📣 Wrapping up our 2024 rowing season!
Though we started off with plenty of wind and rain, thanks to an extended Indian summer, we were able to stay on the water until just last weekend! 🌞
It’s been a fantastic season filled with so many memorable moments: 🚣 Successful Learn-to-Row and sculling clinics 🎊 Fun social and fundraising events 🏝️ A beautiful “island row” 🥞 Delicious potlucks and brunches 🏅 A successful, co-sponsored Poughkeepsie Regatta and many impressive finishes for our competitive scullers and regatta teams.
None of this would be possible without our amazing members who volunteer their time and talents to keep our club running! We are lucky, indeed. Thanks to everyone who coached, planned an event, washed a towel, cleaned a boat, shared a photo, subbed in at the last minute, coxed and landed a boat, or volunteered in any small or large way. WE COULD NOT DO THIS WITHOUT YOU! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Can’t wait to see what 2025 has in store! #MidHudsonRowingAssociation #rowing #HudsonRiver
The Walkway Over the Hudson, formerly the Poughkeepsie Bridge, spans the Hudson River, connecting Poughkeepsie and Highland, NY. Originally built as a double-track railroad bridge in 1889, it was damaged by fire in 1974 and later listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In 2009, it was beautifully transformed into a pedestrian walkway, now part of the Walkway Over the Hudson State Historic Park. The POK Regatta starts at the Culinary Institute of America’s campus in Hyde Park and finishes under the Mid-Hudson Bridge.
You can catch the races tomorrow from the Walkway Over the Hudson, just 2.5 miles from the start!
(📸): Archives and Special Collections @Marist
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“Rough waters on the Hudson River course sometimes trouble the oarsmen”. What rower hasn’t seen rough waters on our river? The Hudson’s powerful downstream current, shifting tides, and swirling winds often create unpredictable conditions, making rowing quite a challenge! Waves sometimes strike our boats from all sides. The challenges of rowing on the Hudson are just part of what makes it so rewarding, and its beauty more than compensates for the difficulties.
(📸): Archives and Special Collections @Marist
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