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Go Green with these 21 Simple Steps to Cleaner Boating

Stash Your Trash
1.) Reduce the amount of packaging and plastic you take aboard.
2.) Put a sturdy trash container on your boat.
3.) Obey the law-always keep garbage on the boat for onshore disposal or recycling. Keep all trash on board while boating in inland and coastal waters.
4.) Establish a boat rule that no trash gets thrown overboard-even apple cores and cigarette butts.
5.) Leave the water and marina cleaner than you found it-carefully pick up trash left by others.

The Scoop on Poop
6.) Use onshore restrooms before leaving shore.
7.) Obey the law-keep untreated sewage out of all coastal and inland waters.
8.) If your boat has a head, equip it with a USCG-approved Marine Sanitation Device: Type I, II or III.
9.) Use enzyme deodorizers for holding tanks and portable toilets.

Stop the Drops
10.) Know how much fuel your tanks hold and don’t top off!
11.) Make sure anyone fueling the boat knows which deck fill is for fuel.
12.) Use oil absorbent pads to catch drips while handing the fuel nozzle between the dock and the boat.
13.) Fill up your trailerboat’s gas tanks while the boat is on the trailer, not in the water.

Maintain Your Boat
14.) Regularly scrub your decks with fresh water and a brush to reduce the need to use heavy cleaners.
15.) Try to do large cleaning and maintenance jobs while the boat is out of the water.
16.) Ask your marina or underwater diver to recycle used zincs
17.) Use a hard (non ablative) anti-fouling paint if you plan on scrubbing the boat bottom while in the water.

Here Fishy, Fishy…
18.) Keep only those fish that you will eat today.
19.) Practice catch and release techniques to ensure the survival of those fish you toss back.
20.) Use circle hooks.
21.) Wet hands or gloves before handling fish you will release.

Wow---I never thought about the fact that we were already boating "GREEN".

GREAT ARTICLE! I READ IT AND REALIZED HOW MANY THINGS ARE ON THERE THAT WE ALREADY DO! ONLY IF EVERYONE DID! 

Great article M. As always you find the info for all of us to use and make us better boaters.

  You go girlfriend!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                 Lugnut