Village Community Boathouse sent Pilot Gig, King Tide, and Stretch Gunning Dory, Warrior along with 15 rowers to The 34th Annual Snow Row sponsored by the Hull Lifesaving Museum on Saturday, March 2nd. Warrior, launched with her clear coated hull still sticky finished the 3.5 mile race course in 40:44 winning in her class- Adult Amateur Coxed-4 (Amateur is defined as the crew never practiced for the race). Stuyrowing in King Tide finished in 36:47 but was beaten by Sound School by 2 seconds. Don Bett’s Pilot Gig, Cady with a mixed crew of Crusty Crustaceans, which included Atlantic Challenge Vets, VCB rowers, family & friends, finished with a time of 39:15.
Thanks to Don & Martha Betts for putting us up in Warren and to Gayle White for sending photos she took of King Tide.
Stuyrowing King Tide Crew: Christina Pan, Dexter Tong, junze He, Eric Cerny, Sungmin Kim, Willie Xu, Haymar Lim
VCB Warrior Crew: Phil Shinn, Dave Clayton, Fabian C., Elisa, Brian Tong
Cady Crusty Crustaceans Crew: Don Betts, Sally Curtis, Daryl Seu, Riley, Don’s neice & nephew, Batya Zemansky

VCB will be sending two crews to the Snow Row this year. The Stuyvesant High School rowing team will be rowing King Tide, a six-oared Corninsh Pilot Gig with the Razzle Dazzle paint job in the race on Saturday, March 2nd in Hull, Mass. VCB will also field Warrior, the soon-to-be-completed-just-in-time-for-the-race Gunning Dory. The dory has a steering mechanism designed and built by Don Betts in Rhode Island that we hope will be more efficient than a steering oar.

Stuyrowers (L to R) : Haymar Lim, Anna Juchnicki,Kristina Pan, Batya Zamansky, Eric Cerny, Willie Xu, Brian Tong, Joe Fung, Dexter Tong, Junze He, Sungmin Kim

VCB fielded a crew of Stuyrowers to race in the 2012 Head of the Weir River Race held in Hull, MA on Saturday, October 27. Brian Tong, Dexter Tong, Joe Fung, Curtis Bezault, Batya Zemansky, Junze He and Christina Pan rowed the Cornish Pilot Gig, King Tide to victory in the race. The intrepid crew of seven rowers won in their category- pilot gig mixed youth/adult, completing the 5 1/2 mile open water course in 50:14. They placed 12th out of 54 boats participating in the race.

On the morning of Saturday, September 8th, our village of Manhattan came together at Pier 40 to makea huge splash to collectively help uplift the lives of youth in distant corners of the globe. At the first annual fundraiser, “Just Crew It! Rowing for Global Youth Soccer,” co-hosted by the Village Community Boathouse (VCB) and Downtown United Soccer Club (DUSC) Soccer Recycle Project, a diverse group of local firemen, cops, prosecutors, high school students, investment bankers, and chefs joined forces to make global change through the power of rowing and barbecuing.

This event has been made possible with the community support of MLS Works, New York Red Bulls, Modells, Fairway, Trader Joe’s, Western Beef, Starbucks, Marumi restaurant, Junoon restaurant, Celebration and Ral’eau Salsa Dance Company. Finally, we were all grateful to the culinary barbecuing skills of our Marine One firemen.