Clear Lake Scullers Spring 2006 Newsletter

Clear Lake Scullers Summer 2007 Newsletter

Summer News

This will be an interesting year for us at Clear Lake Scullers. I’ve scheduled sprint kayaking nationals and Lake Merritt Sprints for rowing. I have added some river kayaking equipment, we’ll teach some of that this summer. I’ve also put on the schedule a trip to Santa Cruz, California where we’ll do some instruction in ocean safety, bodysurfing, and paddle our boats and paddleboards on the sea. We will invite rowers from bay area clubs to come up to our events this year.

After the sculling clinic last Fall, many bay area rowers are excited about rowing up here again.

CLS people moved on

Clear Lake Sculler Michelle McMullen is rowing at Sacramento State University this year. She raced in the varsity eight at Pacific Coast Rowing championships against the top crews in the west coast May 12-13. Here is a video of her in her crew

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bh-Arh7YWx8

She is rowing 5 seat in the first race in the film.

Brenna Sullivan had an excellent season for UC Santa Cruz swim team and made the very difficult cut to be a beach lifeguard for Santa Cruz State beaches. This was Brenna coming in 3^rd overall among 35 applicants in the 1000 yard ocean swim.

Spring Schedule

Mike will be at the boat yard every Saturday this spring starting May 19 for refresher courses and to get boats in shape. There are a number of events that we can attend to help promote the club. There’s also work to be done! Please come help out, the boats have been clobbered heavily by the winter, and the growth in the yard is a mess.

If you are interested in sweep rowing, come by on Saturdays at 8:00 am, and there will be more formal teaching sessions announced for June.

Sat/Sun May 26/27 Crafts Faire all day, and work day. Come down and talk to people about the program, or work on boat yard and boats. We’ll set up a rowing shell and a kayak and a lot of flyers. Will have sign up sheets for summer programs. Come go for a row some time during the day, then hang out for an hour to help out.

Sat June 2 8:00 am to noon OPEN HOUSE Signups for summer kids programs, information, and availability to try boats. This will be publicized as a ‘Learn to Row Day’

Sat June 2 all day. Wooden Boat Show at Library Park. We’ll put out a boat and flyers to promote the program.

Sat June 9 8:00 am to noon OPEN HOUSE Signups for summer kids programs, information, and availability to try boats. This will be publicized as a ‘Learn to Row Day’.

Summer Schedule

The summer program will get underway beginning Saturday June 23 and run through the first couple weeks in August. Mike will be teaching the rowing and Thurs-Sat paddling with Tuesday yet TBD. Check the schedule out at: