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Rondout Creek TIDES AND CURRENTS

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FRIDAY…. December 14, 2018….. Time: 4:31 am EDT

29°F…..Cloudy…..Humidity 97% …..Wind 0 mph 240°WSW
Water temperature at Albany: 32.5°F
Water plus air temperature = 61.5° (Conditions NOT safe for rowing)

06:22 am HIGH TIDE
07:15 am SUNRISE
08:12 am SLACK CURRENT
11:48 am EBB CURRENT
12:24 am LOW TIDE
12:06 am MOONRISE (Waxing Crescent, 40% visible) SETS 11:20 pm
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02:24 pm SLACK CURRENT
04:25 pm SUNSET
05:12 pm FLOW Current
06:23 pm HIGH TIDE
08:00 pm SLACK CURRENT
10:42 pm EBB Current
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01:15 am LOW TIDE
02:48 am SLACK CURRENT

[Ebb tide is when the water flows towards the south (Poughkeepsie). Flow tide is when the tide flows towards the north (Albany). Slack is the period in between when the water is still (not flowing north or south).]

NOTE: DAYLIGHT SAVINGS ENDS SUNDAY, MARCH 11, 2019
97 days remaining until SPRING! Spring Equinox March 20th at 5:59pm
(Equinox is when day and night are of equal length)

Gender-specific rowing shell seats

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One of the vendors (Hudson Boat Works) at the Joy of Sculling Coaches conference that I attended this weekend alerted me to the fact that there are now gender specific rowing shell seats. After over a YEAR of pain around my right sits bone it dawned on me that my aggressive rowing practices in a Swift Racing single may have been caused by the seat. The Hudson single is one of the first boats I ever rowed at the Mid-Hudson Rowing Association sculling clinics held by Bill Davies. I was told this weekend that the boat did not belong to the Poughkeepsie club but rather it is Bill Davies privately owned boat. Since then I have noticed that Mahe Drysdale (Olympic champion and five-time World champion in the single sculls) uses a Hudson single.
So I was going to speak to this vendor at their booth but got side-tracked and told by the WINTECH vendor (huh?) that the best gender-specific seats are by Croker. I spoke to Greg Doyle at length about my sits bones problems and vowed to buy his seats for my boats (at least for my women rowers). Check out the page on gender-specific seats (mysteriously the Hudson website either deleted the page I saw about gender specific seats or is updating it with better information):
https://www.crokeroars.com/seats

https://www.hudsonboatworks.com/boat-features/gender-specific-seats

Rondout Creek TIDES AND CURRENTS

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THURSDAY…. December 13, 2018….. Time: 5:03 am EDT

24°F…..Cloudy…..Humidity 75% …..Wind 3 mph 350°N
Water temperature at Albany: 33°F
Water plus air temperature = 57° (Conditions NOT safe for rowing)

05:37 am HIGH TIDE
07:24 am SLACK CURRENT
07:15 am SUNRISE
10:54 am EBB CURRENT
11:24 am LOW TIDE
11:37 am MOONRISE (Waxing Crescent, 31% visible) SETS 10:21 pm
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01:30 pm SLACK CURRENT
04:24 pm FLOW Current
04:25 pm SUNSET
05:39 pm HIGH TIDE
07:12 pm SLACK CURRENT
10:06 pm EBB Current
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12:20 am LOW TIDE
02:00 am SLACK CURRENT
05:36 am FLOW CURRENT
05:37 am HIGH TIDE
[Ebb tide is when the water flows towards the south (Poughkeepsie). Flow tide is when the tide flows towards the north (Albany). Slack is the period in between when the water is still (not flowing north or south).]

NOTE: DAYLIGHT SAVINGS ENDS SUNDAY, MARCH 11, 2019
98 days remaining until SPRING! Spring Equinox March 20th at 5:59pm
(Equinox is when day and night are of equal length)

At the Joy of Sculling Coaches Conference

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At the conference last Friday night I sat at the dinner table with this athletic looking lady who was very energetic and chatty. She was very hyped up about a little rowing club she had just started in Cooperstown, New York with her own money. I JUST NOW looked up her name on google and facebook and found out that she is a two time Olympic rower (she competed on the Olympic Rowing teams in 1992 and 1996). Her name is Andrea Thies and check out this article about her. Yeah, she likes using boats like mine.

her:https://www.thedailystar.com/news/local_news/local-olympian-teaches-rowing-in-college-pool/article_688f58a3-1e1d-56a3-aefd-e189eb56bef8.html

Rondout Creek TIDES AND CURRENTS

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WEDNESDAY…. December 12, 2018….. Time: 4:58 am EDT

25°F…..Cloudy…..Humidity 82% …..Wind 2 mph 290°WNW
Water temperature at Albany: 34°F
Water plus air temperature = 59° (Conditions NOT safe for rowing)

06:36 am SLACK CURRENT
07:14 am SUNRISE
09:54 am EBB CURRENT
10:41 am LOW TIDE
11:05 am MOONRISE (Waxing Crescent, 23% visible) SETS 9:22 pm
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12:30 pm SLACK CURRENT
03:30 pm FLOW Current
04:24 pm SUNSET
04:53 pm HIGH TIDE
06:24 pm SLACK CURRENT
09:54 pm EBB Current
11:30 pm LOW TIDE
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01:18 am SLACK CURRENT
04:54 am FLOW CURRENT
05:37 am HIGH TIDE
[Ebb tide is when the water flows towards the south (Poughkeepsie). Flow tide is when the tide flows towards the north (Albany). Slack is the period in between when the water is still (not flowing north or south).]

NOTE: DAYLIGHT SAVINGS ENDS SUNDAY, MARCH 11, 2019
99 days remaining until SPRING! Spring Equinox March 20th at 5:59pm
(Equinox is when day and night are of equal length)