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The Association publishes a quarterly magazine, Canoe News, devoted to competition, recreational cruising and camping, water safety, construction and maintenance of equipment, and canoeing news in general. The organization claims it is the only magazine that focuses solely on marathon canoe and kayak racing. [3]
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The American Canoe Association (ACA) is the oldest and largest paddle sports organization in the United States, promoting canoeing, kayaking, and rafting. The ACA sponsors more than seven hundred events each year, along with safety education, instructor certification, waterway conservation and public information campaigns.
The Canoe Cruisers Association of Greater Washington, D.C., founded in 1956, with over a thousand members in Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Columbia is a kayak and canoe club whose main purpose is to unite persons interested in paddling and whitewater kayaking in the Potomac River Basin and adjacent watersheds in Pennsylvania and West Virginia.
The club was founded in 1916 and in 1940 was established on the second floor of the adjoining tavern. The club had no external signage denoting its presence when a reporter for the New York Times visited the club in 1975. [1] The food at the club was initially supplied by the Fraunces Tavern, and sent to the club by dumbwaiter. An argument ...
The early Cranford Canoe Club shown on the 1922 map is later known as the Girl Scout House, and the Cranford Canoe Club moves across the street to its current location. At the CCC on June 5, 1908, a motion was passed "that flag memberships be established, flag members have the right to carry the club flag and to have the use of the club grounds ...
The Philadelphia Canoe Club (PCC) is one of oldest paddling organizations in the United States. Headquartered in an 18th-century mill at the confluence of the Wissahickon Creek and Schuylkill River in the Manayunk section of Philadelphia, PCC counts among its members more than 200 canoeists and kayakers who take scores of trips every year on local rivers and streams as well as numerous ...
Henry Osborne Havemeyer, 19th century sugar baron and art collector, summered in Bay Shore through the 1900s and was an active member of the Bay Shore Yacht Club [28] Edward Francis Hutton, founder of the EF Hutton brokerage company, summered in Bay Shore in the early 20th century [citation needed]