Boating

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• Cleaning Tips For Your Boat

  For most invasive species, you can use hot or salt water to clean your equipment.

• Who Needs a Certifcate?

  Who needs a certificate to operate a registered boat in CT?

• Boating Infrastructure Grant Application Questions & Answers

  Questions and answers to the Boating Infrastructre Grant Request for Application.

• Sensitive Habitats

  Long Island Sound provides invaluable habitats for many different species of birds, mammals, fish, and shellfish. It is home to lobsters and clams, herring and striped bass, eagles and terns, harbor seals and more.

• Helpful Contacts

  Contacts telephone numbers to be used in the event of an environmental emergency.

• Marine Debris, Trash, Garbage and Fish Waste

  Floating debris and solid objects may result in structural damage to boats or mechanical failures. Garbage in the water or washed up on the beach is unsightly and can injure or kill birds, fish, marine turtles and mammals.

• Connecticuts Clean Marina Program Home

  Description: As a companion to the Clean Marina Program, the Clean Boater Program encourages the state?s boaters to learn about and use clean boating techniques.

• Connecticut Clean Boater Program

  Description: As a companion to the Clean Marina Program, the Clean Boater Program encourages the state?s boaters to learn about and use clean boating techniques.

• Washing the Topside of Your Boat

  Products used to clean boats often contain harmful ingredients, which are used out of habit rather than necessity. Often chlorine, phosphates and ammonia are used to wash decks and hulls of boats. These products can damage human and fish tissue.

• Boat Hull Maintenance

  Sanding and scraping your boat can release noxious paint into the air and water. Dust particles can irritate your lungs and eyes and can also affect the health and reproduction systems of fish, birds, crabs and other marine life.

• Reducing Hazardous Waste

  Hazardous materials are found in many materials used to clean and operate your boat. However, using these products is often more out of habit than necessity.

• Connecticuts No Discharge Area Program Home

  Connecticut's No Discharge Area Program

• Laws / Requirements / Permits

  Information on Boating Laws, Regulations, permits and marine dealers in Connecticut

• Connecticut Clean Vessel Act Program

  Connecticut Clean Vessel Act Program Home Page - This website will help you find a pumpout facility near you, and to install or upgrade sewage holding tank systems to be in compliance with existing laws governing marine sanitation devices (MSD's). You will find information on how to choose a system, sewage system design and the selection of system components, plus helpful tips for installation and maintenance. You will also find information about the Federal Clean Vessel Act (CVA) Grant Program. The Department of Environmental Protection, Office of Long Island Sound Programs (OLISP) administers this program which provides federally funded matching grants for qualifying projects which provide boat sewage disposal facilities. Up to 75% of the cost of an approved project may be reimbursed.

• Paddling in Connecticut

  Whether you choose canoeing, kayaking, rowing or stand-up paddleboarding (SUP), Connecticut offers many locations for you to enjoy.