| Class of 2016 IRL Fellows
Graduation Celebration
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CRI Community,
Please come and join the graduation celebration for the Class of 2016 IRL Fellows! We will be wishing them well after their year spent in our community as they head off across the rowing world to continue to their coaching careers.
Saturday, June 18th at 10-10:45AM in the CRI Community Room
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Stoller - CRI Newton
Learn to Row Day & Registration Opens | 
CRI this week hosted the National Learn to Row Day (NLTRD) at our new location at CRI Newton, The Stoller Boat House. As the building is still in the middle of having a lot of re-modeling done to the internal space, we wanted to open the building in a small way so people could see what we had been doing over the last few months. The hope being that CRI people and members of the local community could begin to appreciate and understand how the facility is available to them and how they may be able to use it in the future. We distributed 4000 flyers to the surrounding towns emanating out from the Auburndale hub and also promoted the site locally.
On the day, we opened the boat house from 10.00 am to 1.00pm and with the enormous help from a dozen or so people from the CRI community. Ann and Joan from 'The Little Sculling Boat Company' brought along two of their boats too and these were ideal for some very young people that came along. Overall we were able to attract over 30 people to view the site and go out on the water, most for the very first time.
The feedback has been great and people are very keen to come back and try the waterways for themselves with the new programs available on the sign up page of the website. We have already had enquiries for the summer and the three options are as follows:
Middle School Summer Skills for those that want to learn the very basics of rowing and have fun generally.
Adult Sculling 1 teaches the basics of the sculling stroke and gets the participants in a position where they are able to scull effectively and safely in singles.
Adult Sculling 4 is for those that have already learnt to scull and want and need more detailed instruction. This will take existing scullers to a much higher competency level.
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| Corporate Rowing Needs Your Help
Volunteers! We need help with Corporate Rowing!
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This week we have 3 events and next week we have 2. Patrick Larcom and Jeff Nelson are bringing in more and more corporate rowing events every day and we need your help to show the world how the Sport of Rowing can change lives! Our mission is "Rowing For All" and you can help us spread our mission to the business community by helping out with all of our corporate rowing events. To make things easy, we are going to use one link to SignUp Genius where you will find tabs to sign up for different events. If you have any questions please email patrick.larcom@communityrowing.org.
We Need Help: Wednesday, 6/8/16 4 Volunteers 8:15am - 12:00pm
Friday, 6/10/16 2 Volunteers 1 Coxswain 12:45pm - 4:45pm
Saturday, 6/11/16 6 Volunteers 12:00pm - 3:30pm
Friday, 6/17/16 3 Volunteers 1 Coxswain 8:15am - 12:00pm
Friday, 6/17/16 - CRRL Final Race and BBQ!
4 Volunteers/Dockmasters
2 Volunteers/Check-In/Erg Room
2 Volunteers/Grill/Food Tent
3 Volunteers/Video and Timing
6:00pm-9:00pm
If you're available and can help us out please use the link below to sign up!
Also, if you have college kids home and you need some place to send them... Have them signup and volunteer at CRI!
We will feed you with awesome food, give you a cool high-vis t-shirt, and provide you with 4 volunteer hours. (Coxswains have the option of receiving pay instead of volunteer hours, just let us know)
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| CRI Corporate Programs
Part Time Summer Jobs Available
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CRI Corporate Programs are looking for part time summer help. With the continued success of our corporate programs, we are looking for motivated, disciplined individuals willing to roll up their sleeves and help us delight our corporate clients when they join us to experience Community Rowing's corporate events. Ideal candidates will be required to contribute the following: - At least 20 hours per week available during the day or evening on weekdays
- Have the ability to occasionally work weekend days
- Is a good communicator and can address clients with customer service in mind
- Is able to easily manage physical work; rowing, lifting boxes, ergs, tables, chairs, cases of water, oars and boats
- Possesses great organizational skills and lead others
If qualified and interested, please contact:
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| "The Prouty" Row
Save the Date!
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Join other CRI rowers for "Row the Prouty" an annual fund-raiser for cancer on July 9th in Hanover, NH.
This is not a race. It's an opportunity to row on the beautiful Connecticut River with rowers from other clubs. Singles, doubles, quads and 8's can participate.
Launch from the Dartmouth College rowing docks. Choose your own distance (5, 10, 15 or 20 miles in "out and back" format) and go at your own pace.
CRI has offered to make a trailer available this year for us to bring up larger club boats as well as singles.
