The Pepe Restaurant Group announces its intent to compete in the Just Crew It! a boat race fundraiser for Global Youth Soccer, an event in support of Downtown United Soccer Club Soccer Recycle Project, Cockroach Club eXchange and VCB.

Purpose: to show off Team Pepe’s supreme rowing prowess and to support youth from disadvantaged communities in emerging markets around the world by using soccer as a medium for teaching confidence, self-improvement, and community building.

When: Saturday, September 8th. 9:30-noon with a BBQ to follow (rain date Sunday the 9th)
Where: Pier 40 on the Hudson River at West Houston Street

Crew:
Jimmy Sanz
Perry D’Alessio
Myron Dyeduk
Michael Lopez

More info about the fundraiser here: http://www.dusc.net/pages/index.php/news/general-news/item/340-boat-race-fund…

Check out all the delicious spots in the Pepe Restaurant Group family:
Tio Pepe’s: http://www.tiopepenyc.com/
Burrito Loco: http://www.burritoloco.com/
The Taco Shop: http://www.thetacoshopny.com/
Las Ramblas: http://lasramblasnyc.com/
Casa Pepe: http://www.casapepe.com/
Da Rosina: http://www.darosina.com/

Shot and edited by Steve Tsentserensky of SBT Productions: http://www.sbtproductions.com

Dave Clayton, Michael Anton, Sally Curtis and 4 year old Tristan Cepeda set off on Friday morning from Pier 40 with King Tide, VCB’s 32 ft Pilot Gig, to join the rest of the crew in Hull Massachusetts for the Snow Row, a 3 3/4 mile open water race. Becky Olinger was the cox, Phil Shinn was stroke, with Dave in the 5 seat, Fabian Czerwinski in the 4 seat, followed by Kathy Sullivan and her husband Richard of the Warren Whirley Gigs with Michael in the bow.
Sponsored by the Hull Lifesaving Museum, the Snow Row, was held on Saturday March 10 at the Windmill Point Boathouse in Hull. Crowds of rowers and spectators gathered on the beach beside the museum’s Windmill Point Boathouse for the wild, LeMans-style start. The Snow Row is open to rowers of all ages and all varieties of human-powered wooden boats – peapods, dories, wherries, whitehalls, ocean shells, kayaks, pilot gigs, captain’s gigs, and Irish currachs. Youth and adult crews and rowers come from all over New England, New York, and Ireland to participate. The variety of boats lined up on the beach is a wonderful sight. It is exciting and important for Village Community Boathouse to be part of this international rowing community.
The race has five boat categories: workboats, livery boats, coxed boats, ocean kayaks, and ocean shells. VCB’s King Tide, a coxed six Pilot Gig, may not have won in its category but we finished the 3 3/4 mile race in respectable time- 54:42.
http://www.lifesavingmuseum.org/_fileCabinet/Snow_Row_2012_RESULTS.pdf

Six VCB rowers, were joined by Linda Remington of the Warren Whirleygigs, for this 5.5 mile row sponsored by The Hull Lifesaving Museum. This was the racing debut for King Tide, VCB’s 32′ Cornish Pilot gig. Forty-three boats including kayaks, racing shells, six and four oared boats from all over New England and New York competed. The race began at the mouth of the Weir River, a narrow estuary and then out onto open water, traveling past Bumpkin Island, across Hull Bay, to the museum’s Windmill Point Boathouse at Hull Gut.
Although we were a little slow, we did finish the race and King Tide’s razzle dazzle paint job got a lot of attention. King Tide finished 34th out of 43 boats in the race. We were last in the Adult Pilot Gig category with a time of 1:14:16. Our time was 1 minute, 16 seconds slower than Cady with a crew of Whirleygigs from Warren, RI. As Dave Palsgrove remarked, we were the slowest of the fast boats and the fastest of the slow boats.

Click on these links for more pictures of Quixotic and Notorious at the Snow Row:

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Hi guys!

So my Snow Row photoessay is up on the Time Out Boston website!

http://timeoutboston.com/things-to-do/70851/snow-row

There’s a good shot of the Bird and Storm Queen!

-Nadia Chaudhury
www.nadiachaudhury.com

Rowers from all over the East Coast streamed into the South Shore this past Saturday to compete in the 32nd Snow Row. As the Hull Lifesaving Museum’s signature race, the Snow Row attracts a wide range of competitors to take part in one giant and chaotic competition. The launch of a tiny cannonball at Windmill Point Beach started the rowers running down to their boats to start the 3.3-mile journey. The course looped around both Sheep Island and Harrys Rock, and came back to the beach.

Before the race, Ed McCabe, director of Maritime and New Program Development at the Hull Lifesaving Museum, spoke to the rowers and coxswains. He warned that the wind would make the trek to and around Sheep Island and Harrys Rock difficult. The rowers in the 204 competing boats would get their “brains beaten up,” as McCabe put it, adding that the wind would make the trip back “a sled ride.”

For more information, visit the Hull Lifesaving Museum’s website.

Read more: Snow Row – Things to Do – Time Out Boston