| 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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| Rowing for All Has a Second Location
Stoller - CRI Newton
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For the first time, CRI is offering classes for kids aged 9 and up, in sculling boats that are the right size for very young people! The new location on the Upper Charles offers a protected setting for rowers of all ages, and we have established programs for people from age 9 to 90. At the Harry Parker Boathouse, kids aged 12 and up are welcome, but we have reserved this new stretch of the Charles River above the Watertown Damn for smaller sculling classes focused on young people. CRI is also offering a Parent Child option for the first time. On Saturday mornings throughout the summer, we invite you and your son or daughter to come and scull together at the new Stoller Boathouse. The classes are appropriate for rowers of all skill levels, and you will have an opportunity to row singles or doubles on the bucolic Upper Charles with an experienced coach providing instruction and guidance. This amazing new location, the brand new fleet of boats and CRI's 30 years' experience of providing safe, fun and healthy activities on the Charles River come together to offer CRIers and the local community the chance to take part in an exciting and healthy sport for the first time. CRI is delighted to partner with Lasell College to open this quiet waterway to the wider CRI Community, offering 'Rowing for All' to a much wider audience!
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| Corporate Team Building
News & Updates
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Last week was another successful one for the corporate rowing programs at CRI. We were able to welcome over 400 clients to rowing at CRI through the hosting of two team building rows, one family-oriented row for a nearby private school, and another week of the Charles River Rowing League (CRRL). This week marks the last week of Session 1 of the CRRL. At the end of the week, all fourteen boats will race on the CRI Pond race course and enjoy a post-race barbecue with family and friends. More information on race results in next week's E-News Update. If you're interested in volunteering for the league or you know of a company that would like to field a team and row in Session 2 (June 21st to July 28th), please put them in touch with Patrick Larcom and he will get them on the water - patrick.larcom@communityrowing.org On Wednesday, we hosted a group of representatives from Roche, a research-based Healthcare company headquartered in Basel, Switzerland. They used the team building row as an opportunity to build camaraderie and connection between their employees from all around the world - and to take a fun break from a week of meetings in Boston. Thanks to Head Coach Ariel Handler and coaches Mary Foster and Lane Lauriat for putting on a professional event. Another huge thank you to Emily Dwyer, Jessica Voss, Richard Honan, Matthew McLaughlin, and Andrea Thies for volunteering their time and talents for the morning.
 Friday the 10th was another eventful day at the CRI boathouse with the hosting of Cooley LLP for a team building row. Greeted by fantastic weather, the two boats full of Cooley partners, summer associates, and volunteers took to the water after an exciting erg session and dock-talk from Coaches Lane Lauriat and George Bryant. A big thank you to Lane and George for helping out! Another big thank you to Robert Bacon, Richard Amster, Vickery Kehlenbeck, Matthew McLaughlin, Barbara Goldstein, Lizzie St. Brice, Olanne Healy, and Jessica Voss for volunteering for the event. On Saturday the 11th, CRI hosted students, teachers, and parents from the Clark School in Rowley, MA for a family row at the CRI boathouse. After learning the basics of the the stroke on the erg upstairs in erg studio, coaches Nigel Gallaher and Patrick Larcom brought the group down to Dock 3 to launch an 8+ and a barge. Despite bad weather, the students and their teachers in the barge were able to race against their parents in the 8. A big thank you to Nigel and Patrick for coaching! An additional thank you to Carol Krauss and Vickery Kehlenbeck for volunteering as well.
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| Charles River Rowing League Celebration
Volunteers Needed
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We are celebrating this Friday, the 17th from 6:00PM - 9:00PM our final session of Charles River Rowing League. In our biggest season yet we have 14 crews from all different companies wrapping up a fantastic six weeks of rowing at CRI in the evenings. This Friday will be their last practice of the session and a chance for them to race each other in the pond for bragging rights. Come help us celebrate with these crews by volunteering to; run the race, starting officials, finish line judges, food and beverage masters, grill masters, community room masters etc. We will all celebrate under the tent after with burgers and beer and watch the sun set. Please join us by registering to volunteer with the link below.
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| Riverside BBQ Series
Sunday, June 26th
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CRI is excited to welcome the return of the Riverside BBQ Series on Sunday, June 26 from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Now entering its fifth season, the Riverside BBQ Series matches New England's most creative chefs with inspired craft brewers and awesome bands all in a beautiful setting along the Charles River, the Harry Parker Boathouse. It's a pop-up kitchen, intimate concert, and beer festival all rolled into one all-inclusive experience.
The BBQ will feature tasty treats from Chef Louis Dibicarri (Tavern Road), Chef Will Gilson (Puritan and Co.), Chef Keenan Langlois (The Sinclair) & Chef Barry Maiden (James Beard Award Winner), beer from a handful of local craft brewers, plus live music from the Nephrok! Allstars and DJ Ryan Brown.
Riverside BBQ Series
Sunday, June 26
4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Harry Parker Boathouse 20 Nonantum Road Brighton, MA
Riverside BBQ Links:
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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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| 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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| 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 18th 2nd Floor CLOSED at noon Saturday, June 25 2nd Floor CLOSED at 11am Dock 2 CLOSED at 2pm
Sunday, June 26 Tent CLOSED at 2pm
Saturday, July 2 2nd Floor CLOSED at 11am Erg Studio CLOSED at 11am Dock 2 Closed at 2pm
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