14933_DBW-50thAnniversaryBook-PROOF

P R OV I D I NG F UND S TO I M P R OV E T HE B OA T I NG E X P E R I E NC E

Cal Boating’s Small Craft Harbor Loan Program underwrites two types of loans for marinas that cater to recreational craft. Some loans are made to public entities that want to make a wide variety of harbor or infrastructure improvements such as breakwater construction and berthing facilities, while others go to privately owned, public marinas to fund construction. Cal Boating’s very first small craft harbor loan was provided to Los Angeles County for the development of Marina Del Rey in 1957. Fifty years later, the county is finishing another project with a Cal Boating loan to make sea wall improvements to protect the marina. Cal Boating planning supervisors travel the state checking out potential candidate sites for the agency’s loan and grant programs. The Boat Launching Facility Grant Program provides grant funds to public agencies for the construction of launch ramps, car-trailer parking, boarding docks, landscaping, lighting, and support items. Spring is the busiest inspection time, as Cal Boating representatives visit lake sites in the mountains and locations up and down the California coast, talking to people who want to apply for funds. Department staff evaluate project feasibility and – if things look

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2002 Cal Boating launches highly popular traveling AquaSMART

Cal Boating sponsors legislation with state Assemblymember Marilyn Brewer to increase the minimum age for wearing a life jacket to under 12 years of age

AquaSMART LIVE, which now serves 80 schools each year, received the 2003 National Safe Boating Council’s Western Region Boating Education Advancement Award

LIVE puppet show hosted by Splasher the Frog, the AquaSMART series mascot

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