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Green Boating

Green Boating

Photo copyright Al Harvey, www.slidefarm.comBoating is extremely popular!

Many of our staff, board and members are avid boaters who spend much of their spare time out on the water appreciating our amazing marine environment.

With an estimated 400,000 plus recreational boaters in BC, and most of these in the Strait of Georgia region, the marine environment can potentially be impacted by many factors, especially when we congregate in marinas and anchorages. These factors include:

  • sewage
  • bilge and greywater discharges
  • fuel and hydrocarbons
  • toxic paints and maintenance products
  • disruptive interactions with wildlife

Fortunately, there are many good solutions available.

Georgia Strait Alliance’s Green Boating program is here to help you find the facilities, services and information you need in order to protect our cruising waters for many years to come.

Learn more:

 RECREATIONAL BOATING SURVEY - Southen Strait of Georgia

Click HERE to take part!

GREAT BOOK!

Boat Green cover

Author Clyde Ford has released a new book on environmentally responsible boating called Boat Green - 50 Steps Boaters Can Take to Save Our Waters. Inspiring, practical and pragmatic this handbook is a terrific resource for all boaters who want to leave a "green wake".  Click here for more information and to order online. 15% of the proceeds goes to Georgia Strait Alliance's marine conservation work!

 

Mike Richards

Mike Richards is at the helm of our Green Boating program. Watch for him around the Strait aboard his sailboat, Epic V, or in Cynthia, Georgia Strait Alliance's inflatable. Home port for Mike and our Green Boating program is Silva Bay on Gabriola Island. Mike is the recipient of the 2008 Yachtsman's Spring Thaw Luncheon National Environment Award.

CASBA Logo

Georgia Strait Alliance is the recipient of a Canadian Safe Boating Award (CASBA, 2001) for our Green Boating program and we were honoured again at CASBA, 2008 for "Safeguarding the Environment". In that same year we received the prestigious Yachtsman Spring Thaw Luncheon National Environment Award.