tomorrow, golden gate audubon society, telegraph hill dwellers, and others, and a second letter from rebecca evans on behalf of the sierra club's san francisco group. since then, there have been three separate appeal memos from the appellant, one on january 17, two yesterday, january 23, and as we receive the latest letter at the close of business, we have just submitted our response memo to the board. we also submitted responses to the dolphins and south and rowing club. -- the south end rowing club. i will not go through each and every one of them, but i will touch on a few that came up during testimony. aquatics park, the issue that the appellants raised is insufficient analysis of the impacts of the jumbotron in a aquatic park. there is concern about increased boat traffic in an aquatic park and the safety to swimmers in the cove. the staff has analyzed impacts on water quality, air quality, nor is, hazards, and recreation, and they are all covered in the eir -- air quality, nor is, hazards, and recreation. -- air quality, noise. sediment due to the type of moorings and the flashing in the cov

rebecca. >> makes sense why that would be the priority. >> alan, thank you. >>> evans hoyt joins us, he hasin for three decades. >> reporter: good morning. welcome to the bridge of "the pride of america." >> good to be with you. some things a lot of people don't understand. what is it that most people don't understand about captaining a ship? >> well, the job from the actual ship handling to the management of the overall operation. but i guess overall it would be the complexity of it all. >> let's talk about the complexity. ships are highly computerized. how much are you steering the ship? >> well, in fact, during the maneuvering process, it's all manual. and at sea, the officer of the watch is managing the maneuvering through the system. >> how much of the system has changed over the past couple of decades? how challenging is it to keep up on training? >> well, the training ining co. we have seen an enormous change within the industry. the fuel integration, the integrated brig system and electronic charting has changed a lot through the industry. when i first -- >> if you don't stay up on