Volunteer brings oceans of experience to Council committee
After retiring from piloting, Terpening spent a few years commercial fishing out of Bristol Bay with his son. A teenage Gordon Terpening grew up watching ships navigating in and out of San Francisco Bay, and knew early on exactly what he wanted to do after high school. “Once I heard about what a ship’s pilot did, I decided that’s what I wanted to do.” After graduating from the California Maritime Academy with a Bachelor’s in…