Community Rowing, Inc. Newsletter

Weekly

September 8, 2015

CRI Crews Medal for USA

World and Para World Rowing

CRI Crews win TWO MEDALS for the USA at the World and Para World Rowing Championships. Congratulations to all of the rowers!!

CRI Fall Classic Regatta

Registration is Now OPEN!!

CRI Fall Classic Regatta Registration is Now Open

Brighton Bangers 5k

An Invitation to CRI Members

Join the fun of this great 5k run the morning of the CRI Fall Classic Regatta!

Community Rowing members get a 17 percent discount on entry fees for the Brighton Bangers 5K, which starts and ends at the Harry Parker Boathouse at 11:30 a.m. Saturday, September 19. There's great company, a fun 5K on a shaded riverside course, recovery snacks from Wegman's, Whole Foods, and Essentia Water, food-truck food, and, of course, free beer and four live bands all day, plus a rowing regatta. Rowing that day? The 5K is a great way to warm up. You also get an event T-shirt and a great swag bag. There are prizes for the top teams (start a team!) and the top men and women finishers. Proceeds benefit CRI's In the Same Boat program for military veterans; last year, the race raised $2,000 for this great cause. To get the 17 percent ($6) discount, enter the coupon code "CRI."

Here's the registration page:

https://www.racemenu.com/events/113991-Brighton-Bangers-5K

Exciting New CRI Committee

Live Rowing Broadcast Team

Join CRI's most exciting committee! Do you have expertise in drone flight, live sports broadcasts, 3G and real-time video broadcast, TV or movie production? Join us for the first meeting of CRI's Live Rowing Broadcast Team. The goal for the committee is to capture the drama and excitement of rowing live using GoPro cameras from all angles.

Email Bruce Smith at bruce@communityrowing.org for more information.

Thank you

6th Annual Women's Row & Brunch

Save the Date!

Sign Up to Row Here

Women's Row & Brunch

Call for Volunteers

If you would like to be part of a great tradition and can volunteer to help at the celebration of women's rowing, please use the link below to sign up.

Volunteer Sign Up Link

Meet the Dietician

Questions About Food for Training?

Meet the Kelsea Gusk, DC/RD, this week in the CRI lobby this Thursday, 9/10, from 5:30-7:30pm!

Is your pain normal training pain or injury? What foods can you eat to aid your recovery? Come find out on Thursday!

PopUpYoga

Sunday, September 13th

To register for the PopUpYoga event, visit: http://www.speedwayhq.com/

Rock the Boat

A Conversation with Ginny Gilder

The National Rowing Foundation

is pleased to present

ROCK THE BOAT

A Conversation With Ginny Gilder, Olympic Silver Medal Rower

Wednesday, October 7^th

6 to 8PM

Community Rowing, Inc.

Harry Parker Boathouse
20 Nonantum Road
Brighton, MA 02135

Please join us to hear Mary Mazzio and Ginny Gilder talk about the trials and tribulations of rowing, writing, and life. All are welcome, there will be a reception after the book talk, and signed copies of Course Correction will be available for sale.

Mark Your Calendars

32nd Annual Allston Brighton Parade

Sunday, September 27, 2015 1:00pm

32nd Annual Allston Brighton Parade

CRI has participated in the Allston Brighton Parade for over 15 years. Let's continue the CRI tradition and create the most amazing float in this year's parade.

In past parades, other participants have included marching bands from Boston College, Boston University and Salem High School, Harvard University Cheerleaders, WGBH, Oak Sq. YMCA, Brighton High School JROTC,elected officials and the Mayor of Boston to name a few.

Are you creative, a visionary, enthusiastic about spreading your CRI love for rowing, always wanted to be in a parade? Come help us design a float for CRI. Join the fun. We need you, lots of you!

Whether you have a creative idea, can bring tools or just want to be an athlete or coach on the float please join us. We will have a 2015 Parade Kick Off Meeting in the first week of September. Be a part of it!

