{"id":19568,"date":"2015-02-05T01:03:42","date_gmt":"2015-02-05T09:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=19568"},"modified":"2015-02-05T01:03:42","modified_gmt":"2015-02-05T09:03:42","slug":"boating-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/boating-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Boating Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/floatbtz.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s always boating season in California with Three Rivers\u00a0Bathtub\u00a0Race (left photo) in March and \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/lake-tahoe-boat-concours.html\">Lake Tahoe Concours d&#8217;Elegance<\/a>\u00a0(right photo) in August.<\/p>\n<p>There are approx.\u00a0820,490 boats registered in the State of California accounting\u00a0for 6.8% of all nationwide registrations. Florida is #1 in boat ownership, while California dropped from 2nd to 4th place recently. We rank\u00a02nd in boat thefts under Florida, however.\u00a0\u00a0California doesn&#8217;t appear to be the boating capital of the nation, but boat ownership\u00a0fails to\u00a0tell the whole story.<\/p>\n<p><strong>CALIFORNIA BOATING<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. California has\u00a0the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/transportation\/los-angeles-port.html\">largest combined ports \u00a0in the nation<\/a>\u00a0&#8211;Los Angeles &amp; Long Beach.<br \/>\n2. Long Beach is the Aquatic Capital of the U.S. with the nation&#8217;s largest municipal marina.<br \/>\n3. California has approx. 25 ship \/ vessel museums.<br \/>\n4. San Francisco&#8217;s annual\u00a0Fleet Week\u00a0in October is\u00a0one of the most prestigious nautical\u00a0events in the U.S.<br \/>\n5.\u00a0Shasta Lake is the Houseboat Capital of the World\u00a0surpassing every other lake in 50 states in shoreline miles available per houseboat.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/california-boats.html\"><strong>CALIFORNIA BOAT SHOWS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>LOS ANGELES: Los Angeles Boat Show February 19-22, 2015<\/li>\n<li>LONG BEACH: Fred Hall Sports Show March 4-8, 2015<\/li>\n<li>SACRAMENTO Boat Show March 12-15, 2015<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you need a reason to embrace\u00a0boating, 95% of power boats are manufactured in America (only 2%\u00a0of clothing purchased in the U.S. is made here.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s always boating season in California with Three Rivers\u00a0Bathtub\u00a0Race (left photo) in March and \u00a0Lake Tahoe Concours d&#8217;Elegance\u00a0(right photo) in August. There are approx.\u00a0820,490 boats registered in the State of California accounting\u00a0for 6.8% of all nationwide registrations. Florida is #1 in boat ownership, while California dropped from 2nd to 4th place recently. We rank\u00a02nd in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19568"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}