Welcome to the Regatta PLANNING web page
Welcome to the Master's of the Susquehanna Regatta planning website.
 
Race Name?                                
The Masters of the Susquehanna- This name is two-fold. Firstly, our regatta will host mostly masters-category (27yrs old and older) rowers. Secondly, we want to see just who is/are the masters of their domain (the river). We plan on inviting clubs and individuals to compete who have some connection to the Susquehanna River Watershed (see picture to the right). These include clubs from Binghamton to the Chesapeake Bay. We want to start a rivalry on the Susquehanna that will bring folks back year after year.



Binghamton, Scranton/Wilkes Barre, Bloomsburg/Danville, Lewisburg, Williamsport, Selinsgrove, Harrisburg, Chesapeake....



Some of the clubs we will invite include:
Yale Old Fellows Rowing Association               Oneonta                  NY
Hiawatha Island Boat Club                               Owego                    NY
Central Pennsylvania Rowing Association        Shamokin Dam        PA
Susquehanna Rowing Association                    Harrisburg               PA
Penn State Crew  (Alumni)                               University Park        PA
Wilkes University Crew Club                            Wilkes Barre            PA
Beaver County Rowing Association                  Altoona                    PA
Annapolis Rowing Club                                    Annapolis                MD

...and others


Race date-
August 18, 2007- Mark your calendars! It's the Saturday after the dam is supposed to be lowered. It's a ONE day event (possibly 2 days); our thoughts are to keep this first regatta simple. This date will ensure that large motor boats are off the water. It also is the same weekend as the SUNBURY RIVER FESTIVAL.

Race course-
We didn't determine the length of the course at our meeting but we will use the boat house as a base of operations and will likely race downstream (see green arrow on picture to the right). It's likely we will have 3 to 4 racing lanes and these lanes will hug the Shamokin Dam side of the river. It's also likely that teh race will be less than 2500 m long...

Regatta Highlights:
Instead of just being a rowing race, we want to make our regatta to be special. We want it to be an event that will bring people back year after year which means applying for grant money year after year. One of the challenges of the tourism grant money is to bring people here to spend the night locally.  We need to be successful at doing this and we need to be able to show the granting agency that we are successful....So here are a few highlights that will hopefully help us reach our goal.

- rowing races (starting early in the morning)
- tub races
- talks about the history of Shikellamy Overlook/local history (Jim Charles)
- canal and logging history (Van Wagoner?)
- talks on geology (or boat building?) and river ecology (Jenn Elick and Jack Holt?)
- bon fire and pig roast (Bev)
- band at Skeeters or Tedds


Budget for Grant
Below is the list of expenses we anticipate; these expenses total $13,370. You can probably see that we are looking at lots of work in the future!!!! Start looking at this list and envision your roll in the regatta. What can you contribute as far as your special talents or connections????...We will form committees early in 2007 to begin the planning of our event.
Emergency Medical Technician & standby rented launch for safety     $    350.00
Buoys to demarcate racing lanes                                                          $ 1,000.00
Portajons (rented)                                                                                  $    800.00
Dumpster (rented)                                                                                  $      70.00
Launches for race (rented) and gasoline                                               $    500.00
Security guard (guard equipment) and off duty policeman (traffic)        $    300.00
Race Officials                                                                                         $    400.00
Awards                                                                                                   $    800.00
Tent (20 x 20) and public address system                                             $    500.00
Race materials (printing, copying, packets, web design, signs, etc)      $ 1,000.00
Timing system and video for photo finishes                                           $    100.00
Volunteer tee shirts                                                                                $    200.00
Publicity and Promotion                                                                         $ 3,135.00


TOTAL EXPENSES:                                                                              $  9,155.00

Other expenses include:
website engineer/online entries                                                             $    200.00
 entertainment                                                                                      $ 2,400.00
    band
    pig
    food
  


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