How to join
As members of America's Boating Club (ABC), we enjoy all the benefits of a nationwide organization as well as some extra local benefits.
Members of the America's Boating Club come from all walks of life. One of the great features of America's Boating Club membership is that we are all volunteers. The main things we share are a love of boating, boating fellowship, and promoting safe boating through education. We get involved in ABC activities for our own enjoyment and to help other boaters. We have fun!
Click here to open America's Boating Club Membership Application
America's Boating Club membership benefits include:
- The best boating-related educational programs available anywhere in America at amazingly low costs. Click on Advanced Boating Education & Training for a description of the America's Boating Club courses and seminars offered locally and the member prices available through Waterbury chapter of ABC.
- The course pricing structure actually offers a hidden benefit: For all courses offered by Waterbury chapter of ABC, a non-member's price is $100.00 more than the member's price. At this level, the non-member course prices are highly competitive with costs for comparable courses at local community colleges. That $100.00, though, is actually more than the cost of one year's membership in ABC. Thus, when the person is ready for another course any time within that two years, he/she is now a member and pays only the member price - a clear savings of $100.00 per course on all courses taken while a member of Waterbury chapter of ABC.
- Significant discounts on boat insurance and many marine-related products, services, and computer software & hardware. Click on ABC Member Benefits for full details about these discounts.
- USPS Port Captain program that provides you with a "friend in every port" who can provide you with that all-important "local knowledge" you need when traveling by land or sea to new boating venues in America.
- Liaison with governmental agencies and national partner organizations involved in recreational boating. Some partner organizations, such as BoatU.S., offer reduced membership dues to ABC members.
- Tax deductions on ABC dues and some travel expenses, depending on your personal tax status.
- Free subscription to the USPS official magazine The Ensign and the USPS official electronic newsletter The Compass. Many special offers for members are published in the documents.
Additional ABC membership benefits in Waterbury include:
- Monthly dinner/program meetings with interesting speakers on a wide variety of topics of local marine interest.
- Cruise/rendezvous on the Connecticut River, Long Island Sound and adjacent waters of Connecticut, New York, Rhode Island and Massachusetts.
- Free subscription to The Pharos Beacon, Waterbury's award-winning monthly newsletter (sent either via e-mail or ground postal service).
Here's all it takes to reap the membership benefits of ABC membership in Waterbury:
- Must be able and willing to contribute time, energy and skills to the objectives of America's Boating Club
- Submit an application
- Along with a check in one of the following amounts:
Either
$20.00 application fee plus $80.00 first year's dues (Total $100.00) for an individual Member
-or-
$20.00 application fee plus $120.00 first year's dues (Total $140.00) for an Entire Household
- Get involved in Waterbury ABC Activities.
Click here to open America's Boating Club Membership Application
Call 203-723-2169 today Or, click on membership application for an on-line copy. Then just fill out your membership application and mail along with a check made out to Waterbury Sail and Power Squadron to:
America's Boating Club
c/o Douglas Burdett
26 Kingswood Dr
Naugatuck, CT 06770-4830