NYCkayaker Newtown creek nature walk, by water

[rob buchanan]

I wonder if there aren¹t some solutions that would make landing a kayak on
those steps a bit more manageable. There are two sets of stainless steel
stanchions, one at either end of the steps. They haven¹t been strung with
cable yet, but even so they would seem to offer a kind of handy post you
might lasso or toss a line around to pull on when getting out of a kayak. Or
what about stringing the lower steps with cable, like they do on the thames
in london? 

In the pre-steam days, there were steps cut down to the water at the end of
whitehall street, where small rowboats (whitehall gigs) pulled in to take
you to brooklyn or out to ships in the harbor. How did they keep people from
wiping out then?




On 10/7/07 11:53 AM, "Erik Baard" <erik at baard.com> wrote:

> The LIC Community Boathouse also enjoyed a landing at the nature walk at its
> opening celebration (with one highlight being running into Rick Mueller!).
> Regarding the Sewage Steps (our local joke comparing them to the romantic
> Spanish Steps), they aren't ideal for landing -- they are extremely slippery.
> The ladders around the corner are great at high water, but an intrusive sloped
> ledge is revealed at lower points in the tide and this is also a slippery
> hazard. A pull-down extension or step might be needed to avoid the problem.
> 
> Erik Baard
> 
> http://www.licboathouse.org
> http://www.naturecalendar.com <http://www.naturecalendar.org>
> 
> 
>> -------- Original Message --------
>> From: rob buchanan <robbuc at aol.com>
>> Date: Sun, October 07, 2007 7:42 am
>> To: nykayak <nyckayaker at rockandwater.net>
>> 
>> On Friday, ten of us in two gigs rowed from East 96th Street to the
>> recently-opened Newtown Creek Nature Walk in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Among
>> other things, the walk provides the first public access to Newtown Creek.
>> That makes it an excellent destination if you're in a small boat, though of
>> course there's a lot of commercial activity (ie, barge traffic) so due
>> caution needs to be exercised...
>> 
>> A writeup and pictures at:
>> 
>> http://web.mac.com/robbuc/iWeb/harborrowing/newtown%20creek.html
>> 
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