The Future of Bridgeport Harbor- Bringing Connecicut Back to the Water!
Monday, January 25, 2010 at 3:13PM 
The last two weeks have yielded important advances in the cause of Connecticut Community Boating. We have begun to teach a host of kids from our region how to swim, we have met with some very important members of our community and we have started to flesh out a vision for The Park City that not only reinvests in both our waterfronts, but also may create a new future for the City as a whole.
The core of this plan will be derived from the great impending progress for the long abandoned Steel Pointe Development that has already taken place. No doubt you've seen the grass cut and the beautiful new fence installed last summer as well as the HUGE sign declaring the new home of our friends at Bridgeport Landing Development. But what you may not know is the support they have shown historically for the mission of Community Boating in Miami at Shake-A-Leg as well as the excitement they have shown for Connecticut Community Boating.
It is this community togetherness that will make the next chapter for CCB possible and it is with great excitement that we begin the process of developing a strategy with the City and with our neighbors to enter the waters of Bridgeport Harbor.
The pending plan may well include any number of options beginning with a water taxi and mooring fleet in Bridgeport Harbor to host our fleet of keel boats and the Fairfield U FJs. But that's where we just begin. We're working on a vision that could include a floating boat house, a pair of Duck Boats in Bridgeport Harbor as well as plan to reopen Pleasure Beach that provides access to the public as well as provide protection for the many species of birds, mammals and marine life that have called the property home since the burning of the bridge on Father's Day 1996.
This will augment our facility at Seaside Park so that we might grow our offerings while still providing the important services for children and families as this is now and will always be the corp of what we do at CCB. We will just be able to do it better with more boats, improved and easier access and even more adventurous places to sail in the Park City.
But we may only do this with your support. If you agree that waterfront access is important and that every kids deserves the right to get on the water. If you believe that Long Island Sound is our greatest natural resource. And if you support our goal to bring Connecticut back to the water, then today is the day to make that support known. Please click here to contribute and get your calendar, your membership or your Tee-shirt or to hit the trifecta by getting all three and supporting us at one of the ranking contribution levels.
Remember without you, CCB wouldn't have made it as far as we have in three short years, and it is because of you that we will sail upon new horizons in the coming years in Bridgeport Harbor.
Do Good. Have Fun. Sail Far. Connecticut Community Boating
Reader Comments (1)
Congratulations CCB! Now if these guys would let the Bridgeport Community Land Trust put a farm on this vacant land to feed the people who are without access to fresh vegetables.