Please let us know - the sooner the better - if you're interested so that we can plan accordingly.
Anyone interested in a boat from CRI or trailer space for a personal boat must fill out the CRI Regatta Boat Request Form no later than 10 days prior to the event.
Find out more about this event and register, here:
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| 2016 CRI Regatta Boat Request Form
Please Use Form for Equipment Requests
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If you would like to request equipment for regattas, please us the new CRI Regatta Boat Request Form.
All equipment requests are due no later than 10 days before any event. While we will do our best to make requests work for everyone, equipment requests are not guaranteed.
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| Rowing in France Anyone?
Join Us this December
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Have you been dreaming about December in Southern France? Or rowing at the best venues in southern France with top coaches? Now is your chance - The French Rowing Class has put together a fabulous trip in early December to coincide with Lyon's Festival of Lights.
Let's put together a group of eight or more intrepid souls for some R&R&Rowing from CRI and neighboring rowing clubs.
Invite your friends, put together a line-up, start researching the best French wines!
If this piques your interest for more information please contact Lila directly by emailing:
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| Upper Charles Waterway
Help the Local Community & the CRWA
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As part of our move on to the Upper Charles waterway, we want to work with the local community and help and support where we can. The 5000m of new waterway is going to be hugely beneficial to us and also the many, many people that will experience this amazing stretch of water.
With that in mind, we are working with the Charles River Watershed Association (CRWA) to help promote their 10th season for water chestnut removal on the Upper Charles River. We are asking if there are any people that would like to offer their help. -
The two current methods for water chestnut removal are hand-pulling and mechanical harvesting.
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Water chestnuts are an invasive species native to Eurasia that was brought to the US in the 19th century. Water chestnuts are problematic because they grow in thick mats, blocking sunlight from reaching the water and absorbing dissolved oxygen. Water chestnuts out compete native vegetation and use up the oxygen for other aquatic life, such as fish. Moreover, when water chestnut growth becomes too thick, the river becomes unnavigable.
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Water chestnuts generally starting growing in late June and drop their seeds into the river in August. The hand-pulling season, therefore, occurs between early June to mid-August.
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For CRWA's Canoeing for Clean Water program, CRWA staff lead groups of 30 volunteers in kayaks onto the river to hand-pull water chestnuts. The events last 2-3 hours and generally occur in the morning to avoid extreme heat and severe weather events. CRWA and Boating in Boston provide all necessary equipment and training.
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On average, CRWA leads 25 events and 500+ volunteers per season. In 2015, 40 tons or 80,000 pounds of water chestnuts were removed from the Charles.
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Volunteers meet at the Newton Historic Boathouse at 2401 Commonwealth Avenue in Newton. Parking is available across the street at the end of Norumbega Road.
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Sign up for a public event through CRWA's website www.crwa.org
Below are the list of dates for public events: o Saturday, June 11th from 9 a.m to 12 p.m. o Saturday, June 25th from 9 a.m to 12 p.m. o Saturday, July 9th from 9 a.m to 12 p.m. o Tuesday, July 12th from 5 p.m. to 7:30. o Sunday, July 24th from 9 a.m to 12 p.m. o Saturday, August 6th from 9 a.m to 12 p.m.
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| Outreach Programs
Volunteers Opportunities
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If you are interested in volunteering our outreach programming, we would love to hear from you.
Please see the link to our Outreach Volunteer form HERE, and let us know how you would like to help.
Thank you in advance for your support.
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| CPR Training
Upcoming Dates
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Thursday, June 16th: 3pm - 6pm
Thursday, July 7th: 6pm-9pm
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| Parking at CRI
Busy Time Parking Alternatives
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The weather has gotten nice, and people are doing lots of rowing which is fantastic. All that rowing
is bringing lots of folks to the boathouse, and at certain times, the parking lot is over crowded.
Some important notes:
NO PARKING IN THE FIRE LANE - Cars may be towed
It is illegal to park in the fire lane. Cars that are parked in the fire lane are at risk of being towed by
the state.
PARKING ALTERNATIVES -
- North Beacon street: on street parking is available along North Beacon, with a short walk back over the bridge
- The old DCR public swimming pool parking lot at the North Beacon rotary.
- The hockey rink
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| Upcoming Private Events
Please Take Note
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Saturday, June 11th:
2nd Floor CLOSED at 11am Dock #2 Closed at 2pm - Private Event |
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