{"id":25056,"date":"2018-04-09T14:41:35","date_gmt":"2018-04-09T21:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=25056"},"modified":"2018-04-09T14:41:35","modified_gmt":"2018-04-09T21:41:35","slug":"boating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/boating\/","title":{"rendered":"Boating Season Brings Oceans of Opportunity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/dogboat.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Enjoy boating with your pets at a special and unique Hornblower Cruise (hornblower.com) in San Diego. The 18th Annual Pet Day on the Bay (pictured) April 28, 2018 is open to man&#8217;s best friend on one special day.<\/p>\n<p>Also in San Diego is a fun, annual boating event on April 15 called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/san-diego-day-at-the-docks.html\"> Day at the Docks<\/a>. It&#8217;s a day for exploring boating, kayaking, attending free fishing clinics (ideal for kids and their folks,) and it&#8217;s designed to expose the public to the joys of one of California&#8217;s great natural resources.<\/p>\n<p>BoatUS Foundation, a program promoting boating safety, is offering a class (boatus.org\/Huntington) in Huntington Beach April 20-21.\u00a0Whether you love boating and want to gain confidence at the helm, you&#8217;re considering buying or renting a boat and want to learn new skills, or you&#8217;re just curious about boating, the On-Water Training program is an easy \u00a0way to develop your sea legs!<\/p>\n<p>The foundation also has an incredible life vest lender program with more than 700 locations nationwide &#8212; and many of them are in California.<\/p>\n<p>Big Bear Lake (bigbear.com) loves boating and announced The West Launch Ramp is open for motorized and non-motorized vessels. The East Launch Ramp opens May 11, 2018. With 6 marinas, you can get a\u00a0fishing license, fishing gear &amp; bait, rent a pontoon boat for family fun or take out a fishing boat to explore the fishing coves on Big Bear Lake.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to Long Beach&#8217;s exciting Grand Prix April 13-15, The Congressional Cup boating event brings excitement to the shore April 17-22.<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/california-boats.html\">boat shows and events<\/a> we&#8217;ve discovered and enjoyed in California, but there are oceans of opportunity for you to explore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enjoy boating with your pets at a special and unique Hornblower Cruise (hornblower.com) in San Diego. The 18th Annual Pet Day on the Bay (pictured) April 28, 2018 is open to man&#8217;s best friend on one special day. Also in San Diego is a fun, annual boating event on April 15 called Day at the [&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\/25056"}],"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=25056"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25057,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25056\/revisions\/25057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}