Comments on: Nereid Boat Club http://thisamericanriver.com Afloat on New Jersey's Passaic Thu, 01 Jul 2010 09:37:26 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: admin http://thisamericanriver.com/nereid-boat-club/comment-page-1/#comment-91 admin Sat, 20 Mar 2010 00:46:37 +0000 http://thisamericanriver.com/?page_id=137#comment-91 Bob, Thank you so much for your comment and for this information about the Nereid's earlier days. I will make the corrections you suggest forthwith. Mary Bruno Bob,

Thank you so much for your comment and for this information about the Nereid’s earlier days. I will make the corrections you suggest forthwith.

Mary Bruno

]]> By: admin http://thisamericanriver.com/nereid-boat-club/comment-page-1/#comment-92 admin Sat, 20 Mar 2010 00:46:37 +0000 http://thisamericanriver.com/?page_id=137#comment-92 Bob, Thank you so much for your comment and for this information about the Nereid's earlier days. I will make the corrections you suggest forthwith. Mary Bruno Bob,

Thank you so much for your comment and for this information about the Nereid’s earlier days. I will make the corrections you suggest forthwith.

Mary Bruno

]]> By: Bob Watts http://thisamericanriver.com/nereid-boat-club/comment-page-1/#comment-90 Bob Watts Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:36:53 +0000 http://thisamericanriver.com/?page_id=137#comment-90 As a member of Nereid Boat Club from 1949 to 1953 I very much enjoyed this excerpt from your book, and I can attest to the remarkable effort made by Erik King to reestablish Nereid in the early 1990s. I would, however, make one correction to your account - the last iteration of Nereid Boat Club that burned in 1962 on the Belleville side of the river was not on a barge. The history of the club shows that the boathouse was earlier located downriver from the Belleville location and was barged up to Belleville when acquired by Nereid, but upon arrival in Belleville it was moved onto solid ground in Belleville adjacent to a small park area south of the Belleville/Kearny bridge. In the late 1940s Belleville and Nutley High Schools made cinder block additions to the original wooden boathouse to provide shower facilities and additional storage for eight-oared shells. Sincerely, Bob Watts As a member of Nereid Boat Club from 1949 to 1953 I very much enjoyed this excerpt from your book, and I can attest to the remarkable effort made by Erik King to reestablish Nereid in the early 1990s. I would, however, make one correction to your account – the last iteration of Nereid Boat Club that burned in 1962 on the Belleville side of the river was not on a barge. The history of the club shows that the boathouse was earlier located downriver from the Belleville location and was barged up to Belleville when acquired by Nereid, but upon arrival in Belleville it was moved onto solid ground in Belleville adjacent to a small park area south of the Belleville/Kearny bridge. In the late 1940s Belleville and Nutley High Schools made cinder block additions to the original wooden boathouse to provide shower facilities and additional storage for eight-oared shells.

Sincerely,
Bob Watts

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