Three generations of the Boisa family set out from a San Francisco marina aboard the Volare, seeking to honor a woman who loved the bay.
On the 49-foot cabin cruiser on Tuesday, 20 aunts, uncles, cousins, siblings and friends prepared to scatter the ashes of Maria Boisa, a nurse from Fremont who died by suicide at age 32 in 2015. They enjoyed a breezy and balmy morning, passing under the Golden Gate Bridge before stopping for the afternoon at Angel Island.
By 3:30 p.m., the three-story vessel was on its way back to the San Francisco Marina Yacht Harbor, where John Boisa, the boat’s captain and a former Naval officer, had reserved a berth…