an overhaul. The City Council last month approved a community request to fund repairs to the large wood and metal junk boat ...
abcnews4

Salvage crews clear waterways of sunken, abandoned boats

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) -- A collaborative effort to rid the Ashley River and Charleston Harbor of dangerous and partially sunken old boats has resumed.{} In just a week, salvage crews have removed ...
KITV

State needs to salvage more sunken boats

The cost of boats going down in our waters, is adding up for the state. There are more ships that need to be salvaged, after it is was no accident some were sunk. At the Waianae Boat Harbor, there are ...