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Exhausted but exhilarated, the crew of the Golden Rule brought the historic anti-nuclear sailboat into the San Francisco Bay this week after a difficult month-long voyage across the Pacific. The four-member crew set sail on the 34-foot ketch May 4 from Honolulu, where a different crew had stopped in 2019 along a planned journey to the Marshall Islands only to be halted by the COVID-19 pandemic. They described a beautiful yet frightening return.
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The Golden Rule sails by her farewell gathering on Magic Island, Honolulu, May 1, 2021. (Photo: Ann Wright)
After 21 months in the Hawaiian Islands, the historic anti-nuclear sailboat Golden Rule has departed from Honolulu, Hawai’i for the West Coast of the U.S. The Golden Rule first sailed from California to Hawai’i 63 years ago, in 1958, on her way to interfere with U.S. atmospheric nuclear testing in the Marshall Islands, the site of 67 U.S. nuclear bomb blasts from 1952 to 1958. Under orders from the Atomic Energy Commission, U.S. Coast Guard stopped the boat from leaving Honolulu. The arrest and jailing of Golden Rule’s captain Albert Bigelow, a retired World War II Navy Commander, and his crew of Quaker peace activists garnered international media attention and increased opp