Registration is open for spring season rowing with Green Lake Crew. The season runs Jan. 30-May 21, 2012. There are courses for experienced boys and girls, novice boys and girls, and beginning/intermediate/competitive adults. Class registration is through the Seattle Parks Department’s SPARC system. The Green Lake Crew operates out of the Green Lake Small Craft Center (5900 W Green Lake Way N) and hosts the Green Lake Spring Regatta, the Summer Rowing Regatta, and the Frostbite Regatta every year. Thanks for the tip, Jill!
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Seattle Park Board to hold public meeting about zoo, emergency preparedness and small craft centers
The Seattle Board of Park Commissioners, a seven-member citizen board, will hold its next public meeting on Thursday, September 8, 2011 at 7 p.m. at the Activity Resource Center at the Woodland Park Zoo (5500 Phinney Ave N). The meeting agenda includes an update on Woodland Park Zoo activities from Zoo Executive Director Deborah Jensen. The Woodland Park Zoo Society operates the zoo under a management agreement with the City of Seattle. There will also a briefing on Seattle Parks emergency preparedness. Parks staff will brief the Board on how Parks and Recreation is prepared to deal with natural or man-made disasters,…
Boat overturns at Green Lake prompting large emergency response, no reported injuries
Fifteen emergency response units were dispatched to East Green Lake Way N at N 65th St just before noon today (Friday, September 2, 2011), and at least one helicopter could be heard overhead. Don Goldberg tweeted at 11:57 a.m. that a boat had capsized in Green Lake near N 62nd St. “EMT is here with life preserver,” he then tweeted a few minutes later. Don also linked to two photos he took at the scene: At 12:15 p.m., KIRO 7 reported via twitter: ”Boat overturned with 2 people onboard. Another boat came to the rescue. SFD says they think everyone’s OK.” By 12:20, when…
Model boats at Green Lake Park, 1934 and 2011
Green Lake has long been a destination for model boaters. This photo of boys sailing their model boats in the Green Lake wading pool was taken during the summer of 1934: David Carlos shared the following photo on the MyGreenLake Facebook page today (Sunday, August 28, 2011): “A group of radio-control sailboaters meets the last Sunday of each month around 10 am, at the northeast part of the lake,” David reports.
Sailboat carrying two young children and their father tips on Green Lake, prompting large emergency response
Updated Monday, August 22, 3:45 p.m. A small sailboat capsized just before 12:30 p.m. this afternoon (Saturday, August 20, 2011) on Green Lake. The sailboat was carrying two young girls and their father, according to Officer C.E. Allers of the Seattle Police Department Harbor Patrol. A bystander says that the boat was not far from shore when its mast broke and it tipped. All of the occupants were wearing life jackets. Following the tip of the boat, a witness on the shore immediately called 9-1-1 and 13 emergency response units were dispatched to the Green Lake Small Craft Center, at the southwest corner of Green Lake Park (5900 West…
