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Regular Season Activities
Beginners Program
Coxswains Program
Coaching Clinics
Racing Program
Regular Season Activities
 During the season, members sign up to row together based on schedule, ability, and mentoring arrangements. During the week, quads, fours, and doubles are most popular. Typically, the shells go out for an hour and a half at 6 a.m. each weekday morning, and often again in the evenings at 6 p.m. On the weekends, the eight goes out along with two or three flights of fours, again starting at 6 a.m. Members are expected to share the responsibility of coxing boats for each other regularly.
Mentoring Program
Because we do not set our boats with a coach, we rely on the mentoring program to help new members get integrated into the rotation, so that they get a chance to row with as many of the other members of the club as possible. In 2006, a regular weekend eight will be organized by Thano Schoppel to give all members an opportunity to meet other rowers and new members, and also to give a chance to easily get time on the water for those not in a regular group.
Coaching Program
Coaching for 2006 will focus on intermediate rowing skills and sculling, particularly in quads and the two doubles. Unfortunately, we are not able to run a Learn to Row program this year.
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Beginners
Piermont Rowing Club has always put a high priority on introducing people to the sport. We are proud of the way that we have managed, without access to a full-time coach, to train a core group of skilled and dedicated rowers who are now passionate about the sport. In past years, our beginner program depended on a one-on-one mentoring relationship between new rowers and more experienced members. Upon completing our beginner program, rowers continued to develop their rowing skills with intermediate-level coaching opportunities, and an introduction to racing for those who are interested. Unfortunately, in 2006, we will not be able to run a Learn to Row program. Interested beginners can contact us to be put on a waiting list, and should plan to join next year.
Click here to request a spot on the waiting list.
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Coxswains
Starting in 2005, the club began maintaining a call list of experienced college-aged coxswains who are available to go out with members as needed. This is particularly helpful for novice rowers who need someone experienced in their boat. Members have agreed to pay these young people $25/hour as a standard courtesy.
Each member of the club has a responsibility to learn to cox a shell and to offer their services periodically throughout the season. Seminars are offered to all new members, and to experienced rowers who want to polish their skills. All regular groups of rowers are strongly encouraged to include five members, so that the responsibility can be rotated, and no last minute calls need be made.
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Coaching Clinics
2006 info to come.
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Racing
 The Racing Committee oversees the annual schedule (usually 5 or 6 races) and general racing activities. A different Race Captain is appointed to organize the logistics for each race. Individual PRC members also participate in some races not on the official club schedule by joining composite boats organized through other clubs.
The racing program has two goals: to encourage intermediate rowers to start racing for fun, while at the same time giving advanced rowers access to challenging competition.
In past years, the PRC has participated in: East Arm Sprints at Greenwood Lake, the Race Between the Bridges in Poughkeepsie, Carnegie Lake in Princeton, NJ, the Head of the Passaic in Rutherford NJ, the Head of the Fish in Saratoga, NY, and the Head of the Highlands in Newburgh, NY.
Every year since 1999 we have sent a mens or womens four (or both) to the Head of the Charles, in Boston. Several years, our boats requalified, and other years, we got boats in via the lottery. PRC members have also participated for several years in the Subaru Masters Challenge and the Head of the Schuylkill in Philadelphia, and Diamond State in Middletown, Delaware in composite boats with other clubs.
We plan to hold our members-only Muck Cup in June, and the inaugural Hook Mountain Row and Picnic later in the summer. These are recreational rows that everyone can participate in. We also visit East Arm Rowing Club every fall for their annual Fox Island Row/potluck.
Our racing schedule for 2006 has not yet been set.
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