Each year, hundreds of high school and middle school students join teams in the Museum’s open-water youth rowing program. These hardy rowers meet for weekly practices and rowing sessions on […]
Fall 2021 Youth Rowing: Season Recap Read More »
Environmentally-friendly docks built by Northlands Job Corps This fall, Lake Champlain Maritime Museum unveiled new floating docks at our waterfront built by Northlands Job Corps. These new docks increase public
New Docks at Lake Champlain Maritime Museum Read More »
On Saturday June 5, we welcomed 84 rowers from eight regional school teams back to the Museum to participate in the Spring Wave, the annual spring race for our youth rowing league,
High spirits and warm weather at the Spring Wave 2021 Read More »
We’d like to take a moment today to celebrate our adult rowing community. Despite a pandemic and strict new safety guidelines, our adult rowers were able to have a shortened
A Rowing Season to Remember Read More »
On Saturday, October 31, we held our annual Otter Creek Challenge youth open-water rowing race at the Vergennes Basin on Otter Creek. All things aligned perfectly for this pandemic-era rowing
A Spirited Otter Creek Challenge Race! Read More »
On October 3, 2020 we held our annual James Wakefield Rescue Row in Burlington Harbor. This youth rowing race is held annually in tribute to James Wakefield, a man who,
James Wakefield Rescue Row 2020 Celebration Read More »
This month, nineteen teenagers and two trip leaders have accomplished epic kayak expeditions, kayaking the length of Lake Champlain and reaching the Canadian border. An epic goal in a standard
Kayaking the Length of Lake Champlain: Teen Expeditions in 2020 Read More »
By Benjamin Mayock, Champlain Longboats coach and coxswain As you might remember last summer, thanks to our Community Rowing club, we acquired a St. Ayles Skiff. Over the winter, the
A Set of Oars for the St. Ayles Skiff Read More »
By Charlie Beyer, Champlain Longboats Assistant Director I’m writing this with my feet still damp after taking our newly finished Buyce-design Adirondack Guideboat out for a spin in the harbor.
Building the Adirondack Guideboat Read More »
By Nick Patch, Champlain Longboats Director This spring has been a spring like no other and it has impacted us all in so many ways. It is certainly not what
A Salute to our Graduating High School Senior Rowers Read More »
