Another Year in the Books
Our 2024 calendar year ended with the good news! We have at long last signed the license agreement for our property with the Parks Department. It has been under review with the City’s legal...
News from our Activities
Cruising Through Summer
On a recent summer day, a fleet of traditional small craft rigs built by Sebago sailors joined double handed Vanguards, a Laser and several Sunfish. The winds went from dead calm to brisk for a...
August 10 Open House Cancelled
With the near certainty that heavy rains will severely impact the water quality of Paerdegat Basin and Jamaica Bay this Saturday, we have regretfully decided to cancel the Open House event scheduled for August...
2024 Season Opener
Our on-water season officially launched this weekend, with the sailors hosting the inaugural Brooklyn Urban Sunfish Championship on Saturday, followed by Sunday’s All-Club Invitational event. Kayaks, the big canoes, and the gig all were...
Get Ready for the 2024 Season
This year’s spring workday will be Our main objective is the demolition of Container 4, aka the rowing shed, which is necessary to fully assess the condition of the clubhouse and to begin planning...
A Breezy Sebago Cup Regatta
The Sebago Cup sail race was held Saturday in spite of concerns about Hurricane Lee. After much deliberation, we met at the club and decided to hold the event. It ended up being a lovely...
Let the Season Begin!
We’re ready! The Clubhouse has been spruced up, sturdy new kayak racks have been built, the front gate has been repaired and has a much more user-friendly lock system, the gardeners have been tending...
Spring Workday
About fifteen members turned out for the annual spring cleaning and workday on April 1. An outdoor crew demoed and rebuilt the club’s old kayak racks while an indoor group removed several rusted out...
First Day Sail
I arrived at Sebago on New Year’s Day to rig my melonseed skiff and don my wetsuit to do that “first day” thing of kicking off the new year with a sail. John Thomas joined...
2022 End of Year Report
Ahoy, Sebago! And Happy New Year! Despite a couple of glitches beyond our control — most notably a little bug called Covid that won’t quite go away — 2022 was a good year for...
Sebago Cup – 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...
My sworn enemy at Sebago
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...
Boat Demo Day
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...
Kayak Newsletter – January, 2019
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....
Sea Kayak Committee Report – Fall, 2018
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.
Annual Sail Report 2018
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!
Canoeing
Canoe pictures from 2018.
Kids and Kayaks
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”.
Racing Dun Laoghaire
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…
Kayak Newsletter, September 2018
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...
Kayak Newsletter, August 2018
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...
August Youth Paddle Pictures
Pictures from two recent Youth Paddles – photos courtesy of Chris Bickford: Highline Academy, Aug. 2018 Rocking the Boat group, Aug. 2018
2018 Rowing Open House — Saturday, July 28, 9:00 am
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...
Kayak Newsletter, July 2018
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...