Good Jibes #239: Vivian Matuk and Delores Chan on the Dockwalker Program, With Host Ryan Foland
This week we chat with Vivian Matuk and Delores Chan about the Dockwalker program. Vivian is the Environmental Boating program manager for California State Parks and the California Coastal Commission, and Delores is the Environmental Engagement Program project manager for The Bay Foundation.
Tune in as Vivian and Delores chat with Good Jibes host Ryan Foland about how and why the Dockwalker program was started, the power of word of mouth in the sailing community, how to practice clean boating, and how they get sailors who are strangers to have a rewarding conversation, and recount a story about a sloth.
Here’s a small sample of what you will hear in this episode:
- How do you make dock conversations not awkward?
- The California Boater Kit: oil absorbent sheets, fuel bibs, binder cards and more
- Vivian’s origin story: from the Andes to California as a biologist drawn to water
- Delores’s origin story: a seven-year-old on a Bay Area boat who knew what a vertebrate was
- From sloth walker to dock walker, the human touch that no AI can fully replace
Learn more about the Dockwalker Program at BoatingCleanAndGreen.com/Dockwalkers and about Ryan at Ryan.Online
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Check out the episode and show notes for much more detail.