Rowing Opportunities

“Our rowing family keeps growing, season by season, school by school, and race by race” --- Emily Morton, Champlain Longboats Program Alumnus

Check out video from the March 2013 Snow Row hosted by the Hull Lifesaving Museum in Hull, MA - lots of LCMM boats and participants!

LCMM's Community Rowing
featured in
Vermont Sports Magazine
Find the article on pgs 28-29.

Community Rowing
Ages 18 and up. The Community Rowing Club offers adult rowing every week May through October. Community members sign up to experience the beauty of Lake Champlain while getting a great physical work-out. Adult community teams also participate in regional rowing competitions. Only Members of LCMM are eligible to participate in Community Rowing. Your $35 Rowing Club fee allows you to join any of our weekly rows for the whole season.
Not sure if it's right for you? Just join us for a row!
Contact Karen Gallott at (802) 475-2022, ext 121 or kareng@lcmm.org

2013 Rowing Events

Champlain Longboats Launch Day
May 23, 2013 11am

LCMM’s on-water season officially begins with the launching of a new 25-foot pilot gig. This beautiful watercraft is built at the LCMM Boat Shop from January to May by students and staff from the Diversified Occupations Program of the Patricia Hannaford Career Center in LCMM's innovative Champlain Longboats Program. Student boat builders lead an on-water “parade” of student-built pilot gigs (starting at 11am) and speak about their experiences. The public are welcome to attend. Reception to follow.

Spring Wave
June 1, 2013
Champlain Longboats' annual youth rowing event at Button Bay on Lake Champlain attracts over 100 youth rowers from Vermont and New England. A series of three timed races highlight the day. The races culminate with the “mess-about” where teams mix up their crews randomly in an exercise of social and maritime skills. Everyone is a winner at this exciting day on the water! Crews must sign up in advance. Call 475-2022 x113 or email Nick Patch at nickp@lcmm.org for details and to register.

114 rowers comprising 17 crews participated in the 2011 Spring Wave. Participants came from Vergennes Union Middle and High School, Middlebury Union High School, Mt. Abraham Union High School, Diversified Occupations Program, Champlain Valley Union High School, Burlington High School, South Burlington High School, Sound School from New Haven Connecticut, Station Maine from Rockland Maine, North Haven Community High School from North Haven Maine and the Hull Lifesaving Museum from Hull Massachusetts.

Lake Champlain Challenge Race
Sunday July 14, 2013
For all ages of boaters! Just watch, or join the fun! Bring your own non-motorized boat, kayak, or canoe to row or paddle in this three-mile race across the lake. Registration fee admits two to the museum. Registration at 9:30am; Race starts at 11am. Race fee $22, includes museum admission; $18 for LCMM Members.

Call 475-2022 x113 or email Nick Patch at nickp@lcmm.org for details.

James Wakefield Rescue Row October 17, 2009

James Wakefield Rescue Row
Date TBD, 2013

On December 9th, 1876, the crew of the canal schooner General Butler was stranded atop the breakwater in Burlington, VT, after their boat sank during a terrible winter storm. They were rescued by James Wakefield and his son, who rowed out to save them. Every year, the Champlain Longboats program commemorates this heroic event with a youth rowing race in Burlington, VT; over one hundred participants! Races begin at 9:30am at the Burlington Community Boat House