Cambridge Boat Club

The Cambridge Boat Club will be hosting a Summer Junior Rowing program again in 2012. The Program is designed to introduce high school boys and girls to the fundamentals and joys of sculling. Emphasis will be placed on water-safety, proper boat handling, the development of a smooth and efficient stroke, the elements of good physical conditioning and teamwork. . This is a non-competitive program for both experienced rowers and true novices and is open to the children of both CBC members and non-members.

These are the notes from the workshop that Boris held on Saturday 4th February 2012. There are links to some interesting videos

 In April 2012, CBC fielded 30 talented pairs of hands in the 13th annual Earth Day riverbank cleanup. CBC vied with more than 3,000 volunteers from 140 organizations up and down the river in an effort to return the riverbank to a more natural state. CBC was of course victorious, and the boathouse now sits on the cleanest section of the river.

If you are interested in becoming part of this elite trash squad next year, contact Paul Hoffman This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

2012 CBC Earth Day trash squad
Anne Marie Smith - Abigail Zeamer - Andy McLane - Anne Biernacki - Ben Zeamer - Bill Cummings - Brian Saper - Deb Dufty - Elisabeth Hopkins - Ellen Parker - Everett Briggs - Geoffrey Zeamer - Greg Walker - Henriette Power - James Beck - Jane Morse - Janet Solomon - Joelle Cabot - Kay Merseth - Ken Dupuis - Ken Smith - Linda McLane - Loryn Sheffner - Maura Conron - Max Dupuis - Molly Upton - Paul Hoffman - Peter Sturges - Peter Tyson - Vicky Zeamer - Yesim Taskor

Click here to view Cambridge Boat Club—A Centennial History 1909-2009, published in the summer of the centennial year and presented as a gift to the membership.

New to this online version is Peter Tyson’s introductory piece, “A Tale of Two Sites – A Deep Prehistory,” that you’ll find on pages i-xx. Enjoy this and the more than forty other interesting and entertaining articles and shorter pieces by your fellow members that comprise the complete work.

NOTE: Should you wish to purchase extra copies of the bound volume, they are available to members at $25 each. You’ll find them on sale at the Club Gear Table at various events throughout the year.

HUNGRY?? So are 1300 Cantabrigians! Please help feed our neighbors by remembering a food pantry donation for your next trip to the boathouse. You can see photos of a recent contribution here: http://tinyurl.com/food-pantry-photos

The donation box is in the kitchen. The Cambridge Food Pantry has asked for low sugar breakfast cereal but will also accept all non-perishables as well as pet food!! We have donated more than 175 boxes of cereal since the beginning of the year -- a nice start. Let's bring breakfast to the club!!!

This is a year-long project of the Community Outreach Committee to be a good neighbor in Cambridge. Please contribute as often as you can. Email Janet Solomon This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it if you can help with the bi-weekly deliveries to the Pantry in Central Square.

Cambridge Boat Club was founded by civic minded Cantabrigians who gathered to create a common resource for athletics and socializing. The club was incorporated under the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts on April 7th, 1909. Its declared purpose was to "encourage athletic exercises, boating and yachting and to establish and maintain a place for social meetings".

This is the era when people began to formally take notice of the importance of individuals and groups to marshall their forces, in stewardship of the nation's open spaces and recreational lands. It is the time of Teddy Roosevelt's Presidency, the establishment of many of our great national parks and the environmental movement so capably espoused by the impassioned photography of Walter Muir. Mount Auburn Cemetery and Frederick Law Olmsted's Emerald Necklace are still in their infancy.

The third annual CBC Invitational Regatta held on Saturday, July 16^th in the words of many of the competitors, “Couldn’t have been better.”  And indeed it was a great day on and off the water for the nine teams that came from as far away as Pittsburg and as near as CRI and Union Boat Club.

CBC won the Masters "E" 8 for the second year in a row at the Heineken Regatta in Amsterdam March 12-13!  The CBC squad won "E" in each of the individual components of the race, by 17 seconds in the 2500m, 0.4 seconds in the 250m, and 37 seconds in the 5000m categories, and finished 16th out of 61 out of all masters crews.  Representing CBC was Rich Sampson, Chris Richards, Roger Borggaard, Charlie Hamlin, Greg Wilkins, Fred Schoch, Jim Pierce, Chuck Pieper, and Alden Zecha.