I have the Seahawk II inflatable used once to float a two mile strech of the Willimantic River, foray onto a couple of ponds/lakes, and to realize one of my bucket list items to launch off the beach at Cape May NJ and catch a fish.



Another bucket list item to be discussed later will be to float, with paddles and fishing poles, sections of the Farmington River not navigable by motorized boats. This will be later when the air and water is warm enough so getting wet will not be an issue.

The question I am asking here is what are the regulations if any governing floating rivers or waterways where the shorelines are posted? If there are relevant regulations, is there a list of permitted raft float-able waterways? I imagine the size of the waterway would factor into whether it would be legal or not to float a particular river.