Crew Gallery - 2003 part 5
Photographer:  Skip Bea & Steve Weir

Isabel at the Boathouse
Friday, September 19, 2003
The Day after Hurricane/Tropical Storm Isabel
rolled through Alexandria and the Washington Area

  8 am the first morning after the storm. Note the mostly submerged walk in Oronoco Bay and water in front of the Boathouse.
Center bay wreckage North Bay South bay: sorting out the mess Center bay jumble
 A red line marks Isabel's high water line inside the Boathouse. Center bay: Close up of the scuzzy water That deck platform used to be at the end of the walkway in Oronoco Bay. It is now around 75 feet inland. Note part of the debris rim in the park, visible on the left side of the picture. The TC trailer floated from its normal spote in front of the Boathouse to a nearby rise. See the oar racks that made their way out of the ACR singles shed. The Boathouse ramps are rarely horizontal.   TC head coach Steve Weir under the wreck of the Rosemont, a casualty of Isabel.
Willow near Boathouse upright no longer. Pre-Isabel, the outboard and other equipment were moved to the second floor.  Sculls and ergs on second floor.
 
    Saturday, September 20, 2003
The volunteers turned out for a big cleanup effort.

 Just part of the ACR army that worked the weekend to get the Boathouse ready for rowing on Monday. Walkway in Oronoco Bay is submerged on the day after. The Boathouse sits to the left of this area. Bay door damaged but Royce Drake and his crackerjack team made the necessary repairs. Recovery in process. The singles shed walls and roof (it's supposed to look like that) stood up to the flood and wind but some of the equipment floated out when the water pushed thru the doors.  On the first day of cleaning, we just piled the oars on the racks. Saturday began the effort to clean and sort the sweep and sculling oars. Which oar goes where? Center bay oar racks being replenished. Sorting sculling oars that scattered with the flood waters. We think we have them all. Figuring out which oars go in which rack was hard to determine with the names on labels not as discernible after the flood. The debris that was carried on shore has to be cleared from the garden area at the Boathouse. Debris ranged from logs to shoes to things we would rather not describe here. Gloves were a must. The silt was hosed and broomed out both ends of the Boathouse.
Ramp from the scull shed takes a few hands to get it back to where it belongs. Sweeping of a different sort in Burke's Bay, named in memory of Tom Burke. Burke's Bay was not spared the flood waters or the cleaning crew.. Roger, Dan and Owen worked on the floor drains.
It took pulling and lifting to get the ramp back on the bolts. It takes a village and engineers and an architect to get the ramp back in place. 

Fall Crew 2003
Rowers from the Northern Virginia area
Heading out to do a flip test. Coach Rubini closely oversees the rower who is learning to recover and return to rowing position. Flipped, recovered, returned.
Coach Rubini heading out for another flip test Back from flipping. Who's next? Crunch time! Gathering in a circle to do execises.Group shot of some of the Fall Crew The wild ones.

Learn To Row Day
October 11, 2003
Coach Weir shows them the equpment. Hands on. This is fun!
Rowers to be? Alex is showing them how.
 Showig her how. "Think you have it?" She's already rowing!

Winter Conditioning


 


Holiday Open Boathouse

 
ACB President Dan Shipp presents John Stratton
the Community Crew Award
 for his Ticket to Ride company's support for TC Crew

 

 

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