Rigging the "wide mouth froggy," our newest donated boat!
At this week's adult boat building class, some of us cleaned up the newest member of our fleet, a donated 17 foot sail boat from Barnstable, MA. Others started shaping the seats, mast and building the centerboard trunk and thwarts of our sailing skiff.
Hudson Sloop Club T-shirts and Sweatshirts!
Order your Hudson Sloop Club T-shirts and Sweatshirts by emailing hudsonsloopclub@gmail.com with:
1. Name and Shipping Preference: Ship or Pick-up (shipping will be free for indiegogo donors who won their gear as a reward, and $5.00 for others.)
2. Your Address if we are shipping your gear to you.
3. The quantity, size (we have XS through XXL) and color of your Ts and Hoodies (colors listed below).
4. How you would like to pay: Check or Cash in person at a pick-up date, PayPal online, or Check or Cash by Mail.
We will set up a pick up date for local people at a class or upcoming potluck, at which you can pay for and pick up your gear.
If you are having your gear shipped you can pay by mail or online. We have set up a Hudson Sloop Club Pay-Pal account which will accept all major credit cards.
Checks can be made out to: Hudson Sloop Club and mailed to 113 Union St. Hudson, NY 12534.
T-shirt colors: Classic Navy, Royal Heather, Charcoal Heather, Army Heather, Black, Brick Red, Classic Navy Heather
Sweatshirt colors: Army, Black, Dark Green, Royal Blue, Charcoal Heather, Navy, Red
Second Friday Monthly BBQ! July 12th, 5pm!
Join us this Friday to celebrate summer, the blooming berries and bringing our boats out onto the river! We will be down at Rick's Point from 5pm on. Please come join us!
We ate so many berries and enjoyed the cool weather and whipped cream. Thanks for coming down, and see you next time!
Join us this Friday!
Come to the Hudson waterfront this Friday! Join us, from 5pm on, in making a parade float and getting out on the water. Bring your boats, food to grill and your creativity. See you there!
Look at this boat! Come TONIGHT from 6-9
Tonight we will continue with the completion of the boat: building frames, thwarts, gunwales, inwales, breasthook and quarterknees...
Come by this TONIGHT from 6-9!
Kite's Nest Expo and Sloop Club Class Celebration!
We had a wonderful event on Saturday at Kite's Nest to celebrate all of the amazing work that children have been doing this spring! The kids shared their carpentry and boat building skills with parents and friends, tested their small wooden boats in the water and helped Nick caulk the seams of the sailing skiff!
Recent fishing trips!
The Hudson Sloop Club has gone fishing! At least once a week since our Fish Fry, members of the Sloop Club have gone out fishing on the Hudson in the early morning. Email us at hudsonsloopclub@gmail.com if you'd like to come along!
15 days left to meet our fundraising goal!
Please donate today!
Thanks so much for your contributions.
http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-hudson-sloop-club
Thanks to Gossip of Rivertown for the wonderful posts!
Last week we were lucky to find these lovely blog posts about The Hudson Sloop Club on the Gossip of Rivertown: The wrote up our Fish Fry and Fundraiser and then followed up with a readers own beautiful photos!
Thanks so much!
Check them out here:
http://gossipsofrivertown.blogspot.com/2013/05/hudson-and-river.html
http://gossipsofrivertown.blogspot.com/2013/05/more-about-hudson-sloop-club.html
Hudson Sloop Club Classes 5/21/13!
This week we made a lot of progress on the boat! Both with the kids and adults worked on getting our first plank fastened on the frame of the boat, shaping, planing and spilling...
Watch our Fundraising Video and Donate via Indiegogo!
Help us reach our fundraising goal and continue our Hudson Sloop Club programming! We have 30 days to raise the fund we need to provide more boat building classes for kids and adults, clean up the waterfront, certify our instructors and expand our programming!
Thank you for your generosity!
http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-hudson-sloop-club/x/2592890
Thanks so much to Jon Wang for his amazing work on our video and to Lucy Segar for putting the campaign on Indiegogo!
Thanks so much for coming out to the Fish Fry on Friday!
We are so grateful to the wonderful turnout we had on Friday at The FISH Fry! It was amazing to see so many familiar faces and meet new people who are interested in being coming members of the Sloop Club. Thank you to those of you who made a donation or became members on Friday and we look forward to seeing you soon!
The even was such a success due to the hard and generous work of our Sloop Club volunteers and we want to thank especially: Gavi, Nicole and Jon for harvesting ramps, frying fish and whipping up delicious salads for all, Sean, Margot, Sam, Edwin and Cara for spearheading the membership and donation station and getting the space inside and out looking great! And Brian for documenting the whole thing! And thanks to all of you for coming out!
This week's Sloop Club Classes
We took some outdoor wood-collecting adventures with Kite's Nest and the adults continued shaping the bottom plank, and got ready to add the side planks!
Our Classes, 5/6
Last week at Kite's Nest the kids built toolboxes to house the hand-tools they have been learning to use, took an walk down to the waterfront to carve their boat models, told stories and continued to make progress on their skin boat, barge, and sailing skiff with Nick.
In the adult class that evening we used the steam box to bend the kelson, attached the stem, stem knee, and transom.
Week of 4/30
This week the adults built a steam box and began to shape the stem of the boat!
The kids at Kite's Nest experimented with water and the float-ability of their boats, and began using leather to create a skin for one of their boats.