Last summer boaters from across the country submitted photos of their kids in loaner life jackets for the Foundation's Life Jacket Loaner Photo Contest. The best photos have been selected and are now featured in a 2010 Calendar. Available in 3 different sizes and starting at $18.95, a portion of each sale will benefit the Kid's Life Jacket Loaner Program.

The Kid's Life Jacket Loaner Program loans out child-size life jackets from more than 500 locations nationwide, an average of 90,000 times each year. Click here for more on the program.

Got your eye on one of those shiny new models you saw at the boat show but not sure what to do with your old boat? Why not donate it to the BoatU.S. Foundation for Boating Safety & Clean Water?

The Foundation has partnered with Action Donation Services to help boat owners who want to donate their boats or PWCs to an organization devoted to boating safety and clean water. With this new partnership, the Foundation can accept donations of boats from almost anywhere in the country. Click here to learn more.

Our new Giving Marketplace features great gift ideas and everyday products that you can purchase to help support the work of the BoatUS Foundation for Boating Safety & Clean Water. From photo albums and holiday cards to custom photo stamps and lighthouse checks, every purchase benefits the Foundation and helps to keep our programs afloat!

Our 2009 collection of Holiday Cards featuring powerboats, sailboats, lighthouses and nautical scenes are here and ready for shipment! Call (800) 308-4290 to choose from over 30 nautical designs. With each order, receive:
• 25 FREE personalized Return-Address Labels
• 25 FREE decorative Holiday Seals for your envelopes
• FREE Imprinting with your purchase of 3 or more boxes

In addition to our exclusive holiday card line, you can purchase a keepsake photo-frame ornament and put in your own picture of family, boating friends or fishing buddies! And while you’re at it, you can purchase fun Santa jigsaw puzzles and nautical note cards and which make great stocking stuffers.

Your purchase will make a difference in helping us promote safe & environmentally sensitive boating. Order Your Holiday Cards & Other Gifts Today!

The next time you borrow a life jacket from a BoatUS Foundation Life Jacket Loaner site, snap a photo of your child wearing it and you photo could be featured in the Foundation's 2010 calendar. Submit your photos via Facebook or email. The best photos will be printed in a calendar which will be available later this year. Proceeds from the sale of the calendar will help keep this life-saving program and others like it afloat! Click here for more details or find a loaner site near you.

The BoatUS Foundation for Boating Safety & Clean Water sponsors the Life Jacket Loaner Program for Kids which makes children’s life jackets available to boaters who are unprepared for visiting children or whose kids have outgrown their old life jackets. Over 350 locations nationwide loan kid-sized life jackets on a daily basis, free of charge.

Each year the need for life jackets outgrows the number that the BoatUS Foundation has available to loan. Our program goal is to raise $50,000 by this spring to meet this need – we’re counting on you!

For as little as $10, your tax-deductible contribution will fund the purchase of a child’s life jacket – or for $250, your gift will buy enough supplies to establish a new life jacket loaner location. We need your help to make boating safer for children.

Your contribution of any amount will make a difference to some small child. Consider making a fully tax-deductible donation today to keep our program afloat.

Photo above: courtesy HRM

Recycle your fishing line with the BoatUS Foundation! Did you know that it takes over 500 years for monofilament fishing line to decompose? Meanwhile, that discarded line can tangle itself around your boat prop or worse yet, marine life. To help keep line out of the environment, the BoatUS Foundation would like to partner with you and your local fishing or boating group to install a monofilament recycling bin at your favorite fishing spot, launch ramp or marina.

We will provide you with a FREE pre-made PVC monofilament bin and signage suitable for mounting outdoors. All we ask in return is that you monitor the bin, empty it when full, send the collected line to Berkley for recycling and let us know how much line you collected and returned. How easy is that? For more information, click here. Don’t delay we have a limited number of bins, and bin locations will be determined by geographic area and demonstrated demand for monofilament recycling.