Please email Theresa Fitzpatrick at theresafitz.cri@gmail.com by August 27 if you would like to be a part of the 2015 Allston Brighton Parade and our CRI Float. Be a part of it.

We need your team spirit to help spread our love for rowing!

Riverside Stripes Gala

Saturday, September 12th, 6:30pm

Join us to celebrate Riverside's history, values and future. The evening will include a three-course dinner, full open bar, guest speakers, live and silent auctions, a photo booth and spectacular views of the basin.

Buy your tickets to Riverside Boat Club's Stripes Gala

BUY TICKETS

Boathouse Sports Store

Order by Tuesday, 9/15!

Store Open thru next Tuesday, 9/15

Order deadline is Monday September 14!

Questions: Contact Laurie Tenaglia at: ltenaglia@hotmail.com

Happy Shopping!

Corporate Team Building

Volunteer Opportunities

With the fall season upon us, we continue to see unprecedented success with CRI's corporate programs. This allows us some very unique volunteering opportunities for weekends, weekday mornings and midday events. The main ingredient that makes these programs successful is our wonderful volunteers. Our volunteers allow our corporate clients an excellent experience as they are exposed to the sport of rowing. Please review our schedule below and volunteer today to be a part of CRI's corporateteam building experience this fall.

9/10/15 (Thur) 9:30AM - 1:00PM: EMD Serono - Sign up here
9/13/15 (Sun) 9:00AM - 1:00PM: Experian - Sign up here
9/15/15 (Tue) 9:00AM - 12:30PM: WITC -Sign up here
9/18/15 (Fri) 12:00PM - 4:30PM: Corinthian Events - Sign up here
9/22/15 (Tue) 9:00AM - 12:30PM: Prologis - Sign up here
9/26/15 (Sat) 12:00PM - 3:00PM: TrainUFit - Sign up here
9/26/15 (Sat) 11:00AM - 2:30PM: YPO - Sign up here
9/26/15 (Sat) 1:30 PM - 5:00PM: Suffolk University - Sign up here
9/28/15 (Mon) 11:30AM - 3:30PM: Charles River Labs - Sign up here
10/1/15 (Thur) 8:00AM - 11:00AM: TAPS - Sign up here
10/21/15 (Wed) 12:30PM - 4:30PM: Corinthian Events - Sign up here

We have many more events in the works throughout the end of the rowing season, so stay tuned for more opportunities as well.

Special Note: We work closely with Kane and the coaches to make sure that regular programming is not impacted. These programs keep CRI's veterans, para-rowing, and Let's Row Kids on the water and ergs year round.

See you on the water,

Jeff Nelson
Business Engagement Manager

Champions of the Charles

CRWA's 50th Anniversary

In October CRWA will be hosting Champions of the Charles in celebration of CRWA's 50^th Anniversary. If you would like to join in the festivities, you can find more information on the facebook event page here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1635044400071494/ or visit the event website at http://www.crwa.org/champions.

Hosting HOCR International Rowers

Looking for Hosts

The Head of the Charles 2015 is coming up fast, and your opportunity to help show

the rowing community's welcoming side is here with it. International rowers are coming to

compete, and looking for housing with local families.

The HOCR organization is a big supporter of CRI, and any help in providing housing for athletes who come from so far away to row here on the Charles would be appreciated.Can you possibly assist?

Some answers to frequently asked questions:

1. Accommodation is for athletes and coaches only.

2. Most people offer to host one or two rowers, although more is fine.

3. While rowers would generally be here a few days longer than just race days to adjust

to time zones and acquaint themselves with the course, it is not expected they would arrive

before Wednesday, October 14th nor stay past Monday, October 19th.

4. The general preference of the rowers is to be grouped close to people in their boat

(if any), and to be close to the river or public transport.

