Several additional thoughts on how to participate: 1. Kevin Kelly, who plans to participate reminds me that anyone with a folding kayak should have no problem with worries about car shuttles, trucks, whatever to get their boat back to a car. Hmm, folding kayaks. Why didn't I think of that! :-) (Kevin will start from the 79th St Boat Basin where he keeps a boat stored and will just knock it down to get back there or to his apartment) 2. Bill Leonhardt who is on both of these lists reminded me of the possibility of starting from Dyckman St. north of the GW Bridge. It is actually what I did last year with the swimmers but I forgot about that. You could paddle from there down to the swim and then come back up with the swimmers and continue on back to your car. Here is the scoop if you decide to help out by starting from up there: There is street parking right at the launch site at Dyckman street. It should be reasonably safe as the area is still highly active in mid-September with softball teams and picnickers (the former park there cars there and no one wants to mess with the cars of guys who are carrying bats!). If you felt your car unsafe there, there are parking garages just a block or so away along Dyckman. The problem would be that to get back and forth from them while leaving your boat at the beach on Dyckman. If you had a cart you could park in one of the two or so garages (they are dirt cheap) and cart your boat the equivalent of about two blocks to the beach and launch. If you plan to do this, you should allow yourself about 3 hours to cover the 7.8 miles which would get you down to the Chelsea Piers in plenty of time. So start at around 9:30 am (no later than 10 am) from the Dyckman launch site. That would give you a nice paddle down and then back with the swimmers. If you are coming from the South go up the Westside highway north to the Dyckman St exit. As you come on to city streets, make your first available left. Then a left again on Dyckman which takes you to the Hudson. You will be right alongside the garages as you get on to Dyckman. You could scout the parking around the launch site first to see if it makes you comfortable. If not, double back the block or so to the parking garages. If you are coming from the North on the Westside highway there is an exit that tees you into Dyckman. The river is to your right and the parking garages to the left as described above. 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." ----------------------------------------------------------------------- *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
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