East Coast Whitewater Rowing - oar rafting

08/17/2022

Big Laurel, NC

Laurel river in Madison County NC. Check out me almost flip in the bottom narrows. I think this was the 3 time I rowed the laurel. Great river level.

08/16/2022

Rowing Fife Brook (Deerfield River) Saturday 8/20 to the Gap.

06/01/2022

Bus stop rapid on the Hudson.

05/27/2022

Sean rowing clean lines on Zoar Gap (III). The river was on the higher end for recreational flows at 950cfs I'd guess- and flushed out. The Gap virtually the only rapid left which remains so up to infinite water levels where it eventually becomes a class IV (around 4000+cfs, I believe). Make the most of whats available!

05/18/2022

I'll be back on the Fife Saturday the 21st, this time with the cobwebs out planning to run from the dam to Shunpike (7 miles) including the gap. If anyone is interested, I plan to put in around noon'ish. If you aren't comfortable running the gap or don't want to run the boogie water below it, you can take out above or just below. For a 4ish mile run.

05/13/2022

Anyone interested in rowing Fife Saturday or Sunday. Just looking for another oar rig to run with (and fellow northeastern oarsfolk to row with), not a lot of fun bumping kayaks out of eddies with oars.

08/27/2021

Rowing Little Missy on The Schroon River at 5.0ft . This isn't an ideal level for this river, IMO, for an experienced boater. Very nice level for an intermediate OC. I think 6.5-8ft (flood stage) is optimal (I'll post a photo of the main drop crest at 7.5ft to give you an idea of the difference, its my facebook banner). Anything below 6ft just is blah in a raft. We did it at 7.5ft the year before and the holes on both sides had consequences if the line was bad, and the waves below the drop were as big as anything on the Dead, Hudson anything else I'd done on the east coast. I've done the Race Course on Hudson at over 9ft and it was huge and this was as big (maybe bigger, just not a mile long). The Schroon doesn't get much attention because it's a short run with only a few (long) rapids and when it's flowing at 7-8ft everything else in the region is flowing at peak levels, too. Which means no one runs this river at peak levels. But, it's, IMO, as fun as anything for an intermediate rafter at high water if you want a higher volume river and not the typical northeast "creeks".