NYCkayaker Pier 63 is closed.

[Erik Baard]

For me the ultimate measurement of this community's growth is that back 
in 1999 I knew, at least by face, nearly every paddler I'd encounter on 
the main waterways. This is excepting cluster clans like those on City 
Island. But today there's a good chance I'll make a new friend out 
there!

The East River is a decade behind the Hudson in many regards, but I 
expect progress to be even more robust. Perhaps (dare I say?) we'll 
even overtake the Hudson in NYC as a kayaking spot, once Anable Cove, 
Bushwick Inlet, the mouth of the Newtown Creek, Weschester Creek, the 
Bronx River, Flushing Bay, Flushing Creek, Powells Cove, MacNeil Park, 
Classon Point, Stuyvesant Cove, etc. realize their potential. We're so 
rich in protected little nooks along the waterfront -- it's inevitable 
that local paddlers will try to adopt them!

Warm regards,

Erik



On Sep 13, 2006, at 6:26 AM, ralph diaz wrote:

> Bonnie,
>
> Thanks for your update/analysis of the situation with Pier 63.  While 
> New
> York and the mini dramas in the Hudson River Park saga fade further and
> further from memory for me up here, I do like to know what continues 
> to go
> on.  Pier 63 was always a mixed situation as you know and address it
> accordingly.  Still, it is sad to see something so funky as the barge 
> (and,
> in that way, very seakayaky) end, a mother ship to a fine sea kayak
> business, storage for a small army of kayakers, and the outriggers home
> base.
>
> But so much positive seems to be going on as well on the kayaking 
> scene in
> the harbor as illustrated in nyckayaker.  I am amazed at the level 
> that has
> been reached, for example, even the idea of a swim across the Narrows 
> let
> alone it actually happening and sufficient numbers of sea kayakers 
> capable
> of supporting such an open water swim.  The numerous round-Manhattan 
> paddles
> that were set up a few weeks back.  The Downtown Boathouse's continue
> maturing in the level of sea kayaking that goes on and I don't mean 
> just in
> the numbers of the people being put on the water but also the quality 
> of the
> sea kayaking.  The list of milestones goes on and on.
>
> You down on the waters off of Manhattan's shores may be too close to 
> the
> scene to fully recognize the history of kayaking that is being written 
> down
> there.  I see it from here and it does put a smile on my face as I 
> remember
> pretty humble beginnings for sea kayaking back in the late 1980s and 
> through
> even into as recently as the late 1990s.  It has come a long way and 
> may it
> continue to be there for all of you.
>
> ralph diaz
>
>
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