Sebago Canoe Club’s ongoing mission is to promote canoeing, kayaking, sailing and rowing. The Club rarely speaks out about wider issues. However, the events of recent months make it impossible to remain silent. Sebago joins with...
Club Events / Pictures From Events / Sailing
by club-ad · Published September 24, 2019 · Last modified September 26, 2019
It was a beautiful day for our annual Sebago Cup. The forecast was for 0-4 out of the west, BUT it was much better – we started with 6+mph out of the SW climbing...
Fabulous pictures from the City of Water Day – our Open House 2019 Photos By Chris Bickford https://photos.app.goo.gl/Jnekejs6ukM9Jfb89
By Shari Berkowitz I’ve been a member of Sebago since, oh, about 2006, and I’ve made many wonderful friends over the years. Those of you who joined ten years ago may have been under...
By Chris Bickford The Sebago Canoe Club and the Appalachian Mountain Club combined teaching talents and boats to introduce paddling to interested SCC & AMC members. Loretta Brady, Charles Michener & Dan Olson discussed...
From the deck of the Chair – 1/15/2019 Frostbite Regatta and the John Wright Honorarium: In Sebago tradition, the New Year was ushered in by the Frostbite Regatta & Pot Luck on the 1st....
On January 1, 2019, at the annual Frostbite Regatta and potluck, Sebago Canoe Club started off the New Year with a truly special event. Though small craft warnings kept our members off the water,...
Announcements / Eblade December 2018
by club-ad · Published December 8, 2018 · Last modified December 9, 2018
Join us on January 1, 2019
between 9am – 4pm
to celebrate the new year at Sebago’s annual
FROSTBITE REGATTA…
Things remain busy in the off-season, planning for the next season! As of this writing, our 2019 billing cycle is almost closed out and our renewals are up by more than $7,000. That’s a testament to the membership and orientation volunteers and Quick Start instructors who welcome our new members so graciously (approximately thirty new members this year). It’s also a tribute to all the committee chairs, trip leaders and planners and instructors who have kept our calendar full of activities and gotten people out on the water in kayaks, canoes, sailboats and sculls, both at Jamaica Bay and at the lake. And we wouldn’t have collected any money without the efforts of those who generated and tracked invoices, reviewed work hours and helped to resolve any open invoices. So, thank you all – I am looking forward to finalizing budgets and planning our next on-water season over the next few months.
2018 has largely been a year of maintenance, which seems sometimes to be never ending. We made substantial progress on the painting of our storage sheds, finishing all but one on the path side, and many on the driveway side. We had good, dedicated crews on the prep and paint detail, spread over the year’s warm months. Both the CCNY and NYU concrete canoe teams came out on separate weekends to prep and paint containers in canoe alley, and to help out with other tasks as well. Thanks everyone! We’ll do our best to finish up the painting next spring.
A Short Story in Pictures:
Believe it or not, the pictures here were taken by James Chang on his iPhone 10 during our, Autumn Leaves Paddle to Four Sparrows Marsh. (Apparently salt water actually improves picture quality on an iPhone 🙂 It was a gray, rainy, 54˚ morning when we launched at 10 am, and at least one of the Co-Kayak Chairs would have preferred to have rolled over for another ten winks. But the water was warm, the tide was high at the marsh, and the lighting was obviously perfect for picture taking.
Another fabulous sailing season at Sebago has passed. We finished the year with close racing in our annual Fall Series, the Eoin Delap Cup, with multiple ties and places often separated by less than one tenth of a point! Here is the final tally for the series (link – https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1N128mXxL9Cbbk9AKP7yaceIqCtOJjN9q2qvTM8Mn4Bo/edit#gid=0). We had over twenty participants throughout the series with twelve qualifiers (those participating in at least three races, and helping with RC for one of those) spanning six race days and 38 races. Congratulations to the top placers. In the Laser class Tracy Kornrich won 1st, Holly Sears 2nd, and David Cripton 3rd. In the Sunfish class, Patrick Daniels won 1st, Dino Ness 2nd, and Boris Mezhibovskiy 3rd. Winners Tracy and Patrick share the Eoin Delap Cup!
The event in pictures.
Canoe pictures from 2018.
You know you’ve done something right when your seven-year-old granddaughter comes home from school and, mystified, says to her mother, “None of my friends have a kayak”.
What follows is a collection of emails I sent to the Sebago community as a log of my experiences at the 2018 Laser Masters World Sailing Championships in Dun Laoghaire, Ireland…
As I was preparing these materials, Steve Heinzerling wrote that the December SCC movie night feature would be Keepers of the Game, a documentary by Judd Ehrlich about the efforts of a Native American Mohawk group of high school girls to form a lacrosse team, a game traditionally played only by men. As of now, I have seen only the trailer, but I believe you will find correspondences between the film and this article.
We are not quite Rollin’ on the River just yet. But we are Rockin’ near the Basin. Sebago has a rock/folk/new age (old age) group of the musically inclined. We get together to play, mostly various guitar types, but random drum, tambourine, cymbal, or whatever. Thanks to Howie Alfred for initiating this fun gathering…
From the deck of the Chair 9/15/18 On Sunday, 8/26/2018, there was a new member orientation. A Full Moon Paddle was scheduled. Quick Start boats were coming up the dock after class. Boats for...
From the deck of the Chair, 8/15/18 Lake Sebago: The opening picture could be Lake Sebago. Serene. Pretty. A comfortable place to practice, paddle, hike or BBQ. This month two Safety & Rescue classes...
Pictures from two recent Youth Paddles – photos courtesy of Chris Bickford: Highline Academy, Aug. 2018 Rocking the Boat group, Aug. 2018
SCC members – Please join the Rowing Committee members at our 2nd annual “Open House” to learn more about the rowing equipment and program, etc. We’ll even run a little DIY clinic on the...
From the deck of the Chair, 7/15/18 Sailing/kayak cruise: You might be wondering why pictures of Fordham University’s sailing team are posted here. It’s a tribute to the sailing/kayak cruise & BBQ that Sebago...
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