Sandy Kramer's report on her visit here got a few requests via back channels for more information about our Downtown Boathouse. I hope those individuals don't mind that I respond via the public channel of PaddleWise. The Downtown Boathouse has a pretty decent webpage now: http://www.downtownboathouse.org/ The photos aren't labeled so I will fill in: The first one shows a bird's eye view of the place looking South with the Statue of Liberty off in the background, approximately a 2.5 mile paddle away. The Boathouse is the white building closer to the shoreline. The photo is old in that the tiny dock pictured has been replaced by one about 8 times larger and it has been moved forward more toward the river. Also a large high school has been constructed on the grassy stretch as well as tall apartment buildings. They would now blot out the view of the Statue from this camera angle. The next foto looks like the Harrison St. Regatta race, the one in which the winner is the second boat in. The 2-mile race was won this year, as you may remember, by a fellow in a Seda Impulse with a dog standing the entire time on the rear hatch. The next is of two paddlers approaching the Statue. One is in a folding kayak but I am not certain which model, maybe a K-Light as they are as common as flies on a dog in these parts. The next is of two people in one of the public boats in the embayment. As you can see, the waters while protected have large wakes washing in and making for a bumpy ride. Next is a view from the embayment at one of the large cruise and ocean liners that pull out of upriver piers and sail right by as they head out to the open sea. Then one of windsurfing in front of the Statue. Some windsurfers do enter the river via the Boathouse; there has also been a sailing program with boats we purchased and made available to the public (Escape model) but it got too hairy with out-of-control wannabe sailors coming dangerously close to hitting the public program paddlers. So we dropped it as a free public sailing program. The boats are used by a few good sailors who know what they are doing, but that small sailing fleet goes largely unused. The last foto is a scene from the free party we have after the Harrison St. Regatta race. It shows Rick Muller, our Vice President, serving up hamburgers and hotdogs to some kid freeloaders. Again, anyone visiting who might want to paddle from here, please let me know (my phone number is in the SIG below). Our public program season is from mid-May to around mid-Oct but we can work out things for other seasons for any experienced paddler with the right cold water protection gear. We can provide the boats, PFDs, paddles, etc. ralph diaz -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ralph Diaz . . . Folding Kayaker newsletter PO Box 0754, New York, NY 10024 Tel: 212-724-5069; E-mail: rdiaz_at_ix.netcom.com "Where's your sea kayak?"----"It's in the bag." ----------------------------------------------------------------------- [TABLE NOT SHOWN] The Downtown Boathouse provides free public access to the Hudson River ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Pier 26on the Hudson River between Canal and Chambers Streets Tribeca, New York, New York [TABLE NOT SHOWN] [IMAGE] ------- [TABLE NOT SHOWN] To learn more about the Hudson River, click here. To get tide and current data for today or tomorrow, go to http://www.tides.com. Under Support, click on Daily Predictions. Select current. For region, select Mid Atlantic (NOAA). For location, type in Hudson River Entrance and hit return. [TABLE NOT SHOWN] [TABLE NOT SHOWN] - - *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Thu Sep 09 1999 - 05:39:08 PDT
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