SBRF Tour/Banquet -- Only 3 Days to Lock in Your $89/Night Hotel Rate!  After March 13th, Rate Will Increase to $109/Night or More!

California Ships to Reefs (CSTR) has teamed with the Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet (SBRF) fleet oiler crews to host a tour of SBRF, an all-day get acquainted hospitality suite and banquet with full CSTR presentation -- April 10, 2010.  This event is a wonderful opportunity for those who have served on the SBRF vessels to meet with CSTR members/volunteers who are working to take one or more of these vessels to create artificial reefs off California's coastline.  The one thing we share is helping these vessels to continue to serve in a new capacity for up to 100 years, and in some cases more.  Please join us for this event, get acquainted and visit the fleet.

As of March 4, 2010, we are SOLD OUT for the tour charter.  Contact EleanoreR@CaliforniaShipstoReefs.org to get on the waiting list for a morning tour. 

For more information and registration click register.

March 2010 Chairman's Letter

CSTR will be all over California this Year!

We invite all of our recreational fishing and boating enthusiasts to come see us at The Fred Hall Fishing Tackle & Boat Show at the Long Beach Convention Center, March 3-7. 2010.  CSTR is expanding our presence at our second visit to the show.  This will give us the space to both display and describe how important ship-based artificial reefing is and respond to changes the MLPA will bring to recreationsl and commercial fishing.  During the show, I will be meeting with leaders in the fishing and boating communities to find ways to work together.

By the time you read this there will only be a little over a week to lock in your $89/Night hotel rate for the CSTR and Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet (SBRF) fleet oiler crews hosted tour of the Reserve Fleet on April 10.  In addition to this rare tour oppoortunity, the event will include an all-day get acquainted hospitality suite and post tour banquet.  CSTR will be using this opportunity to identify SBRF vessels for project and to build our relationships with the crews that worked them.  This event has limited availability and you should make your reservations before the discounts end.

Not to forget the Scuba Diving community, CSTR will be making its inaugural visit to the Bay Area Dive Show as well as returning to the SCUBA Show 2010 in Long Beach.  In addition to filling in the diving community on our progress, CSTR will be showing its new exhibit booth displaying photography from the HMCS Yukon Artificial Reef.

And this brings me to the 10th Anniversary Celebration of the reefing of the HMCS Yukon this July.  The plans for this special event have been completed and the preparations have begun.  Part of the plan is CSTR's Yukon Outreach to find everyone who worked on Project Yukon.  If you had something to do with the Yukon, or know someone who did, please send an email to YukonOutreach@CaliforniaShipstoReefs.org so we can add the name to our list of honored names.

Sacramento is our last stop to support AB 634 as it moves through the California State Senate.  You don't all have to meet us there, but your support, with your emails, calls and faxes, will go a long way to helping us pass this important legislation.

Information on all of these events can be found on our calendar, here on the website.  Visit to learn how you can participate.

Joel Geldin, Chairman and CEO