Join us this Wednesday for the CCB New Haven Initiative

Click here to see a few drawings we prepared for this weeks meeting- Its open to the public so please join us at 7PM this WednsedayWe've receieved dozens of calls in recent days to to bring CCB to other ports of call around Connecticut. Not that we want to pull away from our existing efforts in Bridgeport, Mystic and Groton. Just that we want ALL of Connecticut to have a chance to enjoy our greatest natural resource and we believe that shared resources make for shared benefits for all. 

And to achieve these goals we have decided that in 2012, CCB needs to hit the waves and operate from a floating platform that may be brought along with our fleet to every harbor and port of call in Connecticut. 

First up we will make an effort to join Schooner Inc in New Haven Harbor this summer with the newest addition to our fleet, The CCB Floating Boat House. With big ideas and big plans on tap for the summer, we need to raise not-so-big funds by mobilizing and organizing. 

Join us this Wed at 85 Wall Street in Madison, CT for the CCB New Haven Intiative Organizational Meeting where a group of like minded individuals who make up the gress roots of CCB will meet to discuss how we will bring community boating with our fleet and floating boat house to New Haven in Summer 2012. 

Bring your friends, tell your neighbors and get on board as we open the waters of Connecticut to everyone for the lowest cost in the country! 

Swimming is back in action this Winter and we need kids, volunteers and donors!

We've had some tough times getting the word out about all we're doing at CCB this past year. A hurricane, recession and the weirdest Halloween Snow storm ever made it tough to keep with website working and facebook flowing. But now that we're in the New Year, our twitter is tweeting, youtube yodeling and facebook all but frothing. A great shot of the kids and Volunteers from 2010- Please donate what you can to keep this important resource available to all kids ages 8-18

And while we've got your attention, we wanted to share a little news about a really cool program we've been running despite the storms, funding woes and publicity blackout. 

The CCB/CSC Learn to Swim for $1 Program is fully operational and back for another season of swimming. This winter, we host the program on Wednesday nights at 5:00 PM at 1494 Main Street. Cost for this program is just $1 per night per student. 

What's more, due to the great success and great partneship between CCB. Shehan and New Beginnings Family Academy, we're once again kicking off Friday Night Swimming at the CSC Pool this March 1.

The reason we can charge such an affordable price and offer this service to so many kids for just a buck, who need this lesson so badly, is (a) the kindness of volunteer instructors from Fairifled Prep, the USCG and area colleges and (b) the kindness of donors who pay the bills and keep the lights on. 

We need all three this and every Wednesday and Friday- Kids, volunteers and donations so here's what to do any of the above applies to you:

1) Kids should call Shehan Center at (203) 336-4468 for forms, sign ups and schedules

2) Volunteers should email Sarah at motti.sarah@gmail.com to arrange schedules and sign ups.

3) Donors should click here to make an important contribution that may just say the life of a disadvantaged kid who might otherwise never learn to swim. 

The Floating Boat House

">A albeit low-tech rendition of the the Floating Boat house Concept Please click to helpus reach our goalIn 2007, Connecticut Community Boating, Inc. was founded with a mission to educate, promote and provide access to every man, woman and child to Connecticut’s most important natural resource, Long Island Sound. Along with this mission, it was our aim to improve the quality of life for children and families in Connecticut and surrounding communities by using the many benefits the sports of boating, fishing and sailing can offer.

We have made many strides in the last five years and are now at critical mass to become Connecticut’s only public-access fleet that serves a region with more than 1.6 million residents.

Within five years, Connecticut Community Boating will grow to a statewide organization hosting as many as five floating boat houses and public fleets around the State. Our first planned site will be in the Bridgeport Boat Basin at the mouth of the Pequonnock River. Here we will moor our prototype and the first of the fleet of Floating Boat Houses using our existing 20X40’ concrete float and a 14X24’ A-Frame prefabricated building. We will also create a mooring fleet and moor our fleet of boats including the Fairfield University Sailing Stags. The total cost for this projected is estimate at $30,000.

Please take a look at photos on our Facebook Page of the pieces we hope to assemble to create this boat house to open May 1, 2012.

And help us raise the roof on our first floating boathouse by donating or becoming a member today!

Check out some other photos of the Floating Boathouse Concept