Community Rowing, Inc. Newsletter

Weekly

July 26, 2016

'Stoller Summer Sign ups' - 5 day 'Try it' sessions for all

CRI Newton - Stoller Boat House

Next week, we are going to run a special 5 day coached evening session so people that have sculled before, can experience the waterways of the Upper Charles during this perfect sculling weather. Sign up is available now - go to www.communityrowing.org website and navigate to the CRI Stoller tab and click on 'STOLLER TRY IT' button on the sign-up page.

This week and next are the final weeks of the Stoller '16 Summer Program. The feedback from the people that have taken a class has been great and we are looking to release the details of the Fall Program this week. CRI is offering classes for kids aged 9 and up at the CRI Newton - Stoller Boat House.

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.

CRI is also offering a Parent / Child option for the first time. On Saturday mornings throughout the summer, we invite adults and their child 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 a double together 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 whole Community, offering 'Rowing for All' to a much wider audience!

Sign up is available now - go to www.communityrowing.org website and navigate to the CRI Stoller tab on the sign-up page.

Looking for something new and fun to do this summer?

CRI Newton - Stoller Boat House

Come over to CRI Newton, sessions for 9 years old and upwards!

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 Dam for smaller sculling classes focused on people of all ages.

Sign up is available now - go to www.communityrowing.org website and navigate to the CRI Stoller tab on the sign-up page.

HELP NEEDED for Corporate Rowing Events

Every Day of this Week!

This week will be one of the busiest weeks of the year for the Corporate Rowing Team at CRI. If you are free or know someone that is free we could use your help every day this week. We are in Dire NEED of coxswains and volunteers to help share our community and this sport with the world! Each program we run this week will directly support our mission of "Rowing for All" and all of our Outreach Programs. Please consider helping...

Wednesday July 20

MPI Team Building Row

2:00pm - 6:00pm

7 Coxswains

8 Volunteers/Spare Rowers

Tuesday July 26th

CarbonBlack Team Building Row

4:00pm - 7:30pm

3 Coxswains

5 Volunteers/Spare Rowers

Wednesday July 27th

GE Team Building Row

3:00pm - 7:00pm

5 Coxswains

8 Volunteers/Spare Rowers

Thursday July 28th

Kuoni Aegis Team Building Row

12:30pm - 4:30pm

11 Coxswains

15 Volunteers/Spare Rowers

Thursday July 28th

VESON Team Building Row

3:00pm - 7:00pm

2 Coxswains

5 Volunteers/Spare Rowers

Friday July 29th

Athena Team Building Row

8:30am - 12:30pm

5 Coxswains

7 Volunteers/Spare Rowers

Friday July 29th

CRRL Session 2 Final Race

5:30pm - 9:30pm

20 Volunteers - Dockmaster, Check-In, Grill/Food, Video and Timing, etc.

Click the link below to signup:

www.signupgenius.com/tabs/23672D601A6CDE9C17-corporate

If you know of a group that would like to field a team to row in Session 3 of the CRRL (August

9th to September 17th), please put them in touch with Patrick Larcom and he will get them on

the water - patrick.larcom@communityrowing.org

Last Thursday, CRI hosted a group from the Talent division of Nike - a sector of the company

focused on Employee development and growth. Coach Ariel Handler led the group through a

fun and informative erg demo, followed by an exciting water session in the CRI Pond. A big

thank you to Ariel for coaching, and to Hannah Frankel for coxing!

Interested in seeing what being a part of the Charles River Rowing League is like? Click the link

below to watch a video highlighting one of the crews participating in the league:

2016 Charles River Rowing League - Session 1

Happy Rowing!

7th Annual Women's Row & Brunch

Sunday, September 25th, 2016

Pre- Olympic Dinner & Talk with Sir Stephen Redgrave

Sunday, July 31st at CRI

The Boston Rowing Federation is very pleased to announce a special river-wide event on the evening of Sunday July 31.En route to Rio, Sir Stephen Redgrave (5x Olympic Gold Medalist, Chairman of the Henley Royal Regatta) has agreed to join us in Boston for a dinner and talk.

