Scuttlebutt Magazine - June 2008 - (Page 10)

Page 10 • June 2008 www.scuttlebutt.com Simple steps to cleaner, greener boating Through ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– untreated environmental • Stash your trash and others’ trash, too sewage out of all education and • Watch your refueling practices coastal and outreach, the inland waters. • Wash your boat on land if you can BoatU.S. 8. It is illegal for Foundation for • Practice catch and release fishing boaters to dis– BoatUS charge any Boating Safety ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– sewage, treated and Clean Water helps or untreated, 1. Reduce the amount of boaters, anglers, and into the Great Lakes. packaging and plastic other user groups underYou must have a you take aboard. stand how they can be USCG-approved 2. Put a sturdy trash better stewards of the holding tank and container on your natural resources they your “Y” valve must boat. enjoy. They do this by be secured in the 3. Obey the law. Always sharing practical ideas, closed position. keep garbage on the proven best practices, 9. Use enzyme deodorboat for onshore disand information on laws izers for holding posal or recycling. and regulations. They tanks and portable Keep all trash on want you to go out and toilets. board while boating enjoy boating, but also 10. Know how much fuel in inland and coastal take care of our natural your tanks hold and waters. resources while you are don’t top off. 4. Establish a boat rule out there. The goal is to 11. Make sure anyone that no trash gets help equip you with the fueling the boat thrown overboard, information that you knows which deck fill even apple cores and need to be a caretaker of is for fuel. cigarette butts. the environment. After 12. Use oil absorbent 5. Leave the water and all, those of us that enjoy pads to catch drips marina cleaner than the water have a signifiwhile handing the you found it; carefulcant vested interest in its fuel nozzle between ly pick up trash left health, as well as the the dock and the by others. health of all the fish and boat. 6. Use onshore restother animals that live in rooms before leaving BOATING GREEN and around our waters. shore. CONTINUED ON PAGE 42 Stash Your Trash 7. Obey the law – keep TouchStone Accent Lighting, Inc 2425 W. Industrial Blvd, Long Lake, MN 55356 Toll free 888-475-2112 • 952-475-2112 www.touchstonelights.com Could a boat become a tangible extension of everything that ever made your HEART POUND? Come home to the 272, accommodating in its expanse, welcoming in its comfort, ready for the BEST OF TIMES. Walk-around room is everywhere you step, the ELEGANT SIMPLICITY of Cobalt design everywhere you look. Altogether, the 272 is the most spacious, most carefully integrated 27-foot bowrider on the water today. Twin Cities' Full Line Cobalt Dealer COBALT DEMO DAYS June 25th Lake Minnetonka at the BayView Event Center http://www.scuttlebutt.com http://www.touchstonelights.com http://www.touchstonelights.com http://www.ericksonmarine.com

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