ADVISORY/Join Cal Boating for Family Fun at the North Bay Boating Festival.

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ADVISORY...for Saturday (May 13)

--(BUSINESS WIRE)


   WHO: California Department of Boating and Waterways (Co-Sponsor)

   WHAT: North Bay Boating Festival

   WHEN: Saturday, May 13 and Sunday, May 14, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

   WHERE: The waterfront in Vallejo

   WHY: Helicopter and firefighting demos, Coast Guard cutter tour,
        parade of boats, clowns, games, food, and more!

The California Department of Boating and Waterways The California Department of Boating and Waterways is a subdivision of the California Resources Agency. The Department's jurisdiction is defined in the California Harbors and Navigation Code. External link

DBW.CA.gov

is co-sponsoring the North Bay Boating Festival, at the waterfront in Vallejo, on Saturday, May 13 and Sunday, May 14, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day. The festival is free and open to the public.

Festival-goers can tour the 82-ft. Coast Guard cutter, Point Brower, and see the latest models of personal watercraft personal watercraft
n.
1. A motorized recreational water vehicle normally ridden by straddling a seat.

2. (used with a pl. verb) Such water vehicles considered as a group. (Jet Skis Jet Ski

A trademark used for a personal watercraft.

jet ski
Noun

a small self-propelled vehicle resembling a scooter, which skims across water on a flat keel

jet skiing n (TM)). The whole family will enjoy the live "man overboard" drill, helicopter landings, and boat-towing and fire-fighting demonstrations. The U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary will display a cross-sectioned personal watercraft -- cut in half from bow to stern -- to show the workings of its jet-drive engine. Don't miss the water parade, equipment display, information booths, clowns, games, children's games, children's, amusements or pastimes involving more than one child and in which there is some sort of formalized dramatic element, contest, or plot. Games are a cultural universal; for example, the string play called Cat's Cradle is common to cultures as varied activities, food and more.

Festival co-sponsors include the Vallejo Convention and Visitors Bureau, Vallejo Municipal Marina, City of Vallejo, Central California Central California can refer to one of several divisions or regions of the U.S state of California:

The state is sometimes described as being in three main sections: Northern California (the San Francisco Bay Area and Sacramento Valley northward), Southern California (south

Safe Boating Council, U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary, U.S. Power Squadrons Within the North American recreational boating community, the term Power Squadron is used colloquially to refer either to the national body or to any local chapter of the following organizations:

Canadian Power and Sail Squadrons

, Vallejo Times Herald, and the Kiwanis of Vallejo.

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