If you are interested in housing overseas crews, please email either Michelle Jaeger

(mjaegs@gmail.com) or Anne Buckingham (goannego@gmail.com) as soon as possible

as we are already getting requests for housing! We can also answer any questions you

might have.

Thank you,

Anne and Michelle

Headless Halloween Regatta

Save the Date

Please mark Saturday, November 7th on your calendar for the annual Halloween Regatta.

We're hoping for record participation and imaginative costumes. Stay tuned for details of this fun event!!

Your Sculling Co-Captains Laura Meyer and Marion Dancy

CRAB: Updates and Alerts

Please Take Note

From CRAB:

Friday, September 4, 2015

Anderson Bridge changes

The contractor will be moving the barrel closure at the Anderson Bridge from the Boston barrel to the center barrel on Tuesday the 8^th. Please notify the boating community of the pending change.

Fall Calendar

LABOR DAY ROWING TRAFFIC PATTERN CHANGE. Monday, September 7. The traffic pattern in the Powerhouse changes

(*) Powerhouse Stretch / Western Ave. and River Street Bridges: This area is used heavily by crews racing side-by-side, for high school and club races, and seat racing. Racing crews and scullers have right of way in this stretch. All crews and scullers, upstream and downstream, must use the right-hand arches of both bridges, going single file if not racing. The center arches are two-way to accommodate racing, with one boat in the right-hand arch, and the other to the right-hand side of the center arch. (*) Racing crews and scullers are only allowed to use the center arches if the right hand arches are concurrently used, and preferrably with a coach. From Labor Day through Thanksgiving, from 5 am until 1 pm, the center arches of Western and River street bridges are upstream only, to accommodate crews and scullers training for the Head of the Charles regatta. In the afternoon, the center arches resume being bi-directional. April 2010 Charles River Rowing Traffic Pattern Note that both ends of the race course cross just onto the wrong side of the river. Crews turning shall proceed well into the corners at the Weeks Footbridge (Cambridge) and the Railroad Tracks (Boston), being alert for and notifying approaching crews. Coaches are urged to choose their time openings carefully and proceed expeditiously

Saturday, September 12, 2015.

7:00AM - 8:00AM Heads of the Kevin I. Head of the Charles Course (BU Boathouse to about 10 strokes past the wooden boardwalk at Herter Park). this is a Riverside Club event and other folks are asked to not jump into the race. They try to keep the numbers down to manageable, and uninvited guests messes up the timing.

Saturday, August 19, 2015

10:00AM to 2:00PM CRI Fall Classic Regatta. Buoyed course from Weeks Bridge to Community Rowing.

Sunday, September 20, 2015

7:00AM - 8:00AM Heads of the Kevin II. Same drill.

Saturday, October 10, 2015

7:00 AM - 8:00AM Heads of the Kevin III. Same drill (it's a 'best two out of three' event.)

Sunday, October 11, 2015

11:30AM to 2:30PM - Head of the Quinnobequin, youth singles regatta. Weeks Bridge to North Beacon St. Bridge. This permitted regatta closes the course to other boating traffic. hundreds of kids as young as 11 compete in singles.

All Weekend, October 17 and October 18, 2015

All Day. Head of the Charles Regatta. BU Boathouse to about 10 strokes past the wooden boardwalk at Herter Park. Warm up area extends down to Mass Ave Bridge.

No word yet on the dates for the Men's or Women's Foot of the Charles. If you know, please send an email toCharlesRiverAllianceofBoaters@gm ail.com

Check out the CRAB website at www.charlesriverallianceofboaters.org

CPR/AED/First Aid Classes

Upcoming Dates

CPR/ AED/ First Aid classes which are offered here at CRI are available to everyone on the river. The next session available are:

Saturday, September 26th, 10:00am-1:00pm

Monday, October 26th, 6:00pm-9:00pm

For information, or to reserve your spot, please email Marilyn at:

marilyn@communityrowing.org

Upcoming Private Events

Please Take Note

Upcoming DCR Event: