RON HENGGELER

Clouds over San Francisco from my window

Sunrise in San Francisco from my window

Pacific Heights in San Francisco

The Golden Gate Bridge seenfrom the St Francis Yacht Club

The St. Francis Yacht Club is a private sailing club located in San Francisco.

It was founded in 1927 when the members of the San Francisco Yacht Club (the oldest sailing club in the western United States) decided to move their clubhouse out of San Francisco to Belvedere, California, about 13 miles to the north in Marin County. About half of the membership of the San Francisco Yacht Club declined to make the move and instead formed the St. Francis. It has become generally considered to be the most prestigious yacht club in the western United States. Membership in the club is by invitation only.[

TheWindsurfers and the Golden Gate Bridge seen from the St Francis Yacht Club

The Club hired San Francisco architect Willis Polk to design their clubhouse which was then built on land purchased by the Club on the jetty off of Crissy Field in the Marina District, San Francisco, on landfill created for the 1917 Panama Pacific International Exposition. Polk died before the blueprints could be completed but his office finished them. The Mediterranean Revival-style building is the yacht club closest in proximity to the Golden Gate Bridge and enjoys views from the Bridge to Alcatraz Island and beyond. The Golden Gate Yacht Club is situated a few hundred yards further east along the jetty.

The marina of the St Francis Yacht Club

Telegraph Hill as seen from the top of Lombard Street on Russian Hill

Telegraph Hill as seen from Union Street in North Beach

The Transamerica Pyramid as seen from Union Street in North Beach

Grant Avenue in Chinatown

The Bay Bridge and Telegraph Hill as seen from Russian Hill

Alcatraz as seen from Russian Hill

The distant Mt Tamalpais as seen from Lands End near the USS San Francisco Memorial