CANOE: Intermediate: Roosevelt Island Circ: Dark Island

  • September 25, 2019
  • 6:00 PM - 9:30 PM
  • Manhattan Avenue Street End Park
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Roosevelt Island Circ: Dark Island

  • Skill level: Intermediate (see what this means here)
  • Meet: 6:00
  • Launch: 6:30
  • Slack to ebb at 31st St.: 8:04 PM (7:52 east of Roosevelt Island)
  • Sunset: 6:48 PM; Nautical Twilight: 7:47 PM
  • Return: 9:15
  • Release: 9:30
  • Trip leader: Michael / mr.haskell at the ol' Gmail
  • What to wear and bring

Dark nights but hot times! Hold onto the summer while ye may, O paddlers.


We'll use our 29' Langley canoes -- this is a great prep trip for going on a Manhattan circumnavigation, such as this one right here!


A dark trip around a dark island.

day after day we wake to the island
the light rises through the drops on the leaves
and we remember like birds where we are
night after night we touch the dark island
that once we set out for

and lie still at last with the island in our arms
hearing the leaves and the breathing shore
there are no years any more
only the one mountain
and on all sides the sea that brought us

So bring a headlamp if you have one! Mainly for putting everything away when we return.

Remember, it's getting cooler! Wear layers of noncotton cloth.