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Help shape the future South Shore Blueway Trail
The South Shore Blueway Trail will provide a variety of opportunities and experiences for paddle users to explore the coastline and rich estuarine environment of the Hempstead Bays and South Oyster Bay. The South Shore Blueway Trail planning team will host a public Stakeholders’ Meeting on Thursday, April 4, 2013 at 6:00 pm in the Village…
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Kayak Rolling Instruction with Cheri Perry and Turner Wilson & “This is the Roll” DVD
With the NACK Winter Pool Program now in full swing, and in keeping with the NACK philosophy of providing the very best instruction available, we were fortunate to have Cherri Perry and Turner Wilson on hand today to provide some terrific rolling instruction. A bunch of NACK members spent a couple of hours learning aft…
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Kayak Camping at Connetquot Library 3/7/2013
****Meeting Postponed until April 16th**** due to predicted weather conditions Spring is almost here so kayak camping will be the main topic at the next regular meeting. We will go over gear selection and packing it into dry bags. Then we’ll pack it all into an a typical sea kayak. Along the way we’ll recount…
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Southern Connecticut Small Craft Symposium 2013
The second annual Southern Connecticut Small Craft Symposium (SCSCS) is scheduled to take place on Saturday, March 9, 2013. Changing Tides Paddle Craft invites everyone to again join them at New Haven’s Wilber Cross High School for a day of free information on paddlesports by local organizations. For the second year, Elizabeth and Gordon, New Haven…
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ArtsWestchester Exhibit features Skin-on-Frame Kayaks
A recent article in the NY Times has drawn attention to some locally built skin-on-frame (SOF) kayaks as “art “. Mr. Tom van Buren, director of ArtsWestchester’s Folk Arts program, is quoted in the article as saying “I like to think of boats as floating sculptures.” “The art of it is the mastery of the materials and methods…
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Author Kevin Stiegelmaier at NACK February 2013 Meeting
Kevin Stiegelmaier, author of the recently published Paddling Long Island and New York City, will be our guest on February 7th at our next regular meeting. His latest work, subtitled “The Best Sea Kayaking from Montauk to Manhasset Bay to Manhattan” covers 50 paddling routes and destinations across all of Long Island and the New York…
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A Word from Your Director At-Large Colin Mullen
In 2012, NACK had some tremendous successes and one or two disappointments. The major disappointment was we failed to have an L-3 assessment. By the time we had all the assets in place the weather became a factor and it was too late in the season to give the assessment. Therefore, for those of you…
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Annual NACK New Years Day Paddle 2013
Air temperature 35 degrees, water temperature 36 degrees…. Did not stop a few brave NACK paddlers from hitting the water for an early afternoon jaunt down the the Peconic River and into Flanders Bay. After a brief equipment check and “burping” of our dry suits we launched from the Moose Lodge Marina and Yacht Club and headed across the river to…
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