The format for the event will be like a Sunday night supper potluck, but as this will likely draw quite a crowd, the dinner will be held at CRI. Please mark your calendars for this fantastic event.

Here are the details:

When: Sunday July 31, 5:30-8PM (5:30 Cocktails, 6:30 Dinner, 7:00 Speaker)

What: Pre-Olympic Dinner with Steve Redgrave

Food: Potluck -- Last names A-F salads; G-S entrees; T-Z desserts

Drinks: Catered

Volunteers needed: contact Chuck Pieper (chuckpieper11@gmail.com)

Cost: No fee to attend. Cambridge Semantics is hosting the event.

First Come First Served: notify Chuck Pieper at chuckpieper11@gmail.com with the number in your party.

Boston Rowing Federation is a pan-river, generated Boston non-profit organization dedicated to support oarsmen and oarswomen who are capable of contending for Olympic and Paralympic medals and who have committed to live and train in Boston. Support includes career advancing opportunities, mentoring, coaching and certain travel and training expenses.

BRF athletes representing the US in Rio are Gevvie Sone (W1X); Andrew Campbell and Josh Konieczny (LM2X), and Jenny Sichel (Legs, Trunk, Arms mixed Four). BRF anticipates similar numbers who will prepare for the Tokyo quadrennial.

Donations to BRF will be appreciated.

CRI Fall Classic Regatta

Saturday, September 17, 2016

Hold the date: Saturday, September 17, 2016

CRI Fall Classic Regatta

7am-1pm

This is CRI's 5th year hosting the CRI Fall Classic Regatta (formerly The Rumble on the River). Mark your calendars to participate in the regatta and/or to lend a hand. The regatta is a great volunteer opportunity. Many hands are needed to make this Regatta great. Keeping with CRI's mission of Rowing for All and showing our love for rowing, please sign up to help, please click here for all the volunteer opportunities:

http://www.signupgenius.com/go/20f0944abaf2da7fa7-20161

Prodema Work

Boathouse Siding Being Replaced

New Prodema, the material that makes up the siding on the building, has arrived for CRI. Workers from Spain are visiting to do the work, which is being done under warranty. There will be a lot of construction going on through the summer months during which the building will have its panels all replaced. Please be aware of the crates at the west end of the facility.

Rowing in France

Change of Date - Join Us!

Have you been dreaming about rowing camp in a beautiful place, rowing in France? Now is your chance to make it so in the South West of France near the ocean. To see where, click here: http://en.mimizan-tourisme.com/

*All inclusive: food, accommodation, 2 rowing session/day, recreative activities, see: http://www.french-rowing-class.com/en/rowing-camp-mimizan-third-edition/
Clean and functional accommodation in the "Centre Lac et oceans": http://www.centre-lac-ocean.org/en/the-centre/accommodation.html

If this piques your interest for more information please contact Lila directly by emailing:

Lila.mccain@communityrowing.org

Upper Charles Waterway

Help the Local Community & the CRWA

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 of 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.

All questions can be sent to Caitlin Chiquelin, by email at waterchestnut@crwa.org or by phone at (781) 788-0007 ext. 235
To sign up for a public event, volunteers must register by filling out this form.
The public events leave from the Boating in Boston location at Newton Historic Boathouse. The address is 2401 Commonwealth Avenue, Auburndale, MA. Directions can be found here. It's important to note that volunteers park off site, but there are ample signs directing people to the parking lot, which is just across the river and about a 2 minute walk.

The public events for the rest of the season are:

Saturday, August 6, 9:30 AM - 12:30 PM

For more information, visit the website here.

2016 CRI Regatta Boat Request Form

Please Use Form for Equipment Requests

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.

2016 CRI Regatta Boat Request Form

CPR Training

Upcoming Dates

Sunday, August 7th: 10-1:00 PM

Tuesday, September 6th: 6-9:00 PM

For information or to sign up, please email marilyn@communityrowing.org.

CRI PARKING LOT

Drive with CAUTION & Busy Time Parking Alternatives

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:

DRIVE SLOWLY & CAUTIOUSLY AT ALL TIMES

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.