NYCkayaker 5-Boro Harbor Tour: CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS, May 8 meeting, NYC Parks

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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Erik Baard 
  To: nyckayaker 
  Sent: Monday, April 30, 2007 2:32 PM
  Subject: NYCkayaker 5-Boro Harbor Tour: CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS, May 8 meeting,NYC Parks


  Ahoy'all!

  First, some very good news: The New York City Department of Parks and Recreation has signed on as an official partner of the Five Borough Paddling and Rowing Harbor Tour. Our deep gratitude to Commissioner Dorothy Lewandowski, commissioner for Queens and pioneer of the NYC Water Trail, for her support.

  Representatives of area boating groups who would like to participate, please contact:

  5boro at licboathouse.org and please CC carter at waterwire.net  and try to attend the May 8 New York-New Jersey Harbor Estuary Program's Public Access Working Group Meeting. See details below.

  Individual paddlers and rowers please email only 5boro at licboathouse.org

  For those unfamiliar with the tour, experienced paddlers and rowers will touch all five boroughs on September 8. As currently conceived, and this is open to amendment, the tour would launch from the New York Restoration Project's Peter Jay Sharp Boathouse in East Harlem, stop at the Friends of Brook Park put-in, also on the Harlem River, in Mott Haven, South Bronx. From their participants will cross Hell Gate to Hallets Cove in Astoria, Queens, at the northern end of Socrates Sculpture Park. Heading south at a nice East River ebb-current clip, the tour will stop in Red Hook, Brooklyn, at Valentino Park. The final, and perhaps most adventurous and beautiful passage, will be across the Lower Bay to the Snug Harbor Cultural Center on Staten Island.

  Each stop will have food and festivities, though naturally participants will have to keep pace!

  A special treat planned for the tour is the maiden voyage of a dugout tulip tree canoe to be made this summer by the East River ApprenticeShop with Queensbridge Houses youth through the Jacob Riis Settlement House for the coming World Boatbuilding Museum. We will also invite the Clearwater and Pioneer to share in this celebration of our estuary's recovering ecology.

  Here's the 411 on the May 8 meeting:

  New York- New Jersey Harbor Estuary Program
  Public Access Working Group Meeting
  Tuesday, May 8, 2007
  10am-12.30pm

  The Urban Center
  457 Madison Ave at 51st Street

  Agenda

  1.  New York City Water Trail planning:  Presentation and Discussion with 
  Queens Borough Commissioner Dottie Lewandowski, NYC Department of Parks and 
  Recreation (40 mins)
  2.  Site Nomination:  Hallett's Cove, Queens (30 minutes)
  3.  Shared Water Use/ Access Issues: Brooklyn Bridge Beach and Erie Basin 
  (45 minutes)
  4. September 2007 Five Borough Paddle Tour Discussion (30 minutes)
  5. Other Business



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  Erik Baard

  http://www.licboathouse.org


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