From Elm City Challenge 2016

VCB crews The Scrivener and Bartleby placed first and third in the respectively in the Elm City Open Water Challenge, an open water rowing race, hosted by The Sound School in New Haven, CT.
The Scrivener, with coxswain Teresa Wang, and rowers Kenny Lin, Emmanuel Juthenholtz, Gianluca Yong, and David Kang placed first in Pete Seeger. Bartleby with coxswain Cindy Lin and rowers Leo Au-Yeung, Bernard Slawomirski, Rhys Manley, and Adam Rosen placed third rowing Storm Queen.

Elm City Challenge 2016

Thanks to Brendan Malone for his help wrangling boats and Yee Gee Cheng and Eric Cerny for organizing. Thanks to the rowers and coxswains who made us proud.
Special thanks for Jeff Alpert and the Sound School for hosting the race.

VCB sent two boats, King Tide and Warrior, and crews to The Snow Row, a 3 1/2 mile open water rowing race sponsored by the Hull Lifesaving Museum. Some VCB rowers joined forces with Atlantic Challenge rowing Don Betts’ Cady in the race. The Warrior crew, with Teresa Wang as cox, won in their division: Cox-4 Youth Amateur, finishing with a time of 37:00 minutes. (Amateur meaning that they never rowed together before.) The King Tide crew, with Dave Clayton as cox, also won in their division: Pilot Gig, adult Amateur with a time of 41:57. HERE are official race results and times.

From Snow Row 2016

From Snow Row 2016

Warrior, Stretch Gunning Dory riding King Tide, Cornish Pilot Gig

From Snow Row 2016

Warrior Crew: Kenny Lin, Teresa Wang, Rhys Manley, Bernard Slawomirski, and Adam Rosen

From Snow Row 2016

King Tide Crew: Oscar Cheung, Dexter Tong, Curtis Betts, Tony Fung, Sally Curtis, Dave Clayton, Andrew Leung

From Snow Row 2016

VCBers Eric Cerny, Yee Gee Cheng, Brian Tong with Atlantic Challengers, Rock Singewald, Mary Betts & Austen

From Snow Row 2016

Village Community Boathouse and Atlantic Challenge winners

From Icebreaker 2015

Village Community Boathouse sent two boats and two varsity crews, The VCB Splonkers & The Hot Cocos, to the Icebreaker, a youth race sponsored by the Hull Lifesaving Museum. In years past, the race was held on the beach in Hull, Massachusetts. However, extreme weather conditions the past two years led to the decision to move the race to the relatively protected Fort Point Channel in Boston. The race was held at the Boston Rowing Center near the Congress Street Bridge and the Boston Tea Party Museum. The VCB boats were unstacked and launched across the harbor at the Boston Navy Yard and then towed over to the Boston Rowing Center.
The VCB Splonkers won the heats in their First Four Varsity division. The Hot Cocos, rowing Whitehall Gig Storm Queen won The Nautical Mile race.

From Icebreaker 2015

VCB Splonkers: Rhys Manley, Malkiel Jurado, Teresa Wang, Emmanuel Juthenholtz, Adam Rosen

From Icebreaker 2015

Hot Cocos: Gianluca Yong, Cindy Lin, David Kang, Kenny Lin, Leo Auyeung​

From Icebreaker 2015

First Place- VCB Splonkers: Nautical Mile & First Fours Heats

From Icebreaker 2015

Nautical Mile Trophy

Special Thanks to Ed McCabe & Lory Newmeyer of Hull Lifesaving Museum for doing a great job organizing this wonderful and complicated event. Also thanks to Don & Martha Betts for putting us up.

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Icebreaker 2015

By
Eric Cerny

From Head of the Weir 2015

On Saturday, October 24, 2015, three members of the VCB high school race crew attended the Head of the Weir River Race, an annual 5.5-nautical mile race sponsored by the Hull Lifesaving Museum. The race features a head of the river starting sequence where each boat starts one by one, a protected-waters portion, and an open-water portion. The trio of David Kang, Leo AuYeung and Adam Rosen, as well as one of our youth race crew alumni, Tony Fung, gathered on Friday at the home of Eric Cerny, another alum and VCB volunteer. They were on the road by 3:15 AM and met with the rest of their crew at 8:30.

The three high school students shared the Warren, RI, -based pilot gig Cady with five other boatsmen and women from all over the northeast who respresent Narragansett Bay Challenge. Cady is owned and maintained by Don Betts. This was David’s second Head of the Weir, Leo’s first HoW but second competitive race, and Adam’s very first competitive race. The mixed youth & adult crew finished with a time of 51:40, first in their category, fourth out of all pilot gigs, and 13th in the entire event.
The crew saw almost 60 open-water rowing vessels at the race, including a kit boat version of our own East River Flyer (found at http://www.puuvenepiste.fi/en/index.html)

From Head of the Weir 2015

The NY crew arrives at the launch ramp

From Head of the Weir 2015

Cady revs up at the start

From Head of the Weir 2015

Cady flies across the finish line

From Head of the Weir 2015

First place in their category!

From Head of the Weir 2015

By Tony Fung
Photos by Sally Curtis & Tony Fung

From Elm City Challenge

The Village Community Boathouse sent two crews to Elm City Challenge 2015. These crews rowed the Warrior and the Notorious GIG, and consisted of eight students from Stuyvesant High School and two from the Harbor School. Although it was originally planned for there to be three events: a distance race, a knot-tying competition and a slalom course, whereby crews would navigate through an obstacle course rudderless, the latter two were cancelled and the only event left was a 3.5 mile distance race. On the way there, the students did their best in preparing for the trip, by tying down the boats, setting up the trailer, and creating plenty of thole rings.