Films

Boat Day — the Film

Bill "Bull Plaskett" Alderson took the family's hundred-year-old Boat Day photographs — faded, cracked black-and-whites — colorized and restored them, then went to Plaskett Rock and filmed the same water where it happened. The schooner, the surf boat, and the hog riding the landing cable are composited into the living sea; the crowd on the bluff, in their Sunday best around the wire-chute derrick, are his own relatives. This is what Boat Day looked like: the holiday that outshone Christmas.

At the Point — Plaskett Rock

The surf and the sea stack from the point at Sand Dollar Beach. From Bill's Plaskett Rock visit, 2026.

Plaskett Rock — the Long Look

A slow look around the bay at Plaskett Rock from the serpentine point. From Bill's Plaskett Rock visit, 2026.

Sand Dollar Beach

Waves rolling into the great crescent below Pacific Valley. From Bill's Plaskett Rock visit, 2026.