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Cal Boating’s Boat Launching Facility Guidelines . These types of efforts have helped California lead the nation in developing high-quality public access projects. Ironically, Bill has never owned a boat himself. His weekends were always filled with family, travel, gardening, and his work as a volunteer chaplain at Folsom State Prison. But Bill still looks back on his long career at Cal Boating with fondness and a sense of accomplishment. “The real ‘gold nugget’ of working for Cal Boating was having supervisors like Bill Satow and Don Waltz, who held my feet to the fire, but gave me the freedom to do my job with initiative and creativity,” says Bill. “It has been a real privilege to serve the boaters and residents of California.”

(continued from page 13) made of heart redwood, worked

very well. However, after a few years, woodpeckers badly damaged the tank by pecking large holes in the redwood to store nuts and other food. So Cal Boating replaced the wooden tank with one made of steel. The windmill at Goose Flat turned out to be the first one installed and used by the state in over 50 years. This small venture received national attention in the news media and exemplifies Cal Boating’s long-term commitment to developing practical, cost-effective projects that have a low impact on the environment, work well over time, and serve the various needs of California’s recreational boaters.

First Department Logo, 1961–1966

1961 Legislation permits Commission to grant

1966

Division of Small Craft Harbors relocates to within Department of Parks and Recreation

Responsibility of registering vessels shifts from Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) to Division of Small Craft Harbors

The division becomes a department! Division of Small Craft Harbors is now Department of Harbors andWatercraft; Small Craft Harbors Commission becomes Harbors and Watercraft Commission

funds to a “county, city or district for the construction of small craft launching facilities”

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50 Years: The Department of Boating and Waterways, 1957 to 2007