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About The Rondout Rower

Born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, a Pisces, Nelsie Aybar-Grau not only enjoyed swimming in the Caribbean Sea but she has enjoyed travels that have brought her in close contact to the waters of the Thames, the Seine, the Yangtse, the Amazon, the Mississippi, the Hudson and the Harlem Rivers. Although she enjoyed swimming she had never pursued athletics in any serious way. After a career in computer programming for Wall Street area financial institutions she moved into the Hudson Valley upstate New York area. Then at 60 years of age as a favor to a friend she started photographing the Rondout Creek and the rowers in the Rondout Rowing Club. After four years of rowing both on land and water she became president of the rowing club from 2014 to 2017. Rowing has changed her life. Living steps away from the Rondout Creek has brought her closer to nature and the meditative rejuvenation that it provides.

Overpeck Regatta will not be held in 2019

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It is with great sadness that I discovered that the Regatta I participated in this summer (with Coach Carlos Perez) and in the summer of 2016 (when I paricipated with Marianne Marical for the Newburgh Rowing Club ) will NOT be hosted in 2019. It is such a huge undertaking to put together a regatta and even one which seemed to be well sponsored can sometimes fail because of the lack of registrations. But maybe it is because there are now so many regattas that competing for TIME is difficult in an athlete’s life. I do hope that Coach Clemens Reinke will be able to bring the regatta back in 2020. Check out this wonderful video about that regatta:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xmj3ouOunJI#action=share

Rondout Creek TIDES AND CURRENTS

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SUNDAY…. December 16, 2018….. Time: 4:57 am EDT

36°F…..Cloudy…..Humidity 69% …..Wind 8 mph 20°NNE
Water temperature at Albany: 34.2°F
Water plus air temperature = 70.2° (Conditions NOT safe for rowing)

06:36 am FLOW CURRENT
07:51 am HIGH TIDE
07:17 am SUNRISE
09:42 am SLACK CURRENT
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12:59 pm MOONRISE (First Quarter, 59% visible) SETS 12:19 am
01:30 pm EBB CURRENT
02:41 pm LOW TIDE
04:06 pm SLACK Current
04:25 pm SUNSET
06:42 pm FLOW CURRENT
08:01 pm HIGH TIDE
09:36 pm SLACK Current
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12:24 pm EBB CURRENT
03:01 am LOW 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
95 days remaining until SPRING! Spring Equinox March 20th at 5:59pm
(Equinox is when day and night are of equal length)

December Solstice in Woodstock, New York, USA is on
Friday, December 21, 2018 at 5:23 pm EST

Rondout Creek TIDES AND CURRENTS

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SATURDAY…. December 15, 2018….. Time: 5:12 am EDT

39°F…..Cloudy…..Humidity 98% …..Wind 3 mph 170°S
Water temperature at Albany: 33.5°F
Water plus air temperature = 62.5° (Conditions NOT safe for rowing)

06:06 am FLOW CURRENT
07:06 am HIGH TIDE
07:16 am SUNRISE
09:00 am SLACK CURRENT
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12:33 pm MOONRISE (Waxing Crescent, 49% visible) SETS not available
12:42 pm EBB CURRENT
01:38 pm LOW TIDE
03:18 pm SLACK Current
04:25 pm SUNSET
06:00 pm FLOW CURRENT
07:09 pm HIGH TIDE
08:48 pm SLACK Current
11:36 pm EBB CURRENT
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02:10 am LOW 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
96 days remaining until SPRING! Spring Equinox March 20th at 5:59pm
(Equinox is when day and night are of equal length)

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