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BOAT & VESSEL REGISTRATION

If you lot ain a sailboat over viii feet long or a gunkhole/vessel with a motor (no matter the size), you must register it with DMV in gild to legally operate it on California waterways.

Gunkhole/VESSEL REGISTRATION process

Yous tin can annals your boat/vessel at any DMV field office, or mail your registration awarding.

CA DIVISION OF BOATING & WATERWAYS - ABCs of California Boating

http://dbw.parks.ca.gov/

Vessels having valid registration in the land of main utilize

and non remaining in California over 90 consecutive days practice not crave CA registration.

Boats and vessels from out of state are required to have

Certificate of Ownership: this is your evidence of title to the vessel.

Certificates issued will likewise contain the boat's identifying number (known as the hull identification number),

which is the number permanently marked on the transom by the manufacturer or architect,

or the number assigned by the state of issue, and marked on the transom by the possessor.

Attention Boaters!
Lake Perris wishes to remind anybody of California's new law requiring boat operators to have a California Boating Bill of fare. The bill of fare is required for all persons age 45 and under to operate a boat in California's waters, which includes Silverwood Lake, Lake Perris, and all other inland waterways every bit well.

January one, 2025 All persons regardless of age

California Boater Carte

https://californiaboatercard.com/about-the-carte du jour/

Quagga Mussel Inspection

Clean. Drain. Dry

Boat & VESSEL OWNERS

California Department of Motor Vehicles online system allows yous to purchase a Quagga sticker. Vessels used in fresh waters are required to display a current Quagga sticker, unless the vessel is used only in marine waters, or exempt by law.

QUAGGA STICKER APPLICATION

www.dmva.ca.gov - QUAGGA STICKER

Mussel Fee: California registered recreational vessels using fresh water bodies within the state are required to display a "Mussel Fee Paid" sticker on the hull next to the current registration sticker.

Paying the Mussel Fee does not entitle vessels to bypass inspections or fees for inspections conducted by individual reservoir owners or managers.

How to Pass the Quagga and Zebra Mussel Inspection

All vessels inbound Lake Perris will be inspected for Quagga and Zebra Mussels. This includes all canoes, kayaks, sail boats, condom rafts, fishing waders, scuba gear, etc.

Only boats and equipment which are clean, drained, and completely dry out, will pass inspection. If you are coming from a known quagga-infected torso of water, you must await 8 calendar days before bringing it to Lake Perris or Silverwood Lake.

Information virtually Quagga infested lakes, every bit well equally the furnishings of Quagga Mussels and Inspections.

Quagga Data Video

Quagga Inspection Guidelines

Quagga Inspection Flyer

If your gunkhole or equipment, including just not limited to sails, life vests, and skis, are wet, clammy, or moist, you will not pass inspection. Failure to laissez passer inspection will consequence in a full eight calendar solar day dry out-out period earlier that failed vessel is allowed to launch at a State Park Reservoir.

Multiple watercraft: All vessels on a trailer will be automatically failed if 1 of the vessels fails inspection. For instance, if there are two jet skis on the trailer, and one fails inspection, then the other vessel will exist failed as well.

Do not wash, rinse, or hose your boat right earlier coming to Lake Perris. Your watercraft WILL Non BE Allowed IN THE PARK. Let the boat dry for viii days minimum afterwards washing. The mussel lives in fresh water, then tap h2o volition not remove the mussel from your vessel. These animals are like barnacles, clams, and oysters and they attach themselves to whatever solid textile and thrive in nighttime, stagnant environments. Rinsing with fresh h2o will not remove them. To Kill the animal, you must let your boat and equipment in or on the boat be completely dry out.

Unfortunately there is no easy way for anyone to identify if a damp boat is infested with the mussels. All watercraft must go through inspection before they are allowed to enter the park.

We want you to pass inspection, merely we all accept a responsibility to protect California's waterways, drinking h2o supplies, and your watercraft from these destructive, invasive mussels.

Exist a Safety Boater!

Being a strong swimmer doesn't brand you drown proof! We recommend that everyone (even if you're an Olympic gold medal champion) wearable a life jacket! Every person existence towed behind the vessel must wearable a lifejacket, at all times.

California law requires that every kid nether age 13 must wear a life jacket at all times while on a moving vessel of whatsoever length. (There are three exceptions: Children are not required to wear a life jacket when they are wearing a harness on a sailboat, when they are in an enclosed motel, and when they are on a vessel during an emergency rescue.)

For more information, following this LINK and Relieve THE ONES Yous LOVE!

Boating Hours

Summer: 6:00 am - 7:30 pm
Winter: 7:00 am - 6:00 pm

Watercraft without running lights must exist off the h2o by sunset.

Summer hours change with Daylight Savings Time.

Last launch is 2 hours before lake closing fourth dimension.

Lake Perris allows power boats, personal watercraft (jet skis), and non-powered vessels (sail boat, canoe, kayak, stand upward paddle boards, etc.) on the water. We accept both 2 and 4 stroke engines.

The Marina

Marina Closure / Closed Until Farther Notice / No rental boats, slips, store

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The Marina has been removed and we are in the process of having a private business concessionaire to establish a new Marina operation. Our goal is to hopefully accept a new operator past the summer of 2022. We do not have a store and we do non rent boats at this time. Please bring everything into the park for your camping ground or twenty-four hour period use chance. There are several grocery stores near the park.