East Contra Costa new home to unususal renovated island with colorful past
Long ago in a wine cellar deep below the waterline in San Francisco Bay, Tony Bennett broke out into his beloved signature song as he visited Forbes Island, a then-popular floating restaurant near Pier 39.
Not that all was smooth sailing for Kiddoo, who built Forbes Island by hand, launching it in 1979 in Sausalito. After living and working there for decades, the Brooklyn native ran into trouble with a state commission that made him move his self-propelled concrete and steel island. He headed off to Antioch for several years and later built a lighthouse with 56 steps for the island.
But it was clear Hinmann was not going to purchase the island — he later went bankrupt. Sailor/investor Sean Faul stepped in and, along with Eric Goodman, set up a company, Seastar Marine, to buy it for an undisclosed price. “We’ve worked hard to bring it back to what it was originally intended to be, which was sharing the experience of being on the water in kind of a mystical or magical place with the public,” he said.
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